Re: Array/Colon question

2003-01-24 Thread Michael Lazzaro
On Friday, January 24, 2003, at 10:10 AM, Brent Dax wrote: # 1 .. $a # 1 .. $a : 2 # $a .. $b # $a .. $b : 2 # $a .. $b : $c # 1 .. 10 : $c # 2.5 .. 10.0 : 0.5 To my knowledge, these are all fine. Thanks, you're right. I was confusing the 'lazy' discussion with

RE: Array/Colon question

2003-01-24 Thread Brent Dax
Michael Lazzaro: # On Thursday, January 23, 2003, at 02:24 PM, Brent Dax wrote: # > I suspect that the prototype for '..' is like this: # # So the 'step' use of colon may _only_ be used in conjunction with a # "ranged" list, e.g. C<..>, correct? In _any_ other context, it means # something els

Re: Array/Colon question

2003-01-24 Thread Michael Lazzaro
On Thursday, January 23, 2003, at 02:24 PM, Brent Dax wrote: I suspect that the prototype for '..' is like this: So the 'step' use of colon may _only_ be used in conjunction with a "ranged" list, e.g. C<..>, correct? In _any_ other context, it means something else. In looking at A3, I also

RE: Array/Colon question

2003-01-23 Thread Brent Dax
Michael Lazzaro: # Here's something that I'm still confused about. # # We have: # # print STDOUT : $a; Presumably you forgot the $ on that STDOUT. # as indirect object syntax. The colon means "STDOUT is the # object we're # operating on." It works everywhere. We also have # # for