Re: Can I use my Perl5 .pm modules in Perl6?

2016-01-13 Thread David H. Adler
dha -- David H. Adler - <d...@pobox.com> - http://www.panix.com/~dha/ You're still hoping for a new, good Star Trek series??? You must be a Cubs fan. - Michael G. Schwern

Proposed doc for while/until

2015-09-16 Thread David H. Adler
Note: Proposing to put this *above* repeat/while / repeat/until. https://gist.github.com/dha/0a0736b9da74a8e61e49 dha -- David H. Adler - <d...@pobox.com> - http://www.panix.com/~dha/ A feature is often a bug with seniority.- Chip Salzenberg

Re: Proposed docs for C

2015-09-16 Thread David H. Adler
the problem is the original > code is a bit overly-contrived (I'm thinking ;-). It shows better the > variation after each call, maybe. my 2.00e-02 dollars worth. So, how about this perl6 -e 'sub a {state @x; @x.push(++$)}; say a for 1..6;' [1] [1 2] [1 2 3] [1 2 3 4] [1 2 3

Re: Proposed docs for C

2015-09-16 Thread David H. Adler
On Wed, Sep 16, 2015 at 04:42:27PM -0400, Parrot Raiser wrote: > On 9/16/15, David H. Adler <d...@pobox.com> wrote: > > > So, how about this > > > > perl6 -e 'sub a {state @x; @x.push(++$)}; say a for 1..6;' > > > > [1] > > [1 2] > >

Proposed docs for C

2015-09-14 Thread David H. Adler
Maybe a bit long, but think it explains it in a way people will understand. Thoughts? https://gist.github.com/dha/8009c28d7bf2d1ca8875 dha -- David H. Adler - <d...@pobox.com> - http://www.panix.com/~dha/ I think the scale of relative badness is broken in this place. - Diablo

Re: Proposed docs for C

2015-09-14 Thread David H. Adler
, is less visually complicated and gets the point across more directly. [1 1 1 1] next [1 1 1 1 1 1] next [1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1] How strongly do people feel about this? dha -- David H. Adler - <d...@pobox.com> - http://www.panix.com/~dha/ Damn, if this doesn't win me "Pedant of the Year

Suggestions on documentation for C and C

2015-09-08 Thread David H. Adler
Well, the thing with C is more of a question... https://gist.github.com/dha/02f1f41b5f8937c0271e And for C some suggested documentation I'd like to get some extra eyes on before I commit. https://gist.github.com/dha/d8ab9b8cf852d358bfaf Thanks! dha -- David H. Adler - <d...@panix.

Re: What are Perl 6's killer advantages over Perl 5?

2015-08-27 Thread David H. Adler
like that in the coming days. dha -- David H. Adler - d...@panix.com - http://www.panix.com/~dha/ Your point being... - Homer Simpson

Re: What are Perl 6's killer advantages over Perl 5?

2015-08-11 Thread David H. Adler
these are reasons Perl 6 is actually useful would be very helpful. dha -- David H. Adler - d...@panix.com - http://www.panix.com/~dha/ When I went to open my suitcase I found a lock on it, which I never have. So I picked the lock, opened up the suitcase, and started pulling out all these dresses. After like

slurpy hash

2010-08-16 Thread David H. Adler
that Rakudo* seems to think that the subroutine should expect *0* arguments. So... clearly there's a problem here, but I'm not sure if it's with Rakudo* or with my thinking. :-) Any thoughts on this matter would be appreciated. many thanks, dha -- David H. Adler - d...@panix.com - http://www.panix.com

Re: slurpy hash

2010-08-16 Thread David H. Adler
On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 03:14:28PM -0400, Will Coleda wrote: On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 3:03 PM, David H. Adler d...@panix.com wrote: Given the code: ? ? ? ?use v6; ? ? ? ?sub speakhash (*%hash) { ? ? ? ? ? ?say %hash{}; ? ? ? ?} ? ? ? ?speakhash(1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6); I get

Re: slurpy hash

2010-08-16 Thread David H. Adler
On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 03:49:52PM -0400, Will Coleda wrote: On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 3:36 PM, David H. Adler d...@panix.com wrote: On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 03:14:28PM -0400, Will Coleda wrote: On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 3:03 PM, David H. Adler d...@panix.com wrote: Given the code

Re: [perl #39734] t/doc/pod.t fails on Mac OS 10.4.6/perl 5.8.8

2006-07-06 Thread David H. Adler
On Thu, Jul 06, 2006 at 06:22:31AM -0700, jerry gay wrote: On 7/5/06, via RT David H. Adler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As bugs go, not a killer, but still... The problem tests are as follows: not ok 329 - POD test for /Users/dha/parrot-0.4.5/src/ops/experimental.ops # Failed test (t

Re: Unintended consequences

2006-05-23 Thread David H. Adler
On Mon, May 22, 2006 at 09:45:31PM -0500, Andy Lester wrote: Here's an example of why I'm not real excited about CPANTS: http://community.livejournal.com/perl/120747.html You mean the fact that there's a perl community on LJ? :-) dha -- David H. Adler - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http

