This is an interesting tidbit from a longer posting by Oren Ben-Kiki, the
YAML specification author. Thought I'd pass it on.
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From: Oren Ben-Kiki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Thu, 5 Sep 2002 11:28:12 +0300
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On Wed, Sep 04, 2002 at 10:46:24PM -0400, Ken Fox wrote:
> What is really needed is something that converts the date syntax
> to normal Perl code:
>
>rule iso_date { () -
>() -
>()
>{ use grammar Perl::AbstractSyntax;
>
Nicholas Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Wed, Sep 04, 2002 at 10:46:24PM -0400, Ken Fox wrote:
>> What is really needed is something that converts the date syntax
>> to normal Perl code:
>>
>>rule iso_date { () -
>>() -
>>()
>>
On Fri, Sep 06, 2002 at 01:34:56AM -0400, Aaron Sherman wrote:
> # INTERNAL q, qq, qw
> # XXX - how do I do quote-like operators? I know I saw someone say...
> # Need to do: qr (NEVER("qr")) and qx
presumably the way the perl5 tokeniser does them - by parsing the string
into a series of concaten
On Fri, Sep 06, 2002 at 02:20:10PM +0100, Piers Cawley wrote:
> Nicholas Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > On Wed, Sep 04, 2002 at 10:46:24PM -0400, Ken Fox wrote:
> >> What is really needed is something that converts the date syntax
> >> to normal Perl code:
> >>
> >>rule iso_date { (
Nicholas Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Fri, Sep 06, 2002 at 02:20:10PM +0100, Piers Cawley wrote:
>> Nicholas Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>
>> > On Wed, Sep 04, 2002 at 10:46:24PM -0400, Ken Fox wrote:
>> >> What is really needed is something that converts the date syntax
>> >> t
On Fri, Sep 06, 2002 at 02:34:52PM +0100, Nicholas Clark wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 04, 2002 at 10:46:24PM -0400, Ken Fox wrote:
> > What is really needed is something that converts the date syntax
> > to normal Perl code:
> >
> >rule iso_date { () -
> >() -
> >
On Fri, 2002-09-06 at 09:29, Nicholas Clark wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 06, 2002 at 01:34:56AM -0400, Aaron Sherman wrote:
>
> > # INTERNAL q, qq, qw
> > # XXX - how do I do quote-like operators? I know I saw someone say...
> > # Need to do: qr (NEVER("qr")) and qx
>
> presumably the way the perl5 toke
On Fri, Sep 06, 2002 at 02:49:13PM +0100, Piers Cawley wrote:
> Nicholas Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > This idea of just switching language syntax in a context-sensitive way is
> > trying to make my head explode.
>
> But you mean that in a good way right? Anyway, he did introduce the
Ye
Ken Fox wrote:
> Excellent. Will there be an abstract syntax for tree
> rewriting or is it Perl 6 all the way down?
I'd expect it to be Perl all the way down. Though a
tree rewriting module might make it seem abstract. ;-)
> This is really amazing stuff. I was expecting some
> support for
Question #1:
If \n matches any one of the platform-specific newline character
sequences, does that mean that if I have a string like this[*]:
"foo bar baz\rfoo bar baz\nfoo bar bar\r\n"
that \n will match in 3 places? How do you tell perl that you only
want \n to match a specific newl
Answering to the best of my knowledge.
On Sat, 7 Sep 2002, Jonathan Scott Duff wrote:
> Question #2:
>
> Why are we storing the hypothetical's sigil in the match object?
I think it's to differentiate the different namespaces (scalar, array,
hash) within the match object's hash. Personally,
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