What I'd *really* like to do to make this useful is to put together a
set of example programs so that we can bundle it all together and have
something to show. I'd like to be able to take this to non-perl6-* people
to give them a sneak-preview of the language too; for that to be worthwhile,
they n
Hi Ask, perl6-meta, and perl6-stdlib,
Today at YAPC in the Perl 6 session there was some discussion of modules
and what work needs doing in that area for Perl 6.
Basically it breaks down the following two topics:
WHAT goes into the core? (covered by perl6-stdlib)
HOW do we write Perl 6 modules
On Thursday 14 June 2001 12:01 pm, Dan Sugalski wrote:
> Fancy character classes are probably enough to handle the various casing
> issues and their analogs. They're probably not enough to handle things
> like the arabic tatwheel, or proper word breaks in most asian languages.
> Heck, unless I'm m
At 11:45 PM 6/14/2001 -0400, Bryan C. Warnock wrote:
>A couple questions, if I may?
>
>On Thursday 14 June 2001 05:57 pm, Dan Sugalski wrote:
> > =item state stack
> >
> > For the interpreter's internal state
>
>Does this include the call stack? If it does, should it?
Might, and I'm not sure.
K
At 06:52 AM 6/15/2001 -0400, Bryan C. Warnock wrote:
>On Thursday 14 June 2001 12:01 pm, Dan Sugalski wrote:
> > As I see it, locales specify:
> >
> >* Collating order
> >* Comparison/equality specification
> >* Unicode codepoint interpretation
>
>What do you mean by that?
Unless I'm
On Fri, 15 Jun 2001 06:52:32 -0400, Bryan C. Warnock wrote:
>On a side note (and this *will* sound stupid, but there is a reason I'm
>asking). Why is there no logical opposite to '.'; that is, a character
>which never matches another character? (Besides, of course, that it's
>utterly useless
--- Dan Sugalski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> =head1 Stacks
[snip]
> The stacks are at least:
>
> =over 4
>
> =item Temp stack
>
> for squirreling away the contents of individual registers
>
> =item Register stack
>
> For pushing the entire register file at once. There are
> four sets, one
>
On Friday 15 June 2001 06:58 pm, Dan Sugalski wrote:
> > > >module Locale::Hawaiian;
> > > >use re 'class (\w => [aeiouâêîôûhklmnpw`])';
> > > >...
> > >
> > > Sure. I expect Damian will write us something that lets you specify
> > > them upside-down in Klingon or something by the time this is don
At 12:29 AM 6/16/2001 +0100, Simon Cozens wrote:
>On Fri, Jun 15, 2001 at 07:12:45PM -0400, Dan Sugalski wrote:
> > The question, then, is should ya be considered a literal number in either
> > of those contexts?
>
>The phrase "in those contexts" suggests that it should in some and shouldn't
>in o
At 11:28 PM 6/15/2001 +0100, Simon Cozens wrote:
>On Fri, Jun 15, 2001 at 11:50:49AM -0400, Dan Sugalski wrote:
> > Unless I'm missing something (Simon? Hong?) Japanese (and potentially all
> > the languages that use the Han characters) can interpret a particular
> > character as either a number o
On Fri, Jun 15, 2001 at 07:45:58PM -0400, Dan Sugalski wrote:
> If we can't effectively do it correctly, I can live with that. I just want
> the suboptimal behaviour to be on purpose (and hopefully overridable by
> someone clever enough) rather than accidental.
As I've intimated in the past, I
At 12:03 AM 6/16/2001 +0100, Simon Cozens wrote:
>On Fri, Jun 15, 2001 at 06:58:24PM -0400, Dan Sugalski wrote:
> > The kanji dictionary I have handy gives non-numeric translations for
> > several of the numeric kanji, though it might be something that gets lost
> > in translation.
>
>Ah, OK; sure
On Fri, Jun 15, 2001 at 06:58:24PM -0400, Dan Sugalski wrote:
> The kanji dictionary I have handy gives non-numeric translations for
> several of the numeric kanji, though it might be something that gets lost
> in translation.
Ah, OK; sure, there can be numerics with non-numeric meanings, but n
At 01:33 PM 6/15/2001 -0700, Benjamin Stuhl wrote:
>--- Dan Sugalski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > =head1 Stacks
>[snip]
> > The stacks are at least:
> >
> > =over 4
> >
> > =item Temp stack
> >
> > for squirreling away the contents of individual registers
> >
> > =item Register stack
> >
> > For
On Fri, Jun 15, 2001 at 07:12:45PM -0400, Dan Sugalski wrote:
> The question, then, is should ya be considered a literal number in either
> of those contexts?
The phrase "in those contexts" suggests that it should in some and shouldn't
in others. This means that the regexp engine would need to u
On Fri, Jun 15, 2001 at 11:50:49AM -0400, Dan Sugalski wrote:
> Unless I'm missing something (Simon? Hong?) Japanese (and potentially all
> the languages that use the Han characters) can interpret a particular
> character as either a number or not a number, depending on context.
Uh, don't think
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