Re: RFC 145 (alternate approach)

2000-09-06 Thread David Corbin
you need ( to match ) not ( to match (. A ?[ list should specify for each element what the matching element is perhaps (?[( = ),{ = }, 01 = 10) sort of hashish in style. Perhaps the brackets could be defined as a hash allowing (?[%Hash) Richard -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- David Cor

Re: XML/HTML-specific ? and ? operators? (was Re: RFC 145 (alternate approach))

2000-09-06 Thread David Corbin
Some stuffbr /p Finally, tags which take arguments: div align="center"Stuff/div Would require some type of "this is optional" syntax: /(?div\s*\w*)Stuff(?)/ Perhaps only the first word specified is taken as the tag name? This is the XML/HTML spe

Re: XML/HTML-specific ? and ? operators? (was Re: RFC 145 (alternate approach))

2000-09-06 Thread David Corbin
by those who need them? In principle, that's a very Perlish thing to do... -Scott -- Jonathan Scott Duff [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- David Corbin Mach Turtle Technologies, Inc. http://www.machturtle.com [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: RFC 145 (alternate approach)

2000-09-05 Thread David Corbin
airs with the previous ?m, if there was one that was matched. The | character separates or'ed sets consistent with other regex patterns. You can do that, or you can say it's done with backreferences (as noted above) -Nate David Corbin wrote: I never saw one comment on this, and the more I think ab

Re: the C JIT

2000-08-31 Thread David Corbin
ow this could become a serious distraction to what I perceive as the likely goals of Perl6. -- David Corbin Mach Turtle Technologies, Inc. http://www.machturtle.com [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: RFC 133 (v1) Alternate Syntax for variable names

2000-08-28 Thread David Corbin
(apply regular expression and only keep keys that match) -- Bron ( but I don't think the ugliness is worth it in the end.. ) -- David Corbin Mach Turtle Technologies, Inc. http://www.machturtle.com [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: RFC 162 (v1) Filtering Here Docs

2000-08-28 Thread David Corbin
you'd have to be consistent in what you put in front of the text lines (and in the whitespace prefix definition). -- Bart. Why not make the details of this controlled by a pragma? -- David Corbin Mach Turtle Technologies, Inc. http://www.machturtle.com [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Let's have a Standard for Module Configuration

2000-08-25 Thread David Corbin
revision that isn't in the old one and warn the user. I assume that this is really just another very small .pm file. Thoughts? -- David Corbin Mach Turtle Technologies, Inc. http://www.machturtle.com [EMAIL PROTECTED]

What makes Perl Perl?

2000-08-25 Thread David Corbin
the four I posted, originally, I've added two. Here's my working list. native pattern matching; list manipulation aweswome text processing. It's application glue (thanks Tim) Ability to write powerful 1-line programs. Make easy things easy and hard things possible. (paraphrased, I suspect) --

Re: RFC 133 (v1) Alternate Syntax for variable names

2000-08-24 Thread David Corbin
this one. # I'm not sure at all about these - I tend to avoid interpolation of arrays and hashes for "safety" $x = "xx@{array}yy" $x = "xx{array[]}yy" -- David Corbin Mach Turtle Technologies, Inc. http://www.machturtle.com [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: RFC 133 (v1) Alternate Syntax for variable names

2000-08-23 Thread David Corbin
word board. -- David Nicol 816.235.1187 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Laziness with responsibility http://www.tipjar.com/kcpm -- David Corbin Mach Turtle Technologies, Inc. http://www.machturtle.com [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Ideas that need RFCs?

2000-08-23 Thread David Corbin
. -- David Corbin Mach Turtle Technologies, Inc. http://www.machturtle.com [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Things to remove

2000-08-23 Thread David Corbin
@funx, sub { print "I'll take a $name one, please, with @_.\n"; }; } snip --tom Or consider this pseudo code - open file lock file dump file file gets removed -- David Corbin Mach Turtle Technologies,

Re: transaction-enabled variables

2000-08-23 Thread David Corbin
things can distinguish Perl from the other languages like pattern matching once did. It strikes me as one of those things that are going to end up adding a whole lot of power that wasn't expected, once people figure them out. -- David Corbin Mach Turtle Technologies, Inc. http://www.mach

Re: RFC 109 (v1) Less line noise - let's get rid of @%

2000-08-17 Thread David Corbin
David Corbin wrote: Ariel Scolnicov wrote: So how do I make Cfoo into an array in the first place? Well, I say something like Cfoo = (1,2,3). But wait -- that's ambiguous! Is Cfoo now a copy of the list (1,2,3) (in which case it's an array), or is it a reference to (1,2,3