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<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Luke
Palmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> However, now we have stat($file).size.
That's sorta fine with me. That makes it even easier to explain to
newbies, although I'd need method names for the other tests.
However, junctive tests are a mighty attractive featur
On Apr 13, 2007, at 20:09 , Jonathan Lang wrote:
What does pair notation buy us that quoted-postfix notation doesn't
already cover?
I don't think it does. What it does buy is that the *unquoted*
notation works: the definition of Perl6's grammar turns out to lead
to `-f' and `- f' parsin
Luke Palmer wrote:
These things are methods, and I'm not sure why we've crammed them into
smart match. Things like :M have nothing to do with matching. What
would it mean if smart match returned false? "This file has not been
modified ever"? :e has a bit more merit for a smart match, but the
op
On 4/13/07, brian d foy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Which then makes me think I'd want to do something a bit wacky to see
if the modtime is greater than 5:
"doc" ~~ M => any( 5 ..* );
Or even "doc" ~~ M => (5..*). Then again, ("doc" ~~ :M) ~~ 5..* does
the same thing, without having to hav
