Re: Help with macports port for zef

On Mon, Nov 27, 2023 at 02:17 raf via perl6-users wrote: > Hi. I'm trying to create a macports portfile for zef so I'm not a Mac user, but I've been struggling with another Rakudo installation method for Linux and had similar problems. My solution has been to install the binary code for linux

Re: Test not working so well

Try: say so $= On Sat, Dec 9, 2023 at 18:22 ToddAndMargo via perl6-users < perl6-us...@perl.org> wrote: > Hi All, > > What am I doing wrong here? > > > my $x="abc2def"; say $x=/ ^ <[0..9]> ** 7 $ /; > / ^ <[0..9]> ** 7 $ / > > [0] > my $x="abc2def"; say $x=/ ^ <[l..z]> ** 7 $ /; > / ^

Re: Marketing / PR / Branding

On Tue, Oct 31, 2023 at 08:41 Fernando Santagata wrote: > Hi Richard, > > Where is the Raku/Problem-solvers discussion about PR? > Ditto

Re: BEGIN {} question

On Mon, Aug 29, 2022 at 12:31 PM ToddAndMargo via perl6-users wrote: > On 8/29/22 08:41, Tom Browder wrote: ... > > And I think you may be surprised how much speedup you may get by using > > the precompiled-module "trick" for most of your 11,000-line program. ...

Re: BEGIN {} question

On Mon, Aug 29, 2022 at 10:29 AM ToddAndMargo via perl6-users < perl6-us...@perl.org> wrote: ... > Does the compiler make a full pass through > the code before firing off the BEGIN routine NO. And I think you may be surprised how much speedup you may get by using the precompiled-module "trick"

Re: Implementation of documented POD6 behaviour

On Thu, Dec 30, 2021 at 07:17 Richard Hainsworth wrote: > I plan to use the POD6 metadata functionality a lot in a new module. It > would be far better to separate out the meta data into lines. > Richard, there are many pod things that haven’t been implemented yet. I have planned for a long time

Re: file format extensions

On Thu, Dec 30, 2021 at 06:26 Elizabeth Mattijsen wrote: > +1 from me. Shouldn't that be a .rakudoc file ? :-) Or .rakupod?

Re: why not raku ?

On Mon, Nov 22, 2021 at 12:13 PM Clifton Wood wrote: > Aureliano: > You are correct. That is an effective workaround, but it will be a > maintenance nightmare for large C++ libraries if you have to wrap every > method. > There has to be a better way. Not so easy to find in the docs, but here

Re: why not raku ?

On Fri, Nov 19, 2021 at 07:48 Aureliano Guedes wrote: > I am still defending that we need a package for data > analysis/science/engineer (like the Perl5 PDL, Python Pandas or R > data.table) and an IDE for streaming programming like jupyter or rstudio. > Speaking for myself, I agree, and I

Re: Docs on docs.raku.org need automated build

On Mon, Nov 15, 2021 at 12:43 JJ Merelo wrote: > Done also for the official site, https://docs.raku.org > Check it out. > Thank you, JJ--it looks great! -Tom

Docs on docs.raku.org need automated build

Doc site i see is several weeks old and missing my last merged contrib on example of programmatic use of ‘require’. Any hope of a rebuild this month? -Tom

Re: Windows tutorial needed (Todd?)

On Sat, Nov 6, 2021 at 18:02 ToddAndMargo wrote: > On 7/11/21 02:31, Tom Browder wrote: > > See https://github.com/Raku/docs <https://github.com/Raku/docs> issue > #3913. > > > > -Tom (tbrowder) > > Hi Tom, > > I finally got around to writing your

Re: ftp client yet?

On Tue, Oct 26, 2021 at 00:22 Ralph Mellor wrote: > > This is what the more complicated stuff I am doing. ... And if the code doesn't work because of a newly-found need of a go-between Perl5 and Raku, the author of Inline::Perl5 is very helpful in finding a fix and releasing a new version.

