Re: [yapc] DOC: glossary

2006-07-03 Thread Jose Castro
On Jul 2, 2006, at 11:23 PM, Uri Guttman wrote: hi to all docathon hackers (and others too), one idea we came up with during the docathon is that perl6 needs a glossary. would the terms autobox or mixin make any sense to a newcomer who didn't know any OO theory? so this is a proposal to

Re: [svn:perl6-synopsis] r9733 - doc/trunk/design/syn

2006-07-03 Thread Markus Laire
On 7/1/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: +But parens are special that way. (Even Cq() is assumed to be a +function call rather than a quote.) Other bracketing characters are +special only if they can be mistaken for adverbial arguments, so qn[stuff] -is fine, while +is

Using Rules Today

2006-07-03 Thread Joshua Gatcomb
All: I have a for-fun project that I am working on exploring various different parsers and their methods. So far I have looked at things like Parse::RecDescent, Parse::YAPP, Parse::Earley, and HOP::Parser. I had Perl6::Rules on my list, but it is my understanding that Pugs::Compiler::Rule is

Re: [svn:perl6-synopsis] r9733 - doc/trunk/design/syn

2006-07-03 Thread Larry Wall
On Mon, Jul 03, 2006 at 05:31:34PM +0300, Markus Laire wrote: : On 7/1/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: : +But parens are special that way. (Even Cq() is assumed to be a : +function call rather than a quote.) Other bracketing characters are : +special only if they can be mistaken

Re: Using Rules Today

2006-07-03 Thread Flavio S. Glock
2006/7/3, Joshua Gatcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I am specifically interested in examples that can be run in Perl 5 today without needing Pugs or Parrot. http://svn.openfoundry.org/pugs/perl5/Pugs-Compiler-Rule/compile_p6grammar.pl - doesn't do exactly what you want, but you can see what the

[svn:perl6-synopsis] r9753 - doc/trunk/design/syn

2006-07-03 Thread larry
Author: larry Date: Mon Jul 3 12:00:53 2006 New Revision: 9753 Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S04.pod Log: Clarifications on stack unwinding semantics of exception handlers. Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S04.pod

RE: [yapc] DOC: glossary

2006-07-03 Thread York, Joel
Hello. If no one has a problem with it, I'd like to volunteer to be pumpking for this doc. I saw juerd on perl6-lang mentioned http://pugs.kwiki.org/?Perl6Nomenclature as a possible starting point, but Uri's description calls for something a bit more descriptive. Joel York [Shadowhawk]

Re: Using Rules Today

2006-07-03 Thread Paul Seamons
In any case, I was wondering if someone could provide me with an example of a mathematical expression parser (and evaluator). To properly compare to the others, it would need to handle the following operators +, - (left associative) *, /, % (left associative) ^ (right