>>>>> "MW" == Matthew Walton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
MW> I don't think I've ever used a hash slice in my life. Is there MW> something wrong with me? yes! :) see http://www.sysarch.com/perl/tutorials/hash_slice.txt for why they are so cool. >> * The Texas quotes <<...>> are only needed when you *have* to interpolate. MW> Does MW> <<foo bar baz>> MW> mean MW> «foo bar baz» i would hope << and >> always mean the same as their unicode versions. i will be typing the long asci versions for as long as it takes me to learn how to key the unicode in emacs (i know people have posted answers for emacs but it still takes my tiny brane a while to learn new keystrokes). >> * Match vars become $<foo> instead of $«foo». >> * A rule like <ident> now captures, while «ws» or <<ws>> doesn't. >> I think I really like that last outcome. Capturing should be the >> default. >> And the low profile of «ws» makes it look like an "oh by the way". i thought we had very different capturing and non-capturing syntax? and with equal key counts as well. but i could be out of date with regard to rules and grammars. i dread ruining more brane cells reading the recent updated apocs and such. :) uri -- Uri Guttman ------ [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------- http://www.stemsystems.com --Perl Consulting, Stem Development, Systems Architecture, Design and Coding- Search or Offer Perl Jobs ---------------------------- http://jobs.perl.org
