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> Anyways, here's a first draft of the string documentation ...
I didn't se
On Sat, Nov 30, 2002 at 12:40:28AM +, Joseph Ryan wrote:
> Anyways, here's a first draft of the string documentation ...
I didn't see any mention of vstrings (e.g. tokens of the form
v5.8.0. I also got the impression from a response Larry made to one
of the emails in the thread on numbers th
On Sat, 2002-11-30 at 21:51, Michael Lazzaro wrote:
> Joseph Ryan wrote:
> > >That's the question of whether stringification will strictly be
> > >serializing, or whether that will be a method call and stringification
> > >should "look pretty" or "be useful". I prefer the latter.
> >
> > Same.
>
> Date: Sat, 30 Nov 2002 18:51:02 -0800
> From: Michael Lazzaro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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> Alternatively, there could perhaps be a marker such that prettyified is
> the default, but you can still get 'internal' stringification:
>
> print "Hello, $personObj"; # normal stringification
> pr
On Sat, Nov 30, 2002 at 06:51:02PM -0800, Michael Lazzaro wrote:
> But the two uses are incompatible: by supporting one goal, we pretty
> much trash the other. By supporting the "useful internal" stuff, we are
> making it more difficult to use stringification for simple, common text
> I/O purposes
Joseph Ryan wrote:
> >That's the question of whether stringification will strictly be
> >serializing, or whether that will be a method call and stringification
> >should "look pretty" or "be useful". I prefer the latter.
>
> Same.
Can you define a good preferred "useful"? I find the current beh
: Luke Palmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
: Joseph F. Ryan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Perhaps only first level references should stringify nicely, and inner
> references stringify perl5 style. I think that if Data::Dumper style
> stringification is wanted, then a C<< use Data::Dumper; >> shouldn't
> anger
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: "Joseph Ryan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
issue :
* space is allowed (OR NOT ???)
between qq ( and friends ) and following delimiter
qq ( ... ) ;
qq ) ... ( ;
qq ' ... ' ; ???
qq | ... | ;
T
James Mastros wrote:
> > A set of braces is a special op that evaluates into the list of words
> > contained, using whitespace as the delimeter. It is similar to qw()
> > from perl5, and can be thought of as roughly equivalent to:
> > C<< "STRING".split(' ') >>
> I thought it was named <> or «foo
issue :
* space is allowed (OR NOT ???)
between qq ( and friends ) and following delimiter
qq ( ... ) ;
qq ) ... ( ;
qq ' ... ' ; ???
qq | ... | ;
qq # ... # ; ???
qq : ... : ; ???
( to distinguish from usual subs , where this should be
subqq
On 11/29/2002 7:40 PM, Joseph Ryan wrote:
- References and Object stringification hasn't been defined.
I belive it goes somthing like this:
All objects define a .AS_STRING method. This method is called to
stringify the object. The builtin types have builtin .AS_STRINGs, the
primitive types au
> From: "Joseph Ryan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Sat, 30 Nov 2002 08:08:10 +
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> >The default .AS_STRING for Strings is obvious. Int and Num stringify to a
> >decimal number (using the e exponential form if it is shorter?).
>
> I hope not; if someone wants a number in e form, they should sp
From: James Mastros <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
On 11/29/2002 7:40 PM, Joseph Ryan wrote:
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- References and Object stringification hasn't been defined.
I belive it goes somthing like this:
All objects define a .AS_ST
First, apologies for the typos; fixed.
Do you mean \Q or \Q{}, or both ?
\Q{}; \Q{} is different than \Q, at least according to the Apocalypse.
\Q{}Escape all characters that need escaping
from this point on in the current string (except "}")
Yeah.
Then
print "@
$string = 'one \qq{$var} two'# $string = 'one two three'
$string = 'one\qq{ {$var\} }two' # $string = 'one {two} three'
I think you mean s/two/three/ :
$string = 'one \qq{$var} three'# $string = 'one two three'
$string = 'one\qq{ {$var\} }three' # $string = 'one {two} thr
First of all, apologies for sending through Hotmail; I'm home for the
weekend, and have no access to email. However, I figured I should
send this out as soon as I finished so that people have something to
think about besides numbers :)
Anyways, here's a first draft of the string documentation, I'
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