On Fri, Apr 21, 2006 at 03:15:12PM -0400, Uri Guttman wrote:
: oy! the habits to be broken and relearned!
Habits are no fun unless they're either good or bad.
Larry
> "JSD" == Jonathan Scott Duff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
JSD> On Fri, Apr 21, 2006 at 11:06:20AM -0700, Larry Wall wrote:
>> On Fri, Apr 21, 2006 at 12:45:13PM -0500, Jonathan Scott Duff wrote:
>> : According to S05, "a /.../ matches immediately in a value context
>> : (void, Boolea
On Fri, Apr 21, 2006 at 11:06:20AM -0700, Larry Wall wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 21, 2006 at 12:45:13PM -0500, Jonathan Scott Duff wrote:
> : According to S05, "a /.../ matches immediately in a value context
> : (void, Boolean, string, or numeric)" and since
> :
> : (state $x) ||= / pattern /;
> :
On Fri, Apr 21, 2006 at 12:45:13PM -0500, Jonathan Scott Duff wrote:
: According to S05, "a /.../ matches immediately in a value context
: (void, Boolean, string, or numeric)" and since
:
: (state $x) ||= / pattern /;
:
: is very much the same as
:
: state $x; $x = $x || /pattern/;
:
On Fri, Apr 21, 2006 at 01:12:35PM -0400, Uri Guttman wrote:
> > "a" == autrijus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> a> * S05: Oops, turns out I entirely read perlop.pod incorrectly;
> a> "it matches once only" means "it matches successfully once only",
> a> not "it performs the match o
> "a" == autrijus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
a> * S05: Oops, turns out I entirely read perlop.pod incorrectly;
a> "it matches once only" means "it matches successfully once only",
a> not "it performs the match once only". Sorry, TimToady++'s
a> original example of:
a> (
Author: autrijus
Date: Fri Apr 21 08:56:22 2006
New Revision: 8899
Modified:
doc/trunk/design/syn/S05.pod
Log:
* S05: Oops, turns out I entirely read perlop.pod incorrectly;
"it matches once only" means "it matches successfully once only",
not "it performs the match once only". Sorry, Tim