Re: Run time dispatch on ~~

2006-07-14 Thread Dr.Ruud
Larry Wall schreef: > Dr.Ruud: >> Aaron Sherman: >>> $_ ~~ $x >> >> Can that be written as ".~~ $x"? > > No, but you might just possibly get away with writing: > > .infix:<~~>($x) > > assuming that the $_.foo($x) SMD eventually fails over to foo($_,$x) > MMD. But that doesn't seem to be much

Re: Run time dispatch on ~~

2006-07-14 Thread Larry Wall
On Fri, Jul 14, 2006 at 04:34:26PM +0200, Dr.Ruud wrote: : Aaron Sherman schreef: : : > given $_ { : >when $x {...} : > } : > : > or : > : > $_ ~~ $x : : Can that be written as ".~~ $x"? No, but you might just possibly get away with writing: .infix:<~~>($x) assuming that the $_.foo(

Re: Run time dispatch on ~~

2006-07-14 Thread Dr.Ruud
Aaron Sherman schreef: > given $_ { >when $x {...} > } > > or > > $_ ~~ $x Can that be written as ".~~ $x"? -- Affijn, Ruud "Gewoon is een tijger."

Re: Run time dispatch on ~~

2006-07-14 Thread Aaron Sherman
On Fri, 2006-07-14 at 00:08 +0300, Yuval Kogman wrote: > Also, sometimes i am matching on behalf of my caller, this is very > common in dispatch algorithms, or things like tree visitors: > > my @list = $tree.filter_children( $match ); # very generic and useful It's really the fact that tha

Re: Run time dispatch on ~~

2006-07-13 Thread Yuval Kogman
On Thu, Jul 13, 2006 at 15:44:33 -0400, Aaron Sherman wrote: > Now, let's look at some of the good that ~~ does for us: > > $a ~~ "Some string" # sameness > $a ~~ 5 # sameness > $a ~~ ->{...} # test > $a ~~ /.../ # regex matching > > That's g