On 4/24/06, Larry Wall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If you want to reset to before the key for some reason, you can always
set .pos to $KEY.beg, or whatever the name of the method is. Hmm,
that looks like it's unspecced.
BEGIN
.beg looks over-huffmanized to me. .begin is more natural to
i noticed a few things missing from the list of sigils. patch inline below.
~jerry
Index: design/syn/S02.pod
===
--- design/syn/S02.pod (revision 9154)
+++ design/syn/S02.pod (working copy)
@@ -494,8 +494,8 @@
$ scalar
@
that's postfix ::, as mentioned in the Names section of S02.
snip
There is no longer any special package hash such as %Foo::. Just
subscript the package object itself as a hash object, the key of which
is the variable name, including any sigil. The package object can be
derived from a type name
On 6/2/06, Rene Hangstrup Møller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi
I am toying around with Parrot and the compiler tools. The documenation
of Perl 6 grammars that I have been able to find only describe rule. But
the grammars in Parrot 0.4.4 for punie and APL use rule, token and regex
elements.
Can
On 7/15/06, Leopold Toetsch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Folks,
Please always verify test results, don't use the Parrot output of the test as
the expected output.
If you are implementing a new feature, write the *test first*.
Thanks,
leo
PS from r13305:
@@ -1324,7 +1324,7 @@
set P2, 300
On 7/25/06, Thomas Wittek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Bearing that in mind, would the eye-socket-burning
return $foo
IF $something;
really be so bad?
Operators/reserved words should be lowercase. Period. ;)
I think that this would heavily break consistency, annoying new users.
recently, perl 6 development has taken the form of a multi-method
dispatch. that is, multiple implementations are under active
development. this includes pugs (in haskell,) v6 (in perl5,)
v6-Compiler (in perl6,) and perl6 (on parrot.) hopefully, each of
these returns the same result, a
On 8/11/06, Larry Wall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Just to avoid repeating some of the discussion, here's a link to #perl6:
http://colabti.de/irclogger/irclogger_log/perl6?date=2006-08-07,Monsel=110#l193
The discussion goes on and off for most of the rest of the page,
so you probably want to
On 8/25/06, Trey Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In a message dated Fri, 25 Aug 2006, Mark J. Reed writes:
I think the justification for Luke's POV is the number of operations
each class provides. But my perspective agrees with Juerd -
subclasses can remove functionality as well as adding
On 8/31/06, Luke Palmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 8/31/06, Juerd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Still, though, How would you specify :g? It doesn't make a lot of sense
on rx// -- just like you can't use it with qr// in Perl 5.
It is a good point that it doesn't belong on the regex. Perhaps:
On 9/1/06, Trey Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In a message dated Fri, 1 Sep 2006, Paul Seamons writes:
I'm not sure if I have seen this requested or discussed.
This was definitively rejected by Larry in 2002:
http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl6.language/9343
He has not revisited the
On 10/2/06, Jonathan Lang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm not used to programming styles where a programmer intentionally
and explicitly forbids the use of otherwise perfectly legal code. Is
there really a market for this sort of thing?
use strict;
On 10/2/06, Aaron Sherman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Jonathan Lang wrote:
I'm not used to programming styles where a programmer intentionally
and explicitly forbids the use of otherwise perfectly legal code. Is
there really a market for this sort of thing?
use strict;
you're so twelve
On 1/7/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
+Matching against a CGrammar object will call the Ctop method
+defined in the grammar. The Ctop method may either be a rule
+itself, or may call the actual top rule automatically. How the
+CGrammar determines the top rule is up to the
On 3/18/07, Thom Boyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I never could find the Pod-to-XHTML'd version of S26 -- the document
attached to that email was S26.pod6, not S26.xhtml.
I don't want to bug Damian, because obviously he has enough of life
happening, as it were. But is the XHTML'd version of S26
On 6/22/07, Chas Owens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Most of the time the policy is enacted by lower-case-l lazy sysadmins
who can't be bothered to type
perl -MCPAN -e install Foo::Bar
My normal route around them is to install the module into the home
directory of the user who is going to run the
On 9/6/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
@@ -1254,6 +1273,17 @@
=item *
+A leading C? indicates a positive zero-width assertion, and like C!
