Re: [svn:perl6-synopsis] r14432 - doc/trunk/design/syn

2007-08-04 Thread Aaron Crane
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: +Placeholder names may only be lowercase, not because we're mean, but +because it helps us catch references to obsolete Perl 5 variables such as $^O. That seems unnecessarily restrictive. How about may not consist solely of uppercase letters instead? That would

[svn:perl6-synopsis] r14434 - doc/trunk/design/syn

2007-08-04 Thread larry
Author: larry Date: Sat Aug 4 09:06:15 2007 New Revision: 14434 Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S06.pod Log: relaxed restriction on placeholders as suggested by Aaron Crane++ Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S06.pod

Re: [svn:perl6-synopsis] r14431 - doc/trunk/design/syn

2007-08-04 Thread Patrick R. Michaud
On Thu, Aug 02, 2007 at 04:19:18PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Increment of a CStr (in a suitable container) works similarly to Perl 5, but is generalized slightly. First, the string is examined to see if it could be the string representation of a number in any common representation,

Re: [svn:perl6-synopsis] r14431 - doc/trunk/design/syn

2007-08-04 Thread Larry Wall
On Sat, Aug 04, 2007 at 12:56:06PM -0700, Larry Wall wrote: : multi token numrange:0x (-- StrHex){ '0x' [0..9a..fA..F]+ } Though sanity would probably force us to use numerics internally anyway as the canonical comparison form, or we'd have trouble getting '0x00' .. '0x0Ff' to