On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 06:29:21PM +0100, Richard Proctor wrote:
> In Apocalypse 2, \Q is being used for two things, and I believe this
> may be ambiguious.
Probably Larry was thinking \E (end of special treatment), originally.
--
Raul
Larry Wall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>Dan Sugalski writes:
>: Have you considered allowing Unicode characters as alternatives to some of
>: the less pleasant looking bits? $foo<<1>> (where << and >> are the double
>: angle characters) as an alternative to $foo\Q[1] if the user's got the
>: ch
Larry Wall wrote:
>
> The ~~ is a cute hack though.
Credit is due to Steve Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> who posted it to funwithperl.
...
> I'm sorry, my eyes go crossed when I look at that, and the two \Q's
> merge into one, which confuses me, in a stereoscopic sort of way.
I was wrong about \Q\
Johan Vromans wrote:
>
> [Quoting Michael G Schwern, on May 6 2001, 22:58, in "Re: Apo2: \Q ambigui"]
> > Hmmm, maybe you can point out the "compose" key on my keyboard, I
> > can't find it. ;)
>
> Pick whatever you find convenient. I use the right control key.
> From my .Xmodmap:
>
> ! Compo
[Quoting Michael G Schwern, on May 6 2001, 22:58, in "Re: Apo2: \Q ambigui"]
> Hmmm, maybe you can point out the "compose" key on my keyboard, I
> can't find it. ;)
Pick whatever you find convenient. I use the right control key.
From my .Xmodmap:
! Compose key
keycode 109 = Multi_key
> I kn
On Sun, May 06, 2001 at 10:23:18PM +0200, Johan Vromans wrote:
> Larry Wall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > I won't tell you what I had to go through just to get those two
> > characters into this message, and they're still only in Latin-1.
>
> Compose < < and an average version of X.
Hmmm, mayb
Larry Wall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Actually, my first thought a year or three ago was to replace qw()
> with «», but we just aren't there with the Unicode editors yet.
IIRW, German uses «» but French uses »« ...
> I won't tell you what I had to go through just to get those two
> character
At 06:40 PM 5/4/2001 -0700, Larry Wall wrote:
>Dan Sugalski writes:
>: That's cool. I was just thinking it might not be a bad idea for us to
>: set some equivalencies up in advance. If not, that's fine too. (I'll just
>: slip them in while you're not looking... :)
>
>Hmm. Harks back to the coloni
Dan Sugalski writes:
: That's cool. I was just thinking it might not be a bad idea for us to set=20
: some equivalencies up in advance. If not, that's fine too. (I'll just slip=
: =20
: them in while you're not looking... :)
Hmm. Harks back to the colonial era: "I claim these brackets in the
nam
David L. Nicol writes:
: Not a problem. \Q means quotemeta, except immediately following
: a interpolated identifier. You want to start metaquoting immediately
: after a curious interpolation? use \Q\Q.
The word "except" should be a red flag that you're trying to define an
exception. We're try
At 03:51 PM 5/4/2001 -0700, Larry Wall wrote:
>Dan Sugalski writes:
>: Have you considered allowing Unicode characters as alternatives to some of
>: the less pleasant looking bits? $foo<<1>> (where << and >> are the double
>: angle characters) as an alternative to $foo\Q[1] if the user's got the
>
Not a problem. \Q means quotemeta, except immediately following
a interpolated identifier. You want to start metaquoting immediately
after a curious interpolation? use \Q\Q.
I have been regularly, since I fingured out how, doing things like
print "the time is now ${\(~~localtime)}[
Dan Sugalski writes:
: Have you considered allowing Unicode characters as alternatives to some of
: the less pleasant looking bits? $foo<<1>> (where << and >> are the double
: angle characters) as an alternative to $foo\Q[1] if the user's got the
: characters handy?
Actually, my first thought
At 10:11 PM 5/4/2001 +0100, Simon Cozens wrote:
>On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 03:05:12PM -0400, Dan Sugalski wrote:
> > Have you considered allowing Unicode characters as alternatives to some of
> > the less pleasant looking bits? $foo<<1>> (where << and >> are the double
> > angle characters) as an al
At 11:33 PM 5/4/2001 +0200, Bart Lateur wrote:
>On Fri, 04 May 2001 15:05:12 -0400, Dan Sugalski wrote:
>
> >Have you considered allowing Unicode characters as alternatives to some of
> >the less pleasant looking bits? $foo<<1>> (where << and >> are the double
> >angle characters) as an alternativ
On Fri, 04 May 2001 15:05:12 -0400, Dan Sugalski wrote:
>Have you considered allowing Unicode characters as alternatives to some of
>the less pleasant looking bits? $foo<<1>> (where << and >> are the double
>angle characters) as an alternative to $foo\Q[1] if the user's got the
>characters han
On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 03:05:12PM -0400, Dan Sugalski wrote:
> Have you considered allowing Unicode characters as alternatives to some of
> the less pleasant looking bits? $foo<<1>> (where << and >> are the double
> angle characters) as an alternative to $foo\Q[1] if the user's got the
> chara
At 11:10 AM 5/4/2001 -0700, Larry Wall wrote:
>Larry Wall writes:
>: Richard Proctor writes:
>: : In Apocalypse 2, \Q is being used for two things, and I believe this
>may be
>: : ambiguious.
>: :
>: : It has the current \Quote meaning admitibly \Q{oute} it is also being
>: : proposed for a null
From: Larry Wall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Richard Proctor writes:
> : In Apocalypse 2, \Q is being used for two things, and I
> : believe this may be ambiguious.
> :
> : It has the current \Quote meaning admitibly \Q{oute} it is
> : also being proposed for a null token disambiguate context.
Larry Wall writes:
: Richard Proctor writes:
: : In Apocalypse 2, \Q is being used for two things, and I believe this may be
: : ambiguious.
: :
: : It has the current \Quote meaning admitibly \Q{oute} it is also being
: : proposed for a null token disambiguate context. As in $foo\Q[bar].
:
: H
Richard Proctor writes:
: In Apocalypse 2, \Q is being used for two things, and I believe this may be
: ambiguious.
:
: It has the current \Quote meaning admitibly \Q{oute} it is also being
: proposed for a null token disambiguate context. As in $foo\Q[bar].
Hmm, yes, that's a problem. I'd for
In Apocalypse 2, \Q is being used for two things, and I believe this may be
ambiguious.
It has the current \Quote meaning admitibly \Q{oute} it is also being
proposed for a null token disambiguate context. As in $foo\Q[bar].
But if it is spliting $foo and {this is in curlies} this will be taken
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