Re: threads?

2010-10-16 Thread Matt Follett
/presentation_file/14299/GuySteele-parallel.pdf ~Matt

Parrot 0.4.11 released

2007-04-17 Thread Matt Diephouse
, and other compilers + extended support for Solaris and other platforms Thanks to all our contributors for making this possible, and our sponsors for supporting this project. Enjoy! -- Matt Diephouse

Re: Re: class interface of roles

2006-10-08 Thread Matt Fowles
. If A B and B C, then A C for any A, B, and C. However, it is not necessarily the case that A B, or B A, or B == A for any particular A and B. Thus transitivity is preserved, but there is not a guarantee of comparability between elements. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partial_ordering Matt

$a.foo() moved?

2006-04-06 Thread Matt Fowles
All~ I just noticed something claiming that C$a. foo() is actually C$a.foo() (a method call on C$a) and that C$a .foo() is actually C$a $_.foo() (likely a syntax error). When did this change? Why did this change? Also, I liked it better when C$a .foo() was a method call on C$a. Thanks, Matt

Re: $a.foo() moved?

2006-04-06 Thread Matt Fowles
Larry~ On 4/6/06, Larry Wall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Apr 06, 2006 at 01:58:55PM -0400, Matt Fowles wrote: : All~ : : I just noticed something claiming that C$a. foo() is actually : C$a.foo() (a method call on C$a) and that C$a .foo() is actually : C$a $_.foo() (likely a syntax

Re: overloading the variable declaration process

2006-02-08 Thread Matt Fowles
Class. 1 ... 2 ... 3 ... *snap* ... What!?!? Where was I? Oh, yeah. As I was saying, I think we just take C++'s object system exactly. Matt -- Computer Science is merely the post-Turing Decline of Formal Systems Theory. -Stan Kelly-Bootle, The Devil's DP Dictionary

Re: overloading the variable declaration process

2006-02-07 Thread Matt Fowles
described Pipe feels a little muddy to me and I am unsure about its purpose and semantics. Is it just an object I ask `.can()` or does it have some deeper usefulness? Matt -- Computer Science is merely the post-Turing Decline of Formal Systems Theory. -Stan Kelly-Bootle, The Devil's DP Dictionary

Re: overloading the variable declaration process

2006-02-07 Thread Matt Fowles
Stevan~ I am going to assume that you intended to reply to perl 6 language, and thus will include your post in its entirety in my response. On 2/7/06, Stevan Little [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2/7/06, Matt Fowles [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Larry~ On 2/7/06, Larry Wall [EMAIL PROTECTED

Perl 6 Summary for 2006-01-24 though 2006-02-07

2006-02-07 Thread Matt Fowles
into a little more detail on protype objects, and Matt Fowles pushing for even more detail. http://xrl.us/jwuf Perl 6 Development Process Yuval Kogman posted a loose plan for for improving Perl 6's development momentum. This is a contentious issue, and I will not try to summarize

Re: overloading the variable declaration process

2006-02-07 Thread Matt Fowles
. Matt -- Computer Science is merely the post-Turing Decline of Formal Systems Theory. -Stan Kelly-Bootle, The Devil's DP Dictionary

Re: overloading the variable declaration process

2006-02-06 Thread Matt Fowles
the representation of a thing with the thing. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:MagrittePipe.jpg Matt -- Computer Science is merely the post-Turing Decline of Formal Systems Theory. -Stan Kelly-Bootle, The Devil's DP Dictionary

Perl 6 Summary for 2006-01-10 though 2006-01-24

2006-01-24 Thread Matt Fowles
... Perl 6 Compiler Either this list followed its typical pattern of doing most of its work off list, or google's indexing of it broke. I am guess the former and continuing on blindly. Perl 6 Internals Unescapable Single Quotes in Strings Matt Diephouse discovered that he could