Re: Test me please: P/PE/PETDANCE/Test-Harness-2.57_06.tar.gz

2006-04-23 Thread David H. Adler
dha -- David H. Adler - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.panix.com/~dha/ Nothing makes me appreciate Perl more than malloc. - Andy Lester

Re: Test me please: P/PE/PETDANCE/Test-Harness-2.57_06.tar.gz

2006-04-23 Thread David H. Adler
On Sun, Apr 23, 2006 at 04:14:01PM -0400, David H. Adler wrote: On Sun, Apr 23, 2006 at 01:02:00AM -0500, Andy Lester wrote: I'm approaching the end of this release cycle. I really want to get this released. Tests pass. One not numeric warning: Of course, I forgot to mention: Perl

Re: Test::Harness now tells you which TODOs passed unexpectedly

2006-04-19 Thread David H. Adler
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Re: prove users: Please test P/PE/PETDANCE/Test-Harness-2.57_04.tar.gz

2006-04-17 Thread David H. Adler
-- David H. Adler - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.panix.com/~dha/ Alaska is a large cold place with approximately six residents who would inbreed if they found each other more attractive. - Scott Adams

Re: What the heck is... wrong with Parrot development?

2005-06-06 Thread David H. Adler
. dha -- David H. Adler - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.panix.com/~dha/ Just Install Perl. - Chris Nandor

Re: Where is Devel::Cover installed?

2004-10-29 Thread David H. Adler
architecture specific directories like that. As mentioned elsehwere, perldoc -l is your friend. dha -- David H. Adler - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.panix.com/~dha/ ... nononono. And to use nonononono just to negate that is, uhm, confusing. Someone might think I'm stuttering. - Abigail

Re: Test::DoubleQuotedEntities

2004-08-24 Thread David H. Adler
released a new Acme::Test::Buffy, with slightly improved documentation and spelling too - but no one cares about that) Says who? dha -- David H. Adler - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.panix.com/~dha/ What kind of marathon crack binge would cause you believe this? - Mark Rogaski

Re: Release 0.0.11 status

2003-09-20 Thread David H. Adler
On Fri, Sep 19, 2003 at 09:22:05PM -0700, Steve Fink wrote: Anything I'm missing? I feel obliged to suggest putting HQ9PLUS into the languages directory. :-) dha -- David H. Adler - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.panix.com/~dha/ It must be difficult being such a visionary. Not really. You

Re: We *need* this op! :-)

2003-08-14 Thread David H. Adler
version - hq9+42 dha -- David H. Adler - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.panix.com/~dha/ however, if people don't like Perl, they don't have to use it. they can stay at the office solving their problems while the Perl Mongers go out and drink. ;)- brian d foy in c.l.p.misc

Re: We *need* this op! :-)

2003-08-11 Thread David H. Adler
On Fri, Aug 08, 2003 at 12:33:03PM +0100, Nicholas Clark wrote: On Fri, Aug 08, 2003 at 02:20:46AM -0400, David H. Adler wrote: On Thu, Aug 07, 2003 at 12:57:11PM -0400, Gordon Henriksen wrote: This is really a language feature; you should add it to the hq9+ implementation. Sadly

hq9+ update

2003-08-02 Thread David H. Adler
Thanks to schwern, a couple of glitches in my interpreter have (I think) been fixed. updated version now replacing old version at http://www.thetasigma.com/parrot/hq9p.pasm dha -- David H. Adler - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.panix.com/~dha/ Perl Porters, Inc. today announced the release

I scare me.

2003-08-01 Thread David H. Adler
I'm sure it needs a few tweaks, but I've managed to write a hq9+ interpreter in pasm. [insert deity here] help us all. :-) Any thoughts on this? http://www.thetasigma.com/parrot/ dha -- David H. Adler - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.panix.com/~dha/ It's all eggs, bacon, beans and a fried

Re: $foo.Foun (was Re: Properties and stricture)

2001-06-07 Thread David H. Adler
On Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 01:37:23AM -0500, Me wrote: Larry's MMV on that ;-) Man I really need to get up to speed with these acronyms. I know YMMV, is MMV a distant cousin perhaps? Same idea, except it's Larry's Milage in question, rather than Yours. dha -- David H. Adler - [EMAIL

Re: Things have paused... really?

2001-02-20 Thread David H. Adler
. Perl is ... John Cage? Would that mean that perl 6 corresponds to 4'33"? (If I have the composers right...) You do, but surely it's been longer than that since we've heard anything... :-) dha -- David H. Adler - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.panix.com/~dha/ tastes filling! less

Re: Take it outside, please

2001-02-18 Thread David H. Adler
NY.pm meeting. In the latter case, please only do so if schwern is in town and we can shove you and him into a different room... dha, 1/2 :-) -- David H. Adler - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.panix.com/~dha/ You get the idea that if Apple won a 90% market share, bought out Microsoft, and hired

Re: RFC 195 (v1) Retire chop().

2000-09-07 Thread David H. Adler
to being a bit sentimental about chop, but I can't think of any exciting reasons to keep it. The parity reasoning, however strikes me as a bad idea/precedent. dha -- David H. Adler - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.panix.com/~dha/ Just Install Perl. - Chris Nandor