From @finanalyst

The output from .perl for a regex could be more useful than currently.
I have
$ perl6

my $x = /<digit>+/; say $x.perl
{ ... }

Doesnt seem to matter what the regex is.

Perhaps,

Regex { <digit>+ }

From @masak

Richard (>)​:

The output from .perl for a regex could be more useful than currently.

[...]

Perhaps,

Regex { <digit>+ }

That does not seem to be legal Perl 6 to me. The idea of .perl is to
output runnable code, after all. How about this instead?

/ <digit>+ /

The RT System itself - Status changed from 'new' to 'open'

From @finanalyst

/ <digit>+ / is what I thought it should be.

{ ... } is what rakudo current gives, which from the point of view of
runnable code and comprehensible output, are wrong.

Carl Mäsak via RT wrote​:

Richard (>)​:

The output from .perl for a regex could be more useful than currently.

[...]

Perhaps,

Regex { <digit>+ }

That does not seem to be legal Perl 6 to me. The idea of .perl is to
output runnable code, after all. How about this instead?

/ <digit>+ /

From @pmichaud

On Sat Jan 10 10​:00​:20 2009, richardh wrote​:

/ <digit>+ / is what I thought it should be.

{ ... } is what rakudo current gives, which from the point of view of
runnable code and comprehensible output, are wrong.

In general, being able to use .perl on subs and methods implies that an
implementation must either (1) be able to construct a Perl 6
representation of the compiled version of the sub/method, or (2) attach
to each sub/method a text copy of the source used to create it.

I'm not sure how practical either of these are going to be, so would
like some clarification or confirmation from p6l first. In the
meantime, I'm marking this ticket as stalled for now.

Thanks!

Pm

@pmichaud - Status changed from 'open' to 'stalled'

From @coke

Marking as "rejected" ; this belongs in the spec queue, not the rakudo queue.

Opened a ticket as Raku/old-design-docs#30, with a link back to this ticket.

Thanks for the report, hopefully we can get an answer from @​Larry.

On Sun Jan 11 07​:06​:08 2009, pmichaud wrote​:

On Sat Jan 10 10​:00​:20 2009, richardh wrote​:

/ <digit>+ / is what I thought it should be.

{ ... } is what rakudo current gives, which from the point of view of
runnable code and comprehensible output, are wrong.

In general, being able to use .perl on subs and methods implies that an
implementation must either (1) be able to construct a Perl 6
representation of the compiled version of the sub/method, or (2) attach
to each sub/method a text copy of the source used to create it.

I'm not sure how practical either of these are going to be, so would
like some clarification or confirmation from p6l first. In the
meantime, I'm marking this ticket as stalled for now.

Thanks!

Pm

--
Will "Coke" Coleda

The RT System itself - Status changed from 'stalled' to 'open'

@coke - Status changed from 'open' to 'rejected'