Author: autrijus
Date: Sat Feb 25 01:59:19 2006
New Revision: 7867
Modified:
doc/trunk/design/syn/S05.pod
Log:
* S05: Fix the <(...)> typo (was spelled <(...\>) and
make the moose example slightly more idiomatic.
Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S05.pod
==============================================================================
--- doc/trunk/design/syn/S05.pod (original)
+++ doc/trunk/design/syn/S05.pod Sat Feb 25 01:59:19 2006
@@ -1115,17 +1115,17 @@
my $moose = m:{
<antler> <body>
- { return Moose.new( body => $<body>.attach(:$<antler>) ) }
+ { return Moose.new( body => $<body>().attach($<antler>()) ) }
# match succeeds -- ignore the rest of the rule
}.();
C<$()> is a shorthand for C<$/.()> or C<$/()>. The result object
-may contain any object, not just a string.
+may be of any type, not just a string.
You may also capture a subset of the match as the result object using
the C<< <(...)> construct:
- "foo123bar" ~~ / foo <( \d+ \> bar /
+ "foo123bar" ~~ / foo <( \d+ )> bar /
say $(); # says 123
In this case the result object is always a string when doing string