Re: Class methods vs. Instance methods

2006-01-18 Thread Matt Fowles
of the advantage of this approach please? Failing that can you try and expand on your gut feeling a bit? Thanks, Matt -- Computer Science is merely the post-Turing Decline of Formal Systems Theory. -Stan Kelly-Bootle, The Devil's DP Dictionary

Perl 6 Summary for 2006-01-02 though 2006-01-09

2006-01-11 Thread Matt Fowles
Perl 6 Summary for 2006-01-02 though 2006-01-09 All~ 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

2005-12-12 Thread Matt Fowles
Perl 6 Summary for 2005-12-05 through 2005-12-12 All~ 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 in

Re: This week's summary

2005-11-30 Thread Matt Fowles
are ready to resume. Don't hurry on my account; I know moving is a pain. Matt -- Computer Science is merely the post-Turing Decline of Formal Systems Theory. -Stan Kelly-Bootle, The Devil's DP Dictionary

Re: type sigils redux, and new unary ^ operator

2005-11-23 Thread Matt Fowles
it makes sense to steal the syntax for something else. I think using C ..5 to mean (0, 1, 2, 3, 4) would be a more sensible option. Makes sense to me at least. Matt -- Computer Science is merely the post-Turing Decline of Formal Systems Theory. -Stan Kelly-Bootle, The Devil's DP Dictionary

Re: type sigils redux, and new unary ^ operator

2005-11-23 Thread Matt Fowles
Larry~ On 11/23/05, Larry Wall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Nov 23, 2005 at 11:55:35AM -0500, Matt Fowles wrote: : I think using C ..5 to mean (0, 1, 2, 3, 4) would be a more : sensible option. Makes sense to me at least. That doesn't derive well from any

Perl 6 Summary for 2005-11-14 through 2005-11-21

2005-11-21 Thread Matt Fowles
Perl 6 Summary for 2005-11-14 through 2005-11-21 All~ 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

Re: Is there a way to generate an object without new?

2005-10-27 Thread Matt Fowles
does that logically follow? Matt -- Computer Science is merely the post-Turing Decline of Formal Systems Theory. -Stan Kelly-Bootle, The Devil's DP Dictionary

Re: +$arg changed to :$arg

2005-10-26 Thread Matt Fowles
a subscript modifier instead: @array:[42] 42 = @array[1] Same question. Matt -- Computer Science is merely the post-Turing Decline of Formal Systems Theory. -Stan Kelly-Bootle, The Devil's DP Dictionary

Perl 6 Summary for 2005-10-10 through 2005-10-24

2005-10-25 Thread Matt Fowles
Name Space is Dead; Long Live Namespace Matt Diephouse announced the deprecation of get_name_space in favor of get_namespace. http://groups.google.com/group/perl.perl6.internals/browse_frm/thread/ddb3bba634077c8d/496252734de3c217#496252734de3c217 Google Groups : perl.perl6.internals =head3 split

Re: What the heck is a submethod (good for)

2005-10-13 Thread Matt Fowles
. Was it an intentionaly decision to omit this type of multi method? Matt -- Computer Science is merely the post-Turing Decline of Formal Systems Theory. -Stan Kelly-Bootle, The Devil's DP Dictionary

Perl 6 Summary for 2005-09-26 through 2005-10-02

2005-10-04 Thread Matt Fowles
Perl 6 Summary for 2005-09-26 through 2005-10-02 All~ 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

Re: Look-ahead arguments in for loops

2005-09-30 Thread Matt Fowles
Austin~ On 9/29/05, Austin Hastings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Matt Fowles wrote: Austin~ On 9/29/05, Austin Hastings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Plus it's hard to talk about backwards. If you say for @l - ?$prev, $curr, ?$next {...} what happens when you have two items in the list? I

Re: Look-ahead arguments in for loops

2005-09-29 Thread Matt Fowles
think that is an easy call for (1, 2) - ?$prev, $cur, ?$next { say $prev - $cur if $prev; say $cur; say $cur - $next if $next; say next; } should print 1 1 - 2 next 1 - 2 2 next Matt -- Computer Science is merely the post-Turing Decline of Formal Systems Theory. -Stan Kelly-Bootle

