Re: stolen uint's

On Wed, Jan 29, 2020 at 20:20 ToddAndMargo via perl6-users < perl6-users@perl.org> wrote: > On 2020-01-29 10:28, Trey Harris wrote: > > B is not a subset of A. That is the relationship of uint and int—two > > distinct types whose values happen to overlap in a way that describ

Re: stolen uint's

On Wed, Jan 29, 2020 at 18:39 ToddAndMargo via perl6-users < perl6-users@perl.org> wrote: > On 2020-01-29 15:32, ToddAndMargo via perl6-users wrote: > > `DWORD cbData` > > cbData is a 32 bit unsigned integer. It follows > all the rules for unsigned integers. You do not > terminate it. WinAPI

Re: stolen uint's

On Wed, Jan 29, 2020 at 17:52 ToddAndMargo via perl6-users < perl6-users@perl.org> wrote: > On 2020-01-29 14:20, Trey Harris wrote: > > I don’t care about IpData or ValueData—those are completely unremarkable > > fields. Showing me more code relating to them—or any other fie

Re: stolen uint's

wanted or not. Thank you. On Wed, Jan 29, 2020 at 16:40 ToddAndMargo via perl6-users < perl6-users@perl.org> wrote: > On 2020-01-29 13:01, Trey Harris wrote: > > > > On Wed, Jan 29, 2020 at 15:28 ToddAndMargo via perl6-users > > mailto:perl6-users@perl.org>> wrote:

Re: stolen uint's

On Wed, Jan 29, 2020 at 15:28 ToddAndMargo via perl6-users < perl6-users@perl.org> wrote: > "Todd" would convert to > 84 00 111 00 100 00 100 00 00 00 I’m sorry, you misunderstood me. I wasn’t asking how to convert text into UTF. I was asking for an example of the 3-byte UTF plus 32-bit

Re: stolen uint's

On Wed, Jan 29, 2020 at 14:39 ToddAndMargo via perl6-users < perl6-users@perl.org> wrote: > On 2020-01-29 11:32, Trey Harris wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 29, 2020 at 13:50 ToddAndMargo via perl6-users > > mailto:perl6-users@perl.org>> wrote: > > > > Why

Re: stolen uint's

On Wed, Jan 29, 2020 at 14:01 ToddAndMargo via perl6-users < perl6-users@perl.org> wrote: > On 2020-01-29 06:34, Trey Harris wrote: > > I was going to ask about that (but it seemed out of Raku-world, and I > > don’t even play someone who knows about Windows on TV), but

Re: stolen uint's

On Wed, Jan 29, 2020 at 13:50 ToddAndMargo via perl6-users < perl6-users@perl.org> wrote: > Why don't use use > > typeMappings[type_index( typeid(char) )] = "char"; > Finally, a definition I can work with... We can treat this as a request for typeid(); the mapping creation and lookup is an

Re: stolen uint's

On Wed, Jan 29, 2020 at 13:28 Trey Harris wrote: > whose values happen to overlap in a way that describes a subset. Perl > isn’t Prolog; > It isn’t either, but that’s irrelevant; I meant Raku obviously. Thinko. >

Re: stolen uint's

On Wed, Jan 29, 2020 at 13:04 ToddAndMargo via perl6-users < perl6-users@perl.org> wrote: > On 2020-01-29 09:19, Trey Harris wrote: > > > > The first line of https://docs.raku.org/type/UInt is: > > > The `|Int`| is defined as a subset of `|Int|:` > > >

Re: stolen uint's

Argh! Editing error... On Wed, Jan 29, 2020 at 12:19 Trey Harris wrote: > The first line of https://docs.raku.org/type/UInt is: >> > > The `Int` is defined as a subset of `Int:` > Should have been (and is in that URL) “The `UInt` is defined as…”

Re: stolen uint's

On Wed, Jan 29, 2020 at 11:58 ToddAndMargo via perl6-users < perl6-users@perl.org> wrote: > On 2020-01-28 22:16, Veesh Goldman wrote: > > Hi Todd, > > I'd just like to point out one thing. Your confusion here (and in a few > > related posts) is that you aren't grokking the difference between uint

Re: stolen uint's

On Wed, Jan 29, 2020 at 03:44 Tobias Boege wrote: > On Tue, 28 Jan 2020, ToddAndMargo via perl6-users wrote: > > This all came up when I tried to match > > > > RegSetValueExW( > > _In_ HKEY hKey, > > _In_opt_ LPCWSTR lpValueName, > > _Reserved_ DWORD Reserved,

