Please find:
http://lith-ology.blogspot.com/2010/02/seven-days-between-parrot-and-camel.html
Lithos
Please find:
http://lith-ology.blogspot.com/2010/01/seven-days-between-parrot-and-camel_26.html
Lithos
Please find:
http://lith-ology.blogspot.com/2010/01/seven-days-between-parrot-and-camel_15.html
Lithos
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http://lith-ology.blogspot.com/2010/01/seven-days-between-parrot-and-camel.html
Lithos
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http://lith-ology.blogspot.com/2009/12/seven-days-between-parrot-and-camel_28.html
Lithos
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http://lith-ology.blogspot.com/2009/12/seven-days-between-parrot-and-camel_22.html
Lithos
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http://lith-ology.blogspot.com/2009/12/seven-days-between-parrot-and-camel_13.html
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http://lith-ology.blogspot.com/2009/12/seven-days-between-parrot-and-camel.html
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On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 4:33 PM, Geoffrey Broadwell ge...@broadwell.org wrote:
On Mon, 2009-11-23 at 01:15 +0100, Lithos wrote:
Today I posted my first attempt at summarizing Perl 6 and Parrot things at
http://lith-ology.blogspot.com/
Any comments and
Hello!
I posted my first attempt at summarizing Perl 6 and Parrot things at
http://lith-ology.blogspot.com/
Any comments and corrections welcome!
Lithos
Lithos wrote:
I posted my first attempt at summarizing Perl 6 and Parrot things at
http://lith-ology.blogspot.com/
Any comments and corrections welcome!
Looks good so far.
If you intend to do that weekly, it should be a valuable service, like the
summaries done years ago.
I also
Hello!
Today I posted my first attempt at summarizing Perl 6 and Parrot things at
http://lith-ology.blogspot.com/
Any comments and corrections welcome!
Lithos
On Mon, 2009-11-23 at 01:15 +0100, Lithos wrote:
Today I posted my first attempt at summarizing Perl 6 and Parrot things at
http://lith-ology.blogspot.com/
Any comments and corrections welcome!
This is *very* valuable to us. Please keep it up!
-'f
Perl 6 Summary for 2006-01-24 though 2006-02-07
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Welcome to another fortnight's summary. I would say more, but my throat
really hurts.
Perl 6 Language
Pugs's Minimum GHC
Darren Duncan proposed moving the minimum GHS requirement from 6.4.0 to
6.4.1. Based
Matt Fowles wrote:
LuaNil Morphing
Klaas-Jan Stol proffered a patch which changed LuaNil from a singleton
and made it morph to other Lua types when asked. Warnock applies.
Actually, François Perrad applied this patch, but I think he only sent a
reply to me.
http://xrl.us/jpww
Perl 6 Summary for 2006-01-10 though 2006-01-24
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Welcome to another fortnight's summary. This summary marks a return to a
Tuesday schedule for summaries. Hopefully this will help me get
summaries to you on time. Oddly appropriate that I just started reading
Don Quixote
Perl 6 Summary for 2006-01-02 though 2006-01-09
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Welcome to another Perl 6 Summary. On a complete tangent, if you are
playing World of Warcraft and see a troll hunter named Krynna, she
rocks. She royally saved me. Be nice to her.
Perl 6 Compiler
PIL Containers and Roles
Perl 6 Summary for 2005-12-05 through 2005-12-12
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Welcome to another Perl 6 summary. This week, like last, Parrot has
produced the highest volume of emails. Fine by me, Parrot tends to be
easiest to summarize. This summary is brought to you by Snow (the latest
soft toy
On Nov 23, 2005, at 3:06, chromatic wrote:
On Wed, 2005-11-23 at 01:39 +0100, Leopold Toetsch wrote:
But my argument was: whenever you
start introspecting a call frame, by almost whatever means, this will
keep the call frame alive[1] (see Continuation or Closure). That is:
timely destruction
On Nov 22, 2005, at 1:40, Matt Fowles wrote:
Call Frame Access
Chip began to pontificate about how one should access call frames.
Chip
suggested using a PMC, but Leo thought that would be too slow.
No, not really. It'll be slower, yes. But my argument was: whenever you
start
On Wed, 2005-11-23 at 01:39 +0100, Leopold Toetsch wrote:
But my argument was: whenever you
start introspecting a call frame, by almost whatever means, this will
keep the call frame alive[1] (see Continuation or Closure). That is:
timely destruction doesn't work for example...
