On 14/01/06 00:59, Larry Wall wrote:
That doesn't seem sufficiently general. I'd rather see some context
that can apply a signature to the head of a list and treat the
"unslurped" part as unmatched. Maybe a "for" loop could be taught
to supply such a context, or a "when". Or maybe it's just the result
of embedding a sig inside a rule, or of matching a sig using ~~.
Could the sharp end of a pipe be taught to do this?
I suggested something like this before but Luke pointed out that it
was adding unnecessary DWIMiness. Perhaps this use case could revive
the idea:
http://groups.google.com/group/perl.perl6.language/browse_thread/thread/3d403aa8ff6e493e/ac666ce340cf819b
Brad
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