Re: Looking for help updating Perl 6 and Parrot part of Perl Myths talk

2009-09-25 Thread Tim Bunce
I gave the talk at OSSBarcamp in Dublin last weekend and it went well. My sincere thanks to everyone who contributed. The slides are available at: http://www.slideshare.net/Tim.Bunce/perl-myths-200909 The graphs and stats charting the continuing growth of perl and the perl community were

r28403 - in docs/Perl6/Spec: . S32-setting-library

2009-09-25 Thread pugs-commits
Author: jimmy Date: 2009-09-25 12:32:57 +0200 (Fri, 25 Sep 2009) New Revision: 28403 Modified: docs/Perl6/Spec/S21-calling-foreign-code.pod docs/Perl6/Spec/S26-documentation.pod docs/Perl6/Spec/S28-special-names.pod docs/Perl6/Spec/S32-setting-library/Abstraction.pod

r28404 - docs/Perl6/Spec

2009-09-25 Thread pugs-commits
Author: jimmy Date: 2009-09-25 14:32:52 +0200 (Fri, 25 Sep 2009) New Revision: 28404 Modified: docs/Perl6/Spec/S02-bits.pod Log: [Spec/S02-bits.pod]use standard dialect 'Pod' Modified: docs/Perl6/Spec/S02-bits.pod === ---

Re: Looking for help updating Perl 6 and Parrot part of Perl Myths talk

2009-09-25 Thread Moritz Lenz
Moritz Lenz wrote: Carl Mäsak wrote: Tim (): Anything else I should add, change or remove? I'm especially interested in verifyable metrics showing effort, progress, or use. Ideally graphical. Any interesting nuggets that fit with the theme will be most welcome. Moritz++ and I were talking

Should .^methods be curried with the invocant?

2009-09-25 Thread Moritz Lenz
Consider this case: class A { method m { say 'OH HAI' } }; my $m = A.new.^methods(:local).[0]; How should I invoke $m? In current Rakudo this works: $m(A.new); # supply the invocant as first argument But shouldn't be just $m() (invocant magically curried) or may $m(A.new:) (invocant not

Re: Should .^methods be curried with the invocant?

2009-09-25 Thread Daniel Ruoso
Em Sex, 2009-09-25 às 18:28 +0200, Moritz Lenz escreveu: class A { method m { say 'OH HAI' } }; my $m = A.new.^methods(:local).[0]; How should I invoke $m? In current Rakudo this works: $m(A.new);# supply the invocant as first argument But shouldn't be just $m() (invocant magically