Re: My keeper on "contains"

2019-12-10 Thread ToddAndMargo via perl6-users
On 2019-12-10 15:19, Elizabeth Mattijsen wrote: I feel that ToddAndMargo are only capable of "magical programming". Hi Elizabeth, By any chance were you involved in the writing of the documentation? That would explain your hurt feelings. I seriously did to intent to hurt anyone's feelings.

Re: My keeper on "contains"

2019-12-10 Thread ToddAndMargo via perl6-users
On 2019-12-10 15:02, Laurent Rosenfeld via perl6-users wrote: You've made a very interesting point on how difficult it is to write proper documentation. I hope that Todd will reflect on that. Hi Laurent, Oh good lord. I do no have to do any reflecting on it at all. I spend hours and hours

Re: My keeper on "contains"

2019-12-10 Thread ToddAndMargo via perl6-users
On 2019-12-10 14:40, Rocco Caputo wrote: It seems that you're saying the difference between a method and other kinds of routines is that methods are "fed" something? Hi Rocco, Indeed! It is my sloppy way of saying what a method is. I am not using programming terminology. My purpose was to

Re: My keeper on "contains"

2019-12-10 Thread Elizabeth Mattijsen
I feel that ToddAndMargo are only capable of "magical programming". I call that "magical", because people who program this way, only work with remembering from what they put into something, and what came out, *without* attempting to build a mental image of *how* the damn thing works. The

Re: My keeper on "contains"

2019-12-10 Thread Laurent Rosenfeld via perl6-users
You've made a very interesting point on how difficult it is to write proper documentation. I hope that Todd will reflect on that. Le mar. 10 déc. 2019 à 23:45, Rocco Caputo a écrit : > On Dec 10, 2019, at 15:35, ToddAndMargo via perl6-users < > perl6-users@perl.org> wrote: > > A method is a

Re: My keeper on "contains"

2019-12-10 Thread Rocco Caputo
On Dec 10, 2019, at 15:35, ToddAndMargo via perl6-users wrote: > A method is a routine that you feed: Str.foo. It seems that you're saying the difference between a method and other kinds of routines is that methods are "fed" something? The only thing I can think of that routines are fed are

Re: My keeper on "contains"

2019-12-10 Thread ToddAndMargo via perl6-users
On 2019-12-10 12:35, ToddAndMargo via perl6-users wrote: Excluding something from the search:     Warning: in the following, use "none" not "not" to negate if "coming soon" is found.  "not" will always return False.     say so Q[2018.2.0; Coming Soon].fc.contains("strong" &

Re: My keeper on "contains"

2019-12-10 Thread ToddAndMargo via perl6-users
On 2019-12-10 03:12, ToddAndMargo via perl6-users wrote: Today's revised revision of yesterday's new revisions with amendments! :-) At it again; perl 6: method: 12/10/2019 #2 Also see: "starts-with" and "ends-with" References: https://docs.raku.org/routine/contains

Re: My keeper on "contains"

2019-12-10 Thread ToddAndMargo via perl6-users
Today's revised revision of yesterday's new revisions with amendments! :-) perl 6: method: 12/10/2019 perl 6: method: 12/10/2019 Also: "starts-with" and "ends-with" A method is a routine that you feed: .foo $ p6 'say "abc".contains( "a" );' True $ p6 'say "abc".contains( "z"

Re: My keeper on "contains"

2019-12-09 Thread ToddAndMargo via perl6-users
On 2019-12-09 13:30, Tobias Boege wrote: On Mon, 09 Dec 2019, perl6-users-h...@perl.org wrote: Date: Sun, 8 Dec 2019 17:45:22 -0800 From: ToddAndMargo via perl6-users To: perl6-users Subject: My keeper on "contains" 8< ... Case insensitive contains: $ p6 'if "2018

Re: My keeper on "contains"

2019-12-09 Thread Tobias Boege
On Mon, 09 Dec 2019, perl6-users-h...@perl.org wrote: > Date: Sun, 8 Dec 2019 17:45:22 -0800 > From: ToddAndMargo via perl6-users > To: perl6-users > Subject: My keeper on "contains" > > 8< ... > > Case insensitive contains: > $ p6 'if "

My keeper on "contains"

2019-12-08 Thread ToddAndMargo via perl6-users
Hi All, I have 190 of these. 191 in the hopper for unicodes. This is one of my better one. It is also unique in that it takes apart the IEEE-eese on the documentation and explain what in the world is going on. Do you notice the ":" is sometimes a delimiter and sometimes not. Eee Gads!