Re: Suggested magic for a .. b

2010-07-28 Thread Chris Fields
On Jul 28, 2010, at 1:37 PM, Mark J. Reed wrote: On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 2:30 PM, Chris Fields cjfie...@illinois.edu wrote: On Jul 28, 2010, at 1:27 PM, Mark J. Reed wrote: Can I get an Amen? Amen! -- Mark J. Reed markjr...@gmail.com +1. I'm agnostic ; Militant? :) ( http

Re: Suggested magic for a .. b

2010-07-28 Thread Chris Fields
On Jul 28, 2010, at 1:27 PM, Mark J. Reed wrote: On Wednesday, July 28, 2010, Jon Lang datawea...@gmail.com wrote: Keep it simple, folks! There are enough corner cases in Perl 6 as things stand; we don't need to be introducing more of them if we can help it. Can I get an Amen? Amen! --

Re: Counting characters

2010-01-28 Thread Chris Fields
Would you want to use something else for that, maybe .comb? From the spec: 'The comb function looks through a string for the interesting bits, ignoring the parts that don't match. In other words, it's a version of split where you specify what you want, not what you don't want.' chris On Jan

Re: Module naming conventions

2009-06-03 Thread Chris Fields
On Jun 2, 2009, at 5:11 PM, Daniel Carrera wrote: John M. Dlugosz wrote: So CPAN6 is basically only going to be for Parrot? What are you talking about? Did you even read my email? I said that a module might be implemented in multiple languages (see Digest::SHA VS Digest::SHA::PurePerl)

Re: References to parts of declared packages

2009-02-12 Thread Chris Fields
On Feb 11, 2009, at 2:46 PM, Carl Mäsak wrote: Jon (), Jonasthan (): If we declared, for example: role A::B {}; Then what should a reference to A be here? At the moment, Rakudo treats it as a post-declared listop, however I suspect we should be doing something a bit smarter? If so,

spaces and transliteration

2008-07-07 Thread Chris Fields
I am working on the transliteration method operator (trans()) for Rakudo and wanted to get some input on how character ranges are to be used. Should spaces be ignored in ranges like 'A .. Z'? Currently the implementation I have ignores those spaces but counts any other spaces as

spaces and transliteration

2008-07-07 Thread Chris Fields
I am working on the transliteration method operator (trans()) for Rakudo and wanted to get some input on how character ranges are to be used. Should spaces be ignored in ranges like 'A .. Z'? Currently the implementation I have ignores those spaces but counts any other spaces as