[perl6/specs] eed90a: [S03] Finally, finally move =head1 Adverbs to =hea...

2014-01-21 Thread GitHub
-operators.pod Log Message: --- [S03] Finally, finally move =head1 Adverbs to =head2 newbie_Perl6++ for reminding me this still needed to be done :) .

[perl6/specs] e27f00: Add :chop adverb to quoting adverbs

2013-11-01 Thread GitHub
: M S02-bits.pod Log Message: --- Add :chop adverb to quoting adverbs The idea being that in combination with :to, a .chop could be done at compile time already if there is no interpolation happening at the end of the result.

[perl6/specs] f868fd: Small clarification in subscript adverbs

2013-05-22 Thread GitHub
: M S02-bits.pod Log Message: --- Small clarification in subscript adverbs After masak++ made me think about it more

[perl6/specs] 7883bc: Some clarifications on using adverbs with subscrip...

2013-05-22 Thread GitHub
: M S02-bits.pod Log Message: --- Some clarifications on using adverbs with subscripts Please consider this a draft, a discussion piece if you will. I simply got inspired by http://irclog.perlgeek.de/perl6/2013-05-21#i_7098764

[perl6/specs] fd94c2: Allow false booleans into slice adverbs

2013-05-13 Thread GitHub
-bits.pod Log Message: --- Allow false booleans into slice adverbs

rounding method adverbs

2010-08-01 Thread Darren Duncan
Martin D Kealey said (in the a..b thread): >> So then, "a" cmp "ส้" is always defined, but users can change the >> definition. > > I take the opposite approach; it's always undefined (read, unthrown > exception) unless the user tells us how they want it treated. That can be a > command-line switch

Re: adverbs o operators

2008-08-07 Thread TSa
HaloO, Larry Wall wrote: The whitespace proposal is essentially to require whitespace between any operator any following pair if the pair is intended to be a noun and not an adverb. So, then my log:base(2) would still look for the positional argument, right? Alternately, we could force eve

Re: adverbs o operators

2008-08-07 Thread Larry Wall
is a bit lengthy and > >$x = log $y, :base(2); > > looks more like a two element list assigned to $x. That's because it *is* a two element list. In the current scheme of things, you have to put: $x = log $y :base(2); The point being that adverbs are recognized only where

Re: adverbs o operators

2008-08-07 Thread TSa
HaloO, John M. Dlugosz wrote: So do they have to go at the end of the whole expression in the current grammar? I don't follow about the spaces. The problem is term versus operator parsing. Do you write $a lt:lc $b le:lc $c I think that works and looks best. My favorite hope is that

Re: adverbs o operators

2008-08-07 Thread John M. Dlugosz
Larry Wall larry-at-wall.org |Perl 6| wrote: > As for > marking each op individually, it might be possible if we add a > whitespace dependency between "lt:lc" and "lt :lc", but 1 ..:by(2) 100 > is pretty ugly. > > Larry So do they have to go at the end of the whole expression in the current gram

Re: S02: generalized quotes and adverbs

2006-05-11 Thread Larry Wall
On Wed, May 10, 2006 at 08:09:45AM +0100, Daniel Hulme wrote: : > qX ::= "q:x:y:z"; : > : > as a simple, argumentless "word" macro. : But would that DWIM when I come to write : : qX(stuff, specifically not an adverb argument); : : ? Just looking at it, I would expect qX() to call a function

Re: S02: generalized quotes and adverbs

2006-05-10 Thread Daniel Hulme
> qX ::= "q:x:y:z"; > > as a simple, argumentless "word" macro. But would that DWIM when I come to write qX(stuff, specifically not an adverb argument); ? -- "The rules of programming are transitory; only Tao is eternal. Therefore you must contemplate Tao before you receive en

Re: S02: generalized quotes and adverbs

2006-05-09 Thread Larry Wall
On Tue, May 09, 2006 at 11:15:24PM -0700, jerry gay wrote: : according to S02, under 'Literals', generalized quotes may now take : adverbs. in that section is the following comment: : : : [Conjectural: Ordinarily the colon is required on adverbs, but the : "quote" decl

S02: generalized quotes and adverbs

2006-05-09 Thread jerry gay
according to S02, under 'Literals', generalized quotes may now take adverbs. in that section is the following comment: [Conjectural: Ordinarily the colon is required on adverbs, but the "quote" declarator allows you to combine any of the existing adverbial forms above wi

Re: Adverbs

2006-04-24 Thread Jonathan Lang
Larry Wall wrote: > You might have to write that > >@list ==> $foo.act :bar('baz'); > > I think or the colon on the method would be taken as starting a list. > I dunno, depends on whether .act: is considered a "longest token", > I guess. I could argue it the other way as well, and :bar is a lo

