Re: Dropbox and IO?

Dropbox on Windows is a real directory. It is just monitored by the Dropbox software and files (or possibly pieces - not sure) are uploaded and downloaded when necessary to keep them in sync with the server. On Tue, Apr 7, 2020 at 2:40 AM Simon Proctor wrote: > Ok I don't have access to my

Re: perl6's new name?

On Mon, Aug 12, 2019 at 1:42 PM Richard Hainsworth wrote: > > > The decision on perl 5 vs perl 6 naming is more revolutionary but it > > IS hurting > > Perl. I love Perl but it has an image problem. > True. Would a name change now have much effect? > > If Perl didn't have an image problem, > >

Re: perl6's new name?

I agree that the "incorrect statement" was factually incorrect. However, it was widely perceived to be correct. That perception did hurt perl (both 5 and 6). It made many people see perl as "dead" while perl 6 was under development. >>> "It took way too long to mature to an initial release" > >

Re: Appropriate last words

Why the change in die handling between Perl 5 and 6? Suppressing line numbers with newline was very handy. Alternatively, adding some sort of directive would be more straight-forward (at least for Perl 5 users moving to Perl 6). On Mon, Sep 3, 2018 at 11:32 AM, Elizabeth Mattijsen wrote: >

Re: Announce: Rakudo Star Release 2017.07

I don't see anything in the notes (though I may have missed it) about JVM. I thought the plan was to get JVM functional again (though likely still lagging MoarVM feature support) with the 2017.07 release? Perl 6 on MoarVM is definitely interesting but, to me at least, the single biggest practical

Re: Any text editors for programming that support the secondary selection clipboard?

Huh. If GTK2 supports secondary selection, I would have expected gvim compiled with it to support it. On Tue, Jun 20, 2017 at 7:53 PM, ToddAndMargo <toddandma...@zoho.com> wrote: > On 06/20/2017 05:48 PM, Stephen Wilcoxon wrote: > >> If you do :version within gvim, does it s

Re: Any text editors for programming that support the secondary selection clipboard?

If you do :version within gvim, does it say it was compiled with gtk2? On Tue, Jun 20, 2017 at 7:44 PM, ToddAndMargo <toddandma...@zoho.com> wrote: > On 06/20/2017 05:43 PM, Stephen Wilcoxon wrote: > >> Did you compile it from scratch or verify that yours is compiled usin

Re: Any text editors for programming that support the secondary selection clipboard?

Did you compile it from scratch or verify that yours is compiled using gtk2? It can be compiled with several different gui toolkits. On Tue, Jun 20, 2017 at 7:39 PM, ToddAndMargo <toddandma...@zoho.com> wrote: > On 06/20/2017 04:31 PM, Stephen Wilcoxon wrote: > >> gvim is (sor

Re: Any text editors for programming that support the secondary selection clipboard?

Interesting but not something I've ever worried about. Personally, I just use [g]vim on all platforms but it definitely does NOT support secondary selection. On Tue, Jun 20, 2017 at 3:32 PM, ToddAndMargo wrote: > Hi All, > > I like Geany, but it does not support the

Re: next

In this instance, it is the same as "$true_count = $true_count + 1". ++$var and $var++ differ if they are used in an assignment or other operation. For instance: my $x = 1; my $y = ++$x; # $x is incremented before assignment my $z = $x++; # $x is incremented after assignment At the end, $x =

Rakudo on JVM?

I see in the release notes for Rakudo 2017.04, it basically says not to use JVM backend. Why is this? Has support for the JVM been dropped? I hope not as it seems like the most valuable platform for Perl6. For instance, you could use Perl6 JVM on AWS and get support but Perl6 MoarVM would not