Re: [svn:perl6-synopsis] r9216 - doc/trunk/design/syn

2006-05-13 Thread Larry Wall
On Sat, May 13, 2006 at 10:52:00AM +0300, Markus Laire wrote: : On 5/13/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: : > Argumentless C<**> in a multi-dimensional subscript indicates 0 or : >-more dimensions of C<*> where the number of dimension isn't necessarily : >-known: C<@foo[1;**;5]>. It

Re: [svn:perl6-synopsis] r9216 - doc/trunk/design/syn

2006-05-13 Thread Markus Laire
On 5/13/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Argumentless C<**> in a multi-dimensional subscript indicates 0 or -more dimensions of C<*> where the number of dimension isn't necessarily -known: C<@foo[1;**;5]>. It has a value of C, or something -like that. The argumentless C<*> and

Re: [svn:perl6-synopsis] r9216 - doc/trunk/design/syn

2006-05-12 Thread Daniel Hulme
> (string) context. You can force list context on the expression using > -either the C<*> or C operator if necessary. > +either the C operator if necessary. English not being executable line noise, you can't use "either" to force a scalar into list context. -- "Twelve? Who needs twelve? Couldn'

[svn:perl6-synopsis] r9216 - doc/trunk/design/syn

2006-05-12 Thread larry
Author: larry Date: Fri May 12 14:55:00 2006 New Revision: 9216 Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S02.pod doc/trunk/design/syn/S03.pod doc/trunk/design/syn/S06.pod Log: Major whackage: Prefix * and ** are dead! Long live [,] and eager! By unpopular demand, reduce operators no longer triang