+merely reparses the rest of the assertion recursively as if the C?
+were not there. In addition to forcing zero-width, it also
On behalf of the Parrot team, I'm proud to announce Parrot 0.4.16, A
Farewell to Alex. Parrot (http://parrotcode.org/) is a virtual
machine aimed at running all dynamic languages.
Parrot 0.4.16 can be obtained via CPAN (soon), or follow the download
instructions at
On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 10:31 PM, John M. Dlugosz
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Consider the words that may be used to introduce a block for a special
purpose, like
BEGIN
END
INIT
CATCH
etc.
What do you call those? They are not even special named blocks because
that is not the block
On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 11:23 AM, Larry Wall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On a larger question, I'm wondering if it's time to slush/freeze
the Synopses as historical documents and put all spec effort into
the new form (presumably as a wiki that knows how to serialize into
a document). I don't
Aloha!
On behalf of the Parrot team, I'm proud to announce Parrot 0.6.1
Bird of Paradise. Parrot (http://parrotcode.org/) is a virtual machine aimed
at running all dynamic languages.
Parrot 0.6.1 can be obtained via CPAN (soon), or follow the
download instructions at
2008/7/10 TSa [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
HaloO,
Larry Wall wrote:
Well, maybe 0 .. 10-ε or some such.
This ε there is what I have as the .step method of nums
in the thread The Inf type. That is $min..^$max is the
same as $min..($max-$max.step). For Ints the .step is
always 1. For Nums it depends
On Wed, Aug 6, 2008 at 8:58 AM, Yaakov Belch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In a little language that I wrote some time ago, I found it very useful to
let the // operator catch exceptions:
f(x) // g(y) does:
* If f(x) returns a defined value, use this value.
* If f(x) returns an undefined value,
On Fri, Aug 8, 2008 at 12:57 PM, Jon Lang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
But are 'twas and -x valid identifiers? IMHO, they should not be.
no, indeed they are not, because they don't start with underscore or
alpha. that's why they won't work.
~jerry
On behalf of the Parrot team, I'm proud to announce Parrot 0.8.0
Pareto Principle. Parrot (http://parrotcode.org/) is a virtual
machine aimed at running all dynamic languages.
Parrot 0.8.0 is available via CPAN, or follow the download
instructions at http://parrotcode.org/source.html. For those
/08, Elyse M. Grasso [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Friday 24 October 2008, jerry gay wrote:
On behalf of the Parrot team, I'm proud to announce Parrot 0.8.0
Pareto Principle. Parrot (http://parrotcode.org/) is a virtual
machine aimed at running all dynamic languages.
After an svn update
On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 05:45, Mark Overmeer m...@overmeer.net wrote:
* Daniel Ruoso (dan...@ruoso.com) [081218 13:39]:
Em Qui, 2008-12-18 às 13:08 +1100, Timothy S. Nelson escreveu:
My question is, what sort of information actually belongs in a final
version of the 6PAN spec? I'm
On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 11:51, Moritz Lenz mor...@faui2k3.org wrote:
Since Perl 5 has no REPL, I'm not sure where such a spec would go. S20,
maybe, since the debugger is the closest thing?
or maybe S19, because it defines the console interface to the rest of
the world. Or just pick a
On Thu, Jan 1, 2009 at 03:30, Darren Duncan dar...@darrenduncan.net wrote:
pugs-comm...@feather.perl6.nl wrote:
--name :name
--name=value:namevalue
--name=spacy value:name«'spacy value'»
--name='spacy value':name«'spacy
On Fri, Jan 2, 2009 at 09:27, Geoffrey Broadwell ge...@broadwell.org wrote:
On Fri, 2009-01-02 at 17:08 +0100, pugs-comm...@feather.perl6.nl wrote:
+=head2 Synopsis
+
+ multi sub perl6(
+Bool :a($autosplit),
+Bool :c($check-syntax),
+Bool :$doc,
+:e($execute),
+
On Fri, Jan 2, 2009 at 11:24, Geoffrey Broadwell ge...@broadwell.org wrote:
Thank you for the quick turnaround!
