On Dec 8, 2010, at 5:59 PM, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > Jakub Narebski wrote: > >> You would need HEAD{^{/foo}^@}x3, or use special rule that HEAD^{/foo}x2 >> means really HEAD^{/foo}^@^{/foo}, with ^@ used to join them. > > That said, does ^2x500 really do something meaningful that a person > would ever need? I like the > > ^{:nth(3)/foo} > > syntax because perl6 supports m:nth(3)/foo/, suggesting a menu of > already-defined modifiers to implement when they prove useful, known > already to a certain subset of the audience and proven useful already > in a different context. I like the ^{:nth(3)/foo} syntax as well. Though I'm not familiar with Perl 6, this does have the benefit of being fairly obvious to the reader as to what it means. -Kevin Ballard-- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html