Destruction
Perl 6 Summary for 2005-11-14 through 2005-11-21
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Welcome to another Perl 6 Summary. The attentive among you may notice
that this one is on time. I am not sure how that happened, but we will
try and keep it up. On a complete side note, I think there should be a
Perl guild
=head1 Perl 6 Summary for 2005-10-10 through 2005-10-18
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Welcome to another Perl 6 Summary. Sadly, this week's summary is not
brought to you by cookies as I already finished them. Sadder still,
it is also brought to you a week late. On the plus side, Mike
Doughty's Haughty Melodic
Matt Fowles [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
=head3 Obsolete Win32 Exports
Michael Walter found and removed some obsolete Win32 Exports.
Jonathan Worthington applied the patch. Weren't we planning on auto
generating these?
The Plan is to mark functions that are to be exported with something that
On Oct 5, 2005, at 1:17, Matt Fowles wrote:
Here Doc in PIR
Will Coleda revived a thread from February about PIR here doc
syntax.
Looks like the syntax is ok.
Jonathan Worthington has already implemented here doc syntax.
Data::Escape::String Dislikes Unicode
Will
Perl 6 Summary for 2005-09-26 through 2005-10-02
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Welcome to another summary, this time a day late because I was in Philly
for Serenity. If you haven't seen Serenity yet you should stop reading
this summary and go see it. The summary will be here when you get back.
I
Perl 6 Summary for 2005-09-12 through 2005-09-19
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Welcome to another Perl 6 Summary, this time brought to you with a
shorter pause (::grumble:: $WORK ::grumble::) and assisted by cookies.
Perl 6 Compilers
Circular Preludes for Fun and Confusion
Yuval Kogman posted
On Aug 23, 2005, at 3:43, Matt Fowles wrote:
Perl 6 Summary for 2005-08-15 through 2005-08-22
Java on Parrot
I vote for Jot.
That's already occupied by another language
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iota_and_Jot.
Perl 6 Language
Type Inferencing in Perl 5
Autrijus
On Mon, Aug 22, 2005 at 09:43:41PM -0400, Matt Fowles wrote:
Java on Parrot
Tim Bunce asked some preliminary questions about Java on Parrot. I
provide preliminary answers, and Nattfodd and Autrijus posted links to
related work. The important question of what it should be
Perl 6 Summary for 2005-08-15 through 2005-08-22
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Welcome to another monday summary, which hopefully provides some
evidence that mondays can get better. It always feels like writing
summaries is an uphill battle, perhaps I should switch to writing about
Perl 6 Language
Perl 6 Summary for 2005-08-02 through 2005-08-10
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Welcome to another summary, brought to you by chinese food. The
attentive among you will notice that this summary is a day late, because
I did not feel like doing it yesterday. If only I could do that at
work...
Perl 6
Perl 6 Summary for 2005-07-19 through 2005-07-26
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Welcome to another Perl 6 Summary brought to you by microwaved chinese
food and air conditioning. I love the modern era. Without further ado, I
bring you
Perl 6 Compilers
Grégoire Péan announed the release of PxPerl
On Thu, Jul 14, 2005 at 12:14:57PM -0600, John Williams wrote:
: Actually I took his question to be:
:
: If I explicitly name my invocant in the method signature, does that give
: the compiler enough assurance that I'm not going to use .method to mean
: $?SELF.method, and it will allow me to
Damian Conway wrote:
Important qualification:
Within a method or submethod, C.method only works when C$_ =:=
$?SELF.
C.method is perfectly legal on *any* topic anywhere that $?SELF
doesn't exist.
Just to be clear, this includes any method/submethod with an explicitly
named invocant,
Dave Whipp skribis 2005-07-13 8:44 (-0700):
Within a method or submethod, C.method only works when C$_ =:=
$?SELF.
C.method is perfectly legal on *any* topic anywhere that $?SELF
doesn't exist.
Just to be clear, this includes any method/submethod with an explicitly
named invocant, I
Perl 6 Summary for 2005-07-05 through 2005-07-12
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Welcome to another summary from the frog house. A house so green it can
be seen from outerspace (according to google earth).
Perl 6 Compiler
Building Pugs Workaround
Sam Vilain posted a useful work around to the error
Matt Fowles summarized:
Method Call on Invocant
Now ./method is gone, and .method only works when $_ =:= $?SELF .
