Re: Funky «vector» operator

2004-03-23 Thread David Wheeler
On Mar 22, 2004, at 10:36 PM, David Wheeler wrote: I'll wait and see what I hear back from the Emacs developers. In the meantime, there's TextEdit. I've heard back that it may be that Unicode support simply isn't included in the Carbonized version of Mac OS X. They plan to look into it.

Dereferencing Syntax (Was: Outer product considered useful)

2004-03-23 Thread Smylers
Luke Palmer writes: for @(@ranges[1]) - $i { Oooh, where did that dereferencing syntax come from, using parens rather than braces? Smylers

Re: Dereferencing Syntax (Was: Outer product considered useful)

2004-03-23 Thread Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon
Smylers wrote: Luke Palmer writes: for @(@ranges[1]) - $i { Oooh, where did that dereferencing syntax come from, using parens rather than braces? It isn't a dereferencing syntax--it's a context-forcing syntax (one I'm intimately familiar with), which forces @ranges[1] into list context.

Re: Dereferencing Syntax (Was: Outer product considered useful)

2004-03-23 Thread Goplat
--- Smylers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Luke Palmer writes: for @(@ranges[1]) - $i { Oooh, where did that dereferencing syntax come from, using parens rather than braces? @(...) is the list context operator in S3. I hope array references won't explode in list context, that would be very

Unicode support in Emacs

2004-03-23 Thread Karl Brodowsky
Larry Wall wrote: Well, it's too bad the emacs developers are lagging behind the vim developers in this area, but it might (or might not) have something to do with the fact that certain obnoxious people like me were bugging the vim folks incessantly to get their Unicode story straight for a