On Apr 08, 2006, at 18:45 , Damian Conway wrote:
Dan Kogai wrote:
With that understood, I would welcome if we have a version of slurp
() which unconditionally returns a scalar.
That'd be:
~slurp $file;
:-)
Very clever. But still not good enough when it comes to autoboxing.
{ ~slurp }($*PROGRAM_NAME).print
and even
(~slurp $*PROGRAM_NAME).print
works as expected but since "~slurp $file" is really ~(slurp $file),
$*PROGRAM_NAME.~slurp.print
does not. The problem of ~stringify, ?boolify, and +numify is that
they are infix operators so it goes the opposite direction.
Oh, while I was testing all these on pugs, I came across this.
##
say $*PROGRAM_NAME.slurp.elems;
##
This says 1 but
##
my @lines = $*PROGRAM_NAME.slurp; say @lines.elems;
##
says 3. This I am confused.
Dan the Perl6 Golfer on the Bunker
