Re: r25200 - docs/Perl6/Spec t/spec

2009-02-05 Thread Dave Whipp
Jon Lang wrote: Pattern to split on (used with -a). Substitutes an expression for the default split function, which is C<{split ' '}>. Accepts unicode strings (as long as Should the default pattern be ' ', or should it be something more like /\s+/? // ?

Re: r25200 - docs/Perl6/Spec t/spec

2009-02-05 Thread Larry Wall
On Thu, Feb 05, 2009 at 07:47:01AM -0800, Dave Whipp wrote: > Jon Lang wrote: >>> Pattern to split on (used with -a). Substitutes an expression for the >>> default >>> split function, which is C<{split ' '}>. Accepts unicode strings (as long >>> as >> >> Should the default pattern be ' ', or

Re: r25200 - docs/Perl6/Spec t/spec

2009-02-05 Thread Jon Lang
On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 9:21 AM, Larry Wall wrote: > On Thu, Feb 05, 2009 at 07:47:01AM -0800, Dave Whipp wrote: >> Jon Lang wrote: Pattern to split on (used with -a). Substitutes an expression for the default split function, which is C<{split ' '}>. Accepts unicode strings (as

Re: r25200 - docs/Perl6/Spec t/spec

2009-02-05 Thread Larry Wall
On Thu, Feb 05, 2009 at 10:43:35AM -0800, Jon Lang wrote: : On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 9:21 AM, Larry Wall wrote: : > On Thu, Feb 05, 2009 at 07:47:01AM -0800, Dave Whipp wrote: : >> Jon Lang wrote: : Pattern to split on (used with -a). Substitutes an expression for the default : split f

Re: r25182 - docs/Perl6/Spec

2009-02-05 Thread Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH
On 2009 Feb 4, at 11:45, Aaron Crane wrote: FWIW, I prefer the traditional spelling, "writable". Google suggests that "writeable" is more common on the web, though; 4.8 versus 3.7 Mghits. I have to admit that "writable" suggests to me that you can serve a writ on it; an unlikely case for eve

Re: r25182 - docs/Perl6/Spec

2009-02-05 Thread Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH
On 2009 Feb 4, at 12:56, Leon Timmermans wrote: On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 4:37 PM, wrote: +=item method IO dup() Do we really want that? POSIX' dup does something different from what many will expect. In particular, the new file descriptors share the offset, which can result in some really con