Re: Angle quotes and pointy brackets

2004-12-02 Thread Larry Wall
On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 02:54:42PM -0700, John Williams wrote: : Does / <-> / capture to $0{'-'} ? : Or should that be written / <-«alpha»> / ? At the moment I've got it that only assertions of the form capture. Anything else you have to do an explicit binding, or use :keepall. Larry

Re: Angle quotes and pointy brackets

2004-12-02 Thread Luke Palmer
John Williams writes: > Is all the "Extensible metasyntax (<...>)" being changed to Â... ? > > Or is the new rule that <...> is capturing metasyntax, and Â... is > non-capturing metasyntax? That's the one. > You can't really capture anything on an assertion, so > /^foo .* <( do { say "Got

Re: Angle quotes and pointy brackets

2004-12-02 Thread John Williams
On Tue, 30 Nov 2004, Larry Wall wrote: > Here's the proposal. > > First the bad news: > * We accept that the C<< < >> operator requires whitespace > around it, and be prepared to be burned in effigy occasionally. My biggest worry about this is that people will be writing if $x<3 loo

Re: Angle quotes and pointy brackets

2004-12-02 Thread Michele Dondi
On Tue, 30 Nov 2004, Austin Hastings wrote: How about just having C< system() > return a clever object with .output and .err methods? interesting... Michele -- Windows shuts down automaticaly giving an count down. what could be the problem Windows? - "Le TeXnicien de surface" in comp.text.tex

Re: Angle quotes and pointy brackets

2004-12-02 Thread Michele Dondi
On Tue, 30 Nov 2004, Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon wrote: I like this in general. However... Larry Wall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: * Since we already stole angles from iterators, «$fh» is not how you make iterators iterate. Instead we use $fh.fetch (or whatever) in scalar context,