On Thu, 31 Jan 2002, Bryan C. Warnock wrote:
print There's a letter in here!\n if (substr($pi, 0, 200) =~ /[a-z]/);
*shrug* I actually did think of that when I first proposed this;
doesn't substr make a fresh copy of the string? (I honestly don't know.)
What happens if you take a
On Wed, Jan 30, 2002 at 10:47:36AM -0800, Larry Wall wrote:
For various reasons, some of which relate to the sequence-of-integer
abstraction, and some of which relate to infinite strings and arrays,
I think Perl 6 strings are likely to be represented by a list of
chunks, where each chunk is
At 2:49 PM + 1/31/02, Tim Bunce wrote:
On Wed, Jan 30, 2002 at 10:47:36AM -0800, Larry Wall wrote:
For various reasons, some of which relate to the sequence-of-integer
abstraction, and some of which relate to infinite strings and arrays,
I think Perl 6 strings are likely to be
On Thu, Jan 31, 2002 at 12:18:28PM -0500, Dan Sugalski wrote:
At 2:49 PM + 1/31/02, Tim Bunce wrote:
On Wed, Jan 30, 2002 at 10:47:36AM -0800, Larry Wall wrote:
For various reasons, some of which relate to the sequence-of-integer
abstraction, and some of which relate to infinite
At 5:34 PM + 1/31/02, Tim Bunce wrote:
On Thu, Jan 31, 2002 at 12:18:28PM -0500, Dan Sugalski wrote:
At 2:49 PM + 1/31/02, Tim Bunce wrote:
On Wed, Jan 30, 2002 at 10:47:36AM -0800, Larry Wall wrote:
For various reasons, some of which relate to the sequence-of-integer
On Thu, 31 Jan 2002, Dan Sugalski wrote:
At 2:49 PM + 1/31/02, Tim Bunce wrote:
On Wed, Jan 30, 2002 at 10:47:36AM -0800, Larry Wall wrote:
For various reasons, some of which relate to the sequence-of-integer
abstraction, and some of which relate to infinite strings and arrays,
I
On Thu, 31 Jan 2002, Dan Sugalski wrote:
There is an issue of time--what do we do, for example, in the case:
my $pi = Pi::Generate;
if ($pi =~ /[a-z]) {
print There's a letter in here!\n;
}
if Pi::Generate returns a generator object that will calculate pi for
you to
On Thursday 31 January 2002 21:03, Dave Storrs wrote:
Just a thought...the following would be *really* cool:
my $pi = Pi::Generate;
# Check the first 200 characters only; halt w/success if NO match
print There's a letter in here!\n if ($pi =~ /[a-z]/h200t);
print
On Thursday 31 January 2002 22:03, Bryan C. Warnock wrote:
junk. Too tired, I missed the point entirely.
On Thursday 31 January 2002 21:03, Dave Storrs wrote:
Just a thought...the following would be *really* cool:
my $pi = Pi::Generate;
# Check the first 200
