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• I've got a question (Score:1)

  by hobbs (3161)

  I know that the people working on Rakudo are all smart folks, and not lazy either, so there must be something thoroughly difficult about implementing s///. But, not knowing anything about Rakudo's internals I can't for the life of me imagine what the hangup is. Anyone want to venture an explanation?
  • Re: (Score:1)

    by JonathanWorthington (6049)

    Well, in part it is laziness, but the "doing work twice is bad" kind. :-) We could probably hack something in for this, but instead are waiting until the grammar engine is advanced enough that we can handle this (and other quoting constructs) the way STD does. Converging Rakudo's grammar towards STD (the standard Perl 6 grammar) is something that pmichaud++ is actively working on, so it shouldn't be too long before we support s/// (I'm the wrong person to give a specific guess though.

    For now, $string.subst(
    • Re:I've got a question (Score:1)

      by hobbs (3161) on 2009.10.18 4:30 (#70910)

      A bit belated but I just wanted to say I appreciate the reply. I know it's just a peeve of mine, but I felt like airing it. And I do hope that the plan is at least to address this by "spring". s/// is just too much "basic idiomatic perl", and if you don't have it it will be your "word count". :)

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      • Re: (Score:1)

        by JonathanWorthington (6049)

        Oh, I'm sure it's a peeve of more than just you. :-) While I mentioned that there's work going on to adopt something like the STD grammar that will allow us to parse these, I neglected to mention that doing that is one of the "must do" tasks for Rakudo *. So yes, we really should have s/// support by then. :-)