Re: stolen uint's

On Tue, Jan 28, 2020 at 22:03 ToddAndMargo via perl6-users < perl6-users@perl.org> wrote: > Hi Trey, > > Any chance of you sneaking in on the doc pages > for ^name and range to explain the things you > explained to me? For `.^name`—I suppose, though I’m not sure what would be appropriate

Re: stolen uint's

most of the work is shunted into C but the interface is native Raku: https://github.com/p6-pdf/Base64-Native-p6 On Tue, Jan 28, 2020 at 21:50 ToddAndMargo via perl6-users < perl6-users@perl.org> wrote: > On 2020-01-28 18:18, Trey Harris wrote: > > my uint $z = -32; >

Re: stolen uint's

On Tue, Jan 28, 2020 at 21:18 Trey Harris wrote: > Nope. If I give you: > > 0x41 > > and tell you that’s a single octet, and that’s all you have, and I and ask > you whether that’s an “A” or a decimal 97 or something else described by > 0101, how do you answer? You can

Re: stolen uint's

On Tue, Jan 28, 2020 at 21:18 Trey Harris wrote: > values, such as 'undefined' and 'Nil' as well as its type. > > And that’s another thing: you’ll notice if you define a `my uint8 $x;` it will be set to 0. No undefined, no Nil. That doesn’t happen with non-native numeric values. >

Re: stolen uint's

ering* `UInt`, when it’s absolutely autoboxing into an `Int`, would be wrong; Raku would be lying to you. To answer your other questions in your prior mail: On Tue, Jan 28, 2020 at 20:32 ToddAndMargo via perl6-users < perl6-users@perl.org> wrote: > On 2020-01-28 17:17, Trey Harris wr

Re: stolen uint's

On Tue, Jan 28, 2020 at 20:32 ToddAndMargo via perl6-users < perl6-users@perl.org> wrote: > On 2020-01-28 17:17, Trey Harris wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 28, 2020 at 20:04 ToddAndMargo via perl6-users > > mailto:perl6-users@perl.org>> wrote: > > > >

Re: stolen uint's

On Tue, Jan 28, 2020 at 20:04 ToddAndMargo via perl6-users < perl6-users@perl.org> wrote: > On 2020-01-28 17:00, Trey Harris wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 28, 2020 at 19:58 ToddAndMargo via perl6-users > > mailto:perl6-users@perl.org>> wrote: > > > >

Re: stolen uint's

On Tue, Jan 28, 2020 at 19:58 ToddAndMargo via perl6-users < perl6-users@perl.org> wrote: > On 2020-01-28 16:56, Trey Harris wrote: > > In other words—yes, you want Raku to attempt to provoke a segmentation > > fault, then recover and tell you whether it faulted or not.

Re: stolen uint's

On Tue, Jan 28, 2020 at 19:55 ToddAndMargo via perl6-users < perl6-users@perl.org> wrote: > On 2020-01-28 16:52, Trey Harris wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 28, 2020 at 19:46 ToddAndMargo via perl6-users > > mailto:perl6-users@perl.org>> wrote: > > > > > my

Re: stolen uint's

On Tue, Jan 28, 2020 at 19:46 ToddAndMargo via perl6-users < perl6-users@perl.org> wrote: > > my uint $u= 0xFF44; say $u.^name > Int > > Wrong answer > It’s absolutely the right answer. You autoboxed it by running a method—`.^name`—on it. A uint can’t respond to `.^name`, so you can never get

Re: stolen uint's

On Tue, Jan 28, 2020 at 19:06 ToddAndMargo via perl6-users < perl6-users@perl.org> wrote: > On 2020-01-28 15:37, Trey Harris wrote: > > > > > > On Tue, Jan 28, 2020 at 18:09 ToddAndMargo via perl6-users > > mailto:perl6-users@perl.org>> wrote: > > &g

Re: stolen uint's

On Tue, Jan 28, 2020 at 18:09 ToddAndMargo via perl6-users < perl6-users@perl.org> wrote: > Observer effect (physics) > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Observer_effect_(physics) > > In physics, the observer effect is the theory that > the mere observation of a phenomenon inevitably >

