Re: [svn:perl6-synopsis] r13550 - doc/trunk/design/syn

2007-01-31 Thread TSa
HaloO, Larry Wall wrote: ...I think that should work. The *-1 value just means "one before Whatever", and the dwim is, as you say, lazy. Or perhaps this generalizes to an odd form of currying: &replicate := * xx 42; Ohh, let me get that in my own words: the rhs replicates a Whatever int

Re: [svn:perl6-synopsis] r13550 - doc/trunk/design/syn

2007-01-30 Thread Larry Wall
On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 09:29:03PM +0100, TSa wrote: : HaloO, : : [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: : >+Alternately, C<*+0> is the first element, and the subscript dwims : >+from the front or back depending on the sign. That would be more : >+symmetrical, but makes the idea of C<*> in a subscript a little

Re: [svn:perl6-synopsis] r13550 - doc/trunk/design/syn

2007-01-30 Thread TSa
HaloO, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: +Alternately, C<*+0> is the first element, and the subscript dwims +from the front or back depending on the sign. That would be more +symmetrical, but makes the idea of C<*> in a subscript a little more +distant from the notion of "all the keys", which would be a

[svn:perl6-synopsis] r13550 - doc/trunk/design/syn

2007-01-30 Thread larry
Author: larry Date: Tue Jan 30 12:20:47 2007 New Revision: 13550 Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S09.pod Log: Another idea for *+ vs *- in subscripts Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S09.pod == --- doc/trunk/design/syn/