Ok, maybe what it should return would be some sort of ReversedRange object?
I guess this could be considered a feature request, but, I'd like is for
(^5).reverse.reverse
and similar to be able to produce a Range.
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On Nov 12, 2:21 pm, stefa...@cox.net (Stefan O'Rear) wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 05:47:46PM -0800, Ben Goldberg wrote:
> > I would like to know, is perl6 going to have something like select
> > (with arguments created by fileno/vec), or something like IO::Select
>
I would like to know, is perl6 going to have something like select
(with arguments created by fileno/vec), or something like IO::Select
(with which the user doesn't need to know about the implementation,
which happens to be done with fileno/vec/select), or only an event
loop.
I would recommend tha
On Oct 15, 9:57 am, markjr...@gmail.com ("Mark J. Reed") wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 7:42 AM, Leon Timmermans wrote:
> > Continuations and fibers are incredibly useful and should be easy to
> > implement on parrot/rakudo but they aren't really concurrency. They're
> > a solution to a differen
I know that perl6 has / will have lazy strings, since (in
S32::Containers) the List role defines a cat method, which returns a
Cat object, which "does the Str interface, but generates the string
lazily."
First, are Cat objects documented anywhere else?
Secondly, if a regular expression match is d
On Oct 22, 6:41 pm, dam...@conway.org (Damian Conway) wrote:
> Dave Whipp wrote:
> > When this issue has been raised in the past, the response has been that
> > junctions are not really intended to be useful outside of the narrow purpose
> > for which they were introduced.
>
> Hmm. There are in
Has there been any decision yet over what model(s) of threads perl6
will support?
Will they be POSIX-like? ithread-like? green-thread-like?
It is my hope that more than one model will be supported... something
that would allow the most lightweight threads possible to be used
where possible, and i