Re: range doc page

Sorry to keep replying to myself... On Tue, Jan 28, 2020 at 15:13 Trey Harris wrote: > All core class Exception objects, as a matter of convention, start with > `X::`. > ...to which a natural question arises: what about non-core Exception objects? Raku lets you call Exceptions wha

Re: range doc page

On Tue, Jan 28, 2020 at 15:13 Trey Harris wrote: > (And, in case you were unaware, _every_ page in the /routine/... doc tree > is autogenerated from content elsewhere; those headers and links are added > to get you back to the context where the content canonically appears.) >

Re: range doc page

On Tue, Jan 28, 2020 at 15:06 ToddAndMargo via perl6-users < perl6-users@perl.org> wrote: > On 2020-01-28 11:59, Trey Harris wrote: > > > > > > On Tue, Jan 28, 2020 at 14:55 ToddAndMargo via perl6-users > > mailto:perl6-users@perl.org>> wrote: > > >

Re: range doc page

On Tue, Jan 28, 2020 at 14:55 ToddAndMargo via perl6-users < perl6-users@perl.org> wrote: > No I am really confused: > > What part of > > my int8 $u = 0xF8; $u.range > > is not following > > method range(--> Range:D) > > ? > Unless you’re getting the line `method range(--> Range:D)`

Re: range problems

On Tue, Jan 28, 2020 at 08:27 Trey Harris wrote: > On Mon, Jan 27, 2020 at 23:57 ToddAndMargo via perl6-users < > perl6-users@perl.org> wrote: > >> Hi Al, >> >> Now what am I doing wrong? >> >> > my Int $u = 0xF8; say $u.Range; >> >>

Re: range doc page

On Tue, Jan 28, 2020 at 01:07 Kevin Pye wrote: > There's no need to ask essentially the same question three times. > And I answered before noticing there was more activity in another thread. > https://docs.raku.org/routine/range > is quite clearly the

Re: range problems

On Mon, Jan 27, 2020 at 23:57 ToddAndMargo via perl6-users < perl6-users@perl.org> wrote: > Hi Al, > > Now what am I doing wrong? > > > my Int $u = 0xF8; say $u.Range; > > Invocant of method 'Range' must be a type object of > type 'Int', not an object instance of type 'Int'. > Did you forget a

Re: Using raku/perl6 as unix "cat"....

On Mon, Jan 20, 2020 at 19:03 Trey Harris wrote: > On Mon, Jan 20, 2020 at 02:59 William Michels via perl6-users < > perl6-users@perl.org> wrote: > >> Hi Yary (and Todd), >> >> Thank you both for your responses. Yary, the problem seems to be with >> &qu

Re: Using raku/perl6 as unix "cat"....

On Mon, Jan 20, 2020 at 19:01 Norman Gaywood wrote: > > On Tue, 21 Jan 2020 at 03:12, Brad Gilbert wrote: > >> .say for lines >> > > Since .say calls gist(), would it be not be better/safer to call .put > instead? > >.put for lines > If being set directly from `lines`, I can’t see when

Re: Using raku/perl6 as unix "cat"....

On Mon, Jan 20, 2020 at 02:59 William Michels via perl6-users < perl6-users@perl.org> wrote: > Hi Yary (and Todd), > > Thank you both for your responses. Yary, the problem seems to be with > "get". I can change 'while' to 'for' below, but using 'get' raku/perl6 > actually returns fewer lines with

Re: GIT PR Help

On Fri, Jan 17, 2020 at 17:35 ToddAndMargo via perl6-users < perl6-users@perl.org> wrote: > Hi Trey, > > I wanted to add an example to > > https://docs.raku.org/routine/+$CIRCUMFLEX_ACCENT > > Do I Git the entire documentation project to do so? > Can I jsut Git that page? If so, where do I find

Re: GIT PR Help

On Fri, Jan 17, 2020 at 15:44 ToddAndMargo via perl6-users < perl6-users@perl.org> wrote: > On 2020-01-17 12:20, Trey Harris wrote: > > If the issue is that you aren’t comfortable enough with Git¹, I assume > > as part of the basic toolkit of a sysadmin you know how to genera

Re: Once again - You say one thing and do another Re: Bug to report: cardinal called an integer

If the issue is that you aren’t comfortable enough with Git¹, I assume as part of the basic toolkit of a sysadmin you know how to generate a unified diff patchfile (with `diff -ruN` or equivalent)? If so, if you generate one and upload it attached to a GitHub issue, we can figure out how to turn

