Re: Where to start?

[ToddAndMargo]

On 11/18/2016 06:34 PM, ToddAndMargo wrote:

Hi All,

I just install rakudi-star in my Fedora 24 virtual machine.

I know how to program and run things in perl 5.

Can someone point me to a how to that will show me the
basic template for running a perl 6 program in Linux.

Also, do I need to run perl6 through a compiler or
does it compile on the fly like perl 5?

In perl 5, the first line was
#!/usr/bin/perl
which told the os how to run it (on the fly).

And my template was:

#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use warnings;
#use diagnostics;
#use diagnostics "-verbose";
use lib;  # fill name of lib in

use constant false => 0;
use constant true  => 1;


Anyway, I am confused.  Where do I start?

Many thanks,
-T



Thank you all!

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Re: Where to start?

[Parrot Raiser]

>>
>> Can someone point me to a how to that will show me the
>> basic template for running a perl 6 program in Linux.
>>

The most important thing is to ensure that perl 6 is normally
executable, i.e. in a directory in $PATH.

>> do I need to run perl6 through a compiler or does it compile on the fly like 
>> perl 5?
>>

The thing that will probably help you most in learning p6 is the REPL
- Read, Evaluate, Print Loop. If you simply execute perl6 without
arguments:
myprompt$ perl6
To exit type 'exit' or '^D'
>
it will present with a message and a > prompt.
 Any perl 6 statement typed there will be evaluated  and return a
result. Normal up- and down-arrow and command-line editing rules
apply, including recalling previous commands.

When you're tired of that, CTL-D or exit will let you do something
else. (I suspect people will write their scripts with a REPL window
open to test any concepts they might not grok completely, rather than
waiting for a test run to fail.)

Re: What is rakudo-star?

[Steve Mynott]

No that's an incomplete version lacking the modules which makes rakudo into
rakudo star. Most importantly panda (the module installer) is missing.
Neither does it even have full docs since perl6intro.pdf is missing.

Really that single RPM should be renamed rakudo not rakudo star or at least
marked as experimental somehow.

Rakudo Star itself would probably fit better into binary packaging as a
meta package made up from other packages (including panda etc.).

That RPM might be OK for a few short scripts but if you are seriously
interested in Perl 6 I would recommend building Rakudo Star from source.

S

On 19 November 2016 at 01:54, ToddAndMargo  wrote:

> Is this the right perl 6 for Fedora?
>
> rakudo-star-0.0.2016.07-1.fc24.x86_64.rpm
>
> Many thanks,
> -T
>
> --
> ~~
> Computers are like air conditioners.
> They malfunction when you open windows
> ~~
>
>
>


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Re: What is rakudo-star?

[Steve Mynott]

Because the Rakudo 2016.10 which was released didn't install correctly on
Windows.

I'm hoping to release a test version of 2016.11 (which should work) this
weekend.

S

On 19 November 2016 at 05:51, Moritz Lenz  wrote:

>
> On 19.11.2016 03:14, _ ifdog wrote:
> > So why there is not a star release of 2016.10  for windows ?
>
> Because nobody one yet. I'm happy to upload it for you if you provide it.
>
> Cheers,
> Moritz
>
> --
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>



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Re: Where to start?

[Steve Mynott]

Rakudo Star has some documentation supplied with it (although the Fedora
version may not since it seems incomplete).

Try looking at

http://perl6intro.com/

S



On 19 November 2016 at 05:46, Moritz Lenz  wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On 19.11.2016 03:34, ToddAndMargo wrote:
> > Hi All,
> >
> > I just install rakudi-star in my Fedora 24 virtual machine.
> >
> > I know how to program and run things in perl 5.
> >
> > Can someone point me to a how to that will show me the
> > basic template for running a perl 6 program in Linux.
>
> #!/usr/bin/env /path/to/your/rakudo/inst/bin/perl6
>
> use v6;
>
>
> > Also, do I need to run perl6 through a compiler or
> > does it compile on the fly like perl 5?
>
> There's no separate compilation step.
>
> Cheers,
> Moritz
>
> --
> Moritz Lenz
> https://deploybook.com/ -- https://perlgeek.de/ -- https://perl6.org/
>



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