Re: Apoc2 - concerns

[Dave Storrs]

On Fri, 11 May 2001, Larry Wall wrote:

> Dave Storrs writes:
> : calling the function that produced the string, or whatever.  I just think
> : that we could extend 'x' to have a general repetition meaning.
> 
> I think just patching one operator from verbal status to adverbial
> status is not sufficiently general.  [...]
>     <$STDIN> MUMBLE 2                 # read twice
>     1 .. 100 MUMBLE 3                 # count by threes
>     `glob $x` MUMBLE "/bin/csh"               # modify pseudoquote
> 
> It has not yet been decided what form these MUMBLEs will take, 
> [...but maybe the default]
> adverbial MUMBLE is simply ":".  Which might cause the above to reduce
> to:
> 
>     <$STDIN> : 2                      # read twice
>     1 .. 100 : 3                      # count by threes
>     `glob $x` : "/bin/csh"            # modify pseudoquote


        Wow.  This is great; very powerful and very elegant...how
Perlish.  

        $verb = "I " cc 'tow'x2  cc ' admiringly';
        $verb =~ s/t/k/;   

        # ;>

Dave