Re: Once again - You say one thing and do another Re: Bug to report: cardinal called an integer

On Thu, Jan 16, 2020 at 15:04 ToddAndMargo via perl6-users < perl6-users@perl.org> wrote: > On 2020-01-16 11:00, Trey Harris wrote: > and your apparent misapprehension that > merely explaining away a statement that some took offense to, without > any outward sign of contriti

Re: Once again - You say one thing and do another Re: Bug to report: cardinal called an integer

On Thu, Jan 16, 2020 at 12:19 ToddAndMargo via perl6-users < perl6-users@perl.org> wrote: > As far as the Dog remark, I have told you and others > ENDLESSLY what that meant. That you continue to > deliberately misrepresent me on this is a moral > issue on your part. The issue is not, now, just

Re: Once again - You say one thing and do another Re: Bug to report: cardinal called an integer

On Wed, Jan 15, 2020 at 17:39 ToddAndMargo via perl6-users < perl6-users@perl.org> wrote: > On 2020-01-15 14:18, Elizabeth Mattijsen wrote: > > Thank you Richard for this long and thoughtful answer. > > > > I have already given up on Todd, I'm glad to see others haven't (yet). > What will follow

Re: OT: Git Hub repositories

On Sat, Jan 4, 2020 at 18:14 ToddAndMargo via perl6-users < perl6-users@perl.org> wrote: > On 2020-01-04 14:40, Trey Harris wrote: > > All the tooling (that cares at all about repos, anyway) generally expect > > one repo per exportable product (e.g., a module). > > >

Re: OT: Git Hub repositories

On Sat, Jan 4, 2020 at 17:40 Trey Harris wrote: > All the tooling (that cares at all about repos, anyway) generally expect > one repo per exportable product (e.g., a module). > Argh, overloaded English: I meant “publishable product”, and “CPAN-like module”. Not export a

Re: OT: Git Hub repositories

All the tooling (that cares at all about repos, anyway) generally expect one repo per exportable product (e.g., a module). This shouldn’t be an issue unless you typically use modules directly from their repos without installing them—which is a bad practice you should avoid, particularly if you’re

Re: Fwd: Raku, docs, help [was: Re: vulgar?]

On Mon, Dec 9, 2019 at 9:53 PM ToddAndMargo via perl6-users < perl6-users@perl.org> wrote: On 2019-12-09 09:44, Trey Harris wrote: > > Signatures are important to Raku. > > Trey, > > The signatures are very important to the developers. > They only confuse th

Re: How do I do literal quotes in a regex?

On Mon, Dec 9, 2019 at 03:54 Fernando Santagata wrote: > On Mon, Dec 9, 2019 at 9:38 AM Fernando Santagata < > nando.santag...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> It can be used this way: >> >> $ raku -e'say „Hello!“' >> Hello! >> But it must be used with that closing quote '“' (U+201C); it cannot be >> used

Re: Fwd: Raku, docs, help [was: Re: vulgar?]

On Mon, Dec 9, 2019 at 10:25 Simon Proctor wrote: > I *highly* advise learning how signatures work. > This, this, a thousand times this. ToddAndMargo, I have watched you on these lists and on GitHub issues for years. I’ve engaged a few times but have generally pulled back again, always in

Re: How to use sub/method 'dir'

On Mon, Nov 26, 2018 at 19:26 Trey Harris wrote: > > > On Mon, Nov 26, 2018 at 04:56 Fernando Santagata < > nando.santag...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On Sun, Nov 25, 2018 at 5:34 PM Brad Gilbert wrote: >> >>> The reason `dir('a', test =

Re: How to use sub/method 'dir'

On Mon, Nov 26, 2018 at 04:56 Fernando Santagata wrote: > On Sun, Nov 25, 2018 at 5:34 PM Brad Gilbert wrote: > >> The reason `dir('a', test => { .IO.d })` doesn't work like you expect >> is that it is passed strings. >> > > Thank you! > I could have inferred that from the declaration of the

Re: detecting running under the repl

On Tue, Nov 6, 2018 at 1:24 PM Joseph Brenner doom...@gmail.com wrote: How do you write code that detects whether it's running under the repl? > The variable $*PROGRAM (or $*PROGRAM-NAME; they interpolate identically so I’m giving them raw to say below)—with the

Diamond <> or fileinput-like input handling (was Re: what type $in,$out and $err is)

On Mon, Nov 5, 2018 at 11:54 AM Ralph Mellor [ralphdjmel...@gmail.com](mailto:ralphdjmel...@gmail.com) wrote: On Sun, Oct 28, 2018 at 7:26 PM Xiao Yafeng wrote: > >> Besides, just curious, why choose '_' as default it

Re: bitwise or?

