Re: Hyper Here-Docs? (was: Re: angle quotes for here-docs ?)

2004-11-30 Thread Michele Dondi
On Thu, 25 Nov 2004, Larry Wall wrote: On Thu, Nov 25, 2004 at 11:59:21AM -0600, Rod Adams wrote: : Seeing the « in the context of a here-doc made me think can you do a : » here-doc? Nope, you can only hyper operators, not terms. Incidentally, just like mathematically (albeit slightly loosely) an

Re: Hyper Here-Docs? (was: Re: angle quotes for here-docs ?)

2004-11-30 Thread David Christensen
Incidentally, just like mathematically (albeit slightly loosely) an element of a set can be thought of as a function from any singleton, would it be possible for Perl 6 to provide a fast (under the syntactical point of view) way to promote a term to a function returning it? What's wrong with

Re: Hyper Here-Docs? (was: Re: angle quotes for here-docs ?)

2004-11-30 Thread Abhijit Mahabal
On Tue, 30 Nov 2004, David Christensen wrote: Incidentally, just like mathematically (albeit slightly loosely) an element of a set can be thought of as a function from any singleton, would it be possible for Perl 6 to provide a fast (under the syntactical point of view) way to promote a term to

Re: Hyper Here-Docs? (was: Re: angle quotes for here-docs ?)

2004-11-30 Thread Michele Dondi
On Tue, 30 Nov 2004, David Christensen wrote: Incidentally, just like mathematically (albeit slightly loosely) an element of a set can be thought of as a function from any singleton, would it be possible for Perl 6 to provide a fast (under the syntactical

Re: Hyper Here-Docs? (was: Re: angle quotes for here-docs ?)

2004-11-30 Thread Michele Dondi
On Tue, 30 Nov 2004, Abhijit Mahabal wrote: or the perl6 $xsub = { $x }; Sorry, I was missing the obvious... Michele -- [...] is like requiring to play tennis with a square ball. Which admittedly makes the game more interesting. - Giuseppe Oblomov Bilotta in comp.text.tex (edited)

Hyper Here-Docs? (was: Re: angle quotes for here-docs ?)

2004-11-25 Thread Rod Adams
Juerd wrote: Thomas Seiler skribis 2004-11-25 14:52 (+0100): Is $heredoc = «END; the same as $heredoc = END; ? I certainly hope not. Quoting the delimiter is needed, by the way. How is 'END' disambiguated from 'qw' list, anyway? Seeing the « in the context of a here-doc made me think

Re: Hyper Here-Docs? (was: Re: angle quotes for here-docs ?)

2004-11-25 Thread Larry Wall
On Thu, Nov 25, 2004 at 11:59:21AM -0600, Rod Adams wrote: : Seeing the « in the context of a here-doc made me think can you do a : » here-doc? Nope, you can only hyper operators, not terms. : So, something like : : : @text = »END; : text1 : END : : text2 : END : : text3 : END : : text4 :