Out of curiosity, I followed this and read through "Str". When I got to the section on "sprintf", I found a few things I think need attention.
1. There isn't any description what the flags do, in particular 'v', which seems to be a P6 enhancement. 2. Not mentioned are 'hh' (native char), 'j' (native maxint_t) and 'l' (applied to 's' and 'c', native wchar_t). 3. Logically the 'p' conversion applied to an Object should return the object identity (.id or whatever that's called now), though applied to non-objects it should probably still throw an exception. 4. In keeping with named parameters, it seems to me that the 'index' should be extended to allow a name rather than just an integer. Obviously that would need the name to be disambiguated by some punctuation such as <> or «». 5. And pretty please could we have infix:<%>(Str,Capture) as an alias for sprintf? (Not that I'm normally a Python fan, but that feature has a particularly wholesome appeal about it.) -Martin On Sun, 25 Sep 2011, nore...@github.com wrote: > Date: Sun, 25 Sep 2011 17:33:22 -0700 > From: nore...@github.com > To: perl6-language@perl.org > Subject: [perl6/specs] ff11f1: define %%; clarify that % is not quantmod > > Branch: refs/heads/master > Home: https://github.com/perl6/specs > > Commit: ff11f19331bf30327cf729a0f5c9c349caa231c7 > > https://github.com/perl6/specs/commit/ff11f19331bf30327cf729a0f5c9c349caa231c7 > Author: Larry Wall <la...@wall.org> > Date: 2011-09-25 (Sun, 25 Sep 2011) > > Changed paths: > M S05-regex.pod > > Log Message: > ----------- > define %%; clarify that % is not quantmod > > ingy++ requested a method of stopping optionally after the separator, > so that's now %% (with some notion of "evenly divisible" in some kind > of loose sense). (Note, if you want to require the separator at the > end, don't use this construct, just use [x ',']* or such. > > sorear++ requested clarification: % (and %%) are not really quantifier > modifiers; they modify a quantified atom to insert requirements > between each iteration of that quantified atom. Hence any quantifier > may still take an additional control quantmod in addition to a separator. > > > Commit: 6d7f9f1ad5f42fe3e14d44a10834cda869643cc7 > > https://github.com/perl6/specs/commit/6d7f9f1ad5f42fe3e14d44a10834cda869643cc7 > Author: Larry Wall <la...@wall.org> > Date: 2011-09-25 (Sun, 25 Sep 2011) > > Changed paths: > M S32-setting-library/IO.pod > M S32-setting-library/Str.pod > > Log Message: > ----------- > Merge branch 'master' of github.com:perl6/specs > > > Compare: https://github.com/perl6/specs/compare/d7b5637...6d7f9f1 >