Re: pod questions

On Mon, Jul 19, 2021 at 09:20 Marcel Timmerman wrote: > On 7/19/21 2:29 PM, Tom Browder wrote: > > On Mon, Jul 19, 2021 at 06:57 Marcel Timmerman wrote: > > Reading a bit, I came across old documents (with a warning that these are >> out of date) https://des

Re: pod questions

On Mon, Jul 19, 2021 at 06:57 Marcel Timmerman wrote: Reading a bit, I came across old documents (with a warning that these are > out of date) https://design.raku.org/S02.html#Multiline_Comments . It > states that any unrecognized format name should be treated as a comment > block, which the

Re: Windows tutorial needed (Todd?)

On Mon, Jul 12, 2021 at 15:44 ToddAndMargo via perl6-users < perl6-us...@perl.org> wrote: I should be able to help with a few of those. Do I post > it back to the issue and have JJ formalize it? Do you know how to write in Markdown or Raku POD? Did you ever get your Github account? IMHO, you

Re: Windows tutorial needed (Todd?)

On Sun, Jul 11, 2021 at 17:12 ToddAndMargo via perl6-users wrote: > On 7/11/21 2:31 AM, Tom Browder wrote: > > See https://github.com/Raku/docs <https://github.com/Raku/docs> issue #3913. ... > Would you be a little more specific. Are you looking for > an install guide? Or

Re: Windows tutorial needed (Todd?)

On Sun, Jul 11, 2021 at 14:27 yary wrote: > The link for that issue is https://github.com/Raku/doc/issues/3913 > ("doc" not "docs") > Thanks, @yary, for noticing my FF (finger fumble :-D)!

Windows tutorial needed (Todd?)

See https://github.com/Raku/docs issue #3913. -Tom (tbrowder)

Re: How do a pe-salt an array inside an object?

On Tue, Jul 6, 2021 at 14:53 ToddAndMargo via perl6-users < perl6-us...@perl.org> wrote: ... > writing out 2000 skips is not practical. Todd, why don't you tell us what you're really trying to do, i.e., what is your use case? Maybe the experts can suggest a better class design. -Tom

Re: What's going on with "given (junction) {when (value)...}"

On Tue, Jun 1, 2021 at 11:31 William Michels via perl6-users < perl6-us...@perl.org> wrote: > Hi Bruce, > This is what I see with Rakudo 2020.10 (all code below performs > delightfully as expected): > This whole thread looks like good stuff for some probably missing roast tests. -Tom

Re: Module Documentation

On Tue, Mar 16, 2021 at 05:20 Elizabeth Mattijsen wrote: > > On 16 Mar 2021, at 04:22, Matthew Stuckwisch > wrote: > > I'm on board with this. I also use App::Mi6 after I saw from Elizabeth how much it helps with module development (and maintenance!). And from almost the beginning with mi6

Re: Please create a Raku community channel

On Sat, Mar 13, 2021 at 08:12 Joseph Brenner wrote: > Richard Hainsworth wrote: > > > I found out yesterday by the intervention of a regular participant in > > the community that a new documentation website is being worked on. > > I should say, I was surprised to hear about that project also.

Re: Module Documentation

On Tue, Mar 2, 2021 at 08:42 Daniel Sockwell wrote: > Richard Hainsworth wrote: > > My suggestion is that some formal decision is made about documentation > for Raku modules, that some > > documentation good practices are put together and included in the > Modules page. > I agree that's a good

Re: Help with bug

On Tue, Dec 29, 2020 at 17:16 Elizabeth Mattijsen wrote: > Using an `await` inside a react, feels like a code smell to me. An > `await` will I suggest using 'note' for debugging instead of print or say so info is not delayed and goes straight to stderr. -Tom

Re: spurt and array question

On Sat, Nov 14, 2020 at 01:59 ToddAndMargo via perl6-users < perl6-us...@perl.org> wrote: > Hi All, > > I am writing out an array of text lines to a file. > I just can't help but thinking I am doing it the > hard way. > > unlink( $Leafpadrc ); > for @LeafpadrcNew -> $Line { spurt(

Re: Raku User's Survey 2020 out now....

