Re: Negative array subscripts

2007-02-05 Thread David Green
On 2/5/07, David Green wrote: Then we wouldn't need * to count backwards, although it's still useful to allow us to count past the end of an array. There are all sorts of variations on this scheme, such as whether * is the last element or the one after that, etc., or whether 0 should be the fi

Negative array subscripts

2007-02-05 Thread David Green
On 1/30/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in "[svn:perl6-synopsis] r13549 - doc/trunk/design/syn": +It has become the custom to use negative subscripts to indicate counting +from the end of an array. This is still supported, but only for unshaped +arrays: +For shaped arrays you must explicitly refer t

[svn:perl6-synopsis] r13572 - doc/trunk/design/syn

2007-02-05 Thread larry
Author: larry Date: Mon Feb 5 15:07:01 2007 New Revision: 13572 Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S03.pod Log: $obj.Foo::bar is also okay syntax if Foo declared Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S03.pod == --- doc/trunk/d

Re: [svn:perl6-synopsis] r13571 - doc/trunk/design/syn

2007-02-05 Thread Larry Wall
On Mon, Feb 05, 2007 at 02:41:06PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: : typo from albery_b++ Figured I'd start in on all the possible misspellings now... O_o Larry

[svn:perl6-synopsis] r13571 - doc/trunk/design/syn

2007-02-05 Thread larry
Author: larry Date: Mon Feb 5 14:41:04 2007 New Revision: 13571 Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S05.pod Log: typo from albery_b++ Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S05.pod == --- doc/trunk/design/syn/S05.pod(ori

Re: [svn:perl6-synopsis] r13570 - doc/trunk/design/syn

2007-02-05 Thread Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH
On Feb 5, 2007, at 17:26 , [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: +This can be viewed as a form of multiple dispatch, except that it's +based on longest-token matching rather than signature matcing. The "matcing"? -- brandon s. allbery[linux,solaris,freebsd,perl] [EMAIL PROTECTED] system administ

[svn:perl6-synopsis] r13570 - doc/trunk/design/syn

2007-02-05 Thread larry
Author: larry Date: Mon Feb 5 14:26:23 2007 New Revision: 13570 Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S03.pod doc/trunk/design/syn/S05.pod Log: categories now allow multiple dispatch via longest-token rule added : syntax to rules and tokens seems a bit odd to call list-associative operators "bina

Re: [svn:perl6-synopsis] r13551 - doc/trunk/design/syn

2007-02-05 Thread Robert Wilkinson
On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 12:31:17PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Author: larry > Date: Tue Jan 30 12:31:16 2007 > New Revision: 13551 > > Modified: >doc/trunk/design/syn/S09.pod > > Log: > Braino spotted by TSa++ > > > Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S09.pod > ===