Re: Stringification, numification, and booleanification of pairs

2005-09-22 Thread Matt Fowles
interpolation should be handled exactly the same as stringification. I would like C (foo is $foo of course) eq (foo is ~ $foo ~ of course) at all times. Matt -- Computer Science is merely the post-Turing Decline of Formal Systems Theory. -Stan Kelly-Bootle, The Devil's DP Dictionary

Re: \(...)?

2005-09-21 Thread Matt Fowles
foo (1,2,3); # infix:, called foo( (1,2,3) ); # infix:, called Matt -- Computer Science is merely the post-Turing Decline of Formal Systems Theory. -Stan Kelly-Bootle, The Devil's DP Dictionary

Re: conditional wrapper blocks

2005-09-20 Thread Matt Fowles
it is not a lot of added complexity, but perl6 is already an very large language). Matt -- Computer Science is merely the post-Turing Decline of Formal Systems Theory. -Stan Kelly-Bootle, The Devil's DP Dictionary

Perl 6 Summary for 2005-09-12 through 2005-09-19

2005-09-19 Thread Matt Fowles
Perl 6 Summary for 2005-09-12 through 2005-09-19 All~ 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 a

Who is @Larry?

2005-08-25 Thread Matt Fowles
All~ I have a simple question. Who comprises @Larry? I am fairly sure that I know a few people in it, but I am highly doubtful that I know all of them. Thanks, Matt -- Computer Science is merely the post-Turing Decline of Formal Systems Theory. -Stan Kelly-Bootle, The Devil's DP Dictionary

Perl 6 Summary for 2005-08-15 through 2005-08-22

2005-08-22 Thread Matt Fowles
Perl 6 Summary for 2005-08-15 through 2005-08-22 All~ 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

2005-08-10 Thread Matt Fowles
Perl 6 Summary for 2005-08-02 through 2005-08-10 All~ 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

Re: Elimination of Item|Pair and Any|Junction

2005-07-27 Thread Matt Fowles
dislike having Object encompass Juction. I get the feeling that some people will write functions that take Objects and not expect Junctions to slip in. I suppose that could be one of those hurdles that developers just have to jump, but it doesn't feel like it should be. Matt -- Computer Science

Perl 6 Summary for 2005-07-19 through 2005-07-26

2005-07-26 Thread Matt Fowles
on windows. Nick Glencross wondered if the python dynclasses tests were being run too. Jonathan Worthington explained that they were being skipped for the moment. http://xrl.us/gv63 Raised by the Aliens Matt Diephouse was surprised to discover that you cannot use addparent

Re: standard asynchronous deferred-to-result syntax RFP

2005-07-15 Thread Matt Sergeant
they would fit into something like qpsmtpd's async framework - we don't poll a bunch of objects for readiness state - we have to let the OS kernel notify us through the epoll/poll/kqueue framework. Matt.

Perl 6 Summary for 2005-07-05 through 2005-07-12

2005-07-12 Thread Matt Fowles
parameter, Patrick updated the leo_ctx5 branch of PGE to the new calling conventions. All tests pass. http://xrl.us/gqkb Get onto the Bus Matt Diephouse found a Bus Error when running languages/tcl/examples/bench.tcl. Warnock applies. http://xrl.us/gqkc MinGW Patch

Re: method calls on $self

2005-07-11 Thread Matt Fowles
distinctive and doesn't get in the way of $_... Matt -- Computer Science is merely the post-Turing Decline of Formal Systems Theory. -Stan Kelly-Bootle, The Devil's DP Dictionary

Perl 6 Summary for 2005-06-21 through 2005-06-28

2005-06-28 Thread Matt Fowles
mentioned, but Hamiltonian and Surreal Numbers were left out. Honestly, where are our priorities. http://xrl.us/gke4 Tracing and Debugging Pain Matt Diephouse posted a general description of the problems he was having with tracing, debugging, and GC. Warnock might apply

Re: return() in pointy blocks

2005-06-07 Thread Matt Fowles
the pointy subs in for loops to ask this way, so maybe this is just one of those things that one has to be ware of. Matt -- Computer Science is merely the post-Turing Decline of Formal Systems Theory. -???