On Thu, Aug 27, 2020 at 20:41 ToddAndMargo via perl6-users wrote: > On 2020-08-27 16:53, Daniel Long Sockwell wrote: > >> Very few of the other [methods are documented] this way. Todd, I have one more suggestion: Why don't you put your "keepers" on Github? Several advantages: 1. easy to change

Re: Extended identifiers in named attributes

On Wed, Aug 26, 2020 at 07:31 Marcel Timmerman wrote: I was experimenting with extended identifiers and found that it is > > not possible to use it in named attributes. E.g. > > > sub a (:$x:y) { say $x:y; } > > Are you sure that is supposed to work without some kind of () or <> like a module

Re: Any sign of a fix for the 10 second compile time?

On Sat, Aug 1, 2020 at 12:30 Richard Hainsworth wrote: > What you are asking for is not a bug, but a part of the current stage of > design. It will probably get quicker. Richard, you should find an appropriate place in the docs and add a section on setting up your personal zef repo. Thanks.

Re: Any sign of a fix for the 10 second compile time?

On Fri, Jul 31, 2020 at 5:38 PM ToddAndMargo via perl6-users wrote: > >> Todd, a couple of questions: > >> 1. In your modules that change all the time, do have "use lib ...;" > >> statements in any of them? > > > > No. If I do, they crash > > # use lib '/home/linuxutil/p6lib'; # may not be

Re: Any sign of a fix for the 10 second compile time?

On Fri, Jul 31, 2020 at 14:55 ToddAndMargo via perl6-users < perl6-us...@perl.org> wrote: > >> On Fri, Jul 31, 2020, 04:45 ToddAndMargo via perl6-users > >> mailto:perl6-us...@perl.org>> wrote: Todd, a couple of questions: 1. In your modules that change all the time, do have "use lib ...;"

Re: Baby steps to create a dataframe structure

On Wed, Jul 22, 2020 at 06:51 JJ Merelo wrote: > The Raku wrapper for GSL is ready, specifically all matrix operations, > check it out. It's extremely fast, and could be the foundation for these > data frames. > Depending on your use of the GSL, as I recall the license restricts commercial use.

Re: Baby steps to create a dataframe structure

On Tue, Jul 21, 2020 at 20:00 Warren Pang wrote: > I have the same feeling. Perl5 has PDL which we have been using for data > analysis. While Raku seems to lack this. > I haven't looked into how it might work, but Raku does have the NativeCall interface as well as Inline::Perl5 which may help.

Fwd: delimiters with more than one character? ...

An opportunity for Raku golfers to show off Raku on the Debian users list. Best regards, -Tom -- Forwarded message - From: Albretch Mueller Date: Tue, Jul 14, 2020 at 07:52 Subject: delimiters with more than one character? ... To: Debian Users ML I have a string delimited

Re: just curious to know

On Sun, Jun 14, 2020 at 10:56 Richard Hainsworth wrote: > Hi Radhakrishnan, > > If 'spreading wings over the information technology field' were to mean > anything other than what is fashionable today, then C still reigns. Richard, excellently said! I would like to see that on our Raku.org

Re: I need a GTK pop up with time out

On Wed, Jun 3, 2020 at 20:56 ToddAndMargo via perl6-users < perl6-us...@perl.org> wrote: ... > Can anyone point me to > an example of a GTK information pop up with a time out > feature? Or similar? Have you looked at the examples in the GTK::Simple repo? Go to modules.raku.org, search on

Re: bash "."?

