[perl #129104] [BUG] method rand (Range) ignores $!excludes-max flag

2016-08-26 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by Itsuki Toyota # Please include the string: [perl #129104] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=129104 > See the following result $ perl6 -e '(1..^(1+10e-15)).rand.say' 1.01 $

[perl #129100] [BUG] method rand (Range) fails to check type of $!max

2016-08-26 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by Itsuki Toyota # Please include the string: [perl #129100] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=129100 > See the following results. $ perl6 -e '("10"..15).rand.say' # min is Str Can only get

Re: [perl #129088] [BUG] Error message provokes panic

2016-08-26 Thread Timo Paulssen
we could call the method "parsefail", or maybe just "fail", or "abort". how does that sound?

Re: [perl #129096] [BUG] sub wrapped with mod_trait: when exported yield cryptic error message, works fine in same unit

2016-08-26 Thread Lloyd Fournier
This is another outer context lost with compile time closure bug. It's one of the most prolific bugs in rakudo :(. I've added this ticket to the list: https://rt.perl.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=125634 https://rt.perl.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=126818

[perl #129096] [BUG] sub wrapped with mod_trait: when exported yield cryptic error message, works fine in same unit

2016-08-26 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by Eike Frost # Please include the string: [perl #129096] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=129096 > Tested on version 2016.07.1, 2016.08.1: When executing test2.pl, the error Cannot invoke

Re: [perl #129088] [BUG] Error message provokes panic

2016-08-26 Thread Parrot Raiser
"Panic" brings to mind "kernel panic" - perhaps there's a less alarming way to express it; "failure", "error", or something? (Of course, we're used to "Fatal error - aborting" meaning "something's wrong - the program's stopping".) Presumably " in any at" should have something between "any" and

Re: can Perl 6 bootstrap itself (downloading modules and such via git)

2016-08-26 Thread Timo Paulssen
On 26/08/16 11:03, Andreas Mueller wrote: > on Windows i have to install git to download a Module > > maybe, one day there is a 'git' written in P6 > > > Andreas I think we should be able to grab modules without using git if we can rely on github and gitlab and whoever hosts modules to give

Re: [perl #129088] [BUG] Error message provokes panic

2016-08-26 Thread Timo Paulssen
This sound much more severe than it is. panic is just a convenience method that throws an exception that contains the cursor's location during parsing. it then just uses nqp::die to throw that message, which is as harmless as any other "die".

Re: can Perl 6 bootstrap itself

2016-08-26 Thread Luca Ferrari
I don't see the real problem in having Perl6 requiring Perl5 to build itself, at least not in the long term. So far the world simply cannot survive without Perl5, but one day all applications will be hopefully rewritten in Perl6 and so will be the tools. In the meantime I guess the best and

Re: Killer Features of Perl 6

2016-08-26 Thread Tony Edwardson
Thank you all for your input - I have started writing my talk and will publish my slides when I'm done.I may even video the talk and publish that too Tony On 22/08/2016 16:01, Brock Wilcox wrote: Correct -- there are some excellent REPLs for perl5 such as Devel::REPL and tinyrepl. The

[perl #129092] [JVM] Can't get CORE::.keys

2016-08-26 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by awwa...@thelackthereof.org # Please include the string: [perl #129092] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=129092 > perl6-j -e 'say CORE::.keys' ContextRef representation does not implement

[perl6/specs] 151d79: Revert "Forbid Bare C<\b> in Regexes"

2016-08-26 Thread GitHub
Branch: refs/heads/master Home: https://github.com/perl6/specs Commit: 151d791563ce474709ed38984f883a05ad73dc0b https://github.com/perl6/specs/commit/151d791563ce474709ed38984f883a05ad73dc0b Author: Zoffix Znet Date: 2016-08-25 (Thu, 25 Aug 2016) Changed

[perl #129088] [BUG] Error message provokes panic

2016-08-26 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by Parrot Raiser # Please include the string: [perl #129088] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=129088 > An error in a sprintf format (program attached) generates a "panic" message: Your

Re: can Perl 6 bootstrap itself

2016-08-26 Thread Andreas Mueller
on Windows i have to install git to download a Module maybe, one day there is a 'git' written in P6 Andreas On 25.08.16 17:56, Parrot Raiser wrote: > It's going to be easier to demonstrate stand-alone Perl 6 on Windows > than an *nix machine. If you remove Perl from them, the result

[perl #129093] [BUG] LAST does not trigger in -ne loop in Rakudo

2016-08-26 Thread Carl Mäsak
# New Ticket Created by "Carl Mäsak" # Please include the string: [perl #129093] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=129093 > Why I don't see last line? $perl6 -ne 'LAST .say' file.txt killbill: because bug,

Re: Graphical Toolkits

2016-08-26 Thread Kaare Rasmussen
On 2016-08-26 03:14, Timo Paulssen wrote: with Inline::Python you can use at least one of the Qt bindings python The Inline::* options are mostly interesting when porting or binding to existing applications, IMHO. But it's a valid point. Doesn't Perl 5 have some implementations as well?