Re: return() in pointy blocks

2005-06-07 Thread Matt Fowles
All~ On 6/7/05, Luke Palmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 6/7/05, Matt Fowles [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 6/7/05, Ingo Blechschmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, sub foo (Code $code) { my $return_to_caller = - $ret { return $ret }; $code($return_to_caller

Re: My presentation on last weekend

2005-06-02 Thread Matt Creenan
(Poetro) said the summary: then we can say, that Perl 6 is an operator oriented language? We agreed. As do I! I love it in fact :) Bye, Andras Matt

Perl 6 Summary for 2005-05-24 through 2005-05-31

2005-05-31 Thread Matt Fowles
escapes Will Coleda added more complete escape sequence support to Tcl. Matt Diephouse integrated the patch into his latest version. http://xrl.us/f96i State of ParTcl Will Coleda proudly noted that as of r8193 ParTcl was passing all tests even with gc-debug. Much praise

Re: Perl development server

2005-05-23 Thread Matt Creenan
On Mon, 23 May 2005 14:58:20 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How about zephyr. No! That's the name of a project I'm working on dang it ;)

reduce metaoperator on an empty list

2005-05-18 Thread Matt Fowles
All~ What does the reduce metaoperator do with an empty list? my @a; [+] @a; # 0? exception? [*] @a; # 1? exception? [] @a; # false? [||] @a; # false? [] @a; # true? Also if it magically supplies some correct like the above, how does it know what that value is? Thanks, Matt -- Computer

Perl 6 Summary for 2005-05-03 through 2005-05-17

2005-05-18 Thread Matt Fowles
a preliminary patch. Leo provided some answers but felt that the calling conventions should be pinned down before the patch. http://xrl.us/f5r3 commit bit for Matt Matt Diephouse was given a commit bit. Congrats. Leo took the opportunity to remind himself to run make test before

Re: ^method ?

2005-05-16 Thread Matt Fowles
the is optional on function calls... This symmetry and regularity seems like a powerful thing to me and I would not want to lose it... Matt -- Computer Science is merely the post-Turing Decline of Formal Systems Theory. -???

Re: ./method

2005-05-15 Thread Matt Diephouse
() FWIW, I like the original spec best. I'm not sure that the problems with it aren't being exaggerated. But I've not written much Perl 6 yet either... -- matt diephouse http://matt.diephouse.com

Re: ./method

2005-05-15 Thread Matt Diephouse
Damian Conway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Larry Wall wrote: On Sun, May 15, 2005 at 12:22:07PM -0400, Matt Diephouse wrote: : Does this mean private methods will be called like this? : : ./:method() No, I think that's still just .:method() This missing design rationale

Re: (1,(2,3),4)[2]

2005-05-11 Thread Matt Fowles
it's in list context. I think that line should return 3. I am confused as to why exactly this is the case. Are you saying that nested lists like this flatten? That would certainly catch me off guard. Would you mind explaining that to me a little more? Thanks, Matt -- Computer Science

Re: available operator characters

2005-05-07 Thread Matt Creenan
On Sat, 07 May 2005 01:47:08 -0400, Matt Creenan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So here's some random ideas that probably make no sense ($ can be optional.. don't know) *snip* That brings me to another idea. Is $_ as an array used? @_? This relates back to the discussion on topics. Could be use

Re: Clarification of behavior for .isa() on built-in types

2005-05-07 Thread Matt Fowles
. The isa() call will be made repeatedly with the different arguments and then the junction will know how to combine that into a single boolean result. Matt -- Computer Science is merely the post-Turing Decline of Formal Systems Theory. -???