On Fri, May 15, 2020 at 20:38 ToddAndMargo via perl6-users < perl6-us...@perl.org> wrote: > On 2020-05-15 17:26, Tom Browder wrote: > > On Fri, May 15, 2020 at 13:47 ToddAndMargo via perl6-users > > mailto:perl6-us...@perl.org>> wrote: Did you look at Raku modules

Re: I need help with IO.e

On Tue, May 19, 2020 at 03:44 Richard Hainsworth wrote: > The transcendental abundance of purple in Raku :) Ah, Richard, thanks for a trip down memory lane! In my youth I discovered the joys of science fiction a few years after that piece was published. -Tom

Re: I need help with IO.e

On Mon, May 18, 2020 at 17:51 ToddAndMargo via perl6-users < perl6-us...@perl.org> wrote: > On 2020-05-18 15:44, Tom Browder wrote: > > On Mon, May 18, 2020 at 16:19 ToddAndMargo via perl6-users > > mailto:perl6-us...@perl.org>> wrote: > > > >

Re: I need help with IO.e

On Mon, May 18, 2020 at 16:19 ToddAndMargo via perl6-users < perl6-us...@perl.org> wrote: > On 2020-05-18 13:28, Tom Browder wrote: ... > > Try: > > > > 'say so "test".IO.d' Todd, you didn't try what I suggested. Once again, look a the line above^^ There is no "if" there. -Tom

Re: I need help with IO.e

On Mon, May 18, 2020 at 14:36 ToddAndMargo via perl6-users < perl6-us...@perl.org> wrote: > On 2020-05-17 22:28, Paul Procacci wrote: ... > 'say if "test".IO.d', and > 'say "test".IO.d.Bool' Try: 'say so "test".IO.d'

Re: bash "."?

On Fri, May 15, 2020 at 13:47 ToddAndMargo via perl6-users < perl6-us...@perl.org> wrote: > > >> On 15 May 2020, at 20:08, ToddAndMargo via perl6-users < > perl6-us...@perl.org> wrote: > >> > >> On 2020-05-15 10:37, Elizabeth Mattijsen wrote: > >>> There will never be a Perl 6 version. > >> > >>

[Raku/old-design-docs] 1a90f9: fix identifier in used context

) Changed paths: M S26-documentation.pod Log Message: --- fix identifier in used context Commit: 93cc768ab2fe5c7440129e0e7630df3c666f6828 https://github.com/Raku/old-design-docs/commit/93cc768ab2fe5c7440129e0e7630df3c666f6828 Author: Tom Browder Date: 2020-04-26

Re: OAuth2?

On Sun, Mar 22, 2020 at 17:05 ToddAndMargo via perl6-users < perl6-us...@perl.org> wrote: > On 2020-03-22 10:39, Tom Browder wrote: > Have you folks checked out Raku module "OAuth2::Client::Google"? ... > Any chance at a peakl at your code? The example over > on O

Re: OAuth2?

On Sun, Mar 22, 2020 at 8:25 AM Gerard ONeill wrote: > Just looked at the stackoverflow post — there are 3 updates with respect > to needing to reauthenticate. > Have you folks checked out Raku module "OAuth2::Client::Google"? I got it to work a bit for downloading mail. -Tom @tbrowder

Re: qqx with quotes

On Wed, Feb 26, 2020 at 19:47 ToddAndMargo via perl6-users < perl6-us...@perl.org> ... > Hmm, this don't [sic] work either: > > perl6 -e "my $proc=run( 'dir', 'test 1', :out ); my @RtnStr = $$proc. > out.slurp-rest.lines; for @RtnStr -> $Line { say $Line;}" Todd, sloppy copy/paste or error

Re: printf question

On Tue, Feb 4, 2020 at 01:04 ToddAndMargo via perl6-users < perl6-us...@perl.org> wrote: ... > >> Who do I get it to print >> > >> 0b0100_ Look at my module Text::Utils and its "commify" sub taken from "The Perl Cookbook." Its algorithm (similar to Paul's) should be able to

