[zzamboni(telegram)] 👍
[Ian(telegram)] For alias, do you still need to use -exports-?
[zzamboni(telegram)] That's still pending
[zzamboni(telegram)] There's no edit:del-var, is there?
[Ian(telegram)] Though, could you just do del var?
[zzamboni(telegram)] del doesn't accept dynamic arguments
[Ian(telegram)] Ah, right. Sorry, doing python & typescript (and...sort of html) now, my brain has no more room for language comprehension right now.
[zzamboni(telegram)] :)
[zzamboni(telegram)] alias is now fixed as well, no longer uses $-exports-
[Ian(telegram)] hooray!
[Ian(telegram)] Works for me.
Oh if I could "cat something.txt | each ["[^:]+: ([^ ]+:var1).*"]{ echo $var1 }" I can imagine ditching 80% of what I use sed for
whoops, I responded as if the conversation regarding pattern matching was happening now
oh and curried functions would also be handy
lets see. I believe I tried to do this and it didn't work:
echo "hi there" | str:split ' '
it is possible though, yes. If I write my own functions with the intention that they'll be called partially :)
[xiaqqaix(telegram)] @aecepoglu Andy Chu (of Oil Shell) has an article and I agree with the sentiment: http://www.oilshell.org/blog/2016/11/13.html
[xiaqqaix(telegram)] And I believe that was Perl’s vision as well, with “perl -e” you can write a lot of one-liners that can replace sed and awk
[pontaoski(telegram)] just because it still exists doesn't mean it's as popular as it was
[pontaoski(telegram)] i doubt many people are using perl 6 (raku) (edited)
Upvote that response. Up until ~12 years ago I used Perl for pretty much anything that wasn’t suitable to Korn shell or C. At the time I considered myself a Perl expert. I still reach for it once in a while where
perl -e is the right tool. But when I learned Python ~12 years ago I made the switch.
[pontaoski(telegram)] like proper concurrency and parallelism for one
[pontaoski(telegram)] raku only has one number type, and it's arbitrary precision (so 0.1 + 0.2 == 0.3)
[pontaoski(telegram)] lazy evaluation is a plus too
[pontaoski(telegram)] also, there's gradual typing
[xiaqqaix(telegram)] raku has multiple numeric types, but it parses decimal numbers as rationals instead of floats
[pontaoski(telegram)] a
[zzamboni(telegram)] I had a very similar path. And up until recently I still reached for Perl for some simple things. But nowadays I find myself more and more using Elvish for text/data processing. TBH I never fully got into Python, I know it and I've coded quite a few things, but it has never felt natural to me, like Perl or Elvish do. (re @mesajorbot: [krader1961(gitter)] Upvote that response. Up until ~12 years ago I used Perl for pretty much anything that wasn’t suitable to Korn shell or C. At the time I considered myself a Perl expert. I still reach for it once in a while where
perl -e is the right tool. But when I learned Python ~12 years ago I made the switch.)
[zzamboni(telegram)] I was even a Perl Monk once upon a time, though I haven't frequented it in a very long while: https://perlmonks.org/?node_id=5999
[zzamboni(telegram)] 😊
[zzamboni(telegram)] PerlMonks was basically my procrastination escape while I was finishing my Ph.D. thesis, once I graduated (in 2001) and got a job I started leaving it behind, which is why the updates stopped around 2002-2004 :D