Aaron Sherman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Wed, 2002-09-18 at 11:42, Piers Cawley wrote:
>> The Perl 6 Summary for the Week Ending 20020915
>> Happy birthday to me!
>
> Indeed!
>
> And thank you so much for this. You have a way of taking a tangled mess
> of discussion that's even confusin
On Wed, 18 Sep 2002, Josh Jore wrote:
> On Wed, 18 Sep 2002, Damian Conway wrote:
>
> > > Would it be correct for this to print 0? Would it be correct for this
> > > to print 2?
> > >
> > > my $n = 0;
> > > "aargh" =~ /a* { $n++ } aargh/;
> > > print $n;
> >
> > Yes. ;-)
>
> Wouldn't that
On Wed, 2002-09-18 at 11:42, Piers Cawley wrote:
> The Perl 6 Summary for the Week Ending 20020915
> Happy birthday to me!
Indeed!
And thank you so much for this. You have a way of taking a tangled mess
of discussion that's even confusing the participants and making it easy
to digest (no pun
On Wed, 18 Sep 2002, Damian Conway wrote:
> > Would it be correct for this to print 0? Would it be correct for this
> > to print 2?
> >
> > my $n = 0;
> > "aargh" =~ /a* { $n++ } aargh/;
> > print $n;
>
> Yes. ;-)
Wouldn't that print 2 if $n is lexical and 0 if it's localized? Or are
lexic
The Perl 6 Summary for the Week Ending 20020915
Happy birthday to me!
Happy birthday to me!
Happy birthday dear me!
Happy birthday to me!
And, with a single breech of copyright, Piers was free. The production
of this summary was delayed by my turning 35 on the 15th an
Steve Fink wrote:
> What should this do:
>
> my $x = "the letter x";
> print "yes" if $x =~ /the { $x .= "!" } .* !/;
>
> Does this print "yes"?
If it's allowed at all, I think the match should succeed.
> print "yes" if "helo" =~ /hel { .pos-- } lo/;
This definitely has to work. But r
At 12:04 AM -0700 9/18/02, Brent Dax wrote:
>The Apocalypse on operators says that if one of the operands of a
>hyperoperator is a scalar, then that scalar is (nominally) treated as an
>array of copies of that scalar. In other words:
>
> my $foo=1;
> my @bar=(2, 3, 4);
>
> my @b
