Larry all looks good with the latest email and encoding! Interpreting %hash-with-arrays.values>>[].flat aka %hash-with-arrays.values»[].flat
>> is hyperoperator https://docs.raku.org/language/operators#index-entry-hyper_ <<-hyper_>>-hyper_«-hyper_»-Hyper_operators and as for [] "it's the postcircumfix[] <https://docs.raku.org/language/operators#circumfix_[_]> which is being hypered." it is "The Array <https://docs.raku.org/type/Array> constructor returns an itemized Array <https://docs.raku.org/type/Array> that does not flatten in list context." And then, call "flat" on the resulting itemized Arrays. > say gather %hash-with-arrays.values.deepmap: { .take } (6 7 8 1 2 3 4 5) > say %hash-with-arrays.values>>[].flat (6 [7 8] 1 2 3 4 5) Happy with those! ps. :-) I now see Ralph's comment including "microwave+garlic+to+remove+skin" as poetic, referring to both removing the "item" skins and the Unicode garlic ideogram -y On Tue, Apr 7, 2020 at 12:15 PM Larry Wall <la...@wall.org> wrote: > On Mon, Apr 06, 2020 at 08:04:45PM -0400, yary wrote: > : Larry's answer came through my browser with munged Unicode, it looks like > : this > : > : [image: image.png] > : - with the Chinese character for "garlic" after the word "values" > > I wrote the Unicode equivalent of: > > %hash-with-arrays.values>>[].flat > > but for some reason mutt translated it to latin-1, which your mail program > apparently doesn't grok. > > Maybe if I actually put a Chinese character in like 楽 it will leave it in > UTF-8? > > Testing: > > %hash-with-arrays.values»[].flat > > Larry >
