> I like the idea of currying, it seems powerful and Perlish in many
> ways. However, I don't like the currying operator chosen, because
> of it's ugliness (IMHO), and its potential for ambiguity (human,
> not necessarily parser).
It's not an operator, it's a placeholder.
> So,
Piers Cawley wrote:
> Graham Barr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > On Fri, Aug 11, 2000 at 01:47:12PM +0100, Piers Cawley wrote:
> > > > /^_/
> > > >
> > > > What is that matching ?
> > >
> > > We've done this. It's matching a string that begins with '_'. Which is
> > > why, if you want to disamb
On Fri, Aug 11, 2000 at 02:52:32AM -0700, Nathan Wiger wrote:
> Mike-
>
> Jeremy's got a great explanation of this, which I'll paraphrase, but the
> discussion went through lots of iterations. Think of the ^ as a carat or
I only make this annoying and pedantic point because everyone I have
seen
On Fri, Aug 11, 2000 at 02:03:47PM +0100, Graham Barr wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 11, 2000 at 01:47:12PM +0100, Piers Cawley wrote:
> > > /^_/
> > >
> > > What is that matching ?
> >
> > We've done this. It's matching a string that begins with '_'. Which is
> > why, if you want to disambiguate you do
> "Graham" == Graham Barr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Graham> No that won't work either. That matches the string {_}
But that's arguably a DWIMmy thing, since {} is in the category of * +
and ?, which always need to be *after* something, and there's no
*something* here. I don't know how muc
Graham Barr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Fri, Aug 11, 2000 at 01:47:12PM +0100, Piers Cawley wrote:
> > > /^_/
> > >
> > > What is that matching ?
> >
> > We've done this. It's matching a string that begins with '_'. Which is
> > why, if you want to disambiguate you do /^{_}/ just like yo
On Fri, Aug 11, 2000 at 01:47:12PM +0100, Piers Cawley wrote:
> > /^_/
> >
> > What is that matching ?
>
> We've done this. It's matching a string that begins with '_'. Which is
> why, if you want to disambiguate you do /^{_}/ just like you do with
> variables.
No that won't work either. Tha
Graham Barr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Fri, Aug 11, 2000 at 02:52:32AM -0700, Nathan Wiger wrote:
> > Mike-
> >
> > Jeremy's got a great explanation of this, which I'll paraphrase, but the
> > discussion went through lots of iterations. Think of the ^ as a carat or
> > thumbtack, holding t
On Fri, Aug 11, 2000 at 02:52:32AM -0700, Nathan Wiger wrote:
> Mike-
>
> Jeremy's got a great explanation of this, which I'll paraphrase, but the
> discussion went through lots of iterations. Think of the ^ as a carat or
> thumbtack, holding the place for later variables. Then, consider the
> pa
On Fri, Aug 11, 2000 at 02:52:32AM -0700, Nathan Wiger wrote:
> Jeremy's got a great explanation of this, which I'll paraphrase, but the
> discussion went through lots of iterations. Think of the ^ as a carat or
> thumbtack, holding the place for later variables.
Yea, I ran across the description
Mike-
Jeremy's got a great explanation of this, which I'll paraphrase, but the
discussion went through lots of iterations. Think of the ^ as a carat or
thumbtack, holding the place for later variables. Then, consider the
parallels:
Placeholder Variable
Anonymous ^_
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