I think I need to reread the docs. What's the colon in the method calls for?
(That is, why is it $stat_obj.:r instead of just $stat_obj.r ?)
On 4/13/07, brian d foy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Larry Wall
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 12, 2007 at 01:52:50PM -0500, brian d foy wrote:
> : Here's my code example that motivates this question. For a Llama6
> : exercise with file test operators, I wanted to create a little table:
> :
> : for @files -> $file {
> : printf "%-70s %s %s %s\n",
> : $file,
> I think I would now write that more like:
>
> for @files -> $file {
> given stat $file {
> printf "%-70s %s %s %s\n", $file, .:r, .:w, .:x;
> }
> }
Hmmm, that's a good little bit of code, as was Damian's use of the
hyper-operator. The trick is to figure how how much I can use in Llama
6 without scaring off the reader. :)
I'm actually starting at the back of the book so I know what I have to
put in the front of the book to get that far. In previous Llamas the
file tests operators came before stat, but maybe this answer is a good
end-of-chapter sorta thing.
I'll also have to think about using given {} merely as a topicalizer
too, I guess, although showing it next to an explicit assignment to $_.
:)
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Mark J. Reed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
