Re: Q: Code example in "Using Perl 6" - methods and spaces.

2010-12-27 Thread Daniel Carrera
On Mon, Dec 27, 2010 at 10:00 PM, Moritz Lenz wrote: > But there's a good reason: .method is a term on its own, and actually > means $_.method. So if you write @names.foo .bar, that's two terms in a > row. > That is indeed a good reason. I think I knew about it but forgot. That now the $_ varia

Re: Q: Code example in "Using Perl 6" - methods and spaces.

2010-12-27 Thread Moritz Lenz
On 12/27/2010 09:12 PM, Daniel Carrera wrote: > Thanks. The blacklash "unspace" works. > > my @sorted = @names.sort({ %sets{$_} })\ >.sort({ %matches{$_} })\ >.reverse; > > Though I'm a bit sad that you need that and you can't just separate methods > with s

Re: Q: Code example in "Using Perl 6" - methods and spaces.

2010-12-27 Thread Daniel Carrera
On Mon, Dec 27, 2010 at 8:37 PM, Darren Duncan wrote: > A relevant reading would be > http://perlcabal.org/syn/S02.html#Whitespace_and_Comments I think; what > you are trying to do may not directly be allowed, though there may be > workarounds such as by using "unspace". > Thanks. The blacklash "

Re: Q: Code example in "Using Perl 6" - methods and spaces.

2010-12-27 Thread Darren Duncan
Daniel Carrera wrote: I tested the first program using the latest release of Rakudo Star. The first program has the following: my @sorted = @names.sort({ %sets{$_} }).sort({ %matches{$_} }).reverse; This works correctly, but it's long and I'd rather format this line like this: This works corre

Q: Code example in "Using Perl 6" - methods and spaces.

2010-12-27 Thread Daniel Carrera
Hello, After a long absence (been busy) I'm trying to re-learn Perl 6. I'm reading the book "Using Perl 6", from Jonathan S, Moritz, Mäsak, PM and Jonathan W.: http://github.com/downloads/perl6/book/2010.08.a4.pdf I tested the first program using the latest release of Rakudo Star. The first pro