Purging [-1]

I just went through all of the synopses searching for instances where
[-1] is still being referenced in its perl5 sense; the following
patches update them to correct perl6 syntax.  I also took the liberty
of fixing up a markup glitch in S03.pod.

=begin S02

@@ -1379,7 +1379,7 @@

 =item *

-The C<$#foo> notation is dead.  Use C<@foo.end> or C<@foo[-1]> instead.
+The C<$#foo> notation is dead.  Use C<@foo.end> or C<@foo[*-1]> instead.
 (Or C<@foo.shape[$dimension]> for multidimensional arrays.)

 =back
=end S02

=begin S03

--- S03.pod     2007-05-25 17:32:16.000000000 -0700
+++ S03a.pod    2007-05-25 17:38:14.000000000 -0700
@@ -1606,7 +1606,7 @@

 =item *

-C<qw{ ... }> gets a synonym: C< < ... > >, and an interpolating
+C<qw{ ... }> gets a synonym: C<< < ... > >>, and an interpolating
 variant, C<«...»>.
 For those still living without the blessings of Unicode, that can also be
 written: C<<< << ... >> >>>.
@@ -1614,7 +1614,7 @@
 =item *

 In item context comma C<,> now constructs a C<List> object from its
-operands.  You have to use a C<[-1]> subscript to get the last one.
+operands.  You have to use a C<[*-1]> subscript to get the last one.

 =item *

@@ -2146,7 +2146,7 @@

 is short for something like:

-    @array[0..^@array], @array[-1] xx *
+    @array[0..^@array], @array[*-1] xx *

 An empty Range cannot be iterated; it returns a C<Failure> instead.  An empty
 range still has a defined min and max, but the min is greater than the max.
@@ -3050,8 +3050,8 @@

 are equivalent to

-    $x = @y[0] = @y[1] = @y[2] ... @y[-1] = $z = 0
-    $x += @y[0] += @y[1] += @y[2] ... @y[-1] += $z += 1
+    $x = @y[0] = @y[1] = @y[2] ... @y[*-1] = $z = 0
+    $x += @y[0] += @y[1] += @y[2] ... @y[*-1] += $z += 1

 rather than
=end S03

--
Jonathan "Dataweaver" Lang

• Purging [-1] by Jonathan Lang