Semantically, is a Regex can be "contained" by a String? As Liz wrote, a
regex is "matched" against a String.
Besides that, I'm wondering if the smart match operator ~~ can be used as a
method call?
"foobar".smart-match( /'foo'/ ).say
in place of
( "foobar" ~~ /'foo'/ ).say
AFAIK, it exists the ACCEPTS method, but it have to be called on the right
operand :
/'foo'/.ACCEPTS( 'foobar' );
2017-06-12 22:14 GMT+02:00 Will Coleda <w...@coleda.com>:
> On Mon, Jun 12, 2017 at 4:07 PM, Elizabeth Mattijsen <l...@dijkmat.nl>
> wrote:
> >> On 12 Jun 2017, at 22:04, Will Coleda <w...@coleda.com> wrote:
> >> On Mon, Jun 12, 2017 at 5:17 AM, Francesco Rivetti <o...@oha.it> wrote:
> >>> if you can:
> >>>
> >>> $s ~~ "foo"
> >>> $s ~~ /foo/
> >>>
> >>> then wouldn't be good to have also:
> >>>
> >>> $s.contains("foo");
> >>> $s.contains(/foo/);
> >>
> >> The latter is currently available as:
> >>
> >>> "foobar".match(/'foo'/);
> >> ｢foo｣
> >
> > That’s not entirely true, as .contains returns a Bool:D, not a Match
> object. It *could* be interesting to not have to build the entire Match
> object somehow and just return a Bool:D in case of contains.
> >
> >
> > Liz
>
> Sorry, you're right, it's:
>
> ?"foobar".match(/'foo'/);
>
>
> --
> Will "Coke" Coleda
>
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