Miko O'Sullivan suggested:
> Give split an option to keep the delimiters in the returned array
As Dave mentioned, this already happens if you capture within the
split pattern.
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> Set preferred boolean string for scope
It's possible that Perl 6 will have built-in functions C<true> and C<false>.
When called without arguments, they will return the standard true and false
values (1 and "") respectively. If that is the case, then to dynamically
change them, you'd just write:
{
temp sub false() {0}
# etc.
}
Then, if the built-ins were all defined to use C<true> and C<false> to
return true and false values, you'd have exactly the control you need.
Though I must say I can't see the real need for this. Especially when
you can prefix any boolean expression with unary + and ensure that
any ""s are converted to 0's anyway.
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> Push with []
>
> Our friends over in PHP have a nifty little way of saying "push this onto
> the end of the array". You simply assign the value to the array using an
> empty index. In Perl6 it could look like this:
>
> @arr[] = $var;
I have to admit that don't find that syntax very intuitive.
Besides, in Perl 5 the same functionality just:
$arr[@arr] = $var;
In Perl 6, that would be:
@arr[+@arr] = $var;
or:
@arr[@arr.length] = $var;
or maybe just :
@arr[.length] = $var;
(if an array were to be made the topic inside its own accessor brackets).
Damian
PS: Thanks for the ideas, Mike! :-)