Important qualification:
Within a method or submethod, C.method only works when C$_ =:= $?SELF.
C.method is perfectly legal on *any*
On Tue, Jun 28, 2005 at 08:11:24PM -0400, Matt Fowles wrote:
Parrot Loses with Fedora Core 4
Patrick reported that Fedora Core 4 and Parrot don't get along well. Leo
suggested a possible solution. No response from Patrick.
An update:
Patrick submitted a patch based on Leo's
Perl 6 Summary for 2005-06-21 through 2005-06-28
All~
Long time no see... err, write... uh, read... um... this. Yeah, long
time no this. As Piers hinted, two weeks ago I moved. Moving sucks. For
those of you who care, I am still in Cambridge, for those of you who
care more, I
Perl 6 Summary for 2005-05-24 through 2005-05-31
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Welcome to another Perl 6 summary, brought to you by Aliya's new
friends, Masha Nannifer and Philippe, and my own secret running joke.
Without further ado, I bring you Perl 6 Compiler.
Perl 6 Compiler
method chaining
Thank you for the summary, Matt
I have a correction, though:
subrules tests
Dino Morelli provided a patch adding tests for subrules to PGE. Warnock
applies.
http://xrl.us/f955
This and my other two patches to p6rules tests (RT #35950, 35971, 35994)
have not yet been applied.
On Tue, May 31, 2005 at 11:58:12PM -0400, Dino Morelli wrote:
Thank you for the summary, Matt
I have a correction, though:
subrules tests
Dino Morelli provided a patch adding tests for subrules to PGE. Warnock
applies.
http://xrl.us/f955
This and my other two patches
The Perl 6 Summary for the week ending 2005-05-24
Note to self: It's generally not a good idea to go installing Tiger on
the day you return from holiday. It's especially not a good idea to fail
to check that it didn't completely and utterly radish your Postfix
configuration
Perl 6 Summary for 2005-05-03 through 2005-05-17
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Welcome ot another fortnight's summary. Wouldn't it just figure that I
can't think of anything sufficiently non-sequiterish to amuse myself.
Perhaps I need a running gag like Leon Brocard or chromatic's
cummingseque
On Tue, 3 May 2005, Matt Fowles wrote:
Perl 6 Summary for 2004-04-26 through 2005-05-03
^^
^^
Wow!
Michele
--
Why should I read the fucking manual? I know how to fuck!
In fact the problem is that the fucking manual only gives you
Perl 6 Summary for 2004-04-26 through 2005-05-03
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Welcome to another weeks summary. This week I shall endeavor not to
accidentally delete my summary or destroy the world. So here we go with
p6c.
Perl 6 Compilers
implicit $_ on for loops
Kiran Kumar found a bug
On Tue, 19 Apr 2005, Matt Fowles wrote:
Python on Parrot
^^
Kevin Tew wondered what the state of pyrate was. Sam Ruby provided a
general explanation.
(I'm not on all of the lists, so this may have come out before and I
Perl 6 Summary for 2005-04-12 through 2005-04-19
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Sadly, a slip of the mouse cause me to delete a partially completed
summary, so I am going to push ahead on the rewrite without a witty
intro. Feel free to make one up for yourself involving stuffed animals,
musicians
Perl 6 Language
ceil and floor
Ingo Blechschmidt wondered if ceil and floor would be in the core.
Warnock applies... Although Unicode operators would let me define
circumfix \lfloor \rfloor (although I only know how to make those
symbols in tex...). Hmmm... using tex to right
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
pugs too lazy
Miroslav Silovic noticed that closing a file handle in pugs did not
force all the thunks associated with the file. While this was a bug in
pugs, it led to conversation about whether = should be lazy or eager.
Larry thinks that it will be safer
Perl 6 Summary for 2005-03-07 through 2005-03-22
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Welcome to yet another fortnights summary. I believe this is the highest
volume I have ever seen the three lists at simultaneously. Hopefully
they will keep it up, because good work is being done. To aid in the
epic
Perl 6 Summary for 2005-02-22 though 2005-03-07
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Welcome to yet another fortnight summary. Once again brought to you by
chocolate chips. This does have the distinction of being the first
summary written on a mac. So if I break into random swear words, just
bear with me
Perl 6 Summary for 2005-02-08 through 2005-02-22
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Welcome to yet another fortnight summary. Lately p6l has been out
stripping p6i in volume. While this used to be the norm, lately it has
become a rare occurrence. Strange... Anyway, this summary would be
brought to you buy
On Wed, 9 Feb 2005, Larry Wall wrote:
roadblocks thrown in their way. That's true not only for LP, but
also for FP, MP, XP, AOP, DBC, and hopefully several other varieties
^^ ^^^
^^ ^^^
1. 2.