Re: Adverbs

2006-04-24 Thread Damian Conway
One other point: act $foo, @list, bar => 'baz'; is actually the same as: act($foo, @list, bar => 'baz'); which might or might not dispatch to a method on $foo, depending on whether (and how) &act is defined. Jonathan probably meant: act $foo: @list, bar => 'baz'; for the indirec

Re: Adverbs

2006-04-24 Thread Larry Wall
On Mon, Apr 24, 2006 at 08:30:04PM -0700, Jonathan Lang wrote: : Larry Wall wrote: : > Jonathan Lang wrote: : > : How do you define new adverbs, and how does a subroutine go about : > : accessing them? : > : > Adverbs are just optional named parameters. Most of the magic is in : &g

Re: Adverbs

2006-04-24 Thread Jonathan Lang
Larry Wall wrote: > Jonathan Lang wrote: > : How do you define new adverbs, and how does a subroutine go about > : accessing them? > > Adverbs are just optional named parameters. Most of the magic is in > the call syntax. Ah. So every part of a Capture Object has an alt

Re: Adverbs

2006-04-24 Thread Larry Wall
On Mon, Apr 24, 2006 at 06:58:04PM -0700, Jonathan Lang wrote: : How do you define new adverbs, and how does a subroutine go about : accessing them? Adverbs are just optional named parameters. Most of the magic is in the call syntax. Larry

Adverbs

2006-04-24 Thread Jonathan Lang
How do you define new adverbs, and how does a subroutine go about accessing them? -- Jonathan Lang

Re: Context of hash slices; quotation adverbs

2005-04-19 Thread Larry Wall
On Tue, Apr 19, 2005 at 02:14:04AM +0300, wolverian wrote: : On Mon, Apr 18, 2005 at 04:00:53PM -0700, Larry Wall wrote: : > %num_of_lines = [EMAIL PROTECTED]; : > : > : because the Perl 5 way would put a reference to @file in the hash. : > : Scalar context always makes references now, from wh

Re: Context of hash slices; quotation adverbs

2005-04-19 Thread wolverian
On Mon, Apr 18, 2005 at 04:00:53PM -0700, Larry Wall wrote: > %num_of_lines = [EMAIL PROTECTED]; > > : because the Perl 5 way would put a reference to @file in the hash. > : Scalar context always makes references now, from what I understand. > > Interestingly, a stored reference would track t

Re: Context of hash slices; quotation adverbs

2005-04-18 Thread Larry Wall
On Mon, Apr 18, 2005 at 06:44:55PM -0400, Kurt Hutchinson wrote: : On Mon, Apr 18, 2005 at 11:23:34PM +0300, Roie Marianer wrote: : > That makes sense, but that would make : > %num_of_lines = @file : > not DWIM... of course that would translate into : > %num_of_lines = scalar @file : > so maybe t

Re: Context of hash slices; quotation adverbs

2005-04-18 Thread Kurt Hutchinson
On Mon, Apr 18, 2005 at 11:23:34PM +0300, Roie Marianer wrote: > That makes sense, but that would make > %num_of_lines = @file > not DWIM... of course that would translate into > %num_of_lines = scalar @file > so maybe that's OK. In order to promote proper syntactical thinking, note that this is

Re: Context of hash slices; quotation adverbs

2005-04-18 Thread Larry Wall
On Mon, Apr 18, 2005 at 11:23:34PM +0300, Roie Marianer wrote: : > : But when you start interpolating, you get into a big mess: : > : h<\qq[$interpolated]> = want(); # ??? : > : h<<$foo>> = want(); # ??? : > : > I think that, as with functions called in unknown context, we should : > just force t

Re: Context of hash slices; quotation adverbs

2005-04-18 Thread Roie Marianer
> : But when you start interpolating, you get into a big mess: > : h<\qq[$interpolated]> = want(); # ??? > : h<<$foo>> = want(); # ??? > > I think that, as with functions called in unknown context, we should > just force the RHS here to list context, and rely on the RHS to add > extra context as

Re: Context of hash slices; quotation adverbs

2005-04-17 Thread Larry Wall
On Sun, Apr 17, 2005 at 08:00:00PM -0700, Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon wrote: : Larry Wall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: : > : First, context of hash slices: : > : Hash slices with {} notation are trivially either scalars or lists: : > : $h{'foo'} = want(); # Scalar : > : $h{'foo','bar'} = want(); # Lis

Re: Context of hash slices; quotation adverbs

2005-04-17 Thread Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon
Larry Wall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > : First, context of hash slices: > : Hash slices with {} notation are trivially either scalars or lists: > : $h{'foo'} = want(); # Scalar > : $h{'foo','bar'} = want(); # List > > Right. Tangentially, that makes me wonder: is there a difference between sca

Re: Context of hash slices; quotation adverbs

2005-04-17 Thread Larry Wall
); # ??? I think that, as with functions called in unknown context, we should just force the RHS here to list context, and rely on the RHS to add extra context as necessary if they really mean scalar. If something really is always producing a scalar value, it doesn't matter if it's c

