. Reed [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, September 29, 2008 8:44 AM
To: Chris Davaz
Cc: Carl Mäsak; Perl6
Subject: Re: Split with negative limits, and other weirdnesses
On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 11:40 AM, Chris Davaz
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Ok, so 0 returns the empty list and -1
On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 9:36 PM, Kealey, Martin, ihug-NZ
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Hmmm, my understanding was that it stopped *splitting* after the limit, but
it doesn't stop consuming the source;
D'oh, you are of course correct; that is in fact the chief utility of
the limit parameter, and I
Jason ():
It makes sense to me to go with option 1; you get what you ask for. It also
makes sense to make to not use magical implied numbers, such as negatives,
to accomplish things that either ranges or whatever star can accomplish.
Aye, agreement. There's a whole lot of consensus already...
Ok, so 0 returns the empty list and -1 violates the signature? In PIR
can we have such signatures that put a constraint on the range of
values for a given parameter?
On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 7:25 PM, Carl Mäsak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Jason ():
It makes sense to me to go with option 1; you get
On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 11:40 AM, Chris Davaz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Ok, so 0 returns the empty list and -1 violates the signature? In PIR
can we have such signatures that put a constraint on the range of
values for a given parameter?
Maybe this has already been proposed and rejected, but
It makes sense to me to go with option 1; you get what you ask for. It also
makes sense to make to not use magical implied numbers, such as negatives,
to accomplish things that either ranges or whatever star can accomplish.
Just my 2 cents.
-Jason s1n Switzer
On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 4:27 AM,
If someone wants to make the final word on what the behavior should be
I can go ahead and implement it.
On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 11:41 PM, Jonathan Scott Duff
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On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 9:38 AM, TSa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
HaloO,
Moritz Lenz wrote:
In Perl 5 a negative
On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 9:38 AM, TSa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
HaloO,
Moritz Lenz wrote:
In Perl 5 a negative limit means unlimited, which we don't have to do
because we have the Whatever star.
I like the notion of negative numbers as the other end of infinity.
Where infinity here is the
Today a patch to rakudo brought up the question what split() should do
if the $limit argument is either zero or negative.
In Perl 5 a negative limit means unlimited, which we don't have to do
because we have the Whatever star. A limit of 0 is basically ignored.
Here are a few solution I could
HaloO,
Moritz Lenz wrote:
In Perl 5 a negative limit means unlimited, which we don't have to do
because we have the Whatever star.
I like the notion of negative numbers as the other end of infinity.
Where infinity here is the length of the split list which can be
infinite if split is called
On 2008-Sep-23, at 8:38 am, TSa wrote:
Moritz Lenz wrote:
In Perl 5 a negative limit means unlimited, which we don't have
to do
because we have the Whatever star.
I like the notion of negative numbers as the other end of infinity.
I think positive values and zero make sense. But I don't
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