Re: Angle quotes and pointy brackets

2004-12-02 Thread Michele Dondi
On Tue, 30 Nov 2004, Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon wrote: I like this in general. However... Larry Wall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * Since we already stole angles from iterators, «$fh» is not how you make iterators iterate. Instead we use $fh.fetch (or whatever) in scalar context,

Re: Angle quotes and pointy brackets

2004-12-02 Thread Michele Dondi
On Tue, 30 Nov 2004, Austin Hastings wrote: How about just having C system() return a clever object with .output and .err methods? interesting... Michele -- Windows shuts down automaticaly giving an count down. what could be the problem Windows? - Le TeXnicien de surface in comp.text.tex

Re: Angle quotes and pointy brackets

2004-12-02 Thread John Williams
On Tue, 30 Nov 2004, Larry Wall wrote: Here's the proposal. First the bad news: * We accept that the C operator requires whitespace around it, and be prepared to be burned in effigy occasionally. My biggest worry about this is that people will be writing if $x3 loop( $x=0 ;

Re: Angle quotes and pointy brackets

2004-12-02 Thread Luke Palmer
John Williams writes: Is all the Extensible metasyntax (...) being changed to ... ? Or is the new rule that ... is capturing metasyntax, and ... is non-capturing metasyntax? That's the one. You can't really capture anything on an assertion, so /^foo .* ( do { say Got here! } or 1 ) .*

Re: Angle quotes and pointy brackets

2004-12-02 Thread Larry Wall
On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 02:54:42PM -0700, John Williams wrote: : Does / -alpha / capture to $0{'-alpha'} ? : Or should that be written / -«alpha» / ? At the moment I've got it that only assertions of the form word capture. Anything else you have to do an explicit binding, or use :keepall. Larry