Re: [svn:perl6-synopsis] r14485 - doc/trunk/design/syn

2008-01-17 Thread Moritz Lenz
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > The C<:ii> variant may be used on a substitution to change the > substituted string to the same case pattern as the matched string. > -Case info is carried across on a character by character basis. If > -the right string is longer than the left one, the case of the fi

Re: [svn:perl6-synopsis] r14485 - doc/trunk/design/syn

2008-01-17 Thread Ryan Richter
On Thu, Jan 17, 2008 at 10:57:11AM +0100, Moritz Lenz wrote: > what happens if some of the characters aren't cased at all, like white > spaces? > > my $str = "AB DE"; > $str ~~ s:ii/.*/abcde/; > > is the result ABcDE ? or is the space ignored and the substition is > performed as if $str was "ABDE

[svn:perl6-synopsis] r14490 - doc/trunk/design/syn

2008-01-17 Thread larry
Author: larry Date: Thu Jan 17 10:22:06 2008 New Revision: 14490 Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S05.pod Log: Clarifications suggested by moritz++ and rhr++ Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S05.pod == --- doc/trunk/desi

[svn:perl6-synopsis] r14491 - doc/trunk/design/syn

2008-01-17 Thread larry
Author: larry Date: Thu Jan 17 13:18:31 2008 New Revision: 14491 Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S02.pod Log: Define truthiness of standard types. Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S02.pod == --- doc/trunk/design/syn/S02

Perl6::Doc - the next step

2008-01-17 Thread herbert breunung
hello dear list attendees after taken step 1 (reactivate p6doc and update to current state) and step 2 (perl.com articles)[thanks to all authors] , which is nearly finished (just fix some UTF problems) i have next plans. there are some interesting docs in the parrot svn regarding perl6 that a

Re: [svn:perl6-synopsis] r14491 - doc/trunk/design/syn

2008-01-17 Thread Patrick R. Michaud
On Thu, Jan 17, 2008 at 01:18:32PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > +=item * > + > +The definition of C<.true> for the most ancestral type (that is, the > +C type) is equivalent to C<.defined>. Would we normally consider prefix: to be defined in terms of C<.true>, or vice versa? Is there a pre