On 7/1/07, Amir E. Aharoni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 01/07/07, Luke Palmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> / $ntimes := (\d+) x**{$ntimes} /
The examples of := usage in S05 seem to have notation such as this:
$ := (\d+)
Yes, that is correct. I've been away from the Perl 6 community
On 01/07/07, Luke Palmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 7/1/07, Amir E. Aharoni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > please correct me if
> > > i say something stupid or if this has already been discussed before.)
>
> > Another important loss if we were to go with <1..3> would be the
> > ability to ha
On 7/1/07, Amir E. Aharoni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > please correct me if
> > i say something stupid or if this has already been discussed before.)
> Another important loss if we were to go with <1..3> would be the
> ability to have runtime-dependent ranges; e.g.:
>
> / ($ntimes) x**{$n
> please correct me if
> i say something stupid or if this has already been discussed before.)
Another important loss if we were to go with <1..3> would be the
ability to have runtime-dependent ranges; e.g.:
/ ($ntimes) x**{$ntimes} /
That's exactly what i meant by "something stupid".
T
On 7/1/07, Amir E. Aharoni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I got the reply that it is similar to exponentiation of variables in math:
a ** 5 == a * a * a * a * a == a
It makes sense after it is explained and i do like the rationalization
of the range as a list-like range, instead of the comma, b
(I'm just studying the intricacies of Perl 6, so please correct me if
i say something stupid or if this has already been discussed before.)
I was looking for the Perl 6 equivalent of
"aaa" =~ /a{1,3}/
and finally found that it's
"aaa" ~~ /a**{1 .. 3}/
This looked rather weird, so i asked on I
