On Wed, May 11, 2005 at 06:35:36PM +0200, Juerd wrote: : Larry Wall skribis 2005-05-11 8:30 (-0700): : > It's already the case that p5-to-p6 is going to have a *wonderful* : > time translating $7 to $1[2][0]... : : If I remember correctly, ** recursively flattens, and so (**$/)[7-1] : should work.
It doesn't. It just does one level of flattening, but it does it *now*. : And otherwise a simple method can probably do the trick. I suggest : $/.platalseendubbeltje.[7-1], but probably only Dutch people can : appreciate that. That works with some translated constructs but not others. I'm wondering if it's just a cardinal/ordinal thing, and we can just translate $7 to $<7th>. Then we don't have to guess where to insert a .flat or :flat. Larry
