On Wed, Jul 21, 2004 at 07:35:08PM +0200, Aldo Calpini wrote:
: Larry Wall wrote:
:
: >Hmm. That makes me wonder what the slice notation for "everything" is.
: >
: >
: maybe @foo[..] (a short form for @foo[0..Inf]) ? %foo{..} should also be
: allowed, of course (which
: unfortunately is not a short form for 0..Inf). or perhaps, with a slight
: analogy with filesystems, @foo[*]
: and %foo{*}. I was tempted to suggest yada-yada-yada (eg. @foo[...]),
: but this should mean "a slice
: not (yet) determined", right?
That's correct.
I suspect the star is likely for "everything", since whatever we choose
has to work not just as @foo[*] but also in individual dimensions:
@foo[1;*;0].
We do have to figure out whether C<*> as a term is too ambiguous with
C<*> as a unary splat. On the plus side, "everything" is a rather
splatty concept already. And it reads a lot better that C<..> does.
Larry
