Re: [svn:perl6-synopsis] r8609 - doc/trunk/design/syn

2006-04-08 Thread Ruud H.G. van Tol
Larry Wall schreef: > before anyone else points it out to me > I think the long-dot > rule is built into the parser rather than falling out of the > longest-token rule. I think so too, but why then cling to the dot? s:p5/[\][#][^\]*[#][\]// (does not match \#\ ) The backslash is no

Re: [svn:perl6-synopsis] r8609 - doc/trunk/design/syn

2006-04-07 Thread Larry Wall
On Fri, Apr 07, 2006 at 10:07:55PM +0100, Nicholas Clark wrote: : On Fri, Apr 07, 2006 at 01:11:15PM -0700, Larry Wall wrote: : > On Fri, Apr 07, 2006 at 01:04:38PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: : > : +The long dot form of the C<...> postfix is C<0. ...> rather than : > : +C<0. > because the

Re: [svn:perl6-synopsis] r8609 - doc/trunk/design/syn

2006-04-07 Thread Nicholas Clark
On Fri, Apr 07, 2006 at 01:11:15PM -0700, Larry Wall wrote: > On Fri, Apr 07, 2006 at 01:04:38PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > : +The long dot form of the C<...> postfix is C<0. ...> rather than > : +C<0. > because the long dot eats the first dot after the whitespace. > : +It does not foll

Re: [svn:perl6-synopsis] r8609 - doc/trunk/design/syn

2006-04-07 Thread Larry Wall
On Fri, Apr 07, 2006 at 01:04:38PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: : +The long dot form of the C<...> postfix is C<0. ...> rather than : +C<0. > because the long dot eats the first dot after the whitespace. : +It does not follow that you can write C<0> because that would : +take the first t

[svn:perl6-synopsis] r8609 - doc/trunk/design/syn

2006-04-07 Thread larry
Author: larry Date: Fri Apr 7 13:04:37 2006 New Revision: 8609 Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S02.pod Log: More long dot cleanup. Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S02.pod == --- doc/trunk/design/syn/S02.pod(or