On Fri, Oct 5, 2018 at 8:33 AM Timo Paulssen t...@wakelift.de wrote: It's important to point out that inside metaoperators ("composed > operators", "combined operators", ...) the [ ] are just for bracketing > things together — sometimes it's needed to

Re: routine declaration line question

m”; I only barely recognize that the thing that we do in Haskell more often than not, defining degenerate cases as separate function definitions, qualifies as “polymorphism”. (Elm doesn’t do it and it drives me batty.) ​ > > On Fri, Oct 5, 2018 at 2:03 PM Trey Harris wrote: > >> >> &

Re: routine declaration line question

On Fri, Oct 5, 2018 at 1:13 PM Brandon Allbery wrote: > My problem with it being in the signature is still that it doesn't say > which part of the contract it applies to; it appears to be claiming it's > part of dispatch, when it's not. > Explicit argument polymorphism has been shown to be

Re: routine declaration line question

t makes it sound like it's an explicit > no-meaningful-result, as opposed to 'we don't know or care'. > > On Thu, Oct 4, 2018 at 3:02 PM Trey Harris wrote: > >> Ah (replying to both Brandon and JJ since their replies crossed): >> >> So `--> Mu` is not a sufficient and/or correct r

Re: routine declaration line question

point is the return > value, but you can't say ahead of time what type it will have. > > On Thu, Oct 4, 2018 at 2:48 PM Trey Harris wrote: > >> >> >> On Thu, Oct 4, 2018 at 02:13 JJ Merelo wrote: >> >>> >>> >>> El jue., 4 oct. 2018 a las 3:36,

Re: routine declaration line question

On Thu, Oct 4, 2018 at 02:13 JJ Merelo wrote: > > > El jue., 4 oct. 2018 a las 3:36, Trey Harris () escribió: > >> _All_ routines in Perl 6 return _something._ A lack of a "-->" simply >> indicates stylistically that the return is not useful because it's what

Re: routine declaration line question

On Wed, Oct 3, 2018 at 22:21 ToddAndMargo wrote: > >> On 04/10/2018 03:07, ToddAndMargo wrote: > >>> Hi All, > >>> > >>> In another thread, Timo wrote me: > >>> > >>> The "-->" part of the signature is optional. If there isn't > >>> one, it defaults to Mu, which is the type that

Re: bitwise paper?

Todd, Assuming you are suggesting your examples are showing differences between the languages, in all your examples of differences between Perl 6 and Perl 5 below, you are using the wrong operator or you changed one of the arguments between the Perl 5 and Perl 6 examples. I won't go through them

Re: routine declaration line question

_All_ routines in Perl 6 return _something._ A lack of a "-->" simply indicates stylistically that the return is not useful because it's whatever "falls off the end". (There's a bit of variance here as I'm not sure it's a convention everyone has followed.) It's equivalent to "--> Mu" because

Re: bitwise paper?

On Wed, Oct 3, 2018 at 20:56 ToddAndMargo wrote: > On 10/3/18 1:50 PM, Trey Harris wrote: > > > > On Wed, Oct 3, 2018 at 13:38 ToddAndMargo > <mailto:toddandma...@zoho.com>> wrote: > > > > > Go to docs.perl6.org <http://docs.perl6.org>

Re: bitwise paper?

On Wed, Oct 3, 2018 at 13:38 ToddAndMargo wrote: > > Go to docs.perl6.org . Type "bitwise" into the > > search box. You will see a popup, "Numeric bitwise AND operator". Click > > it to be taken to > > >

Re: bitwise paper?

