Language status

2009-12-10 Thread Sean Hunt
Hey, Perl 6 devs! I'm looking forward to Perl 6, and I'm looking into the spec right now, since that to me is the important bit of a language (I know, I'm bizarre). I see at http://feather.perl6.nl/syn/ that a lot of the language spec is still under development, and some bits still aren't

Re: Language status

2009-12-10 Thread yary
I'm looking forward to Perl 6, and I'm looking into the spec right now, since that to me is the important bit of a language (I know, I'm bizarre). Not at all bizarre, P6 language spec development is the most important bit going on in the language right now. Well, that plus all the interesting

r29307 - docs/Perl6/Spec

2009-12-10 Thread pugs-commits
Author: jnthn Date: 2009-12-10 18:09:51 +0100 (Thu, 10 Dec 2009) New Revision: 29307 Modified: docs/Perl6/Spec/S14-roles-and-parametric-types.pod Log: [spec] Kill the same type = attribute composition OK rule; now it's just always a conflict. Modified:

Re: p6 Q: How do I metaprogram this?

2009-12-10 Thread Austin Hastings
This is a p6 question, not an NQP question - I'm citing the NQP only because it's my current example. So mentioning p6 features not currently in NQP is totally appropriate. What I mean by converting code into data is simply that a run-time version of metaprogramming will generally translate the

r29308 - docs/Perl6/Spec

2009-12-10 Thread pugs-commits
Author: pmichaud Date: 2009-12-10 19:36:02 +0100 (Thu, 10 Dec 2009) New Revision: 29308 Modified: docs/Perl6/Spec/S11-modules.pod Log: [S11]: 'import' is syntactic sugar for .EXPORTALL, not .import_alias . Modified: docs/Perl6/Spec/S11-modules.pod

Re: r29307 - docs/Perl6/Spec

2009-12-10 Thread Darren Duncan
pugs-comm...@feather.perl6.nl wrote: Author: jnthn Date: 2009-12-10 18:09:51 +0100 (Thu, 10 Dec 2009) New Revision: 29307 Modified: docs/Perl6/Spec/S14-roles-and-parametric-types.pod Log: [spec] Kill the same type = attribute composition OK rule; now it's just always a conflict. Modified:

r29313 - in docs/Perl6/Spec: . S32-setting-library

2009-12-10 Thread pugs-commits
Author: lwall Date: 2009-12-11 00:37:21 +0100 (Fri, 11 Dec 2009) New Revision: 29313 Modified: docs/Perl6/Spec/S16-io.pod docs/Perl6/Spec/S32-setting-library/IO.pod Log: [IO] long promised destruction of p{} Modified: docs/Perl6/Spec/S16-io.pod

Re: Language status

2009-12-10 Thread Moritz Lenz
Hi, On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 12:56:46AM -0700, Sean Hunt wrote: I'm looking forward to Perl 6, and I'm looking into the spec right now, since that to me is the important bit of a language (I know, I'm bizarre). I see at http://feather.perl6.nl/syn/ that a lot of the language spec is