This fortnight's summary

2004-06-23 Thread The Perl 6 Summarizer
The Perl 6 Summary for the fortnight ending 20040621 Good evening. You find me typing away in a motel room on the edge of the Lake District on the shortest night of the year. I suppose, by rites, I should be spending the night by some stone circle drinking, dancing and generally

Re: cmd line like switches for functions and operators.

2004-06-23 Thread Juerd
Luke Palmer skribis 2004-06-22 16:32 (-0600): *rename.wrap - $orig, $new, *%opt { say Renaming '$orig' to '$new' if %opt{'verbose' | 'v'}; call; } Would it be possible to just add a named argument, without repeating any part of the existing signature? Like:

Re: This fortnight's summary

2004-06-23 Thread Dan Sugalski
On Wed, 23 Jun 2004, The Perl 6 Summarizer wrote: Bignums! Dan asked for a volunteer to get Bignums working. Alin Iacob stepped up to the plate. Leo suggested that, rather than starting from types/bignum.c, it might be better to use an existing, maintained, maths (Look,

Re: This fortnight's summary

2004-06-23 Thread Scott Bronson
On Wed, 2004-06-23 at 08:12, Dan Sugalski wrote: The license issues there require that the full source of GMP ship with any binary copy. (the license has no provide a place to fetch it provision--the source is required) Which would make the Gameboy version of Parrot somewhat cumbersome. :)