Whither Apocalypse 7?

2004-02-29 Thread Dave Mitchell
Did I miss something? Was there ever an apocalyse 7? Also, why aren't the apocalyses and excegises announced on any of the p6 lists (like, er, perl6-announce for example)? Yours grumpily, Dave. -- My get-up-and-go just got up and went.

Re: Thinking about Accessors

2004-02-29 Thread Aaron Sherman
On Fri, 2004-02-27 at 21:57, Luke Palmer wrote: method bar_attr() will get { $.bar_attr } will set { $.bar_attr = $_ } I'm confused by this in only one way... since method bar_attr and the accessor bar_attr have the same name, how do I write an accessor that recurses?

Re: Whither Apocalypse 7?

2004-02-29 Thread Aaron Sherman
On Sat, 2004-02-28 at 14:08, Dave Mitchell wrote: Did I miss something? Was there ever an apocalyse 7? Also, why aren't the apocalyses and excegises announced on any of the p6 lists (like, er, perl6-announce for example)? I suspect that Damian is waiting on finalizing the modules mentioned in

Re: Whither Apocalypse 7?

2004-02-29 Thread Simon Cozens
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dave Mitchell) writes: Did I miss something? Was there ever an apocalyse 7? Yes, there was. It was tacked on the end of Apocalypse 6, and said essentially No longer in core. See Damian. -- DYSFUNCTION: The Only Consistent Feature of All of Your Dissatisfying

Re: Whither Apocalypse 7?

2004-02-29 Thread George Woolley
Dave, I had the same problem you did, if I understand you correctly. Eventually, I found the document I believe people are discussing. I'd tell you how, but I don't recall. See the forward below my signature for what I found. Best wishes, George of Oakland.pm -- Forwarded Message

Re: Thinking about Accessors

2004-02-29 Thread Larry Wall
On Sun, Feb 29, 2004 at 01:44:47PM -0500, Aaron Sherman wrote: : On Fri, 2004-02-27 at 21:57, Luke Palmer wrote: : : method bar_attr() will get { $.bar_attr } :will set { $.bar_attr = $_ } : : I'm confused by this in only one way... since method bar_attr and the :

Re: Exegesis 7: Miscellany

2004-02-29 Thread Damian Conway
Smylers asked: * What happens if an undefined format is passed to Cform? I'm presuming (and hoping) that's a run-time error. Currently treated as , with internal warnings. Probably should throw an exception. * In 'What a block art though...' (page 2) I don't think there's supposed

Re: Exegesis 7: Overflow Fields

2004-02-29 Thread Damian Conway
Mark A. Biggar wrote: What if I want to interpolate an empty string and let the fill characters work? Then you interpolate a single fill character instead of the empty string. Damian

Exegesis 7: Literal '{' in format string

2004-02-29 Thread Joe Gottman
How do you put a literal '{' or '}' into a format string in Perl 6? Do you use a backslash? Joe Gottman

Re: Exegesis 7: Literal '{' in format string

2004-02-29 Thread Damian Conway
Joe Gottman asked: How do you put a literal '{' or '}' into a format string in Perl 6? Do you use a backslash? Yes, a backslash will quote anything (including backslash). Note that you really only need to backslash '{', since '}' isn't special by itself. Damian

Re: Exegesis 7: Overflow Fields

2004-02-29 Thread Mark A. Biggar
Damian Conway wrote: Mark A. Biggar wrote: What if I want to interpolate an empty string and let the fill characters work? Then you interpolate a single fill character instead of the empty string. But that means I have to pre-process data lists that just happen to contain empty strings so

Re: Exegesis 7: Literal '{' in format string

2004-02-29 Thread Brent \Dax\ Royal-Gordon
Damian Conway wrote: Joe Gottman asked: How do you put a literal '{' or '}' into a format string in Perl 6? Do you use a backslash? Yes, a backslash will quote anything (including backslash). Note that you really only need to backslash '{', since '}' isn't special by itself. Would that need to

Re: Exegesis 7: Overflow Fields

2004-02-29 Thread Damian Conway
But that means I have to pre-process data lists that just happen to contain empty strings so that they won't disappear on me. Huh? An empty string already *has* disappeared on you. ;-) This seems to violate least surprise. I'd be much more surprised if an empty string *didn't* disappear. After

Re: Exegesis 7: Overflow Fields

2004-02-29 Thread Damian Conway
I also don't expect $x = ''; $y = $x ; to assign '' to $y either, but that's the equlvalent of what you say form() will do. I see your point. I was more worried about arrays of items some of which are empty strings and having items disappear out my repost because form() throws them

Parrot 0.1.0 Released

2004-02-29 Thread Leopold Toetsch
Parrot 0.1.0 Leaping Kakapo Released! The Parrot team proudly presents the Parrot 0.1.0 leap release. It provides some milestones like objects and multi-threading1[1] and supports many more platforms. After some pause you can grab it from