Damian Conway Publishes Exegesis 5 125
prostoalex writes "Come gather round Mongers, whatever you code,
And admit that your forehead's about to explode,
'Cos Perl patterns induce complete brain overload,
If there's source code you should be maintainin',
Then you better start learnin' Perl 6 patterns soon, For the regexes, they are a-changin'. This remix of Bob Dylan serves as an epigraph to Exegesis 5."
Monty Python and the Holy Grail Sinking Castle (Score:4, Funny)
-Don
Re:Hey, cut it out! (Score:2, Funny)
<dad> Son, do you even know who Bob Dylan is?
<doug> No, But I know he died of drugs.
<dad> No Doug, he's alive and well, as a matter of fact I produced his last two albums.
<doug> Oh Uncle Robert?
Re:Beautiful! (Score:3, Funny)
T-Shirts (Score:2, Funny)
The first thing to note is that, like a Perl 5 qr, a Perl 6 rx can take (almost) any delimiters we choose. The $hunk pattern uses {...}, but we could have used:
rx/pattern/ # Standard
rx[pattern] # Alternative bracket-delimiter style
rx<pattern> # Alternative bracket-delimiter style
rxforme # Délimiteurs très chic
rx>pattern< # Inverted bracketing is allowed too (!)
rxMuster # Begrenzungen im korrekten Auftrag
rx!pattern! # Excited
rx=pattern= # Unusual
rx?pattern? # No special meaning in Perl 6
rx#pattern# # Careful with these: they disable internal comments
Are these allowed for the sole purpose of creating new T-Shirt patterns?