On Tue, 2002-05-14 at 20:13, Larry Wall wrote:
It's unlikely that {n,m} will still have that meaning in Perl 6. Maybe we'll
have something like this:
Perl 5Perl 6
{1,3} 1..3
{3} 3
{3,} 3+
{0,3} 3-
Then again, maybe not...
Hopefully
Aaron Sherman writes:
: Hopefully there will be some replacement. I can't count the number of
: times I've relied on things like:
:
: $b = qr/\d{1,3}/;
: if (ip = ($addr =~ /($b)\.($b)\.($b)\.($b)/)) {
: die $0: \$addr\: bad IP\n if grep {$_255} ip;
: print(0x,(map {sprintf
From: Larry Wall [EMAIL PROTECTED]
It's unlikely that {n,m} will still have that meaning in Perl 6. Maybe
we'll
have something like this:
Perl 5 Perl 6
{1,3} 1..3
{3} 3
{3,} 3+
{0,3} 3-
What are your feelings on multiple ranges for matches? E.g. the following
Miko O'Sullivan writes:
: From: Larry Wall [EMAIL PROTECTED]
: It's unlikely that {n,m} will still have that meaning in Perl 6. Maybe
: we'll
: have something like this:
:
: Perl 5 Perl 6
: {1,3} 1..3
: {3} 3
: {3,} 3+
: {0,3} 3-
:
: What are your feelings on
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.
I
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 make
