Re: Can I call myself

2017-02-04 Thread ToddAndMargo
On 02/04/2017 01:09 AM, Brent Laabs wrote: I think you're looking for &?ROUTINE. &?BLOCK is also related. https://docs.perl6.org/language/variables#index-entry-%26%3FROUTINE Hi Brent, Awesome reference on variables! Thank you! (I copied it down.) -T -- ~~~ Havi

Re: Can I call myself

2017-02-04 Thread ToddAndMargo
On 2017-02-04 12:34 AM, ToddAndMargo wrote: Hi All, Just out of curiosity, in Perl 6 can a subroutine call itself? -T I am fighting with a broken Net:FTP::rmdir in Perl 5 that will not recuse as advertised (it is very intermittent). And I can not use Net::Ftp in Perl 6 as it is hosed and s

[perl #130719] [BUG] type check failed in binding to $value in loop

2017-02-04 Thread Zoffix Znet via RT
On Sat, 04 Feb 2017 16:36:21 -0800, jeff.lina...@gmail.com wrote: > I type this into the REPL: > > loop (my $i = 10; $i > 0; $i--) { say $i; } > > It loops and then crashes: > > 10 > 9 > 8 > 7 > 6 > 5 > 4 > 3 > 2 > 1 > Type check failed in binding to $value; expected Any but got Mu (Mu) > in a

[perl #130716] [CONC] unbounded supply {} + react {} = pseudo-hang

2017-02-04 Thread jn...@jnthn.net via RT
On Fri, 03 Feb 2017 21:20:59 -0800, g...@google.com wrote: > See the following gist: > > https://gist.github.com/japhb/40772099ed24e20ec2c37c06f434594b > > (If you run that at the command line, you'll probably want to pipe it to > `head -30` or so; it will output a lot of lines very quickly!)

Re: [perl #130709] Issue with dynamic loading of module

2017-02-04 Thread Lloyd Fournier
looks similar to: https://rt.perl.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=130535 require seems to be pretty broken since the lexical module thing. Unfortunately our tests weren't good enough to pick this up ( I think it's because it's being required dynamically outside the mainline). LL On Sat, Feb 4, 20

Re: Can I call myself

2017-02-04 Thread Brent Laabs
I think you're looking for &?ROUTINE. &?BLOCK is also related. https://docs.perl6.org/language/variables#index-entry-%26%3FROUTINE On Sat, Feb 4, 2017 at 12:51 AM, Darren Duncan wrote: > Any decent programming language supports self-recursion, where a > subroutine may invoke itself. Perl 6 ex

Re: Can I call myself

2017-02-04 Thread Darren Duncan
Any decent programming language supports self-recursion, where a subroutine may invoke itself. Perl 6 explicitly also supports this, and even has a special keyword for a routine to refer to itself without knowing its own name, especially useful for anonymous subs; I don't remember that keyword

Can I call myself

2017-02-04 Thread ToddAndMargo
Hi All, Just out of curiosity, in Perl 6 can a subroutine call itself? -T I am fighting with a broken Net:FTP::rmdir in Perl 5 that will not recuse as advertised (it is very intermittent). And I can not use Net::Ftp in Perl 6 as it is hosed and so is the Inline. And it seems that Perl 5 does