Re: stolen uint's

On Wed, Jan 29, 2020 at 12:34 PM ToddAndMargo via perl6-users wrote: > On 2020-01-29 00:43, Tobias Boege wrote: > > On Tue, 28 Jan 2020, ToddAndMargo via perl6-users wrote: > >> This all came up when I tried to match ... > if $ValueData.^name ne "Int" || $ValueData < 0 { # UInt gets >

Re: I need syntax to sub declare return a hash and an array

On Thu, Jan 23, 2020 at 08:15 Elizabeth Mattijsen wrote: > >> Larry Wall once warned that the "return..." syntax may be removed at > some point. > > "return..." is a common idiom in many programming languages, and > > keeping it around might help programmers ease their transition to > >

Re: I need syntax to sub declare return a hash and an array

On Tue, Jan 21, 2020 at 18:34 Todd Chester via perl6-users < perl6-us...@perl.org> wrote: > On 2020-01-21 16:09, Todd Chester via perl6-users wrote: > >> 4) A block (that is the { ... } bit) will always 'return' the last > >> expression evaluated. > > > > Seems to me I have see the last

Re: I need syntax to sub declare return a hash and an array

On Mon, Jan 20, 2020 at 22:16 ToddAndMargo via perl6-users < perl6-us...@perl.org> wrote: > On 2020-01-20 20:09, ToddAndMargo via perl6-users wrote: > > On 2020-01-20 19:55, ToddAndMargo via perl6-users wrote: ... > > I think this is it: > > > > > sub x() returns Associative { my %h= A=>"a";

Creating a doc PR

There is recipe on the doc repo now which should be usable for a VERY BASIC intro to creating a doc PR. See it here: https://github.com/Raku/doc/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING_PRs.md

Re: Once again - You say one thing and do another Re: Bug to report: cardinal called an integer

On Fri, Jan 17, 2020 at 1:44 PM ToddAndMargo via perl6-users wrote: ... > Was this what you were referring to? > > https://github.com/Raku/doc/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md No, check this link: https://help.github.com/en/github/collaborating-with-issues-and-pull-requests/creating-a-pull-request

Re: Once again - You say one thing and do another Re: Bug to report: cardinal called an integer

On Fri, Jan 17, 2020 at 06:06 Todd Chester via perl6-users < perl6-us...@perl.org> wrote: > > > On 2020-01-17 00:12, Veesh Goldman wrote: > > he's finally looked into making pull requests. > > Do you have a link to the pull requests for > the documentation? I'd like to add some examples > to a

Re: Once again - You say one thing and do another Re: Bug to report: cardinal called an integer

On Wed, Jan 15, 2020 at 18:38 ToddAndMargo via perl6-users < perl6-us...@perl.org> wrote: > On 2020-01-15 15:50, Laurent Rosenfeld via perl6-users wrote: > > So, the way you behave with him is just nasty and evil. Please stop > > doing that. > > That is in your own head. Todd, why can't you

Re: Once again - You say one thing and do another Re: Bug to report: cardinal called an integer

On Wed, Jan 15, 2020 at 4:19 PM Elizabeth Mattijsen wrote: > > Thank you Richard for this long and thoughtful answer. Amen, Liz! -Tom (tbrowder)

Re: bitwise NOT

guys, interesting thread, but it's "complement" -Tom

Re: A grand idea on the documentation

On Mon, Dec 9, 2019 at 12:49 Peter Scott wrote: ... Developers need reminders, in the most succinct form, to minimize time, > of data that they should not need to memorize. The documentation > satisfies that need in the same way that a phone book satisfies the need > to look up someone's

Re: looking for good project to learn perl6

On Sun, Dec 8, 2019 at 10:38 AM Fernando Santagata wrote: > > Hello, > I started writing a raw interface to Tensorflow, but I stopped for various > reasons [¹]. If anyone wants to work on it I can help and/or share what I've > produced so far. > > [¹] three main reasons: ... Fernando, I'm on

Re: My pop ups for windows module

On Sat, Dec 7, 2019 at 05:41 ToddAndMargo via perl6-users < perl6-us...@perl.org> wrote: > Hi All, > > I wrote and extensive module for pop up in Windows. Todd, you need to publish your module to the Raku module ecosystem. Many people, including myself, want to see an easily-installable module

Fwd: Raku, docs, help [was: Re: vulgar?]

