Re: r25200 - docs/Perl6/Spec t/spec

2009-02-05 Thread Dave Whipp
Jon Lang wrote: Pattern to split on (used with -a). Substitutes an expression for the default split function, which is C{split ' '}. Accepts unicode strings (as long as Should the default pattern be ' ', or should it be something more like /\s+/? /ws/ ?

Re: r25200 - docs/Perl6/Spec t/spec

2009-02-05 Thread Larry Wall
On Thu, Feb 05, 2009 at 07:47:01AM -0800, Dave Whipp wrote: Jon Lang wrote: Pattern to split on (used with -a). Substitutes an expression for the default split function, which is C{split ' '}. Accepts unicode strings (as long as Should the default pattern be ' ', or should it be

Re: r25200 - docs/Perl6/Spec t/spec

2009-02-05 Thread Jon Lang
On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 9:21 AM, Larry Wall la...@wall.org wrote: On Thu, Feb 05, 2009 at 07:47:01AM -0800, Dave Whipp wrote: Jon Lang wrote: Pattern to split on (used with -a). Substitutes an expression for the default split function, which is C{split ' '}. Accepts unicode strings (as

Re: r25200 - docs/Perl6/Spec t/spec

2009-02-05 Thread Larry Wall
On Thu, Feb 05, 2009 at 10:43:35AM -0800, Jon Lang wrote: : On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 9:21 AM, Larry Wall la...@wall.org wrote: : On Thu, Feb 05, 2009 at 07:47:01AM -0800, Dave Whipp wrote: : Jon Lang wrote: : Pattern to split on (used with -a). Substitutes an expression for the default :

Re: r25182 - docs/Perl6/Spec

2009-02-05 Thread Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH
On 2009 Feb 4, at 11:45, Aaron Crane wrote: FWIW, I prefer the traditional spelling, writable. Google suggests that writeable is more common on the web, though; 4.8 versus 3.7 Mghits. I have to admit that writable suggests to me that you can serve a writ on it; an unlikely case for even

Re: r25182 - docs/Perl6/Spec

2009-02-05 Thread Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH
On 2009 Feb 4, at 12:56, Leon Timmermans wrote: On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 4:37 PM, pugs-comm...@feather.perl6.nl wrote: +=item method IO dup() Do we really want that? POSIX' dup does something different from what many will expect. In particular, the new file descriptors share the offset, which