On Wed, 8 Dec 2004 16:07:43 -0700, Luke Palmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Ashley Winters writes:
In a one-liner, I'd rather just use:
$datetime ~~ /$year := (\d+) -? $month := (\d+) -? ./
I'm starting to think that this '$year := ' syntax is an obfuscator. We
couldn't refer to that capture wi
On Wed, 8 Dec 2004 16:07:43 -0700, Luke Palmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Ashley Winters writes:
> > For a grammar, that works perfectly!
>
> Yep.
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> > In a one-liner, I'd rather just use:
> >
> > $datetime ~~ /$year := (\d+) -? $month := (\d+) -? ./
>
> Then go ahead and use that. If yo
On Wed, Dec 08, 2004 at 11:09:30AM -0700, Patrick R. Michaud wrote:
: On Wed, Dec 08, 2004 at 08:19:17AM -0800, Larry Wall wrote:
: > And people would have to get used to seeing ? as non-capturing assertions:
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: > This has a rather Ruby-esque "I am a bool
On Wed, Dec 08, 2004 at 11:50:51AM -0700, Luke Palmer wrote:
: > Now suppose that we extend that "I am a boolean" feeling to
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: > which might take the place of the confusing <(...)>, and make consistent
: > the notion that we always use {...} to invoke "real" code.
:
: Hmm... I'
On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 12:32:50PM -0500, Abhijit Mahabal wrote:
: According to S12, it is possible to supply the object layout to bless(),
: like so:
:
: $object = $class.bless(:CREATE[:repr] :k1($v1) :k2($v2))
:
: But in the section "Introspection", "layout" is a class trait. Does this
: mean
Warning: excessive nitpicking ahead.
Ashley Winters skribis 2004-12-08 10:51 (-0800):
> rule year { \d<4> }
\d**{4}
Or, well, \d**{2,4}
> rule month { \d<2> }
\d**{2}
> rule date { -? -? }
rule week { \d**{2} }
rule yday { \d**{3} }
rule date {
Ashley Winters writes:
> I'm thinking capturing rules should be default in rules, where they're
> downright useful. Your hour/minute/second comment brings up parsing
> ISO time:
>
> grammar ISO8601::DateTime {
> rule year { \d<4> }
> rule month { \d<2> }
> rule day { \d<2> }
> rule
On Wed, 8 Dec 2004 08:19:17 -0800, Larry Wall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> / $ := [ () = (\N+) ]* /
You know, to be honest I don't know that I want rules in one-liners to
capture by default. I certainly want them to capture in rules, though.
> And people would have to get used to seeing ? as
Larry Wall writes:
> If we're going to stick with the notion that captures and
> something else doesn't, I'm beginning to think that the other thing
> isn't Âfoo for a couple of reasons.
I just sat down to say the exact same thing. I'm glad you beat me to
it.
> And people would have to get use
On Wed, Dec 08, 2004 at 08:19:17AM -0800, Larry Wall wrote:
> And people would have to get used to seeing ? as non-capturing assertions:
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> This has a rather Ruby-esque "I am a boolean" feeling to it. I think
> I like it. It's pretty easy to type, at least on my
Larry Wall wrote:
Another problem we've run into is naming if there are multiple assertions
of the same name. If the capture name is just the alpha part of the
assertion, then we could allow an optional number, and still recognize
it as a "ws":
Except I can well imagine people wanting number
On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 10:36:53PM -0800, Larry Wall wrote:
: But somehow I expect that when someone writes () they probably
: usually meant («foo»).
If we're going to stick with the notion that captures and something
else doesn't, I'm beginning to think that the other thing isn't «foo» for
a cou
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