Re: [PATCH 0/2] [RFD] Using gitrevisions :/search style with other operators

From: Kevin Ballard <kevin@sb.org>
Date: Dec 9, 2010, 02:02 UTC
Message-ID: <192758EC-4276-445D-B1D5-284073D5AB32@sb.org>
In-Reply-To: <20101209015926.GA31119@burratino>

On Dec 8, 2010, at 5:59 PM, Jonathan Nieder wrote:

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> 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