Re: Logo considerations

2009-03-24 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
2009/3/24 Larry Wall : > http://www.wall.org/~larry/camelia.pdf > Intended or not, the smiley is a nice tribute to Audrey and her lovely style of presentations. -- Amir Elisha Aharoni heb: http://haharoni.wordpress.com | eng: http://aharoni.wordpress.com cat: http://aprenent.wordpress.com | rus

Re: pluralization idea that keeps bugging me

2008-01-26 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
On 26/01/2008, Larry Wall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > After a recent exchange on PerlMonks about join, I've been thinking > about the problem of pluralization in interpolated strings, where we > get things like: > > say "Received $m message{ 1==$m ?? '' !! 's' }." > > ... > > Any other cute id

Re: Multiline comments in Perl6

2007-12-30 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
On 30/12/2007, Jonathan Lang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The only wart > is that '#( ... )' cannot begin at the very start of a line; but it's > easy enough to get around that restriction - say, with some leading > whitespace. Thanks for the reply - can you please what is the problem with having

Named captures (was: **{x,y} quantifier)

2007-07-01 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
On 01/07/07, Luke Palmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 7/1/07, Amir E. Aharoni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > please correct me if > > > i say something stupid or if this has already been discussed before.) > > > Another important loss if we were to go

Re: **{x,y} quantifier

2007-07-01 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
> please correct me if > i say something stupid or if this has already been discussed before.) Another important loss if we were to go with <1..3> would be the ability to have runtime-dependent ranges; e.g.: / ($ntimes) x**{$ntimes} / That's exactly what i meant by "something stupid". T

**{x,y} quantifier

2007-07-01 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
(I'm just studying the intricacies of Perl 6, so please correct me if i say something stupid or if this has already been discussed before.) I was looking for the Perl 6 equivalent of "aaa" =~ /a{1,3}/ and finally found that it's "aaa" ~~ /a**{1 .. 3}/ This looked rather weird, so i asked on I