Re: Unicode in 'NFG' formation ?

2009-05-20 Thread Helmut Wollmersdorfer
Larry Wall wrote: On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 11:11:32AM +0200, Helmut Wollmersdorfer wrote: 2) Can I use Unicode property matching safely with graphemes? If yes, who or what maintains the necessary tables? Good question. My assumption is that adding marks to a character doesn't change its

Re: Unicode in 'NFG' formation ?

2009-05-20 Thread John M. Dlugosz
Larry Wall larry-at-wall.org |Perl 6| wrote: On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 11:11:32AM +0200, Helmut Wollmersdorfer wrote: [1] Open questions: 1) Will graphemes have an unique charname? e.g. GRAPHEME LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH DOT BELOW AND DOT ABOVE Yes, presumably that comes with the

Meditations on a Loop

2009-05-20 Thread John M. Dlugosz
If you would be so kind, please take a look at http://www.dlugosz.com/Perl6/web/med-loop.html. I spent a couple days on this, and besides needing it checked for correctness, found a few issues as well as more food for thought. --John P.S. contains some humor.

Re: Meditations on a Loop

2009-05-20 Thread Austin Hastings
You write: I’m not sure what the heart of Perl 6 would be, but I think we’ve identified the spleen with the |Capture|. In the human body, most people have no idea what the spleen does. It sits there out of the way doing its thing, and we can’t live without it. I, along with a host of

Re: Meditations on a Loop

2009-05-20 Thread Patrick R. Michaud
On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 07:55:55PM -0500, John M. Dlugosz wrote: If you would be so kind, please take a look at http://www.dlugosz.com/Perl6/web/med-loop.html. The page currently says: The reason this [.prime] works is because the method-call syntax will call an ordinary

Re: Meditations on a Loop

2009-05-20 Thread Timothy S. Nelson
On Wed, 20 May 2009, John M. Dlugosz wrote: If you would be so kind, please take a look at http://www.dlugosz.com/Perl6/web/med-loop.html. I spent a couple days on this, and besides needing it checked for correctness, found a few issues as well as more food for thought. John, I