Re: New natural language ?

2010-12-11 Thread Brandon S Allbery KF8NH
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12/9/10 17:52 , Tarmo Pikaro wrote: I would like to head into new natural language direction - making language to be partly natural (can be used in everyday communication) and partly constructed (can execute as a program) - some ideas are

Re: Announce: Rakudo Perl 6 development release #29 (Erlangen)

2010-05-20 Thread Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH
On May 20, 2010, at 16:33 , Mark J. Reed wrote: One dumb question; why is the total number of tests only an estimate? Seems like something easily counted? Not really, since the test plan can add/remove tests at runtime... and does, depending on what the Perl6 compiler running the plan can do

Re: [perl #67050] $str.Num should be the same as +$str

2009-06-30 Thread Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH
I thought unary + was scalar/item? context in perl6, not numify. -- brandon s. allbery [solaris,freebsd,perl,pugs,haskell] allb...@kf8nh.com system administrator [openafs,heimdal,too many hats] allb...@ece.cmu.edu electrical and computer engineering, carnegie mellon universityKF8NH

Re: [perl #65942] Missing %*ENV values are defined, but don't exist

2009-05-24 Thread Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH
On May 22, 2009, at 19:36 , Geoffrey Broadwell (via RT) wrote: $ perl6 -e 'say %*ENV.exists(adsfadsfasdf)' 0 $ perl6 -e 'say defined %*ENVadsfadsfasdf' 1 I don't recall if defined autovivifies, but assuming it does that would make sense. %*ENV is special, it represents environment

Re: use semantics

2009-01-04 Thread Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH
On 2009 Jan 4, at 8:53, Carl Mäsak wrote: Now, I can precompile the B module to PIR without a problem, but when I compile the A module, Rakudo/Parrot aborts because it runs the code in B and dies. $ parrot languages/perl6/perl6.pbc --target=pir --output=B.pir B.pm $ parrot

Re: [perl #55304] [PATCH] eval_(dies|lives)_ok methods for rakudo's Test.pm, and more tests

2008-06-07 Thread Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH
On 2008 Jun 6, at 23:53, Vasily Chekalkin wrote: jerry gay wrote: would you reformat this in universal diff format please? my patch program doesn't speak git. Strange... It is 'universal diff' format. Can be applied with 'patch -p1 eval.diff' in top-level parrot directory. Or with 'patch

Re: Clarification on S12

2008-06-05 Thread Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH
On 2008 Jun 5, at 18:43, Larry Wall wrote: Maybe it's just a temporary lack of imagination, but I'm having trouble these days coming up with any kind of a use case for confusing single dispatch with multiple dispatch. Yeah, I know I wrote that, but I was either smarter or stupider back

Re: [perl #53808] elseif should be elsif at blahblah.pl line 103.

2008-05-07 Thread Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH
On 2008 May 7, at 7:21, Carl Mäsak wrote: Ben (): I've just received an error message saying: elseif should be elsif at blah.pl line 103. What happened to do-what-I-mean? I'm not sure laxity among keywords would really be a feature. Correctly spelled, it's elsif in Perl, so why allow