Meta- and Hyperoperators and Anonymous Subroutines

2009-03-02 Thread Thomas Chust
Hello, looking into Perl 6 syntax I noticed that there are meta- and hyperoperators to perform among others the classical functional map and fold operations. However, if I understood this correctly, you can only use these constructs to lift scalar *operators* to the domain of arrays. Coming from

Re: $?OS change

2009-03-02 Thread Chris Dolan
On Mar 2, 2009, at 12:04 AM, Timothy S. Nelson wrote: Hi. I note that we have $?OS, $?VM, and $?DISTRO (and their $* counterparts). I'd like to recommend that we eliminate $?OS, and replace it with $?KERNEL (ie. Linux) and maybe $?ARCH (ie. i386). Thoughts? I disagree. User-space

r25654 - docs/Perl6/Spec/S32-setting-library

2009-03-02 Thread pugs-commits
Author: leto Date: 2009-03-02 11:09:04 +0100 (Mon, 02 Mar 2009) New Revision: 25654 Modified: docs/Perl6/Spec/S32-setting-library/Numeric.pod Log: Fix typo in Numeric Modified: docs/Perl6/Spec/S32-setting-library/Numeric.pod ===

Re: $?OS change

2009-03-02 Thread Daniel Ruoso
Em Seg, 2009-03-02 às 17:04 +1100, Timothy S. Nelson escreveu: Hi. I note that we have $?OS, $?VM, and $?DISTRO (and their $* counterparts). I'd like to recommend that we eliminate $?OS, and replace it with $?KERNEL (ie. Linux) and maybe $?ARCH (ie. i386). Thoughts? The usual way to

Re: $?OS change

2009-03-02 Thread Timothy S. Nelson
On Mon, 2 Mar 2009, Daniel Ruoso wrote: Em Seg, 2009-03-02 às 17:04 +1100, Timothy S. Nelson escreveu: Hi. I note that we have $?OS, $?VM, and $?DISTRO (and their $* counterparts). I'd like to recommend that we eliminate $?OS, and replace it with $?KERNEL (ie. Linux) and maybe $?ARCH

Re: $?OS change

2009-03-02 Thread Daniel Ruoso
Em Seg, 2009-03-02 às 23:47 +1100, Timothy S. Nelson escreveu: On Mon, 2 Mar 2009, Daniel Ruoso wrote: So, I think the proper name to the variables would be $?ARCH and $*ARCH Where they would stringify to the arch triplet, while providing convenience methods for .cpu, .platform and .os.

Re: $?OS change

2009-03-02 Thread Daniel Ruoso
Em Seg, 2009-03-02 às 10:39 -0300, Daniel Ruoso escreveu: Em Seg, 2009-03-02 às 23:47 +1100, Timothy S. Nelson escreveu: Are we talking about $?VM vs. $?XVM here? Well, yes... that adresses $?HOST_PERL and $?TARGET_PERL... but still leaves $?HOST_ARCH and $?TARGET_ARCH, assuming not all

Re: Google's Summer of Code 2009

2009-03-02 Thread Moritz Lenz
Hi, Hinrik Örn Sigurðsson wrote: Google has announced this year's Summer of Code[1]. The Perl Foundation accepted one project (mentored by Moritz) related to Perl 6 last year[2]. I was wondering if there are any developers interested in mentoring students on Perl 6-related projects this year.

Re: Google's Summer of Code 2009

2009-03-02 Thread Jonathan Duke Leto
Hello Hinrik, I will be the organization admin for TPF in GSoC 2009, please read more about it here: http://leto.net/dukeleto.pl/2009/03/applying-to-google-summer-of-c.html If you are a Perl-related project that wants to mentor a student in GSoC, please contact me directly. Cheers,

Re: $?OS change

2009-03-02 Thread Timothy S. Nelson
On Mon, 2 Mar 2009, Daniel Ruoso wrote: Em Seg, 2009-03-02 às 23:47 +1100, Timothy S. Nelson escreveu: On Mon, 2 Mar 2009, Daniel Ruoso wrote: So, I think the proper name to the variables would be $?ARCH and $*ARCH Where they would stringify to the arch triplet, while providing convenience

Re: Meta- and Hyperoperators and Anonymous Subroutines

2009-03-02 Thread Moritz Lenz
Hi, Thomas Chust wrote: Hello, looking into Perl 6 syntax I noticed that there are meta- and hyperoperators to perform among others the classical functional map and fold operations. However, if I understood this correctly, you can only use these constructs to lift scalar *operators* to the

Re: $?OS change

2009-03-02 Thread Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH
On 2009 Mar 2, at 6:19, Timothy S. Nelson wrote: On Mon, 2 Mar 2009, Chris Dolan wrote: On Mar 2, 2009, at 12:04 AM, Timothy S. Nelson wrote: Hi. I note that we have $?OS, $?VM, and $?DISTRO (and their $* counterparts). I'd like to recommend that we eliminate $?OS, and replace it with

Re: Meta- and Hyperoperators and Anonymous Subroutines

2009-03-02 Thread Thomas Chust
2009/3/2 Moritz Lenz ml...@physik.uni-wuerzburg.de: Thomas Chust wrote: [...] Therefore I think that it would be a nice addition for Perl 6 if the X...X, ... and similar operators could be applied to anonymous subroutines in addition to other operators. If such a syntactic change wasn't

Statement modifiers as list comprehension operators

2009-03-02 Thread Dave Whipp
S04 mentions that statement modifiers behave as for perl5 (excpet that you can have both an conditional modifier and a looping modifier on a single statement. Both then it gives this example, with be modifiers being operators within an expression, not as modifiers of a statement. line