Trey Harris writes:
: One of the little bugaboos that got me a lot my first N years of doing
: Perl was that {m,} is a quantifier meaning "m or more", but {,n} is *not*
: a quantifier meaning "up to n". People like symmetry, and it seems
: logical that {,n} would DWIM, but it doesn't. I still ma
One of the little bugaboos that got me a lot my first N years of doing
Perl was that {m,} is a quantifier meaning "m or more", but {,n} is *not*
a quantifier meaning "up to n". People like symmetry, and it seems
logical that {,n} would DWIM, but it doesn't. I still make the mistake on
occassion.
On Mon, May 13, 2002 at 05:48:17PM -0700, Ask Bjoern Hansen wrote:
> On Wed, 8 May 2002, Nathan Torkington wrote:
>
> Larry's State of the Onion slides from TPC5 are now available from
>
> http://dev.perl.org/perl6/talks/
> http://dev.perl.org/perl6/talks/onion5.pdf
Better sooner than never
