On 10/02/06, Stuart Cook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> IIRC, that rule exists so you can create when-clauses that don't
> involve the current topic, without having to explicitly throw it away.
> This is useful when using given/when to replace a sequence of elsifs,
> when not all of them use $_.
(I
On 09/02/06, Mike Guy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Robin Houston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote
> > Any Code()simple closure truth match if $b->() (ignoring $a)
>
> I obviously missed that when it went past on p5p. Surely that should
> read
>
> Any Code()predicate(value)
On 2/8/06, Mike Guy wrote:
I obviously missed that when it went past on p5p. Surely that should read
Any Code()predicate(value) match if $b->($a)
meaning that $a satisfies the predicate implemented by the code $b?
Ignoring $a seems a completely stupid thing to do.
Well, t
Robin Houston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote
> Any Code()simple closure truth match if $b->() (ignoring $a)
I obviously missed that when it went past on p5p. Surely that should
read
Any Code()predicate(value) match if $b->($a)
meaning that $a satisfies the predicat
-- Original message --
From: Luke Palmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> On 2/7/06, Robin Houston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Any undef undefinedmatch if !defined $a
> > Any Regex pattern matchmatch if $a =~ /$b/
> >
Luke wrote:
> My interpretation (which may be totally off, as I don't have any
> confirmation that anybody else is thinking the same way I am) is that
> the synopsis is wrong, and commutivity of ~~ is a happy coincidence
> wherever it exists. The way I've been thinking about ~~ is just as
> the f
On 2/7/06, Robin Houston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Any undef undefinedmatch if !defined $a
> Any Regex pattern matchmatch if $a =~ /$b/
> Code() Code()results are equalmatch if $a->() eq $b->()
> Any Code()simple cl
The table of smart matches in S4 has this:
...
Any Str string equality match if $_ eq $x
...
Any Rule pattern matchmatch if $_ ~~ /$x/
...
By my (and Damian's) interpretation of the table, this means
that "string" ~~ /rule/ would be inte
