* Nicholas Clark [2009-01-24 15:00]:
> But personally I feel that the added conceptual complexity of
> having over-ridable regexps, and in particular .ltrim and
> .rtrim methods with over-ridable regexps is not worth it.
Yeah. I have come around to this view as well.
In programming, everythi
Ovid wrote:
Is there guidance on where to go from here or what the balance is between
convenience functions and the bare minimum?
Speaking for myself, I know that I would like Perl 6's value
transforming/mapping operators to be functions that don't mutate their
arguments, or have standard va
- Original Message
> From: Nicholas Clark
> I can't keep up with the typing even with my mouth shut. I definitely can't
> think, talk and type at the same time.
For what it's worth, I have trouble doing more than *one* of those at once.
In any event, it's nice to get a slightly better
On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 10:58:51AM -0800, chromatic wrote:
> On Saturday 24 January 2009 05:56:03 Nicholas Clark wrote:
>
> > And if left alone I can ramble that much, is anyone surprised
> > that chromatic can't manage to minute several people discussing it?
>
> Amusingly, you were the one who d
On Saturday 24 January 2009 05:56:03 Nicholas Clark wrote:
> And if left alone I can ramble that much, is anyone surprised
> that chromatic can't manage to minute several people discussing it?
Amusingly, you were the one who didn't minute it; I wasn't on the call that
week.
-- c
On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 09:27:04AM -0800, Ovid wrote:
> You know, I rewrote .trim as:
>
> .sub 'trim' :method :multi(_)
> .local string s
> s = self
> s = 'trim_start'(s)
> s = 'trim_end'(s)
> .return(s)
> .end
>
> I thought about the performance issue but opted
- Original Message
> From: Nicholas Clark
> You can also write that as a single substitution, although it turns
> out the combined statement is slower than the separate ones. That
> might not matter to you, though.
>
> s/^\s+|\s+$//g;
>
>
> If there's one answ
On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 04:55:44AM -0800, Ovid wrote:
> In chromatic's latest "Perl 6 Design Minutes" post
> (http://use.perl.org/~chromatic/journal/38334), he writes
>
>"Missing a discussion on.trim and gilding the lily."
>
>Nicholas:
> * if I wanted PHP I know where to find it
In chromatic's latest "Perl 6 Design Minutes" post
(http://use.perl.org/~chromatic/journal/38334), he writes
"Missing a discussion on.trim and gilding the lily."
Nicholas:
* if I wanted PHP I know where to find it
So there's a lot of context missing there and I'm unsure of what t
