[perl6/specs] 33eaff: Update Supply introduction and method docs for ser...

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  Branch: refs/heads/master
  Home:   https://github.com/perl6/specs
  Commit: 33eaffeb784e1f2b61511b727ef614615df6bca8
  
https://github.com/perl6/specs/commit/33eaffeb784e1f2b61511b727ef614615df6bca8
  Author: skids 
  Date:   2016-02-25 (Thu, 25 Feb 2016)

  Changed paths:
M S17-concurrency.pod

  Log Message:
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  Update Supply introduction and method docs for serial supplies

   Also some Channel clarifications.


  Commit: cc534c403199b0804fe05bd5cb88676142a878a1
  
https://github.com/perl6/specs/commit/cc534c403199b0804fe05bd5cb88676142a878a1
  Author: skids 
  Date:   2016-02-26 (Fri, 26 Feb 2016)

  Changed paths:
M S17-concurrency.pod

  Log Message:
  ---
  A start on design doc for react/supply blocks and whenever clauses

  This will need quite more work.


Compare: https://github.com/perl6/specs/compare/b10af0c10726...cc534c403199

Re: Perl 6 mentions on Wikipedia

[Dan Stephenson]

I want in. I'm working on a production project  for cloud computing that fuses 
5 and 6 together. It's proving very useful...

Sent from my iPhone

> On Feb 25, 2016, at 4:26 PM, Damian Conway  wrote:
> 
> Dear fellow revellers in the dawning Golden Age of Perl 6,
> 
> I just had a colleague contact me, to express their surprise that Perl 6
> does not rate a mention in:
> 
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functional_programming.
> 
> The Perl 6 community (and Larry in particular) has already done an
> incredible job raising Perl 6's profile on rosettacode.org, but the
> language still seems under-represented on Wikipedia, especially on 
> the various pages describing different language paradigms.
> 
> As Perl 6 is now the pre-eminent example of the imperative,
> declarative, functional, parallel, concurrent, pipelined, vector,
> object-oriented, aspect-oriented, reactive, introspective, and
> metaprogramming paradigms, surely it should be mentioned 
> on all those wiki pages?
> 
> Yeah, I know: "Thanks for volunteering!". I can't at present, but I
> didn't want this important observation, or the opportunity it
> represents, to be lost, just because it was initially directed at
> someone who's currently drowning in other commitments.
> 
> So I thought I'd mention it here, in the hope that someone else 
> who is looking for a slightly unusual way to contribute to Perl 6 
> might find the suggestion worth considering.
> 
> Damian
>