On Tue, May 29, 2007 at 05:29:18PM -0400, Chas Owens wrote:
: Okay, obviously I have more synopsis to read, but currently Pugs says:
: pugs> my $posinf = *
: Inf
: pugs> my $neginf = -*
: -Inf
:
: which made me think * is Inf in scalar context. Is this a bug in Pugs then?
Yes, basically. * shou
On 5/29/07, Larry Wall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Tue, May 29, 2007 at 04:43:20PM -0400, Chas Owens wrote:
: Just an odd corner case, but
:"foo" x -*
: should return an empty string and
:"foo" xx -*
: should return an empty list, right?
I'm doubt &prefix:<->:(Whatever) is defined at a
On Tue, May 29, 2007 at 04:43:20PM -0400, Chas Owens wrote:
: Just an odd corner case, but
:"foo" x -*
: should return an empty string and
:"foo" xx -*
: should return an empty list, right?
I'm doubt &prefix:<->:(Whatever) is defined at all, so that's probably
a run-time failure unless som
On 5/29/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
snip
+If the count is less than 1, returns the null string.
+The count may not be C<*> because Perl 6 does not support
+infinite strings. (At least, not yet...)
snip
Does "may not be c<*>" mean that the compiler should throw a fatal
erro
On 5/29/07, Larry Wall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Tue, May 29, 2007 at 04:05:39PM -0400, Chas Owens wrote:
: On 5/29/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: snip
: >+If the count is less than 1, returns the null string.
: >+The count may not be C<*> because Perl 6 does not support
:
On Tue, May 29, 2007 at 04:05:39PM -0400, Chas Owens wrote:
: On 5/29/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: snip
: >+If the count is less than 1, returns the null string.
: >+The count may not be C<*> because Perl 6 does not support
: >+infinite strings. (At least, not yet...)
: snip