Forgot to reply to all. -- Forwarded message - From: Tom Browder Date: Sat, Dec 7, 2019 at 04:58 Subject: Raku, docs, help [was: Re: vulgar?] To: ToddAndMargo On Fri, Dec 6, 2019 at 23:23 ToddAndMargo via perl6-users < perl6-us...@perl.org> wrote: > On 2019-12-06 1

Re: vulgar?

On Fri, Dec 6, 2019 at 17:31 ToddAndMargo via perl6-users wrote: > > On 2019-12-06 04:19, Tom Browder wrote: > > Todd, arguing via email is almost guaranteed to be fruitless. You need > > to learn to use Github and make pull requests (PRs) for the EXACT > > changes

Re: vulgar?

On Fri, Dec 6, 2019 at 05:04 ToddAndMargo via perl6-users wrote: > I have uncovered several booboos in the docs. I find them > to not be all that accurate either. I really don't trust > them. And since they are written in IEEE-eese, booboos are > really hard to spot. ... > And when I do spot

Re: vulgar?

On Thu, Dec 5, 2019 at 03:57 Todd Chester via perl6-users < perl6-us...@perl.org> wrote ... > I really like this guys style of writing and examples > for Perl6. > > But he can be a bit vulgar at times, which I ignore. > Is he doing it on purpose? Todd, I took a quick glance at the link you gave

Re: FC31 can't find my module subs

On Mon, Nov 4, 2019 at 7:40 AM ToddAndMargo via perl6-users wrote: ... > I really think this is a Fedora 31 issue and not a Perl issue. > And really want to keep my rpm database intact. Ok, then please deal with @nxdm on the issue you filed. Using the git interface is best I believe. If you

Re: FC31 can't find my module subs

On Mon, Nov 4, 2019 at 6:59 AM Tom Browder wrote: I'm using almost latest master: $ ./perl6-m -v This is Rakudo version 2019.07-447-gc745d6b10 built on MoarVM version 2019.07.1-309-g48491b896 implementing Perl 6.d. And I can run our test sandbox with no problems--weird! Back to my system-wide

Re: FC31 can't find my module subs

On Mon, Nov 4, 2019 at 06:52 ToddAndMargo via perl6-users < perl6-us...@perl.org> wrote: ... Okay, that's sounding more like an FC/package interface issue. I'm going to check my latest build of Rakudo against our little test sandbox and see what happens. In the meantime, why don't you try

Re: FC31 can't find my module subs

On Mon, Nov 4, 2019 at 06:25 ToddAndMargo via perl6-users < perl6-us...@perl.org> wrote: ... Okay, now we're getting somewhere! That's just a warning, but it runs. I am running an older version of Perl 6 (Raku) than you, so I don't get the warning. For the next step, try two things: 1. Run

Re: FC31 can't find my module subs

On Mon, Nov 4, 2019 at 04:44 ToddAndMargo via perl6-users wrote: ... Todd, please don't be so careless in what you show us. It's difficult to zero in on your problem. Do me a favor and go to a clean, empty directory somewhere named 'mytest', and create EXACTLY what I describe here: + create a

Re: FC31 can't find my module subs

On Mon, Nov 4, 2019 at 02:25 JJ Merelo wrote: > > > El lun., 4 nov. 2019 a las 8:35, ToddAndMargo via perl6-users (< > perl6-us...@perl.org>) escribió: > >> >> Problem still occurs with selinux disabled > > One thing I noticed, you are missing a line at the top of your modules that should read

