Aaron Sherman writes:
> > The current syntax for what you're
> > trying to write is:
> >
> > /ab(c|b) <($1 eq 'c')>/
> >
> > which is equivalent to
> >
> > /ab(c|b) {fail unless $1 eq 'c'}/
>
> Now, what does "fail" mean? I can think of two definitions:
>
> 1. proceed to trap s
On Wed, 2004-10-27 at 14:01, Luke Palmer wrote:
> Aaron Sherman writes:
> > > /ab(c|b) {fail unless $1 eq 'c'}/
> >
> > Now, what does "fail" mean? I can think of two definitions:
> >
> > 1. proceed to trap state (backtracking then happens)
> > 2. exit (probably using an exception) the
On Tue, 2004-10-26 at 20:16, Larry Wall wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 26, 2004 at 01:42:02PM -0400, Aaron Sherman wrote:
> : /ab(c|b){$1 eq 'c'}/
> :
> : If I recall correctly you had said something like, "there is no plan
> : (yet) to allow embedded closures to affect matching directly, other than
>
On Tue, Oct 26, 2004 at 01:42:02PM -0400, Aaron Sherman wrote:
: Larry, while you're feeling chatty, I have a question about Perl 6
: regular expressions for you. You answered a question of mine, long ago
: with a correction. I had said something like:
:
: /ab(c|b){$1 eq 'c'}/
:
: If I reca
Aldo Calpini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Larry Wall wrote:
>> I suppose if I were Archimedes I'd have climbed
>> back out and shouted "Eureka", but as far as I know Archimedes never
>> made it to Italy, so it didn't occur to me...
>
> well, Archimedes *was* italian. for some meaning of italian,
On Tue, 2004-10-26 at 05:17, Matthew Walton wrote:
> Also, climbing back out and shouting 'Eureka' would only really be
> appropriate if you actually had experienced a moment of revelation about
> something. I suspect you were too busy with the not drowning part for that.
Well, such moments of
Every once in a while some fascist proposes installing TV cameras in all
public places, and I think, "Oh, God! Nothing good can come of this!"
and resist heartily.
Larry Wall wrote:
The only bizarre and inexplicable thing that has occurred to me in the last week is that I fell
into a canal in V
On Mon, 25 Oct 2004, Larry Wall wrote:
: No, it means Larry's about to stun us with something seemingly bizarre
: and inexplicable which turns out to be a stroke of genius.
The only bizarre and inexplicable thing that has occurred to me in the
last week is that I fell into a canal in Venice. It wa
Larry Wall wrote:
On Tue, Oct 19, 2004 at 09:35:27PM +0100, Matthew Walton wrote:
: Austin Hastings wrote:
: >Does this mean that we're done? :)
:
: No, it means Larry's about to stun us with something seemingly bizarre
: and inexplicable which turns out to be a stroke of genius.
The only biza
Larry Wall wrote:
I suppose if I were Archimedes I'd have climbed
back out and shouted "Eureka", but as far as I know Archimedes never
made it to Italy, so it didn't occur to me...
well, Archimedes *was* italian. for some meaning of italian, at least.
he was born in Syracuse (the one in Sicily, no
> "LW" == Larry Wall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
LW> The only bizarre and inexplicable thing that has occurred to me in
LW> the last week is that I fell into a canal in Venice. It was
LW> definitely somewhat stunning, but I have yet to figure out how to
LW> view it as a stroke of geni
On Tue, Oct 19, 2004 at 09:35:27PM +0100, Matthew Walton wrote:
: Austin Hastings wrote:
: >Does this mean that we're done? :)
:
: No, it means Larry's about to stun us with something seemingly bizarre
: and inexplicable which turns out to be a stroke of genius.
The only bizarre and inexplicab
On Tue, 19 Oct 2004, Austin Hastings wrote:
Yes: no traffic at all for quite a while...
Does this mean that we're done? :)
By any means... I don't think so! I wonder if this could in any way
support what occasionally trolls claim e.g. in clpmisc, i.e. that the Perl
community is devoted to the c
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Matthew Walton) writes:
>Austin Hastings wrote:
>> Does this mean that we're done? :)
>
>No, it means Larry's about to stun us with something seemingly bizarre
>and inexplicable which turns out to be a stroke of genius.
This conjured up an ima
--- Matt Fowles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Joshua Gatcomb accidentally introduced a dependency
> on
> Config::IniFiles. Since it is implemented in pure
> perl he offered to
> add it to the repository. Warnock applies.
>
> http://xrl.us/div3
In the note offering to fix it, I also listed nume
Austin Hastings wrote:
Michele Dondi wrote:
On Sun, 17 Oct 2004, Matt Fowles wrote:
Google groups has nothing for Perl6.language between October 2 and 14.
Is this really the case? (I had not signed up until shortly before
Yes: no traffic at all for quite a while...
Does this mean that we're done
Michele Dondi wrote:
On Sun, 17 Oct 2004, Matt Fowles wrote:
Google groups has nothing for Perl6.language between October 2 and 14.
Is this really the case? (I had not signed up until shortly before
Yes: no traffic at all for quite a while...
Does this mean that we're done? :)
On Sun, 17 Oct 2004, Matt Fowles wrote:
Google groups has nothing for Perl6.language between October 2 and 14.
Is this really the case? (I had not signed up until shortly before
Yes: no traffic at all for quite a while...
Michele
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Except people don't actually read the documentation, and when the
All~
Welcome to my first summary. Since I am relatively new at this game,
I will just steal Piers's approach and start with Perl6 internals.
But before that let me warn you that my ability to make strange
characters with accents is not great, thus please do not be offended
if I don't include the
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