Re: available operator characters

2005-05-06 Thread Matt Creenan
On Sat, 07 May 2005 01:12:02 -0400, Mark A. Biggar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Actually if we define |...| at all, I'd prefer it mean abs(), its usual mathmatical meaning. I agree. I think || is just confusing. I thought about $blockname = { ... }, but = is obviously taken, as is == So here's

Perl 6 Summary for 2004-04-26 through 2005-05-03

2005-05-03 Thread Matt Fowles
Perl 6 Summary for 2004-04-26 through 2005-05-03 All~ 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 in

Re: Open and pipe

2005-05-02 Thread Matt Fowles
for everything but a sub callback. If you want a callback to a method, curry the object. If you want private data, curry the data. After you are done currying you will have a simple sub to pass in as the callback, the peasants rejoice, and libraries will have a simpler interface. Matt -- Computer Science

Re: Open and pipe

2005-05-02 Thread Matt Fowles
All~ On 5/3/05, Uri Guttman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: MF == Matt Fowles [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: MF All~ MF On 5/2/05, Uri Guttman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: LW == Larry Wall [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: LW multi sub opensocket ( LW Str +$mode = 'rw', LW Str +$encoding

Re: Sun Fortress and Perl 6

2005-04-27 Thread Matt
On Wed, 27 Apr 2005 03:32:12 -0400, Autrijus Tang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 3. Labels applies to blocks, not statements Instead of this: LABEL: say Hello! say Hi! One has to write this (essentially creating named blocks): LABEL: { say Hello! say Hi! }

Re: -X's auto-(un)quoting?

2005-04-23 Thread Matt
On Sat, 23 Apr 2005 07:25:10 -0400, Juerd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Matt skribis 2005-04-22 21:55 (-0400): What about . for each level up you want to go? instead of 1.say, 2.say, 3.say you use .say, ..say, ...say (Ok, I'm just kidding.. really!) I read your message after I suggested the same thing

Re: -X's auto-(un)quoting?

2005-04-23 Thread Matt Creenan
On Sat, 23 Apr 2005 13:55:17 -0400, Mark A. Biggar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: After some further thought (and a phone talk with Larry), I now think that all of these counted-level solutions (even my proposal of _2.foo(), etc.) are a bad idea. They have a similar problems to constructs like next 5;

Re: -X's auto-(un)quoting?

2005-04-23 Thread Matt Creenan
On Sat, 23 Apr 2005 14:21:06 -0400, Juerd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Matt Creenan skribis 2005-04-23 14:19 (-0400): Hm.. didn't really think of that. Though, how often would that really happen? Often -- this is exactly the same problem as Python has with its significant indenting. Move code around

Re: -X's auto-(un)quoting?

2005-04-22 Thread Matt
On Fri, 22 Apr 2005 14:24:25 -0400, Juerd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Because a URI scheme ends in :. It http: followed by anything other than // should fail because it is invalid, not fall back to file handling. IFF you're handling URIs. multi sub open ($u of Str where /^mailto:\/\//, [EMAIL

Re: -X's auto-(un)quoting?

2005-04-22 Thread Matt
On Fri, 22 Apr 2005 21:31:03 -0400, Larry Wall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: given open 'mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]' { ^say(...); ^close or fail; } That almost makes sense, given that $^a is like $_. It also points vaguely upward toward some antecedent. I could maybe get used

Re: -X's auto-(un)quoting?

2005-04-22 Thread Matt
On Fri, 22 Apr 2005 15:09:21 -0400, Juerd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Matt skribis 2005-04-22 14:44 (-0400): mailto isn't something you can open really, for read at least. No, but writing to it ought to simplify things :) given open 'mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]' { .say(q0

Re: -X's auto-(un)quoting?

