r29930 - docs/Perl6/Spec

2010-03-03 Thread pugs-commits
Author: masak Date: 2010-03-03 15:16:22 +0100 (Wed, 03 Mar 2010) New Revision: 29930 Modified: docs/Perl6/Spec/S03-operators.pod Log: [S03] typo, discovered by particle++ Modified: docs/Perl6/Spec/S03-operators.pod === ---

r29931 - docs/Perl6/Spec

2010-03-03 Thread pugs-commits
Author: lwall Date: 2010-03-03 18:34:04 +0100 (Wed, 03 Mar 2010) New Revision: 29931 Modified: docs/Perl6/Spec/S02-bits.pod Log: [S02] remove 1/2 and +2-3i literal forms, now rely on angle dwimmery for literals, or constant folding otherwise. Modified: docs/Perl6/Spec/S02-bits.pod

continuation markers for long literals (was Re: r29931 - docs/Perl6/Spec)

2010-03-03 Thread Darren Duncan
pugs-comm...@feather.perl6.nl wrote: Modified: docs/Perl6/Spec/S02-bits.pod Log: [S02] remove 1/2 and +2-3i literal forms, now rely on angle dwimmery for literals, or constant folding otherwise. snip I find this an interesting change, and I can see how it would simplify some things, even

Re: continuation markers for long literals (was Re: r29931 - docs/Perl6/Spec)

2010-03-03 Thread Darren Duncan
Mark J. Reed wrote: Doesn't unspace work for this? It would seem that S02 says otherwise: Although we say that the unspace hides the whitespace from the parser, it does not hide whitespace from the lexer. As a result, unspace is not allowed within a token. So, assuming that an

Re: continuation markers for long literals (was Re: r29931 - docs/Perl6/Spec)

2010-03-03 Thread Damian Conway
Surely this is not a common-enough requirement to warrant a special syntax. At 80-columns, you can represent integers up to ninety-nine quinvigintillion, nine hundred ninety-nine quattuorvigintillion, nine hundred ninety-nine trevigintillion, nine hundred ninety-nine duovigintillion, nine hundred

Re: continuation markers for long literals (was Re: r29931 - docs/Perl6/Spec)

2010-03-03 Thread Mark J. Reed
On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 6:26 PM, Darren Duncan dar...@darrenduncan.net wrote: Mark J. Reed wrote: Doesn't unspace work for this? It would seem that S02 says otherwise:    Although we say that the unspace hides the whitespace from the parser, it does not hide whitespace from the lexer.  As a

Re: continuation markers for long literals (was Re: r29931 - docs/Perl6/Spec)

2010-03-03 Thread Darren Duncan
Damian Conway wrote: Surely this is not a common-enough requirement to warrant a special syntax. At 80-columns, you can represent integers up to snip Surely that's enough for the vast majority of users, isn't it? Well, 80 columns was an example, albeit the most common, but the principle

Re: continuation markers for long literals (was Re: r29931 - docs/Perl6/Spec)

2010-03-03 Thread Larry Wall
On Wed, Mar 03, 2010 at 05:39:58PM -0800, Darren Duncan wrote: : Damian Conway wrote: : Surely this is not a common-enough requirement to warrant a special : syntax. : : At 80-columns, you can represent integers up to : snip : Surely that's enough for the vast majority of users, isn't it? : :