Re: Killer Features of Perl 6

2016-08-22 Thread Timo Paulssen
Could I interest you in focusing your time on the project arnsholt and me started long ago to make a Jupyter/IPython compatible kernel? https://github.com/timo/iperl6kernel

Re: can Perl 6 bootstrap itself

2016-08-22 Thread Will Coleda
Bennet is correct. If you're buildilng from source, you'll need perl5 and make (and git if you don't have a tarball to work from) If you're using MoarVM backend, you'll need a C compiler, and javac for the JVM backend. Note that Perl 6 is implemented mostly in Perl 6 and NQP (Not Quite Perl 6),

Re: can Perl 6 bootstrap itself

2016-08-22 Thread Bennett Todd
I think perl6 isn't self bootstrapping, yet. Unless I've gotten myself confused, some of the environment sniffing and basic build automation is in perl5, and the foundation is in C. Also wants make.

Re: can Perl 6 bootstrap itself

2016-08-22 Thread İsmail Arılık
'rakudobrew' and panda, maybe? http://rakudo.org/how-to-get-rakudo/#Installing-Rakudo-Star-Source-Rakudobrew 22 Ağu 2016 Pzt, 17:37 tarihinde, Andreas Mueller < andreas.muel...@biologie.uni-osnabrueck.de> şunu yazdı: > Hi, > > is there a minimal tool set (best written in P6), that > can

Re: Killer Features of Perl 6

2016-08-22 Thread Brock Wilcox
Correct -- there are some excellent REPLs for perl5 such as Devel::REPL and tinyrepl. The advantage for Perl 6 will be (but is not yet) it's multi-threaded friendliness. I am slowly working on the tools to build something like clojure's nREPL -- a client/server repl where your console, editor,

can Perl 6 bootstrap itself

2016-08-22 Thread Andreas Mueller
Hi, is there a minimal tool set (best written in P6), that can load the necessary rest from the internet to have a complete Perl6 installation ? Greetings Andreas -- Andreas Müller

Re: Killer Features of Perl 6

2016-08-22 Thread yary
> why anyone would migrate to Perl 6 from Perl5. In addition to the previous, some perl5-to-6-specific improvements: consistent handling of $_ means not having to look up "what (if anything) does this builtin do with a default?" NativeCall is quite simpler than XS Has an object system, so if

[perl #129044] [BUG] `.first($regex)` throws error on element that doesn't support method .match

2016-08-22 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by Sam S. # Please include the string: [perl #129044] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=129044 > These work fine: say /a/.ACCEPTS: (a=>2); # 「a」 say (a=>2) ~~ /a/;# 「a」 But