On Sat, 8 Jan 2005 21:05:20 +0100, Stéphane Payrard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Anyway the particular length of variables names was not the subject of
> my mail, but a good syntax for aliasing name in signatures.
Hmm... how about abducting the -> operator and using default variable
initializatio
On Fri, Jan 07, 2005 at 09:55:39PM +0100, Juerd wrote:
> Stéphane Payrard skribis 2005-01-07 21:23 (+0100):
> > > my $s := $subjet;
> > > my $c := $complement;
> > That's what I wanted to avoid.
>
> Why? Do you expect to use lots of one letter aliases?
>
> I think it's one of the most e
I just re-read Synopsis 9, which covers PDL-related actions and array slicing,
and came to the conclusion that either (A) there's a hole in the syntax as it
is lain out, (B) I lack sufficient understanding of what has been thought
out so far, or (C) that part of the language definition isn't fi
Luke Palmer wrote:
[By the way, shouldn't this grammar be called "Perl" rather than
"Perl6::Grammar"?...
Grammars and classes share a namespace, so I think Perl::Grammar is
correct...
I got the name Perl for the grammar from S05, which also gives this example:
given $source_code {
Luke Blanshard writes:
> Luke Palmer wrote:
> >This list is for people interested in building the Perl 6 compiler. Now
> >you have your first real task!
> >
> >We have to make a formal grammar for Perl 6. Perl 6 is a huge language,
> >so the task seems better done incrementally by the community
Luke Blanshard wrote:
# Next comes any number of single characters or nested =begin/
# =end blocks -- but the smallest number that will match...
[ . | «pod_begin_end_block» ]*?
Actually I think that alternation needs to be in the other order,
doesn't it? (This is within rule pod_b
Luke Palmer wrote:
This list is for people interested in building the Perl 6 compiler. Now
you have your first real task!
We have to make a formal grammar for Perl 6. Perl 6 is a huge language,
so the task seems better done incrementally by the community...
Send patches to this list.
OK, I'll
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The following code segfaults when data.txt contains one line of text
with no newli
