Re: Suggested magic for a .. b
On Jul 28, 2010, at 1:37 PM, Mark J. Reed wrote: On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 2:30 PM, Chris Fields cjfie...@illinois.edu wrote: On Jul 28, 2010, at 1:27 PM, Mark J. Reed wrote: Can I get an Amen? Amen! -- Mark J. Reed markjr...@gmail.com +1. I'm agnostic ; Militant? :) ( http://tinyurl.com/3xjgxnl ) Nothing inherently religious about amen (or me), but I'll accept +1 as synonymous. :) -- Mark J. Reed markjr...@gmail.com Not militant, just trying to inject a bit of humor into the zombie thread that won't die. chris
Re: Suggested magic for a .. b
On Jul 28, 2010, at 1:27 PM, Mark J. Reed wrote: On Wednesday, July 28, 2010, Jon Lang datawea...@gmail.com wrote: Keep it simple, folks! There are enough corner cases in Perl 6 as things stand; we don't need to be introducing more of them if we can help it. Can I get an Amen? Amen! -- Mark J. Reed markjr...@gmail.com +1. I'm agnostic ; chris
Re: Counting characters
Would you want to use something else for that, maybe .comb? From the spec: 'The comb function looks through a string for the interesting bits, ignoring the parts that don't match. In other words, it's a version of split where you specify what you want, not what you don't want.' chris On Jan 27, 2010, at 7:08 AM, Mark J. Reed wrote: What does trans return in numeric (+) context? On Wednesday, January 27, 2010, Carl Mäsak cma...@gmail.com wrote: How is character counting done in Perl 6? In Perl 5, it is `scalar tr/CG//` if I want to count the number of Cs plus the number of Gs in a string. S05 describes tr/// in terms of the .trans function, a handsome but very different beast. Specifically, it doesn't seem to have a scalar context, with which one could count things. -- Mark J. Reed markjr...@gmail.com
Re: Module naming conventions
On Jun 2, 2009, at 5:11 PM, Daniel Carrera wrote: John M. Dlugosz wrote: So CPAN6 is basically only going to be for Parrot? What are you talking about? Did you even read my email? I said that a module might be implemented in multiple languages (see Digest::SHA VS Digest::SHA::PurePerl) and someone might have both versions installed. Daniel. Speaking as an almost complete outsider (I'm a bioperl core dev writing up a perl6 port), I find the tone of several of these more recent posts (re: CPAN6 and module conventions) counterproductive. TimToady recently posted about snippiness and 'tensegrity', so I'm not the only one sensing it. chris
Re: References to parts of declared packages
On Feb 11, 2009, at 2:46 PM, Carl Mäsak wrote:
Jon (), Jonasthan ():
If we declared, for example:
role A::B {};
Then what should a reference to A be here? At the moment, Rakudo
treats it
as a post-declared listop, however I suspect we should be doing
something a
bit smarter? If so, what should the answer to ~A.WHAT be?
I'd go with one of two possibilities:
* Don't allow the declaration of A::B unless A has already been
declared.
[...]
Please don't go with this former alternative. In a project even of
moderate size like Druid, many packages of type A::B are declared
before the corresponding A package is, for perfectly legitimate
reasons.
Agree completely. Bio::* currently has the same issue.
* A should be treated as a post-declared package.
Whatever this means, it sounds preferable. :)
// Carl
Agree again. The latter is definitely preferred.
chris
spaces and transliteration
I am working on the transliteration method operator (trans()) for
Rakudo and wanted to get some input on how character ranges are to be
used.
Should spaces be ignored in ranges like 'A .. Z'? Currently the
implementation I have ignores those spaces but counts any other spaces
as important, so (using parrot perl6.pbc with my patch):
say Whfg nabgure Crey unpxre.trans(' a .. z' = '_n .. za .. m',
'A .. Z' = 'N .. ZA .. M')
Just_another_Perl_hacker
chris
spaces and transliteration
I am working on the transliteration method operator (trans()) for
Rakudo and wanted to get some input on how character ranges are to be
used.
Should spaces be ignored in ranges like 'A .. Z'? Currently the
implementation I have ignores those spaces but counts any other spaces
as important, so (using parrot perl6.pbc with my patch):
say Whfg nabgure Crey unpxre.trans(' a .. z' = '_n .. za .. m',
'A .. Z' = 'N .. ZA .. M')
Just_another_Perl_hacker
chris
