Re: Moar comprehension questions about Perl6

2014-09-10 Thread Timo Paulssen
Hi Alex, your questions aren't unbelievably dumb, to start off. Getting an outsider's view is very hard if you're on the inside. Yes, Rakudo * is a distribution of a compiler and some modules we hope you'll find useful. In that way it's similar to the ActiveState or Strawberry distributions

Re: Orphaned module Form

2014-09-10 Thread Tobias Leich
Hi, it is now found at: https://github.com/perl6/form (Moritz++'s link below points to the old location) Am 09.09.2014 um 22:23 schrieb Moritz Lenz: Hi all, On 08.09.2014 10:44, Kamil Kułaga wrote: Hi, There is a https://github.com/mathw/form trying to implement

[perl #122746] [BUG] Stringification of AST parameter not captured properly in postfix macro in Rakudo

2014-09-10 Thread Carl Mäsak
# New Ticket Created by Carl Mäsak # Please include the string: [perl #122746] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # URL: https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=122746 masak m: macro postfix:!!($o) { quasi { die Null check failed for , $o.Str unless

Getting startes with Perl6 / Rakudo Star / MoarVM

2014-09-10 Thread Alex Becker
Hi! I downloaded rakudo-star-2014.08-moar.msi. When it was done, luckily, I noticed that it installed on C:\rakudo. It was luck because no message indicated that install location and I found it only because I checked if the installer would really put it on my small OS SSD (= bad). Then, I

Re: Getting startes with Perl6 / Rakudo Star / MoarVM

2014-09-10 Thread Xanadu Zhang
Maybe the book Using Perl6 is what your requested. Using Perl6 http://github.com/perl6/book/downloads http://github.com/perl6/book/downloads I'm a noob of Perl6, too. And I only used a little Perl5 some C language code in my past work. On 2014年09月11日 03:07, Alex Becker wrote: Hi! I

Re: [perl #122741] Dead link

2014-09-10 Thread Alex
Hello Timo, It looks really good. Thank you! Am 10.09.2014 um 06:21 schrieb Timo Paulssen via RT perl6-bugs-follo...@perl.org: Hello Alex, I gave the page an almost complete overhaul to make it more newbie-friendly (because we do want to cater to newcomers, it's just that sometimes

[perl6/specs] 063e71: define process

2014-09-10 Thread GitHub
Branch: refs/heads/master Home: https://github.com/perl6/specs Commit: 063e7117473f98eb81c137ba5dab377aabae3aaf https://github.com/perl6/specs/commit/063e7117473f98eb81c137ba5dab377aabae3aaf Author: L. Grondin grond...@yahoo.fr Date: 2014-09-10 (Wed, 10 Sep 2014) Changed

[perl6/specs] 24fb00: make Bag/Mix.list more hashy, returning .pairs

2014-09-10 Thread GitHub
Branch: refs/heads/master Home: https://github.com/perl6/specs Commit: 24fb00c9f0ca1ed6311381cd29d311491cc31aed https://github.com/perl6/specs/commit/24fb00c9f0ca1ed6311381cd29d311491cc31aed Author: TimToady la...@wall.org Date: 2014-09-09 (Tue, 09 Sep 2014) Changed paths:

[perl #122750] bug or error message not informative

2014-09-10 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by equinox # Please include the string: [perl #122750] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # URL: https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=122750 Hi all, use NativeCall; class TopWindow is repr('CPointer') { multi sub

Re: [perl #122741] Dead link

2014-09-10 Thread Steve Mynott
I've put a replacement planet for perl6 (currently using perl5 on the backend but planned to use 6 RSN) up at http://pl6anet.org/ Steve (itz on IRC) On 10 September 2014 05:21, Timo Paulssen t...@wakelift.de wrote: Hello Alex, I gave the page an almost complete overhaul to make it more

[perl #122752] Allow different INSTALLLOCATION for Rakudo Star MSI package

2014-09-10 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by Alex Becker # Please include the string: [perl #122752] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # URL: https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=122752 Hi! I just installed Rakudo Star and noticed that the MSI does not ask for a