On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 03:37:57AM -0800, Ovid wrote: > ----- Original Message ---- > > From: Patrick R. Michaud <pmich...@pobox.com> > > > > Oops -- I over-referenced here. The corrected form: > > > > For C< @array».=trim >, each element of @array would be replaced > > with its trimmed string representation. If @array starts out > > as an array of hashes, then @array».=trim would leave @array > > with the trimmed stringification of each hash element. > > I don't get this. If I can't call @array.trim, I certainly can't call > %hash.trim. If you mean stringify the hash and then trim *that*, > what does that mean?
You _can_ call @array.trim -- it returns the trimmed value of the stringified value of the array. Arrays stringify to all of their elements separated by a space (if the element doesn't already end with some kind of space, although Rakudo doesn't implement that part yet). Stringifying a hash in Perl 6 produces a string with keys and values separated by tab characters, and each pair terminated by a newline. See Synopsis 2, beginning with "In order to interpolate an entire hash"... Pm
