What should index(Hello, , 999) return in perl6?
In perl5 that returns 5, but IMHO -1 would be right result.
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Markus Laire
Jam. 1:5-6
On Wed, 2005-03-16 at 10:31, Markus Laire wrote:
What should index(Hello, , 999) return in perl6?
In perl5 that returns 5, but IMHO -1 would be right result.
Urk... exception?
Seriously, if you give index a position that is off the end of the
string, your options should be:
a. Extend the
On Wed, Mar 16, 2005 at 05:31:17PM +0200, Markus Laire wrote:
: What should index(Hello, , 999) return in perl6?
:
: In perl5 that returns 5, but IMHO -1 would be right result.
Well, neither of those is the right result, since index is probably
not going to be returning integers in Perl 6, but
Markus Laire wrote:
What should index(Hello, , 999) return in perl6?
Since the first thing that needs definition is how does
the empty string match, it could be e.g. any(0..Hello.elems).
As described in A12 string positions are much more these days
than simple ints. There is a class StrPosition or
On Wed, Mar 16, 2005 at 06:44:47PM +0100, Thomas Sandlaß wrote:
: Markus Laire wrote:
: What should index(Hello, , 999) return in perl6?
:
: Since the first thing that needs definition is how does
: the empty string match, it could be e.g. any(0..Hello.elems).
If the position of the first
