Hello,
It seems that sprintf is will still be around in Perl 6 [1],
and that sprintf formats will be available using the .as() method.
While looking at some Python docs [2] I noticed two things that might
be worth stealing; a sprintf operator (%) and named parameters in
the format string:
a =
On Tue, Jul 04, 2006 at 05:06:54PM +1000, Brad Bowman wrote:
: Hello,
:
: It seems that sprintf is will still be around in Perl 6 [1],
: and that sprintf formats will be available using the .as() method.
: While looking at some Python docs [2] I noticed two things that might
: be worth stealing; a
On Tue, Jul 04, 2006 at 05:06:54PM +1000, Brad Bowman wrote:
> Hello,
>
> It seems that sprintf is will still be around in Perl 6 [1],
> and that sprintf formats will be available using the .as() method.
> While looking at some Python docs [2] I noticed two things that might
> be worth stealing; a
On Tue, Jul 04, 2006 at 05:27:33PM +0100, Nicholas Clark wrote:
: I'm not convinced that sprintf needs an operator. It's not commonly used in
: any code I've looked at, which to me suggests that it's not good huffman
: coding to use up a terse symbol for it, denying that symbol to something
: else.
Author: audreyt
Date: Tue Jul 4 15:37:53 2006
New Revision: 9812
Modified:
doc/trunk/design/syn/S11.pod
Log:
* S11: To maintain implementation neutrality,
the p6-in-p5 incantation is no longer:
use v6-pugs;
it's now:
use v6-**;
Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S11.pod
=
On Jul 05, 2006, at 01:25 , Larry Wall wrote:
What made me laugh is that Pugs knows the exact value of infinity:
pugs> my $a = {"$^lang has $^c.as('%03d') quote types."}(:c
(Inf),:lang)
"Perl has
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