Re: scalar subscripting

2004-07-08 Thread Luke Palmer
Hans Ginzel writes: > On Thu, Jul 08, 2004 at 09:12:16PM +1000, Gautam Gopalakrishnan wrote: > > about string subscripting. Since $a[0] cannot be mistaken for array subscripting > > anymore, could this now be used to peep into scalars? Looks easier than using > >Are there plans in Perl 6 for s

Re: scalar subscripting

2004-07-08 Thread Hans Ginzel
On Thu, Jul 08, 2004 at 09:12:16PM +1000, Gautam Gopalakrishnan wrote: > about string subscripting. Since $a[0] cannot be mistaken for array subscripting > anymore, could this now be used to peep into scalars? Looks easier than using Are there plans in Perl 6 for string modifiers? As they are i

Re: push with lazy lists

2004-07-08 Thread JOSEPH RYAN
> On Wed, Jul 07, 2004 at 11:50:16PM -0400, JOSEPH RYAN wrote: > > To answer the latter first, rand (with no arguments) returns a number > greater than or equal to 0 and less than 1 which when used as an index > into an array gets turned into a 0. > > As to why the second pop would take forever, I

Re: fast question

2004-07-08 Thread Larry Wall
On Thu, Jul 08, 2004 at 11:46:25AM -0700, Larry Wall wrote: : With an array : match, you might find yourself redispatching individual operators in a : switch statement to provide that kind of specificity. In particular, macros with "is parsed" will want to have a place to hang their special parse

Re: fast question

2004-07-08 Thread Larry Wall
On Thu, Jul 08, 2004 at 04:49:33AM -0600, Luke Palmer wrote: : Michele Dondi writes: : > On the wild side of things, could there be the possibility of even : > defining new ones? : : That's what I meant by: : : grammatical_category:postcircumfix : : Though it wouldn't be so magical as to jus

Re: The .bytes/.codepoints/.graphemes methods

2004-07-08 Thread Austin Hastings
--- Larry Wall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Jun 29, 2004 at 10:52:34AM -0500, Jonathan Scott Duff wrote: > > : Or was that to imply that a literal "a" in the RE would be > : interpretted as a "grapheme a" when :u2 is active? > > I don't know what you mean by "grapheme a" there. If you me

Re: This week's summary

2004-07-08 Thread Dan Sugalski
On Thu, 8 Jul 2004, Piers Cawley wrote: > "Jonadab the Unsightly One" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > The Perl 6 Summarizer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > >> Different OO models > >> Jonadab the Unsightly One had wondered about having objects > >> inheriting behaviour from objects r

Re: scalar subscripting

2004-07-08 Thread Luke Palmer
Gautam Gopalakrishnan writes: > Hello, > > I've tried the archives and the 'Perl 6 essentials' book and I can't > find anything > about string subscripting. Since $a[0] cannot be mistaken for array subscripting > anymore, could this now be used to peep into scalars? Looks easier than using > subst

Re: scalar subscripting

2004-07-08 Thread Juerd
Gautam Gopalakrishnan skribis 2004-07-08 21:12 (+1000): > about string subscripting. Since $a[0] cannot be mistaken for array subscripting > anymore, could this now be used to peep into scalars? Looks easier than using $a[0] is $a.[0]. That means that if there is a @$a, it still is array subscript

scalar subscripting

2004-07-08 Thread Gautam Gopalakrishnan
Hello, I've tried the archives and the 'Perl 6 essentials' book and I can't find anything about string subscripting. Since $a[0] cannot be mistaken for array subscripting anymore, could this now be used to peep into scalars? Looks easier than using substr or unpack. Hope I've not missed anything o

Re: fast question

2004-07-08 Thread Luke Palmer
Michele Dondi writes: > On Wed, 7 Jul 2004, Luke Palmer wrote: > > > > Are there others, aside from these: ? > > > > > > prefix: a unary prefix operator > > > infix: a binary infix operator > > > postfix:a binary suffix operator > > > circumfix: a bracketing operato

Re: This week's summary

2004-07-08 Thread Piers Cawley
"Jonadab the Unsightly One" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The Perl 6 Summarizer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Different OO models >> Jonadab the Unsightly One had wondered about having objects >> inheriting behaviour from objects rather than classes in Perl 6. > > Urgle. I've complet

Re: fast question

2004-07-08 Thread Michele Dondi
On Wed, 7 Jul 2004, Luke Palmer wrote: > > Are there others, aside from these: ? > > > > prefix: a unary prefix operator > > infix: a binary infix operator > > postfix:a binary suffix operator > > circumfix: a bracketing operator > > Tons. From A12: [snip] On the