On 2/23/07, Blair Sutton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Sorry if this is a silly question but I haven't been able to find the
answer. Is the perl6-synopsis SVN repository publicly available or is it
in the same repository as that of Parrot or Pugs?
I think you're looking for this:
From S09:
When you use * with + and -, it creates a value of Whatever but Num,
which the array subscript interpreter will interpret as the subscript
one off the end of that dimension of the array.
Alternately, *+0 is the first element, and the subscript dwims from
the front or back depending on
On Fri, Feb 23, 2007 at 10:49:34AM -0800, Jonathan Lang wrote:
: That said, I think I can do one better:
:
: Ditch all of the above. Instead, '*' always acts like a list of all
: valid indices when used in the context of postcircumfix:[ ].
Ooh, shiny! Or at least, shiny on the shiny side...
:
Larry Wall wrote:
On Fri, Feb 23, 2007 at 10:49:34AM -0800, Jonathan Lang wrote:
: That said, I think I can do one better:
:
: Ditch all of the above. Instead, '*' always acts like a list of all
: valid indices when used in the context of postcircumfix:[ ].
Ooh, shiny! Or at least, shiny on
On 2/23/07, Jonathan Lang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
' I'm still debating the boolean context myself. I _think_ it will
work; but I have a tendency to miss intricacies. You might instead
want to require someone to explicitly check for definedness or
existence instead of merely truth; or you