2005-04-22 Thread Matt
On Fri, 22 Apr 2005 11:42:10 -0400, Larry Wall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You speak of open as if it must be a single function. We're now living in the age of MMD, so what you're asking for is a no-brainer. If we decided to we could even do MMD with constraints: multi sub open ($u of Str where

Closure/block/sub multiplier /// Win32 module for Perl6

2005-04-20 Thread Matt
the adventure? Specifically, how it should be organized, among other things. Thanks :), Matt Creenan -- Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/mail/

Fwd: Re: embedding languages in Perl 6

2005-04-20 Thread Matt
I sent this to BÁRTHÁZI only instead of BÁRTHÁZI and the list as well. So here's a forward of what I sent and he replied to. --- Forwarded message --- From: Matt [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: BÁRTHÁZI András [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Subject: Re: embedding languages in Perl 6 Date: Wed, 20 Apr

Re: Fwd: Re: embedding languages in Perl 6

2005-04-20 Thread Matt
On Wed, 20 Apr 2005 14:13:42 -0400, Larry Wall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Heredocs are variants on q:toSQLPROC these days, but if you're going to be mixing Perl and SQL syntax, it's probably better to dispense with the heredoc and just have a language variant so that you can parse it at compile

Re: Closure/block/sub multiplier /// Win32 module for Perl6

2005-04-20 Thread Matt Creenan
On Wed, 20 Apr 2005 13:00:01 -0400, Matt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2. Is anyone working on making a Win32 module for Perl6 yet, or porting over the p5 one? If not, I may be willing to make one, along with some help from friends. If I do, does anyone have any pointers or suggestions for me

Perl 6 Summary for 2005-04-12 through 2005-04-19

2005-04-19 Thread Matt Fowles
Perl 6 Summary for 2005-04-12 through 2005-04-19 All~ 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, and

Re: Win32 with ICU files build problem

2005-04-12 Thread Matt Diephouse
as well. I didn't go as far as to define --icudatadir, but I noticed that passing no icu options causes Configure.pl to autodetect icu. You might give that a shot. Please consider patching the documentation if what you find there doesn't work. -- matt diephouse http://matt.diephouse.com

Re: Question about list context for String.chars

2005-04-11 Thread Matt Diephouse
to use chars by default. And C$string[] would be a nice shortcut for that. -- matt diephouse http://matt.diephouse.com

Perl 6 Summary for 2005-03-22 through 2005-04-05

2005-04-05 Thread Matt Fowles
improving mingw docs François Perrad provided a patch improving the documentation for building with MinGW. Leo applied part of it. http://xrl.us/fogv moving pmc2c2.pl or pmc2c.pl Matt Diephouse opened an RT ticket for cleaning up the file system (specifically pmc2c2?.pl

Re: use less in perl6?

2005-03-30 Thread Matt Fowles
wonder what this would do: use less syntax; ;-) Back out the entire p6 grammar and put in lisp's instead... Matt -- Computer Science is merely the post-Turing Decline of Formal Systems Theory. -???

Perl 6 Summary for 2005-03-07 through 2005-03-22

2005-03-22 Thread Matt Fowles
slices Matt Diephouse wants to assign to an array slice but doesn't know if he can. He can. http://xrl.us/fijy .method; $self.method; $_.method As originally specified .method means $_.method . This sets is appart from $.foo, @.foo, %.foo which all refer to $self . Much

Re: New S29 draft up

2005-03-20 Thread Matt Diephouse
Juerd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Matt Diephouse skribis 2005-03-18 13:35 (-0500): Too bad sub names can't start with numbers: 0x $hex; # hex $hex But they can, if you call them prefix operators instead of subs. See also -e and alike operators, which start with a character that isn't even

Slices

2005-03-20 Thread Matt Diephouse
` and `substr` at all, but there are times when it's more convenient to specify with a starting point and a length than with a range. -- matt diephouse http://matt.diephouse.com

