Re: r24846 - docs/Perl6/Spec

2009-01-10 Thread Mark J. Reed
On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 7:34 PM, jerry gay wrote: >> If that's now the case, that's unfortunately confusing. In other >> contexts, "eagerness" is "leftmost" ("eager" for matching to start, if >> you like), which is orthogonal to "greed": Indeed, in the context of regular expressions this definit

Re: r24846 - docs/Perl6/Spec

2009-01-10 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
* jerry gay [2009-01-09 22:45]: > it's "eager" for the match to close "Impatient", "hasty"? Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis //

Re: r24846 - docs/Perl6/Spec

2009-01-09 Thread jerry gay
On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 14:26, Eirik Berg Hanssen wrote: > "jerry gay" writes: > >> On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 13:16, Eirik Berg Hanssen >> wrote: >>> That doesn't look very "eager" to me. >>> >> it's "eager" for the match to close, which is the opposite of "greedy" >> matching. in perl 5 documentat

Re: r24846 - docs/Perl6/Spec

2009-01-09 Thread Eirik Berg Hanssen
"jerry gay" writes: > On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 13:16, Eirik Berg Hanssen > wrote: >> That doesn't look very "eager" to me. >> > it's "eager" for the match to close, which is the opposite of "greedy" > matching. in perl 5 documentation, it's called "non-greedy". for use > and explanation of the te

Re: r24846 - docs/Perl6/Spec

2009-01-09 Thread jerry gay
On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 13:16, Eirik Berg Hanssen wrote: > pugs-comm...@feather.perl6.nl writes: > >> +C<--prelude=Perl6-autoloop-no-print>. Since eager matching is used, if you >> +need to pass something like: >> >> + ++foo -bar ++foo baz ++/foo ++/foo >> >> +you'll end up with >> + >> + %+OPTS

Re: r24846 - docs/Perl6/Spec

2009-01-09 Thread Eirik Berg Hanssen
pugs-comm...@feather.perl6.nl writes: > +C<--prelude=Perl6-autoloop-no-print>. Since eager matching is used, if you > +need to pass something like: > > + ++foo -bar ++foo baz ++/foo ++/foo > > +you'll end up with > + > + %+OPTS = '-bar ++foo baz'; That doesn't look very "eager" to me.

r24846 - docs/Perl6/Spec

2009-01-09 Thread pugs-commits
Author: particle Date: 2009-01-09 22:05:46 +0100 (Fri, 09 Jan 2009) New Revision: 24846 Modified: docs/Perl6/Spec/S19-commandline.pod Log: [S19] describe how to avoid ambiguity when nesting delimited options Modified: docs/Perl6/Spec/S19-commandline.pod