On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 12:11:59PM +0300, Richard Hainsworth wrote:
But
my @ranking = %players.sort :{.value}; # white space before :, no ws after :
generates a syntax error with rakudo.
Is this a raduko bug, or am I not understanding your generic argument?
Rakudo doesn't recognize adverbial
thanks for the response, but i was really looking for a bit more detail.
To be precise - why the ':' after the sort?
'%players.sort' calls the 'sort' method/sub on the hash '%players'.
'{.value}' runs '.value' on $_ at some point. But when?
So once again, what is the ':' doing? How else
On 2009 Jan 11, at 3:50, Richard Hainsworth wrote:
To be precise - why the ':' after the sort?
'%players.sort' calls the 'sort' method/sub on the hash '%players'.
'{.value}' runs '.value' on $_ at some point. But when?
So once again, what is the ':' doing? How else could this code be
the first line creates a hash,
the second line sorts the hash values into an array.
the third loops thru the array values printing one array member per line
On Jan 10, 2009, at 2:26 PM, Richard Hainsworth wrote:
Could someone help me understand what is going on in the following
snippet?
my
Hi!
More precisely, I dont understand the meaning of the ':' after '.sort'
see line 1825 of S03
C infix::, the invocant maker
...
ack (or grep) ': {}' in Spec dir can give a lot of examples.
ihrd
Could someone help me understand what is going on in the following snippet?
my %players = {'william'=2, 'peter'=3,'john'=1,'mary'=5};
my @ranking = %players.sort: { .value };
for @ranking {.say};
I cut and pasted from Patrick's blog on sorting and played around to
get an array.
But ... I
