Jon Lang writes:
Approaching this with the notion firmly in mind that infix:.. is
supposed to be used for matching ranges while infix:... should be
used to generate series:
With series, we want C $LHS ... $RHS to generate a list of items
starting with $LHS and ending with $RHS. If $RHS
Smylers wrote:
Jon Lang writes:
Approaching this with the notion firmly in mind that infix:.. is
supposed to be used for matching ranges while infix:... should be
used to generate series:
With series, we want C $LHS ... $RHS to generate a list of items
starting with $LHS and ending with
Ok, I find that surprising (and counter to current Rakudo behavior),
but thanks for the correction, and sorry about the misinformation.
On Wednesday, July 21, 2010, Larry Wall la...@wall.org wrote:
On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 11:53:27PM -0400, Mark J. Reed wrote:
: In particular, consider that pi
Strike the counter to current Rakudo behavior bit; Rakudo is
behaving as specified in this instance. I must have been
hallucinating.
On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 7:33 AM, Mark J. Reed markjr...@gmail.com wrote:
Ok, I find that surprising (and counter to current Rakudo behavior),
but thanks for the
On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 09:23:11AM -0400, Mark J. Reed wrote:
: Strike the counter to current Rakudo behavior bit; Rakudo is
: behaving as specified in this instance. I must have been
: hallucinating.
Well, except that we both neglected precedence. Since ... is looser
than ~~, it must be
On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 1:28 AM, Aaron Sherman a...@ajs.com wrote:
For reference, this is the relevant section of the spec:
Character positions are incremented within their natural range for any
Unicode range that is deemed to represent the digits 0..9 or that is deemed
to be a complete
[changing the subject because it's now clear we have two different
discussions on our hands. I think we're at or closing in on a consensus for
a .. z, and this discussion is aa .. bb]
On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 1:56 AM, Darren Duncan dar...@darrenduncan.netwrote:
Aaron Sherman wrote:
2) The spec
Larry Wall wrote:
On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 11:53:27PM -0400, Mark J. Reed wrote:
: In particular, consider that pi ~~ 0..4 is true,
: because pi is within the range; but pi ~~ 0...4 is false, because pi
: is not one of the generated elements.
Small point here, it's not because pi is fractional:
On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 3:55 PM, Darren Duncan dar...@darrenduncan.net wrote:
Larry Wall wrote:
On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 11:53:27PM -0400, Mark J. Reed wrote:
: In particular, consider that pi ~~ 0..4 is true,
: because pi is within the range; but pi ~~ 0...4 is false, because pi
: is not
Aaron Sherman wrote:
Darren Duncan wrote:
3) It seems that there are two competing multi-character approaches and both
seem somewhat valid. Should we use a pragma to toggle behavior between A
and
B:
A: aa .. bb contains az
B: aa .. bb contains ONLY aa, ab, ba and bb
I would find A to
On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 3:47 PM, Jon Lang datawea...@gmail.com wrote:
... When comparing two strings, establishing an order between them is
generally straightforward as long as both are composed of letters from
the same alphabet and with the same case; but once you start mixing
cases,
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