Context of hash slices; quotation adverbs

2005-04-17 Thread Roie Marianer
appens: $h = want(); # Scalar $h = want(); # List But when you start interpolating, you get into a big mess: h<\qq[$interpolated]> = want(); # ??? h<<$foo>> = want(); # ??? Secondly, quotation adverbs (S02) that take arguments could theoretically be variables that only exist duri

Re: adverbs

2004-08-20 Thread Larry Wall
izer : at this level. :bar will get tokenized before : will, so that's how : it's interpreted. Or at least, the parser functions as a tokener at this level. : > : Larry also shows this example: : > : : > : > @a.sort:quick:{ +$_ } # both adverbs apply to .sort : > : : > : Would that work for

Re: adverbs

2004-08-20 Thread Luke Palmer
uld be confused with a longer term starting > with colon. And /^\:\w+/ is always a named pair of some sort. Otherwise > we couldn't string together :foo:bar:baz:utf($ate). This nice effect is a result of the fact that Perl will use a tokenizer at this level. :bar will get toke

Re: adverbs

2004-08-20 Thread Larry Wall
On Fri, Aug 20, 2004 at 04:18:55PM -0700, Larry Wall wrote: : Only a sig of () makes it *not* look for an argument as a list operator. That's overstated. Only a sig of () or ($x) or (?$x) suppresses list operator-ness on ordinary function names. Larry

Re: adverbs

2004-08-20 Thread Larry Wall
On Fri, Aug 20, 2004 at 04:15:43PM -0600, John Williams wrote: : Adverbs are confusing me mightily lately. : : It may be that Larry's A12 revision just needs a few examples : *with* parenthesis to straighten me out. : : Here are some semi-coherent attempts to sort it out : in my mind. P

adverbs

2004-08-20 Thread John Williams
Adverbs are confusing me mightily lately. It may be that Larry's A12 revision just needs a few examples *with* parenthesis to straighten me out. Here are some semi-coherent attempts to sort it out in my mind. Please correct me where I have made mistakes. What is the rule(s) for when :foo

Re: EX3: Adverbs and print()

2001-10-10 Thread John Siracusa
On 10/10/01 7:27 AM, Piers Cawley wrote: > Bart Lateur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> On Sat, 06 Oct 2001 22:20:49 -0400, John Siracusa wrote: >> >>> So, in the … operator, the filter is the adverb: >>> >>>$sum = … @costs : {$^_ < 1000}; >> >> WTF is that operator? All I see is a black bloc

Re: EX3: Adverbs and print()

2001-10-10 Thread Piers Cawley
Bart Lateur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sat, 06 Oct 2001 22:20:49 -0400, John Siracusa wrote: > > >So, in the … operator, the filter is the adverb: > > > >$sum = … @costs : {$^_ < 1000}; > > WTF is that operator? All I see is a black block. We're not in ASCII any > more, Toto... I'm g

Re: EX3: Adverbs and print()

2001-10-10 Thread Bart Lateur
On Sat, 06 Oct 2001 22:20:49 -0400, John Siracusa wrote: >So, in the … operator, the filter is the adverb: > >$sum = … @costs : {$^_ < 1000}; WTF is that operator? All I see is a black block. We're not in ASCII any more, Toto... -- Bart.

RE: EX3: Adverbs and print()

2001-10-07 Thread Damian Conway
> So, does that mean that, to keep C and > Cnew($baz, $frob)> doing the same thing, the object will always > come in before the colon? Yes. > Is unary . gonna refer to the "one and only" > argument before the colon? Yes. > Cool. Yes. ;-) Damian

Re: EX3: Adverbs and print()

2001-10-07 Thread John Siracusa
On 10/7/01 4:17 AM, Damian Conway wrote: >> Does that mean that in the built-in print, the file handle is the only >> "in-band" argument, and all the actual items to be printed are merely >> adverbs? > > Yep. Although the "in-band"/"out-of-band

RE: EX3: Adverbs and print()

2001-10-07 Thread Brent Dax
tems to be # printed are merely #> adverbs? # # Yep. Although the "in-band"/"out-of-band" distinction is only one of # convention. # # In reality, Perl 6 will merely distinguish between those # arguments that # come before a colon (and are bound to parameters before the # colon i

EX3: Adverbs and print()

2001-10-06 Thread John Siracusa
>From EX3: > A subroutine's adverbs are specified as part of its normal parameter list, but > separated from its regular parameters by a colon: > > my sub operator:… is prec(\&operator:+($)) ( *@list : $filter //= undef) > { ... > > This specifies that operator:

pragma adverbs/attributes

2001-07-21 Thread Me
> use strict 'recursive'; If this is not yet done and is deemed a good idea, I'd add that it seems to me to be equally applicable to perl 5. Further, considering the more general [pragma] 'recursive'; I can imagine pragma adverbs / attributes. I searched p