On Fri, 2009-01-02 at 10:55 -0800, jerry gay wrote:
On Fri, Jan 2, 2009 at 09:27, Geoffrey Broadwell ge...@broadwell.org wrote:
It's also not
obvious what a boolean named $doc
On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 13:16, Eirik Berg Hanssen
eirik-berg.hans...@allverden.no wrote:
pugs-comm...@feather.perl6.nl writes:
+C--prelude=Perl6-autoloop-no-print. Since eager matching is used, if you
+need to pass something like:
+ ++foo -bar ++foo baz ++/foo ++/foo
+you'll end up with
On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 14:26, Eirik Berg Hanssen
eirik-berg.hans...@allverden.no wrote:
jerry gay jerry@gmail.com writes:
On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 13:16, Eirik Berg Hanssen
eirik-berg.hans...@allverden.no wrote:
That doesn't look very eager to me.
it's eager for the match to close, which
On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 09:22, Moritz Lenz mor...@faui2k3.org wrote:
Richard Hainsworth wrote:
But it is interesting to think about the case where a user wants two
different diagnostic test messages (to all the testing gurus out there:
do you actually want such a feature?). It shouldn't be too
On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 12:37, Dave Whipp d...@dave.whipp.name wrote:
I could also imagine writing code that reads from an Sqlite database, and
imposes that info onto the test. Whatever mechanism is used, I think we need
a language-defined mechanism to supply a stable unique identifier for each
On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 17:26, Hinrik Örn Sigurðsson
hinrik@gmail.com 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
On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 10:16, Patrick R. Michaud pmich...@pobox.com wrote:
On Sun, Mar 08, 2009 at 09:43:17AM +0100, pugs-comm...@feather.perl6.nl
wrote:
=item * ws
Match whitespace between tokens.
=item * space
Match a single whitespace character. Hence C ws is equivalent to C
space+
On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 09:22, Richard Hainsworth rich...@rusrating.ru wrote:
Hats off to the designer of the gimel symbol - the associations with anarchy
are probably right for perl6. But to be honest, a letter didnt quite inspire
me. Since, I dont want to criticize without providing other
On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 11:03, Kyle Hasselbacherkyl...@gmail.com wrote:
Perl 5 programmers are sometimes surprised to find that 'perl -c
strange.pl' can execute code. Imagine their surprise to find that
'perl6doc' does too.
this is why it's spelled 'perl6 --doc', which should give you some
On behalf of the Parrot team, I'm proud to announce Parrot 1.6.0
half-pie. Parrot (http://parrot.org/) is a virtual machine aimed
at running all dynamic languages.
Parrot 1.6.0 is available on Parrot's FTP site, or follow the
download instructions at http://parrot.org/download. For those who
On behalf of the Rakudo development team, I'm pleased to announce
the September 2009 development release of Rakudo Perl #21 Seattle.
Rakudo is an implementation of Perl 6 on the Parrot Virtual Machine [1].
The tarball for the September 2009 release is available from
On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 08:17, Thom Boyer t...@boyers.org wrote:
I'm curious about the change from blorst to blast. I quickly figured out
that blorst was
derived from BLock OR STatement (as S04 used to say: In fact,
most of these phasers will take either a block or a statement (known as
a
On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 00:53, Moritz Lenz mor...@faui2k3.org wrote:
The spec doesn't elaborate on how the short args are specified in the
signature of MAIN. I see two possible approaches (that don't contradict):
1) one renames them in the signature, so it would like
sub MAIN(:name(:$n))
On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 05:17, Jan Ingvoldstad frett...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi.
I was fiddling about with a small example of how nice radix adverbials are
for conversion:
my $x = 6*9;
say :13($x);
rakudo: 69
($x = 54 in base 10, but 54 in base 13 is 69 in base 10.)
Strangely enough, I
On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 07:45, Mark J. Reed markjr...@gmail.com wrote:
No, 42/13 is 42 over 13, which is 3 + 3/13. Let's not confuse
fractions and bases, please.
ha! yet another case of crossed wires too early in the morning. sorry
for the confusion, i've been making similar apologies all
On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 15:56, Damian Conway dam...@conway.org wrote:
Carl proposed:
The other path that seems reasonable to me would be to use the same
naming scheme as for the block types, i.e. reserve all-upper and
all-lower forms (and die if an unrecognized one of this form is
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