Re: S5 - Question about repetition qualifier

2006-04-25 Thread Juerd
Jonathan Scott Duff skribis 2006-04-25 23:35 (-0500): > I get your point though. There's no easy way to say "match 1, 7, 12, or > 19" with this particular syntax. > How often does that come up in practice though? I don't think I've > ever wanted something like that. Quite often. A silly exampl

Re: S5 - Question about repetition qualifier

2006-04-25 Thread Jonathan Scott Duff
On Tue, Apr 25, 2006 at 09:57:58PM -0400, Joe Gottman wrote: > According to Synopsis 5, the repetition qualifier is now **{.} where the . > must correspond to either an Int or a Range. This seems rather restrictive. > Why are we not allowed a junction of Ints, for instance > > m/^ a*

S5 - Question about repetition qualifier

2006-04-25 Thread Joe Gottman
According to Synopsis 5, the repetition qualifier is now **{.} where the . must correspond to either an Int or a Range. This seems rather restrictive. Why are we not allowed a junction of Ints, for instance m/^ a**{1|3|5} $/ ; # Match 1,3, or 5 a's. This does not seem noticeably

[svn:perl6-synopsis] r8943 - doc/trunk/design/syn

2006-04-25 Thread autrijus
Author: autrijus Date: Tue Apr 25 09:37:36 2006 New Revision: 8943 Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S02.pod Log: * S02: Cleanup provisional-call text a bit, adding some more examples, and note that method calls are never provisional and cannot be invalidated. Modified: doc/trunk/d

Re: [svn:perl6-synopsis] r8942 - doc/trunk/design/syn

2006-04-25 Thread Amos Robinson
Just saw a typo in S02: s/unrecogized/unrecognized/ "If the unrecogized subname is followed by postcircumfix:<( )>, it is compiled as a provisional function call of the parenthesized form." On 4/26/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Author: autrijus > Date: Tue Apr 25 09:03:00 2006

[svn:perl6-synopsis] r8942 - doc/trunk/design/syn

2006-04-25 Thread autrijus
Author: autrijus Date: Tue Apr 25 09:03:00 2006 New Revision: 8942 Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S02.pod doc/trunk/design/syn/S03.pod doc/trunk/design/syn/S04.pod doc/trunk/design/syn/S06.pod Log: * S02, 03, 04, 06: Remove all occurrence of "tuple" and replace it with "Seq". A "Se

[svn:perl6-synopsis] r8941 - doc/trunk/design/syn

2006-04-25 Thread autrijus
Author: autrijus Date: Tue Apr 25 08:48:59 2006 New Revision: 8941 Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S03.pod Log: * S03: Cleanups. * There's no "$s xxx" postfix form anymore -- write "$s xx *". * "@a === @a" is sufficient to illustrate the reference-identity point, not "[EMAIL PROTECTED] === [E