Ehmmm... sorry for the ignorance, but...
1.
MD == Michele Dondi [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
MD On Wed, 9 Feb 2005, Larry Wall wrote:
roadblocks thrown in their way. That's true not only for LP, but
also for FP, MP, XP, AOP, DBC, and hopefully several other varieties
MD ^^ ^^^
MD ^^ ^^^
John Macdonald wrote:
The basic problem is that a junction does not work well with
boolean operations, because the answer is usually sometimes
yes and sometimes no and until you resolve which of those is
the one you want, you have to proceed with both conditions.
Well, just patch the boolean
Uri Guttman wrote:
[...]
i think so but i can't read larry's mind (nor would i want to! :)
XP = extreme programming
DBC = design by contract (or even designed by conway :)
MP = ??
Modular Programming
David
Aaron Sherman wrote:
So hold on to your socks... what about:
@x @y;
This reminds me of AWK's string concatenation behaviour:
print this $1 that $2
This was nice feature at the time, but caused problems down the track
when they wanted to add functions to the language in a subsequent
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
i think so but i can't read larry's mind (nor would i want to! :)
XP = extreme programming
DBC = design by contract (or even designed by conway :)
MP = ??
Modular Programming
David
I think it's Metaprogramming. :)
Miro
On Thu, Feb 10, 2005 at 12:32:21PM +0100, Miroslav Silovic wrote:
: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
:
: i think so but i can't read larry's mind (nor would i want to! :)
:
: XP = extreme programming
: DBC = design by contract (or even designed by conway :)
: MP = ??
:
:
: Modular
On Tue, 8 Feb 2005, Matt Fowles wrote:
pipe dreams
Juerd wondered if he could mix = and == in a sane way. The answer
appears to be no. Once you bring in == you should stick with it.
Huh?!? It doesn't seem to me that the answer is 'no'. In fact C ==
is supposed to be yet another operator,
Michele Dondi wrote:
On Tue, 8 Feb 2005, Matt Fowles wrote:
pipe dreams
Juerd wondered if he could mix = and == in a sane way. The answer
appears to be no. Once you bring in == you should stick with it.
Huh?!? It doesn't seem to me that the answer is 'no'. In fact C ==
is supposed to be
On Wed, Feb 09, 2005 at 10:04:48AM +0100, Michele Dondi wrote:
: On Tue, 8 Feb 2005, Matt Fowles wrote:
:
: pipe dreams
:Juerd wondered if he could mix = and == in a sane way. The answer
:appears to be no. Once you bring in == you should stick with it.
:
: Huh?!? It doesn't seem to me
On Wed, 9 Feb 2005, Larry Wall wrote:
Yes, you can certainly intermix them as long as you keep your
precedence straight with parentheses. Though I suppose we could go
as far as to say that = is only scalar assignment, and you have to
use == or == for list assignment. That would
Larry Wall wrote:
On Wed, Feb 09, 2005 at 10:04:48AM +0100, Michele Dondi wrote:
: On Tue, 8 Feb 2005, Matt Fowles wrote:
:
: pipe dreams
:Juerd wondered if he could mix = and == in a sane way. The answer
:appears to be no. Once you bring in == you should stick with it.
:
: Huh?!? It
On Wed, 2005-02-09 at 06:04, Rod Adams wrote:
Larry Wall wrote:
Yes, you can certainly intermix them as long as you keep your
precedence straight with parentheses. Though I suppose we could go
as far as to say that = is only scalar assignment, and you have to
use == or == for list
--- Matt Fowles [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Logic Programming in Perl 6
Ovid asked what logic programming in perl 6 would look like. No
answer
yet, but I suppose I can pick the low hanging fruit: as a
limiting case
you could always back out the entire perl 6 grammar and insert
On Wed, Feb 09, 2005 at 11:57:17AM -0800, Ovid wrote:
: --- Matt Fowles [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
:
: Logic Programming in Perl 6
: Ovid asked what logic programming in perl 6 would look like. No
: answer
: yet, but I suppose I can pick the low hanging fruit: as a
: limiting case
:
On Wed, Feb 09, 2005 at 11:57:17AM -0800, Ovid wrote:
--- Matt Fowles [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Logic Programming in Perl 6
Ovid asked what logic programming in perl 6 would look like. No
answer
yet, but I suppose I can pick the low hanging fruit: as a
limiting case
Perl 6 Summary for 2005-01-31 through 2004-02-8
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Welcome to yet another summary in which I will undoubtedly confuse to
homophones. Probably more than a few this week as I am a little tired.
