Re: postfix and postcircumfix

2008-04-09 Thread TSa
HaloO, Larry Wall wrote: It's also possible I'm just nuts, and slice context should be a purely run-time activity. Reading your explanation of array slice context I missed an answer to the question how the shape of an array is split into the contexts of functions called inside .[]. I guess the

Re: postfix and postcircumfix

2008-04-06 Thread Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH
On Apr 6, 2008, at 12:07 , John M. Dlugosz wrote: Larry Wall larry-at-wall.org |Perl 6| wrote: and think you've gotten anywhere, since you'd then have to rewrite it again: $foo.postcircumfix:<( )>.postcircumfix:<( )>.($bar) $foo.postcircumfix:<( )>.postcircumfix:<( )>.postcircumfix:<(

Re: postfix and postcircumfix

2008-04-06 Thread John M. Dlugosz
Larry Wall larry-at-wall.org |Perl 6| wrote: I only mean that you can't simply rewrite $foo.($bar) as $foo.postcircumfix:<( )>.($bar) and think you've gotten anywhere, since you'd then have to rewrite it again: $foo.postcircumfix:<( )>.postcircumfix:<( )>.($bar) $foo.postcirc

Re: postfix and postcircumfix

2008-04-05 Thread Larry Wall
On Sat, Apr 05, 2008 at 01:41:02PM -0500, John M. Dlugosz wrote: > Larry Wall larry-at-wall.org |Perl 6| wrote: >> On Wed, Apr 02, 2008 at 06:08:55PM -0700, Jon Lang wrote: >> : In "Question on your last change to S02", Larry Wall wrote: >> : > (By the way, you'll note the utility of being able to

Re: postfix and postcircumfix

2008-04-05 Thread John M. Dlugosz
Larry Wall larry-at-wall.org |Perl 6| wrote: On Wed, Apr 02, 2008 at 06:08:55PM -0700, Jon Lang wrote: : In "Question on your last change to S02", Larry Wall wrote: : > (By the way, you'll note the utility of being able to talk about a : > postfix by saying .[], which is one of the reasons we a

Re: postfix and postcircumfix

2008-04-04 Thread Larry Wall
On Wed, Apr 02, 2008 at 06:08:55PM -0700, Jon Lang wrote: : In "Question on your last change to S02", Larry Wall wrote: : > (By the way, you'll note the utility of being able to talk about a : > postfix by saying .[], which is one of the reasons we allow the optional : > dot there. :) : : Can I

postfix and postcircumfix

2008-04-02 Thread Jon Lang
In "Question on your last change to S02", Larry Wall wrote: > (By the way, you'll note the utility of being able to talk about a > postfix by saying .[], which is one of the reasons we allow the optional > dot there. :) Can I take this as an indication that the rules for postcircumfix operators