Re: Hyperoperators and dimensional extension

2002-09-18 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 12:04 AM -0700 9/18/02, Brent Dax wrote: The Apocalypse on operators says that if one of the operands of a hyperoperator is a scalar, then that scalar is (nominally) treated as an array of copies of that scalar. In other words: my $foo=1; my @bar=(2, 3, 4); my @baz=$foo

Re: hotplug regexes, other misc regex questions

2002-09-18 Thread Damian Conway
Steve Fink wrote: What should this do: my $x = the letter x; print yes if $x =~ /the { $x .= ! } .* !/; Does this print yes? If it's allowed at all, I think the match should succeed. print yes if helo =~ /hel { .pos-- } lo/; This definitely has to work. But remember the call

Re: hotplug regexes, other misc regex questions

2002-09-18 Thread Josh Jore
On Wed, 18 Sep 2002, Damian Conway wrote: Would it be correct for this to print 0? Would it be correct for this to print 2? my $n = 0; aargh =~ /a* { $n++ } aargh/; print $n; Yes. ;-) Wouldn't that print 2 if $n is lexical and 0 if it's localized? Or are lexicals localized

Re: Perl 6 Summary for week ending 2002-09-15

2002-09-18 Thread Aaron Sherman
On Wed, 2002-09-18 at 11:42, Piers Cawley wrote: The Perl 6 Summary for the Week Ending 20020915 Happy birthday to me! Indeed! And thank you so much for this. You have a way of taking a tangled mess of discussion that's even confusing the participants and making it easy to digest (no pun

Perl 6 Summary for week ending 2002-09-15

2002-09-18 Thread Piers Cawley
The Perl 6 Summary for the Week Ending 20020915 Happy birthday to me! Happy birthday to me! Happy birthday dear me! Happy birthday to me! And, with a single breech of copyright, Piers was free. The production of this summary was delayed by my turning 35 on the 15th

Re: hotplug regexes, other misc regex questions

2002-09-18 Thread Luke Palmer
On Wed, 18 Sep 2002, Josh Jore wrote: On Wed, 18 Sep 2002, Damian Conway wrote: Would it be correct for this to print 0? Would it be correct for this to print 2? my $n = 0; aargh =~ /a* { $n++ } aargh/; print $n; Yes. ;-) Wouldn't that print 2 if $n is lexical

Re: Perl 6 Summary for week ending 2002-09-15

2002-09-18 Thread Piers Cawley
Aaron Sherman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wed, 2002-09-18 at 11:42, Piers Cawley wrote: The Perl 6 Summary for the Week Ending 20020915 Happy birthday to me! Indeed! And thank you so much for this. You have a way of taking a tangled mess of discussion that's even confusing the