Re: Exegesis 7/format() question
On 2009 Feb 17, at 1:54, Timothy S. Nelson wrote: Hi all. According to S29, the Perl 5 format() function is obsolete, and it says See Exegesis 7. According to Exegesis 7, there will be a Form.pm which implements similar functionality, but has to be used. My questions are: 1. Is the Form.pm module discussed anywhere in the specs? 2. This seems to imply that the Form.pm module will be included as part of the standard Perl distribution, but not used by default. Is this the case? I presume this is also true of the IO roles. Is there somewhere a list of all the modules that will be part of the standard Perl6 distro? I may be out of date, but last I'd heard Form.pm had been neither documented nor specced (much less written) and was expected not to make the initial Perl6 release. (It would be difficult to spec given that IO is only just being specced now and nothing is firm yet.) -- brandon s. allbery [solaris,freebsd,perl,pugs,haskell] allb...@kf8nh.com system administrator [openafs,heimdal,too many hats] allb...@ece.cmu.edu electrical and computer engineering, carnegie mellon universityKF8NH PGP.sig Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: Exegesis 7/format() question
On Thu, 19 Feb 2009, Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH wrote: On 2009 Feb 17, at 1:54, Timothy S. Nelson wrote: Hi all. According to S29, the Perl 5 format() function is obsolete, and it says See Exegesis 7. According to Exegesis 7, there will be a Form.pm which implements similar functionality, but has to be used. My questions are: 1. Is the Form.pm module discussed anywhere in the specs? 2. This seems to imply that the Form.pm module will be included as part of the standard Perl distribution, but not used by default. Is this the case? I presume this is also true of the IO roles. Is there somewhere a list of all the modules that will be part of the standard Perl6 distro? I may be out of date, but last I'd heard Form.pm had been neither documented nor specced (much less written) and was expected not to make the initial Perl6 release. (It would be difficult to spec given that IO is only just being specced now and nothing is firm yet.) It turns out someone on IRC is starting to work on this, and it's already been done by Damian as as the Perl 5 module Perl6::Form(s?), and the documentation on that will be considered a draft spec. Anyway, HTH, - | Name: Tim Nelson | Because the Creator is,| | E-mail: wayl...@wayland.id.au| I am | - BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK Version 3.12 GCS d+++ s+: a- C++$ U+++$ P+++$ L+++ E- W+ N+ w--- V- PE(+) Y+++ PGP-+++ R(+) !tv b++ DI D G+ e++ h! y- -END GEEK CODE BLOCK-
Exegesis 7/format() question
Hi all. According to S29, the Perl 5 format() function is obsolete, and it says See Exegesis 7. According to Exegesis 7, there will be a Form.pm which implements similar functionality, but has to be used. My questions are: 1. Is the Form.pm module discussed anywhere in the specs? 2. This seems to imply that the Form.pm module will be included as part of the standard Perl distribution, but not used by default. Is this the case? I presume this is also true of the IO roles. Is there somewhere a list of all the modules that will be part of the standard Perl6 distro? :) - | Name: Tim Nelson | Because the Creator is,| | E-mail: wayl...@wayland.id.au| I am | - BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK Version 3.12 GCS d+++ s+: a- C++$ U+++$ P+++$ L+++ E- W+ N+ w--- V- PE(+) Y+++ PGP-+++ R(+) !tv b++ DI D G+ e++ h! y- -END GEEK CODE BLOCK-
