David L. Nicol wrote:
> in the tcsh 6.10.00 WishList file:
> > [...]
> > > echo $a:[#]
> > 16
> > > echo $a:[6-7]
> > is
> > > echo $a:[-2]
> > ng
> > [...]
Iconesque.
In Icon, if symbol x holds a string, x[2:3] means substr($x,2,1); but
if x holds
in the tcsh 6.10.00 WishList file:
> * New idea.
> Lots of people seem to like the idea to be able to do sed type
> operations on shell variables. Maybe we can extend the syntax
> of the variable editing to understand string operations.
> So I would like to be a
Hi folks, and sorry about the delay. (And extended silence)
This list is here to design the internal and external API for the
parser/tokenizer/lexer part of perl. Basically we need two bits:
1) The API presented to the rest of the world. This is likely one call,
though if folks want to split i
