Re: Converting a Perl 5 "pseudo-continuation" to Perl 6

2009-01-26 Thread Larry Wall
On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 12:27:56AM +0100, Aristotle Pagaltzis wrote: : * Aristotle Pagaltzis [2009-01-02 23:00]: : > That way, you get this combination: : > : > sub pid_file_handler ( $filename ) { : > # ... top half ... : > yield; : > # ... bottom half ... : > } :

r25049 - docs/Perl6/Spec

2009-01-26 Thread pugs-commits
Author: lwall Date: 2009-01-27 01:44:28 +0100 (Tue, 27 Jan 2009) New Revision: 25049 Modified: docs/Perl6/Spec/S29-functions.pod Log: [S29] expand on use of * in orderings sort, min, and max shouldn't have an optional positional before a slurpy junctional functions take *...@array, not a single

r25048 - docs/Perl6/Spec src/perl6

2009-01-26 Thread pugs-commits
Author: lwall Date: 2009-01-27 01:08:23 +0100 (Tue, 27 Jan 2009) New Revision: 25048 Modified: docs/Perl6/Spec/S05-regex.pod src/perl6/STD.pm Log: [STD, S05] converge spec and parse of character classes Modified: docs/Perl6/Spec/S05-regex.pod ===

Re: Converting a Perl 5 "pseudo-continuation" to Perl 6

2009-01-26 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
* Aristotle Pagaltzis [2009-01-02 23:00]: > That way, you get this combination: > > sub pid_file_handler ( $filename ) { > # ... top half ... > yield; > # ... bottom half ... > } > > sub init_server { > # ... > my $write_pid = pid_file_handler( $

r25044 - docs/Perl6/Spec

2009-01-26 Thread pugs-commits
Author: lwall Date: 2009-01-26 20:11:42 +0100 (Mon, 26 Jan 2009) New Revision: 25044 Modified: docs/Perl6/Spec/S02-bits.pod Log: [S02] clarify that .perl always represents an object as an item Modified: docs/Perl6/Spec/S02-bits.pod =

Re: .trim and 'gilding the lilly'

2009-01-26 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
* Nicholas Clark [2009-01-24 15:00]: > But personally I feel that the added conceptual complexity of > having over-ridable regexps, and in particular .ltrim and > .rtrim methods with over-ridable regexps is not worth it. Yeah. I have come around to this view as well. In programming, everythi