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

2009-02-06 Thread Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH
On 2009 Feb 5, at 13:51, Larry Wall wrote: Pity that -F specifies the ground. Hey, I know, let's make -G the figure, that makes about as much sense as -x vs +x, or electrons vs positrons... :) Someone's been rereading _Gödel,_Escher,_Bach_? -- brandon s. allbery [solaris,freebsd,perl,pugs,h

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: 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 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 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

2009-02-04 Thread Jon Lang
wrote: > -=item --autoloop-split, -F *expression* > +=item --autoloop-delim, -F *expression* > > 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 ' ', o