Re: S5 updated

2004-09-23 Thread Jeff Clites
On Sep 23, 2004, at 5:27 PM, Edward Peschko wrote: > On Thu, Sep 23, 2004 at 08:15:08AM -0700, Jeff Clites wrote: >>> >>> just like the transformation of a string into a number, and from a >>> number to a string. Two algorithmically different things as well, >>> but they'd damn

Re: S5 updated

2004-09-23 Thread Miroslav Silovic
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'll show you. Here are some of the generators. This is very dense, functional code. Read at your own risk (but I'm certainly not writing it to be executed!). Quite. ;) For the regexp /a aa aaa a aa/, this would sequentially search through all possible ways

Re: This week's summary

2004-09-23 Thread Peter Sinnott
On Thu, Sep 23, 2004 at 09:12:32AM -0400, Buddha Buck wrote: > On Wed, 22 Sep 2004 21:11:02 +0100, The Perl 6 Summarizer > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The Perl 6 Summary for the week ending 2004-09-17 > >Another week, another summary, and I'm running late. So: > > > > This week in perl6-com

Re: S5 updated

2004-09-23 Thread Jeff Clites
On Sep 22, 2004, at 5:06 PM, Edward Peschko wrote: How do you do that? Generation and matching are two different things algorithmically. yes, but they are intimately linked. just like the transformation of a string into a number, and from a number to a string. Two algorithmically different thing

Re: This week's summary

2004-09-23 Thread Buddha Buck
On Wed, 22 Sep 2004 21:11:02 +0100, The Perl 6 Summarizer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The Perl 6 Summary for the week ending 2004-09-17 >Another week, another summary, and I'm running late. So: > > This week in perl6-compiler > > Bootstrapping the grammar >Uri Guttman had some thoughts

Re: A..Z alternatives

2004-09-23 Thread Matthew Walton
Andrew Rodland wrote: On Tuesday 21 September 2004 07:18 pm, Thomas A. Boyer wrote: Larry Wall wrote: Somebody needs to talk me out of using A..Z for the simple cases. Larry [ <> for array dimension placeholder ] That might confuse users of languages that were not C-syntax-influenced, who think th

Re: This week's summary

2004-09-23 Thread Michele Dondi
On Wed, 22 Sep 2004, The Perl 6 Summarizer wrote: Writing "pack", or something like it Michele Dondi wondered how to write "pack"-like functions in Perl 6, where the first argument is a string which specifies the signature of the rest of the function call. The proposal stumped me, but may

Re: S5 updated

2004-09-23 Thread Edward Peschko
> How do you do that? Generation and matching are two different things > algorithmically. yes, but they are intimately linked. just like the transformation of a string into a number, and from a number to a string. Two algorithmically different things as well, but they'd damn-well better be exact