Can you all take this interesting question to StackOverflow too? Thanks! El sáb., 5 may. 2018 a las 21:57, Sean McAfee (<eef...@gmail.com>) escribió:
> On Wed, May 2, 2018 at 3:44 AM, Elizabeth Mattijsen <l...@dijkmat.nl> > wrote: > >> Getting back to maybe your original question: if you want the date 7 days >> from now, you can just use integer arithmetic: >> >> $ 6 'say Date.today + 7' >> 2018-05-09 >> > > Oh, I knew that; that was just an example. > > My actual code involved finding the date of the next Tuesday after today, > for which I originally wrote: > > my $next-tuesday = (Date.today ... *.day-of-week == 2).tail; > > It bugged me a bit stylistically that the parentheses gave prominence to > the entire sequence when all I really wanted was the final element. So I > played with it a big until I got: > > my $next-tuesday = first *.day-of-week == 2, Date.today .. *; > > That's when I accidentally left off the third period and found that it > still worked. > > -- JJ