Re: New S29 draft up

2005-03-18 Thread Matt Diephouse
. Maybe it's not worth fixing. +0x$_ # hex +0o$_ # oct +0b$_ # bin (does not exist in Perl 5) Too bad sub names can't start with numbers: 0x $hex; # hex $hex 0x($hex); 0b $bin; 0o $oct; That would make sense to me. -- matt diephouse http://matt.diephouse.com

Re: New S29 draft up

2005-03-17 Thread Matt Diephouse
. This is one item that has always confused me about Perl 5. -- matt diephouse http://matt.diephouse.com

Perl 6 Summary for 2005-02-22 though 2005-03-07

2005-03-07 Thread Matt Fowles
to make a Parrot RPM for Mandrake. Leo and Will gave him pointers on where to start. http://xrl.us/fdd3 warnocked documentation patch Matt Diephouse wondered what the status of a patch he sent in was. Still no response. ::nudge:: http://xrl.us/fdd4 OS X build problem

Perl 6 Summary for 2005-02-08 through 2005-02-22

2005-02-22 Thread Matt Fowles
Perl 6 Summary for 2005-02-08 through 2005-02-22 All~ 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

Re: Junction Values

2005-02-20 Thread Matt Fowles
into a rage... Matt -- Computer Science is merely the post-Turing Decline of Formal Systems Theory. -???

Re: Boolean literals

2005-02-17 Thread Matt Diephouse
, or bool::true and bool::false? I believe bool::true and bool::false are enums (so they are 1 and 0, respectively). -- matt diephouse http://matt.diephouse.com

Re: Junctive puzzles.

2005-02-09 Thread Matt Fowles
All~ On Wed, 09 Feb 2005 22:48:00 +, Matthew Walton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Matt Fowles wrote: All~ On Tue, 08 Feb 2005 17:51:24 +0100, Miroslav Silovic [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, we see the same kind of thing with standard interval arithmetic

Re: Junctive puzzles.

2005-02-08 Thread Matt Fowles
under some circumstances, so my $x = any(1,2,3,4,5,6,7); if(is_prime($x) # $x = any(2,3,5,7) and is_even($x) # $x = any(2) and $x 2) # $x = any() Matt -- Computer Science is merely the post-Turing Decline of Formal Systems Theory. -???

Re: [rbw3@cse.nau.edu: Re: Junctive puzzles.]

2005-02-08 Thread Matt Fowles
) and (a c) I disagree, I think that that is both mathematically sounds and perfectly logical. Matt -- Computer Science is merely the post-Turing Decline of Formal Systems Theory. -???

Perl 6 Summary for 2005-01-31 through 2004-02-8

2005-02-08 Thread Matt Fowles
://xrl.us/e27n http://xrl.us/e27o http://xrl.us/e27p -- latest results Parrot_load_bytecode failure? Ian Joyce wondered what would happen if Parrot_load_bytecode failed. The answer: exception. http://xrl.us/e27q reading past EOF Matt Diephouse was annoyed that reading past

Re: FP6: Types

2005-02-03 Thread Matt Fowles
Autrijus~ Actually, I think that p6l is the correct place for this discussion. My logic is that you are asking about specific facets of the language, not helping the perl 6 compiler or parrot. Matt On Fri, 4 Feb 2005 01:28:42 +0800, Autrijus Tang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Feb 03, 2005

This weeks summary

2005-01-26 Thread Matt Fowles
All~ I have been struggling with my internet for the past 4 days, so this weeks summary will be part of a double feature fortnight's summary next week. Figured that I would provide advanced notice though... Matt -- Computer Science is merely the post-Turing Decline of Formal Systems Theory. -???