On Tue, Oct 2, 2018 at 23:57 ToddAndMargo wrote: > Hi All, > > Does anyone know of a paper out in web land showing how to > do bitwise operations? DuckDuckGo give me tons of hits > for Perl 5. > > Trying to AND 0010 with 0001 > > $ p6 'my $v = 32 & 16; say $v;' > all(32, 16) > >

Re: need doc help with []

On Tue, Oct 2, 2018 at 21:10 ToddAndMargo wrote: > If you have a free moment, speaking to "have", the diagram here > is a work of art: > > https://www.freethesaurus.com/have > > I know there a lot of English as a second language speaker on this > group. The above thesaurus uses diagrams and is

Re: need doc help with []

What Curt said, but also, this is a bit like trying to understand English's word "have" with a dictionary. No one who speaks English natively looks up "have" in the dictionary. Anyone who does so will find definitions like, "Used in forming the perfect aspect and the past perfect aspect." Well,

Re: case insensitive "contains"?

nderstand them in general first. On Tue, Sep 11, 2018 at 18:49 Trey Harris wrote: > Oops— I sent the following yesterday and it somehow didn't go to the list: > > On Mon, Sep 10, 2018 at 19:02 ToddAndMargo wrote: > >> Question, what the heck is >> >>

Re: case insensitive "contains"?

Oops— I sent the following yesterday and it somehow didn't go to the list: On Mon, Sep 10, 2018 at 19:02 ToddAndMargo wrote: > Question, what the heck is > > my $rx1 = rx:i/a/; > > Are they talking over beginner's heads again? > In the sense of "beginners to Perl", perhaps, since "rx" is

Re: EVAL?

Just a small stylistic thing to mention: On Thu, Jun 14, 2018 at 1:59 AM Todd Chester wrote: p6 >if not $dir.IO.d.bool {} >for slice "\n", $WebStr -> $Line { } > > and on and on and so forth. I know a lot of them by heart now. > By .bool, I assume you meant .Bool, but in

Re: What is P6 for P5 `use Term::ReadKey`?

On Sat, Sep 9, 2017 at 3:55 PM ToddAndMargo toddandma...@zoho.com wrote: On 09/09/2017 07:00 AM, Timo Paulssen wrote: > > This should be enlightening: https://docs.perl6.org/routine/getc > > > > Problem: also from the link: > > method getc(IO::Handle:D:

Re: Startup performance on OS X

That is really lovely. I don’t know what criteria are used for Rosetta Code, but the article’s implementation is the clearest “program as concrete explication of algorithm” I’ve ever seen. It took me *years* to understand RSA’s internals to the point that I could explain it if asked to in an

Re: what should be the default extension?

In a message dated Mon, 7 Jan 2008, Richard Hainsworth writes: May I suggest the following extension to the 'use ' pragma, viz. use module name written in unicode and case sensitive in filename as constrained by local system Oh please, no. The entire point of the wording currently in the

Re: what should be the default extension?

In a message dated Mon, 7 Jan 2008, Richard Hainsworth writes: Yet, does my proposal *force* this? Is it not possible for the magical resource locator to coexist with a mechanism to allow local control? Yes--through CBEGIN blocks and munging, you can get whatever complicated, platform- or

Re: Trying to use Perl5 modules

In a message dated Mon, 11 Sep 2006, Richard Hainsworth writes: I am trying to find out how to use (in perl6) perl5 modules that contain subroutines. Imports from Perl 5 modules don't currently work. You can workaround this using .can, see below. use perl5:Time::gmtime; my $gm = gmtime();

Re: the CGI.pm in Perl 6

In a message dated Sat, 9 Sep 2006, Mark Stosberg writes: I do share your sentiment that CGI.pm shouldn't be a clone of how P5 works. I'd like the HTML building methods to stay out, which wasn't even one of the differences you cared about yourself. I agree with the sentiment, but as a

Re: the CGI.pm in Perl 6

In a message dated Sat, 9 Sep 2006, Mark Stosberg writes: I do share your sentiment that CGI.pm shouldn't be a clone of how P5 works. I'd like the HTML building methods to stay out, which wasn't even one of the differences you cared about yourself. I agree with the sentiment, but as a

Re: cperl-mode.el: twigils and opers

In a message dated Mon, 4 Sep 2006, Steffen Schwigon writes: First you could try an older revision, I recommend r7845 or r10822 of pugs repository. No, neither of those work. To see what I'm talking about, just create a file containing: use v6-alpha; class Point { has $.x; has

cperl-mode.el: twigils and opers

This has been driving me mad, and an hour of hacking at cperl-mode.el has only convinced me that I don't know elisp well enough to solve the problem Variables with twigils whose name matches something else are getting recognized incorrectly. For example, $.x is getting interpreted as $.