[svn:perl6-synopsis] r14579 - doc/trunk/design/syn

2008-09-01 Thread larry
Author: larry Date: Mon Sep 1 18:12:53 2008 New Revision: 14579 Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S04.pod Log: clarify that statement introducers may not use function syntax, which is reserved for user functions of the same name Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S04.pod ==

[svn:perl6-synopsis] r14578 - doc/trunk/design/syn

2008-09-01 Thread larry
Author: larry Date: Mon Sep 1 17:02:00 2008 New Revision: 14578 Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S02.pod Log: added Rat type to list of immutables, mbiggar++ Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S02.pod == --- doc/trunk/des

Re: how much detail can I get from caller.want?

2008-09-01 Thread Larry Wall
On Mon, Sep 01, 2008 at 03:40:39PM -0400, Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH wrote: > On 2008 Sep 1, at 15:20, Larry Wall wrote: >> On Mon, Sep 01, 2008 at 05:52:28PM +0200, TSa wrote: >>> John M. Dlugosz wrote: Perhaps the supplier of the CPAN module for the nth function could also include, beside

Re: What happened to "err" operator?

2008-09-01 Thread Larry Wall
On Sun, Aug 31, 2008 at 04:28:36PM -0500, John M. Dlugosz wrote: > Has the "err" operator, as a low-precidence version of //, been removed? Yes. > It's not mentioned in S03, and the semantics of "orelse" is different. > Is "orelse" supposed to be a direct replacement, meaning if you ignore >

Re: how much detail can I get from caller.want?

2008-09-01 Thread Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH
On 2008 Sep 1, at 15:20, Larry Wall wrote: On Mon, Sep 01, 2008 at 05:52:28PM +0200, TSa wrote: John M. Dlugosz wrote: Perhaps the supplier of the CPAN module for the nth function could also include, besides the actual function, an optimization pattern plug-in that locates the idiom in the pars

Re: how much detail can I get from caller.want?

2008-09-01 Thread Larry Wall
On Mon, Sep 01, 2008 at 05:52:28PM +0200, TSa wrote: > HaloO, > > John M. Dlugosz wrote: >> Perhaps the supplier of the CPAN module for the nth function could >> also include, besides the actual function, an optimization pattern >> plug-in that locates the idiom in the parse tree and replaces the >

Re: how much detail can I get from caller.want?

2008-09-01 Thread TSa
HaloO, John M. Dlugosz wrote: Perhaps the supplier of the CPAN module for the nth function could also include, besides the actual function, an optimization pattern plug-in that locates the idiom in the parse tree and replaces the expression with a call to nth. Wouldn't a dispatch target postci

Re: [perl #58424] Named regex, token and rule don't work outside of a grammar

2008-09-01 Thread Moritz Lenz
Patrick R. Michaud wrote: > On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 08:32:41AM -0700, Carl Mäsak wrote: >> r30590: >> $ ./perl6 -e 'regex a { b }; "b" ~~ a' >> too few arguments passed (0) - 2 params expected >> [...] >> >> I've also added tests for this in t/spec/S05-metasyntax/regex.t. >> >> (S05 is not entire