On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 06:51:43PM +0100, Thomas Sandlaß wrote:
: Larry Wall wrote:
: >and it seems to me that you could simplify all that to just
: >
: > subtype KeyName of Str where { m/^\w+$/ }
: >
: >If that succeeds, you know it's defined and non-null.
:
: My view is that typing strings by means of patterns should always
: exhaust the string as the above pattern does. I can imagine some
: magic that lets
:
: my KeyName @a = "First Second";
:
: allow to actually have two entries @a[0] eq "First"
: and @a[1] eq "Second" by somehow morphing the pattern into
: continued matching mode where the next index continues where
: the previous left off---and skipping whitespace.
That's...sick... I love it. *Please* don't tell Damian.
Larry
