--- Rod Adams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I was just relaying the observation that the P6RE was fairly close to
> being able to implement Logical Programming, which several people
> seem to be trying to get into Perl in some fashion or another.
When I get a chance to talk to someone about logic p
Larry Wall wrote:
I suspect it's another one of the many things we just try to
stay within hailing distance of without trying to solve for 6.0.0.
That's cool.
I was just relaying the observation that the P6RE was fairly close to
being able to implement Logical Programming, which several people
On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 08:56:22AM -0700, Luke Palmer wrote:
: I was decently insane last night. This generator stuff probably isn't
: going anywhere. It's too abstract, and not precise enough, to be a
: truly powerful part of the language.
I suspect it's another one of the many things we just t
Rod Adams writes:
> >
> >You could do all of this with a library of rules.
> >
> > / $:= )> /
> >
> >
> I don't think this does what I want. In this, &generate returns a rule
> or string of some kind, matches the string being tested, captures what
> matches, and then binds the capture to $.
Luke Palmer wrote:
Rod Adams writes:
Or you could avoid the global modifier and write your tests in <( )>
blocks instead... after all, that's what it's there for.
I *knew* I had seen a syntax for that before... I just didn't see it
when I scanned S05 for it.
I still want the :z modifier for
Rod Adams writes:
> Indeed, a great deal of logical testing can be performed with the
> current P6RE definition.
>
> For instance:
>
>rule Equal ($x, $y) {{ $x ~~ $y or fail }};
>rule Substr (Str $str, Str $in) {{ $in ~~ /<$str>/ or fail }};
>rule IsAbsValue (Num $x, Num $y) {
>
