Re: question regarding rules and bytes vs characters

2004-07-12 Thread Austin Hastings
--- Larry Wall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hmm, maybe that means that language-dependent graphemes are called > "langs", which I suppose is short for "langemes". Dangerously close to "legumes", there. Perhaps we could refer to entities matches by regexes as "peas"... =Austin

Re: question regarding rules and bytes vs characters

2004-07-12 Thread Larry Wall
On Mon, Jul 12, 2004 at 07:42:02AM +0200, Ph. Marek wrote: : Of course the file must be opened in binary mode - else the line-endings etc. : can be destroyed in the binary data, which is bad. : : So Perl/Parrot can't autodetect the kind of encoding. : But maybe it should be possible to do somethi

Re: question regarding rules and bytes vs characters

2004-07-11 Thread Ph. Marek
> : Hello everybody, > : > : I'm about to learn myself perl6 (after using perl5 for some time). > > I'm also trying to learn perl6 after using perl5 for some time. :-) I wouldn't even try to compare you and me :-) > Pretty close. The way it's set up currently, $len is a reference > to a var

Re: question regarding rules and bytes vs characters

2004-07-09 Thread Larry Wall
On Tue, Jun 01, 2004 at 07:56:41AM +0200, Ph. Marek wrote: : Hello everybody, : : I'm about to learn myself perl6 (after using perl5 for some time). I'm also trying to learn perl6 after using perl5 for some time. :-) : One of my first questions deals with regexes. : : : I'd like to parse data