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> From: Mark J. Reed [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Monday, September 29, 2008 8:44 AM
> To: Chris Davaz
> Cc: Carl Mäsak; Perl6
> Subject: Re: Split with negative limits, and other weirdnesses
>
> On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 11:40 AM, Chris Davaz
> <[EMAIL
On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 9:36 PM, Kealey, Martin, ihug-NZ
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hmmm, my understanding was that it stopped *splitting* after the limit, but
> it doesn't stop "consuming" the source;
D'oh, you are of course correct; that is in fact the chief utility of
the limit parameter, an
On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 11:40 AM, Chris Davaz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Ok, so 0 returns the empty list and -1 violates the signature? In PIR
> can we have such signatures that put a constraint on the range of
> values for a given parameter?
Maybe this has already been proposed and rejected, bu
Ok, so 0 returns the empty list and -1 violates the signature? In PIR
can we have such signatures that put a constraint on the range of
values for a given parameter?
On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 7:25 PM, Carl Mäsak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Jason (>):
>> It makes sense to me to go with option 1; you
Jason (>):
> It makes sense to me to go with option 1; you get what you ask for. It also
> makes sense to make to not use magical implied numbers, such as negatives,
> to accomplish things that either ranges or whatever star can accomplish.
Aye, agreement. There's a whole lot of consensus already.
It makes sense to me to go with option 1; you get what you ask for. It also
makes sense to make to not use magical implied numbers, such as negatives,
to accomplish things that either ranges or whatever star can accomplish.
Just my 2 cents.
-Jason "s1n" Switzer
On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 4:27 AM, M
If someone wants to make the final word on what the behavior should be
I can go ahead and implement it.
On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 11:41 PM, Jonathan Scott Duff
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 9:38 AM, TSa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> HaloO,
>> Moritz Lenz wrote:
>>
>>> In Per
On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 9:38 AM, TSa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> HaloO,
> Moritz Lenz wrote:
>
>> In Perl 5 a negative limit means "unlimited", which we don't have to do
>> because we have the Whatever star.
>>
>
> I like the notion of negative numbers as the other end of infinity.
> Where infini
On 2008-Sep-23, at 8:38 am, TSa wrote:
Moritz Lenz wrote:
In Perl 5 a negative limit means "unlimited", which we don't have
to do
because we have the Whatever star.
I like the notion of negative numbers as the other end of infinity.
I think positive values and zero make sense. But I don't
HaloO,
Moritz Lenz wrote:
In Perl 5 a negative limit means "unlimited", which we don't have to do
because we have the Whatever star.
I like the notion of negative numbers as the other end of infinity.
Where infinity here is the length of the split list which can be
infinite if split is called
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