Re: S05 :exhaustive eg

2007-04-28 Thread Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
On 4/27/07, Brad Bowman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I would expect a different ordering. Perhaps the ".*" should be ".*?" or the output "bracadabr bracad brac br cadabr cad c dabr d br" ? The :overlap example follows this order. You're probably right about that: $ perl5.9.5 -E 'my @m; "abracad

Re: Synopsis 26

2007-04-12 Thread Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
On 4/12/07, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: With that fix a lot of tests still fail, here's a full report: http://sial.org/pbot/24167 I updated to YAML::Syck 0.84 which made different parts of the test suite fail, see http://sial.org/pbot/24168

Re: Synopsis 26

2007-04-12 Thread Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
On 4/12/07, Damian Conway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: C<< our $BALANCED_BRACKETS = .. >> on line 22 in Parser.pm needs to be C<< our $BALANCED_BRACKETS; $BALANCED_BRACKETS = ... >> or almost all the tests have compile errors on my 5.8.8. With that fix a lot of tests still fail, here's a full repo

Re: Synopsis 26

2007-03-26 Thread Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
On 3/19/07, Damian Conway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'm hoping to get a run at finishing the Pod6 parser (in between crises), but don't hold your breath. :-( Since you seem to have something already and it's been on hiatus for quite some time could you possibly post what you have already somew

Re: List assignment question

2006-11-16 Thread Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
> (my $x, undef, my $y) = 1 .. 3; parses to my ($x, undef, $y) = 1 .. 3 > and always has as far as I know, so please share your hallucinogens > with the list:) > Sadly, the hallucinogens are essential, not external. But I'm pretty sure those are two different parse trees. They have the same B:

Re: List assignment question

2006-11-15 Thread Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
On 11/15/06, Mark J. Reed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 11/14/06, Vincent Foley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I was toying around with Pugs and I tried the following Perl 5 list assignment > > my ($a, undef, $b) = 1..3; Huh. I didn't think that worked in Perl 5, either. What am I misrememberi

Re: This weeks summary, part 2

2006-02-19 Thread Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
On 2/18/06, The Perl 6 Summarizer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Smart match table > Robin Houston had some questions/observations about the smart match > table in synopsis 4. This is the table that describes how the smart > match ("~~") operator does its comparisons. It turns out that

Re: Table of Perl 6 "Types"

2006-01-12 Thread Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
On 1/12/06, Dave Whipp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>(perhaps this discussion belongs on p6l) > > It sure does;) > > (this reply moved to p6l) > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Dave Whipp wrote: > > > >>An Int is Enumerable: each value that is an Int has well defined succ > >>and pred values. Con

Re: Multiple implementations of Perl 6

2005-12-24 Thread Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
On 12/24/05, Andrew Savige <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm curious to know if the Perl 6 design team fully endorse a change from the > Perl 5 "the (single) implementation *is* the specification" model to a > "multiple implementations are good, m'kay, but from a single (detailed and > precise) spec