At 5:34 PM +0000 1/31/02, Tim Bunce wrote:
>On Thu, Jan 31, 2002 at 12:18:28PM -0500, Dan Sugalski wrote:
>> At 2:49 PM +0000 1/31/02, Tim Bunce wrote:
>> >On Wed, Jan 30, 2002 at 10:47:36AM -0800, Larry Wall wrote:
>> >>
>> >> For various reasons, some of which relate to the sequence-of-integer
>> >> abstraction, and some of which relate to "infinite" strings and arrays,
>> >> I think Perl 6 strings are likely to be represented by a list of
>> >> chunks, where each chunk is a sequence of integers of the same size or
>> >> representation, but different chunks can have different integer sizes
>> >> or representations. The abstract string interface must hide this from
>> >> any module that wishes to work at the abstract string level. In
>> >> particular, it must hide this from the regex engine, which works on
>> >> pure sequences in the abstract.
>> >
>> >I hope someone volunteers to start looking into implementing that soon
>> >(if no one has already).
>>
>> Yup, in progress.
>>
>> There is an issue of time--what do we do, for example, in the case:
>>
>> my $pi = Pi::Generate;
>> if ($pi =~ /[a-z]) {
>> print "There's a letter in here!\n";
>> }
>>
>> if Pi::Generate returns a generator object that will calculate pi for
>> you to however far you want, that regex will run forever or until it
>> runs out of memory, whichever comes first.
>
>Right. So don't do that.
>
>:-)
Oh, sure, *be* sensible. Sheesh, some people... :)
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