Larry Wall [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Dan Sugalski writes:
: Have you considered allowing Unicode characters as alternatives to some of
: the less pleasant looking bits? $foo1 (where and are the double
: angle characters) as an alternative to $foo\Q[1] if the user's got the
: characters
Johan Vromans wrote:
[Quoting Michael G Schwern, on May 6 2001, 22:58, in Re: Apo2: \Q ambigui]
Hmmm, maybe you can point out the compose key on my keyboard, I
can't find it. ;)
Pick whatever you find convenient. I use the right control key.
From my .Xmodmap:
! Compose key
Larry Wall wrote:
The ~~ is a cute hack though.
Credit is due to Steve Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED] who posted it to funwithperl.
...
I'm sorry, my eyes go crossed when I look at that, and the two \Q's
merge into one, which confuses me, in a stereoscopic sort of way.
I was wrong about \Q\E
[Quoting Michael G Schwern, on May 6 2001, 22:58, in Re: Apo2: \Q ambigui]
Hmmm, maybe you can point out the compose key on my keyboard, I
can't find it. ;)
Pick whatever you find convenient. I use the right control key.
From my .Xmodmap:
! Compose key
keycode 109 = Multi_key
I know
On Sun, May 06, 2001 at 10:23:18PM +0200, Johan Vromans wrote:
Larry Wall [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I won't tell you what I had to go through just to get those two
characters into this message, and they're still only in Latin-1.
Compose and an average version of X.
Hmmm, maybe you can
Richard Proctor writes:
: In Apocalypse 2, \Q is being used for two things, and I believe this may be
: ambiguious.
:
: It has the current \Quote meaning admitibly \Q{oute} it is also being
: proposed for a null token disambiguate context. As in $foo\Q[bar].
Hmm, yes, that's a problem. I'd
Larry Wall writes:
: Richard Proctor writes:
: : In Apocalypse 2, \Q is being used for two things, and I believe this may be
: : ambiguious.
: :
: : It has the current \Quote meaning admitibly \Q{oute} it is also being
: : proposed for a null token disambiguate context. As in $foo\Q[bar].
:
:
From: Larry Wall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Richard Proctor writes:
: In Apocalypse 2, \Q is being used for two things, and I
: believe this may be ambiguious.
:
: It has the current \Quote meaning admitibly \Q{oute} it is
: also being proposed for a null token disambiguate context.
:
At 11:10 AM 5/4/2001 -0700, Larry Wall wrote:
Larry Wall writes:
: Richard Proctor writes:
: : In Apocalypse 2, \Q is being used for two things, and I believe this
may be
: : ambiguious.
: :
: : It has the current \Quote meaning admitibly \Q{oute} it is also being
: : proposed for a null token
On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 03:05:12PM -0400, Dan Sugalski wrote:
Have you considered allowing Unicode characters as alternatives to some of
the less pleasant looking bits? $foo1 (where and are the double
angle characters) as an alternative to $foo\Q[1] if the user's got the
characters
At 10:11 PM 5/4/2001 +0100, Simon Cozens wrote:
On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 03:05:12PM -0400, Dan Sugalski wrote:
Have you considered allowing Unicode characters as alternatives to some of
the less pleasant looking bits? $foo1 (where and are the double
angle characters) as an alternative to
Dan Sugalski writes:
: Have you considered allowing Unicode characters as alternatives to some of
: the less pleasant looking bits? $foo1 (where and are the double
: angle characters) as an alternative to $foo\Q[1] if the user's got the
: characters handy?
Actually, my first thought a year
Not a problem. \Q means quotemeta, except immediately following
a interpolated identifier. You want to start metaquoting immediately
after a curious interpolation? use \Q\Q.
I have been regularly, since I fingured out how, doing things like
print the time is now
At 03:51 PM 5/4/2001 -0700, Larry Wall wrote:
Dan Sugalski writes:
: Have you considered allowing Unicode characters as alternatives to some of
: the less pleasant looking bits? $foo1 (where and are the double
: angle characters) as an alternative to $foo\Q[1] if the user's got the
: characters
David L. Nicol writes:
: Not a problem. \Q means quotemeta, except immediately following
: a interpolated identifier. You want to start metaquoting immediately
: after a curious interpolation? use \Q\Q.
The word except should be a red flag that you're trying to define an
exception. We're
Dan Sugalski writes:
: That's cool. I was just thinking it might not be a bad idea for us to set=20
: some equivalencies up in advance. If not, that's fine too. (I'll just slip=
: =20
: them in while you're not looking... :)
Hmm. Harks back to the colonial era: I claim these brackets in the
At 06:40 PM 5/4/2001 -0700, Larry Wall wrote:
Dan Sugalski writes:
: That's cool. I was just thinking it might not be a bad idea for us to
: set some equivalencies up in advance. If not, that's fine too. (I'll just
: slip them in while you're not looking... :)
Hmm. Harks back to the colonial
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