Re: how much detail can I get from caller.want?

dpuu dave-at-whipp.name |Perl 6| wrote: On Aug 30, 8:47 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John M. Dlugosz) wrote: Have the sort function simply return a lazy list object. When the [4] is called on that object, it knows to do as much work as needed, and can leave the rest as lazy. That may be hal

What happened to "err" operator?

Has the "err" operator, as a low-precidence version of //, been removed? It's not mentioned in S03, and the semantics of "orelse" is different. Is "orelse" supposed to be a direct replacement, meaning if you ignore the parameter thing then it doesn't change anything?

Exception Basics

In S04, the "Exceptions" section mentions that $! contains multiple exceptions. So what type is it? Why isn't it @! ? I says that they are thrown as a single new exception. So what type is that new exception? A multi-exception of some kind? How do you get multiple pending exceptions in th

Re: how much detail can I get from caller.want?

On Aug 30, 8:47 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John M. Dlugosz) wrote: > Have the sort function simply return a lazy list object. When the [4] > is called on that object, it knows to do as much work as needed, and can > leave the rest as lazy. That may be half the answer, but simply making the decision l

Re: Regex repetition controlled by characters

Stephen Simmons wrote: > In S05, I found this regarding the generalized repetition specifier: > > ** '|'# repetition controlled by presence of character > > I tried it out with > > rule thislist { ** '|' }; > > and got (with Rakudo): > > perl6regex parse error: Error in closure q

Regex repetition controlled by characters

In S05, I found this regarding the generalized repetition specifier: ** '|'# repetition controlled by presence of character I tried it out with rule thislist { ** '|' }; and got (with Rakudo): perl6regex parse error: Error in closure quantifier at offset 28, found ''' Is this fe

S*.pod edits submissions

I have changed files at waiting for someone in authority to merge.

Re: how much detail can I get from caller.want?

On Sat, Aug 30, 2008 at 4:22 AM, Dave Whipp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Lets say I want to find the 5th smallest element in an array. I might > write: > > @array.sort.[4]; > > How does the implementation of the sort function know that I just want to > 5th item (and thus choose an appropriate opt