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Re: Regex query
From:
Simon Cozens
Date:
September 22, 2002 14:35
Subject:
Re: Regex query
Message ID:
86bs6pr9lo.fsf@squash.oucs.ox.ac.uk
markus.laire@nic.fi (Markus Laire) writes:
> How do you do C< ($a + $b) * $c > if parentheses are forbidden for
> mathematical expressions?
I thought that , was actually the list constructor, much as => is the
pair constructor. (And hence
a => 1, b => 2
would be a list of pairs.)
Of course, if we're being rigorously regular, this would mean that the
parentheses were optional, and
@a = 1,2,3,4;
would make sense.
I quite like that.
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