But perhaps the alien on my window or the vampire on my monitor will
help
On Tue, Jan 18, 2005 at 10:43:00PM -0700, Luke Palmer wrote:
Oh, I thought I replied, but now that I look over the question I guess I
didn't. The question was:
Austin Hasting writes:
How do I concisely code a loop that reads in lines of a file, then
calls mysub() on each letter in each
Luke Palmer wrote:
Austin Hasting writes:
How do I concisely code a loop that reads in lines of a file, then
calls mysub() on each letter in each line?
Or each xml tag on the line?
And I guess the answer is the same as in Perl 5. I don't understand
what the problem is with Perl 5's
Austin Hastings writes:
Luke Palmer wrote:
Austin Hasting writes:
How do I concisely code a loop that reads in lines of a file, then
calls mysub() on each letter in each line?
Or each xml tag on the line?
And I guess the answer is the same as in Perl 5. I don't understand
Perl 6 Summary for 2005-01-11 through 2005-01-18
Welcome to yet another Perl Summary brought to you by music and pizza
(although the pizza is late in arriving). Like many summaries before it,
we start with an attempt at non sequitur and Perl 6 Language.
Perl 6 Language
idiomatic
Perl 6 Summary for 2004-01-03 through 2004-01-11
Welcome to another Perl 6 summary. In this summary, we will explore such
thrilling issues as multi-dimensional slices of Chinese food. After all,
the amount of sauce any piece of Chinese food can absorb is proportional
to its surface
Matt Fowles wrote:
Perl 6 Summary for 2004-12-20 through 2005-01-03
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Welcome to a New Year of Perl 6 Summaries. I have been doing bi-weekly
summaries over the holiday season, but I plan on returning to weekly
ones now. Hopefully World of Warcraft won't prevent me, we shall see
Matt Fowles wrote:
Perl 6 Summary for 2004-12-20 through 2005-01-03
s/conses/consensus/g ?
Austin Hastings [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
s/conses/consensus/g ?
I assumed it was a Lisp reference. ;-)
Jon
--- Jon Ericson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Austin Hastings [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
s/conses/consensus/g ?
I assumed it was a Lisp reference. ;-)
contheth?
(No, I'm not really *quite* that clueless.)
Cheers,
Ovid
=
Silence is Evil
Perl 6 Summary for 2004-12-20 through 2005-01-03
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Welcome to a New Year of Perl 6 Summaries. I have been doing bi-weekly
summaries over the holiday season, but I plan on returning to weekly
ones now. Hopefully World of Warcraft won't prevent me, we shall see,
but if anyone
On Mon, Dec 20, 2004 at 09:52:32PM -0500, Matt Fowles wrote:
: Much churning went on and it seems that multiple different
: (but identically named) rule captures can now be performed by adding
: information after a dash ala ws-1 ws-2 ws-3.
Actually, much churning is still going on in
On Dec 6, 2004, at 6:27 PM, Matt Fowles wrote:
getters and setters
John Siracusa wanted to know if Perl 6 would allow one to expose a
member variable to the outside world, but then later intercept
assignments to it without actually having to switch to using
getters and
setters
Perl 6 Summary for 2004-11-29 through 2004-12-06
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Last week I asked for help identifying the source of a quotation. One
friendly soul suggested Alan J. Perlis, but could not find an actual
attribution. It did lead me to find a very applicable (and in my mind
funny) quote
Matt Fowles skribis 2004-11-29 22:22 (-0500):
Juerd suggested scrapping qx and qw in favor of qq:x and qq:w, which
Larry liked.
Credit for this shouldn't be mine, but Larry's, as it's his invention:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Juerd
Perl 6 Summary for 2004-11-22 through 2004-11-29
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Rather than try to do something witty about the strange music I am
listening to, or the stuffed animals who are assisting me. I will start
this summary off with an entirely self-serving request. abuseA while
ago I saw
Perl 6 Summary for 2004-11-08 through 2004-11-15
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Welcome to yet another Monday summary. This would have been a Sunday
summary, but Avernum (from Spiderweb Software) forcibly prevented it. As
usual, we will start out with Perl 6 Language.
