Re: Perl6 grammar (take IV)

2002-07-06 Thread Sean O'Rourke
I keep expecting Damian or Larry or someone to step in with The True Grammar and make this obsolete -- does such a thing exist? Changes in this version: - A bit more speed (though nowhere near enough). It comes from a combination of improving rule ordering, inlining some rules, moving most

Re: Perl6 grammar (take IV)

2002-07-06 Thread Trey Harris
In a message dated Sat, 6 Jul 2002, Sean O'Rourke writes: - Implicit currying variables ($^a etc) are in. I thought I had read somewhere they were gone in favor of closure args, but people seem to be using them, and they're not hard to put in. My understanding is that they still exist as

Re: Perl6 grammar (take IV)

2002-07-06 Thread Larry Wall
On Sat, 6 Jul 2002, Trey Harris wrote: : In a message dated Sat, 6 Jul 2002, Sean O'Rourke writes: : - Implicit currying variables ($^a etc) are in. I thought I had read :somewhere they were gone in favor of closure args, but people seem :to be using them, and they're not hard to put