Re: Proposed vtable changes WRT method lookup

2005-01-20 Thread Matt Fowles
Leo~ On Thu, 20 Jan 2005 10:01:42 +0100, Leopold Toetsch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Matt Fowles [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Leo~ On Wed, 19 Jan 2005 16:26:07 +0100, Leopold Toetsch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [ cc'ed p6l ] Matt Fowles wrote: Leo~ On Wed, 19 Jan 2005 10:02:26

Re: Proposed vtable changes WRT method lookup

2005-01-19 Thread Matt Fowles
Leo~ On Wed, 19 Jan 2005 16:26:07 +0100, Leopold Toetsch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [ cc'ed p6l ] Matt Fowles wrote: Leo~ On Wed, 19 Jan 2005 10:02:26 +0100, Leopold Toetsch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But where does that PerlMMD PMC come from? Does the Perl6 compiler generate one

Perl 6 Summary for 2005-01-11 through 2005-01-18

2005-01-18 Thread Matt Fowles
and questions were provided. http://xrl.us/er3r food Matt Fowles's pizza arrived. The reader then speculated that either (he writes slowly or it arrived quickly) or (he writes quickly or it arrived slowly), depending on various readers estimates of Pizza delivery time and expected

Perl 6 Summary for 2004-01-03 through 2004-01-11

2005-01-11 Thread Matt Fowles
. http://xrl.us/eovf s/libnci.so/libnci_test.so/g Bernhard Schmalhofer moved libnci.so to libnci_test.so, as it really is for testing. Leo applied it. http://xrl.us/eovg segfaulting readline Matt Diephouse managed to segfault Parrot using readline. Leo fixed it. Matt pointed

Perl 6 Summary for 2004-12-20 through 2005-01-03

2005-01-03 Thread Matt Fowles
reading past EOF in PIR Matt Diephouse noted that the error from reading past the EOF in PIR was not really informative. Patches welcome. http://xrl.us/ekkz Missing examples in PDD16 Simon Glover noticed a section in PDD16 that just stops midsentence. He suggested

Perl 6 Summary for 2004-11-29 through 2004-12-06

2004-12-06 Thread Matt Fowles
Coughing. If you would like to join in the fun of abusing p6c, you should submit tests. Nothing is more abusive then stress testing ;-) Parrot Tuning and Monitoring Matt S asked how much support for tuning and monitoring. This week I exercise the awesome powers of the summarizer

Re: iteration (was Re: Angle quotes and pointy brackets)

2004-12-04 Thread Matt Diephouse
On Sat, 04 Dec 2004 08:59:24 -0700, David Green [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Matt Diephouse) wrote: Supposing class Filehandle does Iterate; # Iterate or Iterator? we have an easy way to create new iterators. I'm not sure how useful

Re: Angle quotes and pointy brackets

2004-12-03 Thread Matt Diephouse
an Iterator object that just knows to call C.next on its argument. Anyway, take it for what its worth. I'm aware of how ridiculous many of the things we (that includes me) say are, but perhaps I've said something useful. Hoping I haven't removed all doubt of my foolishness, -- matt diephouse http

Re: qq:i

2004-12-01 Thread Matt Diephouse
, $right) { return $left + $right; } ]; # prints # sub add ($left, $right) { # return $left + $right; # } # Where you could whatever you wanted instead of «». -- matt diephouse http://matt.diephouse.com

Re: qq:i

2004-12-01 Thread Matt Diephouse
\q interpolation into '' in the first place. I missed that. Thanks. -- matt diephouse http://matt.diephouse.com

Re: Angle quotes and pointy brackets

2004-11-30 Thread Matt Fowles
Austin~ On Tue, 30 Nov 2004 18:15:54 -0500, Austin Hastings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Austin Hastings wrote: Larry Wall wrote: And now, Piers is cackling madly at Matt: welcome to perl6-hightraffic! :-) Even if he wasn't cackling, I admit to feeling it. I don't even use the qx/qq/qw

Re: Angle quotes and pointy brackets

2004-11-30 Thread Matt Diephouse
out for my own benefit; consider it a goodbye.) -- matt diephouse http://matt.diephouse.com

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