Perl 6 Language
modules
-Original Message-
From: Matt Fowles [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, November 15, 2004 11:27 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Perl 6 Internals List; perl6-
[EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Perl 6 Summary for 2004-11-08 through 2004-11-15
Perl 6 Summary for 2004-11
At 10:39 PM -0500 11/8/04, Matt Fowles wrote:
calling convenctions, traceback, and register allocation
Leo suggested a new way to invoke functions which would clean up
calling, tracebacks, and register allocation. While such a change would
have great aesthetic value, Dan declared it
Perl 6 Summary for 2004-11-01 through 2004-11-08
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Welcome to yet another summary, brought to you (once again) with the aid
of the musical stylings of Dar Williams and Soul Coughing and a small
stuffed elephant name Aliya. And, without further ado, I give you Perl 6
Perl 6 Summary for 2004-10-23 through 2004-11-01
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Welcome to another summary, this one being slightly delayed by
Halloween. Before I start off with perl6-language, let me remind all
American readers to vote tomorrow. Non-American readers should also
vote, but it seems
Aaron Sherman writes:
The current syntax for what you're
trying to write is:
/ab(c|b) ($1 eq 'c')/
which is equivalent to
/ab(c|b) {fail unless $1 eq 'c'}/
Now, what does fail mean? I can think of two definitions:
1. proceed to trap state (backtracking then
On Wed, 2004-10-27 at 14:01, Luke Palmer wrote:
Aaron Sherman writes:
/ab(c|b) {fail unless $1 eq 'c'}/
Now, what does fail mean? I can think of two definitions:
1. proceed to trap state (backtracking then happens)
2. exit (probably using an exception) the rule?
The
Larry Wall wrote:
I suppose if I were Archimedes I'd have climbed
back out and shouted Eureka, but as far as I know Archimedes never
made it to Italy, so it didn't occur to me...
well, Archimedes *was* italian. for some meaning of italian, at least.
he was born in Syracuse (the one in Sicily, not
Larry Wall wrote:
On Tue, Oct 19, 2004 at 09:35:27PM +0100, Matthew Walton wrote:
: Austin Hastings wrote:
: Does this mean that we're done? :)
:
: No, it means Larry's about to stun us with something seemingly bizarre
: and inexplicable which turns out to be a stroke of genius.
The only
On Mon, 25 Oct 2004, Larry Wall wrote:
: No, it means Larry's about to stun us with something seemingly bizarre
: and inexplicable which turns out to be a stroke of genius.
The only bizarre and inexplicable thing that has occurred to me in the
last week is that I fell into a canal in Venice. It
On Tue, 2004-10-26 at 05:17, Matthew Walton wrote:
Also, climbing back out and shouting 'Eureka' would only really be
appropriate if you actually had experienced a moment of revelation about
something. I suspect you were too busy with the not drowning part for that.
Well, such moments of
Aldo Calpini [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Larry Wall wrote:
I suppose if I were Archimedes I'd have climbed
back out and shouted Eureka, but as far as I know Archimedes never
made it to Italy, so it didn't occur to me...
well, Archimedes *was* italian. for some meaning of italian, at least.
On Tue, Oct 26, 2004 at 01:42:02PM -0400, Aaron Sherman wrote:
: Larry, while you're feeling chatty, I have a question about Perl 6
: regular expressions for you. You answered a question of mine, long ago
: with a correction. I had said something like:
:
: /ab(c|b){$1 eq 'c'}/
:
: If I
On Tue, 2004-10-26 at 20:16, Larry Wall wrote:
On Tue, Oct 26, 2004 at 01:42:02PM -0400, Aaron Sherman wrote:
: /ab(c|b){$1 eq 'c'}/
:
: If I recall correctly you had said something like, there is no plan
: (yet) to allow embedded closures to affect matching directly, other than
:
On Tue, Oct 19, 2004 at 09:35:27PM +0100, Matthew Walton wrote:
: Austin Hastings wrote:
: Does this mean that we're done? :)
:
: No, it means Larry's about to stun us with something seemingly bizarre
: and inexplicable which turns out to be a stroke of genius.
The only bizarre and
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