Re: [svn:perl6-synopsis] r14431 - doc/trunk/design/syn

2007-08-04 Thread Patrick R. Michaud
On Sat, Aug 04, 2007 at 12:56:06PM -0700, Larry Wall wrote: > for '❶' .. '❿' { .say } > > But it's not clear what to do if you try to increment ❿ though. > Probably just return a failure. Assuming that '❶' .. '❿' is a range similar to '0'..'9', then consistency with the other ranges would see

Re: [svn:perl6-synopsis] r14431 - doc/trunk/design/syn

2007-08-04 Thread Larry Wall
On Sat, Aug 04, 2007 at 12:56:06PM -0700, Larry Wall wrote: : multi token numrange:<0x> (--> StrHex){ '0x' <[0..9a..fA..F]>+ } Though sanity would probably force us to use numerics internally anyway as the canonical comparison form, or we'd have trouble getting '0x00' .. '0x0Ff' to

Re: [svn:perl6-synopsis] r14431 - doc/trunk/design/syn

2007-08-04 Thread Larry Wall
On Sat, Aug 04, 2007 at 12:55:58PM -0500, Patrick R. Michaud wrote: : On Thu, Aug 02, 2007 at 04:19:18PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: : > Increment of a C (in a suitable container) works similarly to : > Perl 5, but is generalized slightly. First, the string is examined : > to see if it coul

Re: [svn:perl6-synopsis] r14431 - doc/trunk/design/syn

2007-08-04 Thread Patrick R. Michaud
On Thu, Aug 02, 2007 at 04:19:18PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Increment of a C (in a suitable container) works similarly to > Perl 5, but is generalized slightly. First, the string is examined > to see if it could be the string representation of a number in > any common representation,

[svn:perl6-synopsis] r14431 - doc/trunk/design/syn

2007-08-02 Thread larry
Author: larry Date: Thu Aug 2 16:19:18 2007 New Revision: 14431 Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S03.pod doc/trunk/design/syn/S11.pod doc/trunk/design/syn/S12.pod Log: Clarification of autoincrement semantics requested by pmichaud++ self does not expand in list context typos Modified: d