Re: r24846 - docs/Perl6/Spec

2009-01-09 Thread jerry gay
On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 14:26, Eirik Berg Hanssen wrote: > "jerry gay" writes: > >> On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 13:16, Eirik Berg Hanssen >> wrote: >>> That doesn't look very "eager" to me. >>> >> it's "eager" for the match to close, which is the opposite of "greedy" >> matching. in perl 5 documentat

Re: r24846 - docs/Perl6/Spec

2009-01-09 Thread Eirik Berg Hanssen
"jerry gay" writes: > On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 13:16, Eirik Berg Hanssen > wrote: >> That doesn't look very "eager" to me. >> > it's "eager" for the match to close, which is the opposite of "greedy" > matching. in perl 5 documentation, it's called "non-greedy". for use > and explanation of the te

Re: r24846 - docs/Perl6/Spec

2009-01-09 Thread jerry gay
On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 13:16, Eirik Berg Hanssen wrote: > pugs-comm...@feather.perl6.nl writes: > >> +C<--prelude=Perl6-autoloop-no-print>. Since eager matching is used, if you >> +need to pass something like: >> >> + ++foo -bar ++foo baz ++/foo ++/foo >> >> +you'll end up with >> + >> + %+OPTS

r24848 - docs/Perl6/Spec

2009-01-09 Thread pugs-commits
Author: particle Date: 2009-01-09 22:17:42 +0100 (Fri, 09 Jan 2009) New Revision: 24848 Modified: docs/Perl6/Spec/S19-commandline.pod Log: [S19] a note on assumptions Modified: docs/Perl6/Spec/S19-commandline.pod === --- docs/Perl

Re: r24846 - docs/Perl6/Spec

2009-01-09 Thread Eirik Berg Hanssen
pugs-comm...@feather.perl6.nl writes: > +C<--prelude=Perl6-autoloop-no-print>. Since eager matching is used, if you > +need to pass something like: > > + ++foo -bar ++foo baz ++/foo ++/foo > > +you'll end up with > + > + %+OPTS = '-bar ++foo baz'; That doesn't look very "eager" to me.

r24847 - docs/Perl6/Spec

2009-01-09 Thread pugs-commits
Author: particle Date: 2009-01-09 22:13:19 +0100 (Fri, 09 Jan 2009) New Revision: 24847 Modified: docs/Perl6/Spec/S19-commandline.pod Log: [S19] add notes for further design review Modified: docs/Perl6/Spec/S19-commandline.pod ===

r24846 - docs/Perl6/Spec

2009-01-09 Thread pugs-commits
Author: particle Date: 2009-01-09 22:05:46 +0100 (Fri, 09 Jan 2009) New Revision: 24846 Modified: docs/Perl6/Spec/S19-commandline.pod Log: [S19] describe how to avoid ambiguity when nesting delimited options Modified: docs/Perl6/Spec/S19-commandline.pod

r24844 - docs/Perl6/Spec

2009-01-09 Thread pugs-commits
Author: particle Date: 2009-01-09 21:57:14 +0100 (Fri, 09 Jan 2009) New Revision: 24844 Modified: docs/Perl6/Spec/S19-commandline.pod Log: [S19] a little copy-editing Modified: docs/Perl6/Spec/S19-commandline.pod === --- docs/Perl

Re: r24809 - docs/Perl6/Spec

2009-01-09 Thread Aaron Crane
pugs-comm...@feather.perl6.nl writes: > +=item -x > + > +Run program embedded in ASCII text. Infrequently used, and doesn't > +deserve its own command-line option. I understand the use case for that option is piping a mail or news message to `perl -x` to run a script contained within it. If that