On 14/01/06 00:59, Larry Wall wrote:
That doesn't seem sufficiently general. I'd rather see some context
that can apply a signature to the head of a list and treat the
"unslurped" part as unmatched. Maybe a "for" loop could be taught
to supply such a context, or a "when". Or maybe it's just th
On Fri, Jan 13, 2006 at 11:42:13PM +, Luke Palmer wrote:
: On 1/13/06, Dave Whipp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: > What happens if I simply abandon the attempt at anonymous MMD and use a
: > named multi-sub, instead:
: >
: > {
: >my multi sub process_arg("-f", Str $f is rw) {
: > $f .=
On 1/13/06, Dave Whipp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> What happens if I simply abandon the attempt at anonymous MMD and use a
> named multi-sub, instead:
>
> {
>my multi sub process_arg("-f", Str $f is rw) {
> $f .= absolute_filename
>}
>my multi sub process_arg("--quux", Str arg1,
Luke Palmer wrote:
On 1/13/06, Dave Whipp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Would this actually work, or would it stop at the first elem that
doesn't match ("-f", ::Item)?
If by "stop" you mean "die", yes it would stop.
not what I wanted :-(
Is there some way to associate alternate codeblocks f
On 1/13/06, Dave Whipp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm trying to work out if there's a clever perl6 way to write this using
> pattern matching:
>
>for @*ARGV -> "-f", $filename {
> $filename .= absolute_filename;
>}
There is, but it's a different kind of pattern matching:
if @*A
