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Postings from May 2001
On Fri, 11 May 2001, Larry Wall wrote: > Dave Storrs writes: > : calling the function that produced the string, or whatever. I just think > : that we could extend 'x' to have a general repetition meaning. > > I think just patching one operator from verbal status to adverbial > status is not sufficiently general. [...] > <$STDIN> MUMBLE 2 # read twice > 1 .. 100 MUMBLE 3 # count by threes > `glob $x` MUMBLE "/bin/csh" # modify pseudoquote > > It has not yet been decided what form these MUMBLEs will take, > [...but maybe the default] > adverbial MUMBLE is simply ":". Which might cause the above to reduce > to: > > <$STDIN> : 2 # read twice > 1 .. 100 : 3 # count by threes > `glob $x` : "/bin/csh" # modify pseudoquote Wow. This is great; very powerful and very elegant...how Perlish. $verb = "I " cc 'tow'x2 cc ' admiringly'; $verb =~ s/t/k/; # ;> Dave