Re: what is going on here?

2009-01-12 Thread Richard Hainsworth
Larry Wall wrote: On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 11:26:50PM +0300, Richard Hainsworth wrote: More precisely, I dont understand the meaning of the ':' after '.sort' It is turning the method call into a list operator, essentially. It's not the so-called indirect object syntax, or it would be wr

Revised solution #2

2009-01-12 Thread Richard Hainsworth
Of course whenever I post to this list I make some sort of mistake, like including a test version that does not parse in perl6. Hopefully, I have eliminated all the mistakes. The following is a revised version due to Carl Masak. The problem and model perl5 solution by Jan Dubois (a member of th