Parrot 0.4.10 released

2007-03-21 Thread Will Coleda
On behalf of the Parrot team, I'm proud to announce Parrot 0.4.10 "The Release Formerly Known as "Prince"." Parrot (http://parrotcode.org/) is a virtual machine aimed at running all dynamic languages. Parrot 0.4.10 can be obtained via CPAN, or follow the download instructions at http://parrotcode

Parrot 0.4.17 Released

2007-10-17 Thread Will Coleda
On behalf of the Parrot team, I'm proud to announce Parrot 0.4.17 "Two for Finching." Parrot (http://parrotcode.org/) is a virtual machine aimed at running all dynamic languages. Parrot 0.4.17 can be obtained via CPAN (soon), or follow the download instructions at http://parrotcode.org/source.

Re: new article, "A Romp Through Infinity"

2008-08-08 Thread Will Coleda
On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 11:29 AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Supporting multiple levels of infinities, transfinite numbers or even Surreal > Numbers should be considered in the same category of features as returning > multiple answers from complex trig functions. > > They're an interesting thin

Re: windows XP copyfile

2008-08-08 Thread Will Coleda
On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 9:38 AM, Tara <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm trying to do a Perl script (PC has Perl5 installed) in a BAT file > which will open the CMD prompt, interact with the user and copy files > from one location to other directories. Does anyone know how to "dir" > the files in a d

Re: RFD: Built-in testing

2009-01-24 Thread Will Coleda
On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 4:08 PM, jerry gay wrote: > On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 12:37, Dave Whipp 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 supp

Re: The game of life

2009-06-02 Thread Will Coleda
>> I think that's something that perl6 could do better then APL. If anyone would like to channel this APL energy into APL-on-parrot, I'm sure it could some attention since the parrot 1.0 release. =) http://parAPLegic.googlecode.com/ The original implementation was basically a proof of concept to

Parrot 2.1.1 Released

2010-02-18 Thread Will Coleda
Wiseman: When you removed the book from the cradle, did you speak the words? Ash: Yeah, basically. Wiseman: Did you speak the exact words? Ash: Look, maybe I didn't say every single little tiny syllable, no. But basically I said them, yeah. -- Army of Darkn

Re: Where's the release announcement?

2010-03-19 Thread Will Coleda
On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 4:00 AM, Darren Duncan wrote: > Richard Hainsworth wrote: >> >> Is there a glitch in the mail list system for p6l? I got the Copenhagen >> release announcement on the parrot developers list but not on p6l. > > Maybe there aren't Parrot release announcements on p6l because t

Re: Apoc 4?

2002-01-18 Thread Will Coleda
http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2002/01/15/apo4.html David Whipp wrote: > > Michael G Schwern wrote: > > > Reading this in Apoc 4 ... > > I looked on http://dev.perl.org/perl6/apocalypse/: no sign of Apoc4. Where > do I find this latest installment? > > Dave.

Announce: Rakudo Perl 6 compiler development release #31 ("Atlanta")

2010-07-22 Thread Will Coleda
On behalf of the Rakudo development team, I'm happy to announce the July 2010 development release of Rakudo Perl #31 "Atlanta". Rakudo is an implementation of Perl 6 on the Parrot Virtual Machine (see ). The tarball for the July 2010 release is available from

Parrot 3.7.0 "Wanda" released

2011-08-16 Thread Will Coleda
OTTO. Apes don't read philosophy. WANDA. Yes they do, Otto. They just don't understand it. Now let me correct you on a couple of things, OK? Aristotle was not Belgian. The central message of Buddhism is not 'Every Man For Himself'. OTTO. You read... WANDA. And... the London Underground is no

Re: Jargon

2014-06-13 Thread Will Coleda
See: https://github.com/perl6/specs/blob/master/S99-glossary.pod which is nicely formatted here: http://perlcabal.org/syn/S99.html Regards. On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 10:29 AM, Parrot Raiser <1parr...@gmail.com> wrote: > As typically happens with any complex project, Perl 6 development has > prod

Announce: Rakudo Perl 6 compiler, Development Release #94 (“коледа”)

2015-12-25 Thread Will Coleda
On behalf of the Rakudo development team, I’m proud to announce the Christmas release (December 2015) of Rakudo Perl 6 #94 “коледа”. Rakudo is an implementation of Perl 6 on the Moar Virtual Machine[^1] and the Java Virtual Machine. This is the Christmas release of Rakudo Perl 6. This version of t

Re: Are proposals for new language methods considered?

2016-01-31 Thread Will Coleda
The language is intended to evolve; the specification will change as we go. If you have a proposal, go ahead and make it, see what traction it gets on the list. On Sun, Jan 31, 2016 at 8:27 AM, Tom Browder wrote: > I would like to propose some new Str and IO::Path methods if such > would be cons

Re: Are proposals for new language methods considered?

2016-01-31 Thread Will Coleda
Nope. Most people just show up on #perl6 and chat, or make a pull request or open an RT. On Sun, Jan 31, 2016 at 6:10 PM, Tom Browder wrote: > On Sun, Jan 31, 2016 at 5:01 PM, Will Coleda wrote: >> The language is intended to evolve; the specification will change as we go. >> &

Re: [PATCH] multiple heredoc beginning in the same line

2016-12-01 Thread Will Coleda
This will be much more likely to be applied if you provide a pull request to the repo at https://github.com/perl6/doc On Wed, Nov 30, 2016 at 10:31 AM, wrote: > This is to document the fact that, as in POSIX shell, you can use > multiple HEREDOC strings in the same line. > > --- > doc/Language/