Re: You never have privacy from your children in Perl 6

2010-03-29 Thread Darren Duncan
Martin D Kealey wrote: On Mar 27, 2010, at 15:43 , Darren Duncan wrote: For example, say you want to define a graph of some kind, and for elegance you have a separate container and node and side classes, On Sat, 27 Mar 2010, Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH wrote: This sounds like a hackaround for an

Re: Ordering in \bbold{C}

2010-03-29 Thread Darren Duncan
Leon Timmermans wrote: Maybe it's just me, but I don't see the value of having some *arbitrary* predefined order for complex numbers. If people really want to order their complex numbers, let them do it themselves in whatever way they want. Leon I agree actually that Complex shouldn't have a pr

Re: You never have privacy from your children in Perl 6

2010-03-29 Thread Martin D Kealey
> On Mar 27, 2010, at 15:43 , Darren Duncan wrote: > > For example, say you want to define a graph of some kind, and for > > elegance you have a separate container and node and side classes, On Sat, 27 Mar 2010, Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH wrote: > This sounds like a hackaround for an incomplete impl

Re: Regex interpolation

2010-03-29 Thread mark . a . biggar
Use <{...}>. as the string returned is reinterpreted as a regex, if it consists of the single quoted string then it's a literal, but you must include the single quotes in the result returned. E.g., <{ my $x = funct($a, $b, $c); "'$x'";}> Mark Biggar -- m...@biggar.org mark.a.big...@comcast.net

Re: Ordering in \bbold{C}

2010-03-29 Thread James Cloos
> "M" == Minimiscience writes: M> Assuming that the last line should be "A ≥ B if a₁ > b₁ ...", Indeed, yes. Is there a worse off-by-one typo than '<' vs '>'? M> this is called lexicographic ordering, Oh. Yes. Of course. Obviosuly. I should have noticed that and do not know why I mis

Regex interpolation

2010-03-29 Thread Mark J. Reed
Is there not a way to run arbitrary code and interpolate the result as a literal string (instead of a Regex)? I assume that {...} is intended to be where you hook in semantics/actions mid-parse, but it seems a bit counter-intuitive that the same syntax interpolates in double-quote context but not

Re: Ordering in \bbold{C}

2010-03-29 Thread Leon Timmermans
Maybe it's just me, but I don't see the value of having some *arbitrary* predefined order for complex numbers. If people really want to order their complex numbers, let them do it themselves in whatever way they want. Leon On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 6:10 AM, Darren Duncan wrote: > I was actually th