[perl6/specs] 4508e5: correct spelling for "resources" as in current usage

Branch: refs/heads/master Home: https://github.com/perl6/specs Commit: 4508e535661ccd1366e492960d54aab97be87bbe https://github.com/perl6/specs/commit/4508e535661ccd1366e492960d54aab97be87bbe Author: Tom Browder Date: 2019-10-02 (Wed, 02 Oct 2019) Changed paths: M S22

Re: zef uninstall .

On Wed, Sep 4, 2019 at 05:53 Fernando Santagata wrote: > > On Wed, Sep 4, 2019 at 12:21 PM William Michels > wrote: > >> Hi Fernando, I'm not sure I understand. Is this for module >> development? And you want to purge old versions of a module you're >> developing, before doing a 'git push'? > >

Re: I need one liner module import help

On Wed, Jun 12, 2019 at 16:12 ToddAndMargo via perl6-users < perl6-us...@perl.org> wrote: > Hi Bruce, > > This has to do with the way I am importing subs from modules. > > When importing subs, I like to declare which subs I > am importing. Otherwise my code is a nightmare to maintain. > "Where

Re: FatRat's falling back to Num's

On Fri, Apr 19, 2019 at 17:27 Tom Browder wrote: > On Fri, Apr 19, 2019 at 17:07 Laurent Rosenfeld < > laurent.rosenf...@googlemail.com> wrote: > >> Sure Tom, >> for example, let's print the first 200 digits of pi. >> > ... > >> Ah, part of

Re: FatRat's falling back to Num's

On Fri, Apr 19, 2019 at 17:07 Laurent Rosenfeld < laurent.rosenf...@googlemail.com> wrote: > Sure Tom, > for example, let's print the first 200 digits of pi. > ... > Thanks, Laurent! -Tom

Re: FatRat's falling back to Num's

On Fri, Apr 19, 2019 at 08:37 Laurent Rosenfeld via perl6-users < perl6-us...@perl.org> wrote: > Hello, > > in the context of the Perl Weekly Challenge, I was trying to use one of > Franco-Canadian mathematician Simon Plouffe's formulas to compute the > digits of pi. > Laurent, now that you have

Re: valid values?

On Mon, Mar 4, 2019 at 8:22 AM Brad Gilbert wrote: ... > Somewhere on the Internet I layed out the rules that I think that > should normally be followed, but I am not sure where. ... It would be nice to find it and add to the docs. -Tom

Re: I need hash string help

On Fri, Jan 11, 2019 at 20:15 ToddAndMargo via perl6-users < perl6-us...@perl.org> wrote: ... > $p6 'my $x = "acme"; my %Vendors = ( acme => { ContactName => "Larry", > AccountNo => 1234 } ); my Str $y = %Vendors{$x}.Str; say $y;' In my experience, it helps often to avoid using strict typing

Re: I need hash string help

On Fri, Jan 11, 2019 at 19:09 ToddAndMargo via perl6-users < perl6-us...@perl.org> wrote: > Now what am I doing wrong? I need to convert the value in a > hash to a string: > > $ p6 'my $x = "acme"; my Str $y; my %Vendors = ( acme => ContactName => > "Larry" ); Try eliminating “acme =>” for a

Re: Pod Types that are *NOT* Pod::Block

On Tue, Oct 16, 2018 at 10:11 JJ Merelo > wrote: > Thanks for your answer, Tom. > You’re, welcome, JJ! -Tom

Re: Pod Types that are *NOT* Pod::Block

On Tue, Oct 16, 2018 at 08:55 Richard Hainsworth wrote: > Tom > I was trying not to bother you with all my questions  > Never a bother, Richard! However I looked at all the classes of pod and they sub class block. So > which do not > Pod::Config and Pod::Raw I’ve not yet looked into their

Re: Pod Types that are *NOT* Pod::Block

On Tue, Oct 16, 2018 at 00:31 Richard Hainsworth wrote: > In the type documentation for POD under Pod::Block it states: > > "Class for a Pod block, and base class for most other Pod classes." The pod classes that currently exist are in Rakudo repo rakudo/src/core/Pod.pm6. Naming has been a bit

Re: Malformed UTF-8 ???

