explicit laws about whitespace in rules

2005-05-23 Thread Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan
I'd like to know where EXACTLY whitespace is permitted in rules. Is it legal to write \c [CHARACTER NAME] or must I write \c[CHARACTER NAME] -- Jeff "japhy" Pinyan % How can we ever be the sold short or RPI Acacia Brother #734 % the cheated, we who for eve

comprehensive list of perl6 rule tokens

2005-05-24 Thread Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan
I want to be sure. I'm also curious about whitespace. Is "<[" one token, or can I write "< [a-z] >" and have it be a character class? Thanks for your help. Unless you're difficult. -- Jeff "japhy" Pinyan % How can we ever be the sold sh

Re: comprehensive list of perl6 rule tokens

2005-05-24 Thread Jeff &#x27;japhy&#x27; Pinyan
On May 24, Jonathan Scott Duff said: On Tue, May 24, 2005 at 08:25:03PM -0400, Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan wrote: http://japhy.perlmonk.org/perl6/rules.txt That looks completish to me. (At least I didn't think, "hey! where's such and such?") Oh, frabjous day! On

Re: comprehensive list of perl6 rule tokens

2005-05-25 Thread Jeff &#x27;japhy&#x27; Pinyan
On May 25, Jonathan Scott Duff said: On Tue, May 24, 2005 at 11:24:50PM -0400, Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan wrote: I wish was allowed. I don't see why has to be confined to zero-width assertions. I don't either actually. One thing that occurred to me while responding to you

Re: comprehensive list of perl6 rule tokens

2005-05-25 Thread Jeff &#x27;japhy&#x27; Pinyan
On May 25, Mark A. Biggar said: Jonathan Scott Duff wrote: On Tue, May 24, 2005 at 11:24:50PM -0400, Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan wrote: I wish was allowed. I don't see why has to be confined to zero-width assertions. I don't either actually. One thing that occurred to me

Re: comprehensive list of perl6 rule tokens

2005-05-26 Thread Jeff &#x27;japhy&#x27; Pinyan
On May 26, Patrick R. Michaud said: On Tue, May 24, 2005 at 08:25:03PM -0400, Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan wrote: I have looked through the latest revisions of Apo05 and Syn05 (from Dec 2004) and come up with the following list: http://japhy.perlmonk.org/perl6/rules.txt I'll review

Re: comprehensive list of perl6 rule tokens

2005-05-27 Thread Jeff &#x27;japhy&#x27; Pinyan
ple who are really going to use it, the notation won't be foreign. And I'd expect most people who'd use it would actually abstract a good portion of it away into their own property definitions, so that <~(X & Y) | Z> would actually just be <+My_XYZ_Property> w

Re: comprehensive list of perl6 rule tokens

2005-05-29 Thread Jeff &#x27;japhy&#x27; Pinyan
ith and . It should be assumed that doesn't capture because it can only capture if P matches, in which case fails. So, what's the deal? -- Jeff "japhy" Pinyan % How can we ever be the sold short or RPI Acacia Brother #734 % the cheated, we who

Re: comprehensive list of perl6 rule tokens

2005-06-01 Thread Jeff &#x27;japhy&#x27; Pinyan
and 'after' rules, but how do they access that argument? How do I write a rule that takes an argument? -- Jeff "japhy" Pinyan % How can we ever be the sold short or RPI Acacia Brother #734 % the cheated, we who for every service http://japhy.perlmonk.org/ % have long ago been overpaid? http://www.perlmonks.org/ %-- Meister Eckhart