Re: strings: sequence-of-integer ... list of chunks

2002-02-02 Thread Dave Storrs
On Thu, 31 Jan 2002, Bryan C. Warnock wrote: print There's a letter in here!\n if (substr($pi, 0, 200) =~ /[a-z]/); *shrug* I actually did think of that when I first proposed this; doesn't substr make a fresh copy of the string? (I honestly don't know.) What happens if you take a

strings: sequence-of-integer ... list of chunks

2002-01-31 Thread Tim Bunce
On Wed, Jan 30, 2002 at 10:47:36AM -0800, Larry Wall wrote: For various reasons, some of which relate to the sequence-of-integer abstraction, and some of which relate to infinite strings and arrays, I think Perl 6 strings are likely to be represented by a list of chunks, where each chunk is

Re: strings: sequence-of-integer ... list of chunks

2002-01-31 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 2:49 PM + 1/31/02, Tim Bunce wrote: On Wed, Jan 30, 2002 at 10:47:36AM -0800, Larry Wall wrote: For various reasons, some of which relate to the sequence-of-integer abstraction, and some of which relate to infinite strings and arrays, I think Perl 6 strings are likely to be

Re: strings: sequence-of-integer ... list of chunks

2002-01-31 Thread Tim Bunce
On Thu, Jan 31, 2002 at 12:18:28PM -0500, Dan Sugalski wrote: At 2:49 PM + 1/31/02, Tim Bunce wrote: On Wed, Jan 30, 2002 at 10:47:36AM -0800, Larry Wall wrote: For various reasons, some of which relate to the sequence-of-integer abstraction, and some of which relate to infinite

Re: strings: sequence-of-integer ... list of chunks

2002-01-31 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 5:34 PM + 1/31/02, Tim Bunce wrote: On Thu, Jan 31, 2002 at 12:18:28PM -0500, Dan Sugalski wrote: At 2:49 PM + 1/31/02, Tim Bunce wrote: On Wed, Jan 30, 2002 at 10:47:36AM -0800, Larry Wall wrote: For various reasons, some of which relate to the sequence-of-integer

Re: strings: sequence-of-integer ... list of chunks

2002-01-31 Thread Alex Gough
On Thu, 31 Jan 2002, Dan Sugalski wrote: At 2:49 PM + 1/31/02, Tim Bunce wrote: On Wed, Jan 30, 2002 at 10:47:36AM -0800, Larry Wall wrote: For various reasons, some of which relate to the sequence-of-integer abstraction, and some of which relate to infinite strings and arrays, I