On Sun, Oct 14, 2018 at 5:13 AM Ralph Mellor wrote: > > Almost certainly your problem is elsewhere. What is the meaning of the double dollar sign ($$) in the problem code? -Tom

Re: Landing page for Documentation

On Wed, Oct 3, 2018 at 12:14 AM Richard Hainsworth wrote: > I have just started a review of the documentation for perl6. > When I hit `https://docs.perl6.org/language.html` I get a list of > sections that is the same as the alphabetical list of pod files in >

Re: A comparison between P5 docs and p6 docs

On Tue, Sep 11, 2018 at 10:39 AM Parrot Raiser <1parr...@gmail.com> wrote: > > One of the paradoxes of documentation, and the teaching of many > abstract topics, is that those with the most in-depth knowledge of the ... I agree with you for the most part. But the docs DO have examples, and any

Re: A comparison between P5 docs and p6 docs

On Tue, Sep 11, 2018 at 10:31 AM Simon Proctor wrote: > > It's a very good read. :) Yes it is!

Re: A comparison between P5 docs and p6 docs

Todd, some free advice: 1. DOCUMENTATION The docs are a volunteer effort. You can help by contributing changes and submitting issues. Try to use the docs first instead of using an internet search. That will help you submit issues if you don't find what you are looking for. You really need to

Re: start up delay?

One thing you can do, depending on your code, is to put most of your code in subroutines, put them in a module, and 'use' it in your main script. The module gets precompiled the first time you execute the program, and the overall program should be faster after the first go. The 'zef' program

Re: Is there a built in recursive rmdir and mkdir?

On Sun, Jun 3, 2018 at 3:13 PM, ToddAndMargo wrote: > Hi All, > > Does Perl 6 have a built in recursive rmdir > equivalent to LINUX's `rmdir --parents path`? Searching for "rmdir" on the docs site, and selecting the sub rmdir entry, I see the following: To delete non-empty directory, see

Re: CPAN and p6c

On Fri, Mar 23, 2018 at 10:36 Fernando Santagata wrote: > Hello *, > > It seems that the p6c ecosystem is soon to be deprecated, so I applied for > a PAUSE id and uploaded a new module over there. > > Should I upload to CPAN the modules that I contributed to p6c in the

[perl #132632] [POD][NYI]. List and hash configuration value formats are not yet implemented (NYI)

closed also with tests in merged roast PR #371

[perl #130477] [BUG][POD] Pod config parses colopairs but simply stringifies whatever it matched

closed also with tests in merged roast PR #371

[perl #126742] [POD] config items should not include quotes for string values

closed also with tests in merged roast PR #371

[perl #124281] colonpairs in [POD] config options always produce strings

closed also with tests in merged roast PR #371

[perl #132632] [POD][NYI]. List and hash configuration value formats are not yet implemented (NYI)

closed by merge of rakudo PR #1339

[perl #130477] [BUG][POD] Pod config parses colopairs but simply stringifies whatever it matched

closed by merge of rakudo PR #1339

[perl #126742] [POD] config items should not include quotes for string values

closed by merge of rakudo PR #1339

[perl #124281] colonpairs in [POD] config options always produce strings

closed by merge of rakudo PR #1339

[perl #128221] [BUG] Weird internal error when parsing some very simple Pod with '-' in the first column of a table in Rakudo

tests added in roast PR #353

[perl #132348] [POD] tables should accept an inline comment (Z)

tests added in roast PR #353

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