Re: S05 question

2004-12-09 Thread Larry Wall
On Wed, Dec 08, 2004 at 08:24:20PM -0800, Ashley Winters wrote: : I'm still going to prefer using :=, simply as a good programming : practice. My mind sees a big difference between building a parse-tree : object and just grepping for some word I want in a string. Within a : rule{} block, there is n

Re: S05 question

2004-12-09 Thread Patrick R. Michaud
On Wed, Dec 08, 2004 at 08:24:20PM -0800, Ashley Winters wrote: > > I was working on the (possibly misguided) assumption that there's a > cost to capturing, and that perhaps agressive capturing isn't worth > having "on" in a one-liner. Some deep part of my mind remembers $` > being bad, I think. I

Re: S05 question

2004-12-09 Thread Patrick R. Michaud
On Thu, Dec 09, 2004 at 10:52:54AM +, Matthew Walton wrote: > Of course, it then begs the question about > > > > if we're thinking of parallels with qw//-like constructs, which I > certainly am. I'm not quite sure what that would do, as it collides > slightly with the existing rule m

Re: S05 question

2004-12-09 Thread Matthew Walton
Larry Wall wrote: I'm still thinking about what «...» might mean, if anything. Bonus points for interpolative and/or word-splitty. I'm perhaps not being entirely serious, but if you want something word-splitty and interpolative, how about this (which may cause unwanted physiological side effects