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Damian Conway  
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 More options Mar 2 2004, 1:00 am
Newsgroups: perl.perl6.language
From: dam...@conway.org (Damian Conway)
Date: Tue, 02 Mar 2004 16:58:38 +1100
Local: Tues, Mar 2 2004 12:58 am
Subject: Re: Distributing traits / Rule-matching group properties
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Larry noted:

 > There's a lot to be said for being able to write

> things like:

>     [ <ident> & <ascii>+ ]

> Now I'm supposing that & binds tighter than | as usual, so the
> brackets wouldn't always be necessary:

>     <ident> & <french>+
>     |
>     <ident> & <swahili>+

FWIW, I'm strongly in favour of adding & to rules.

Indeed, if Larry were to give the word, I'd be delighted to add support for it
to the Perl6::Rules module.

Damian


 
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