Call For Pumpking: Do you want a Ponie?

2005-12-14 Thread jesse
Two and a half years ago, Fotango announced their sponsorship of the Perl 6 effort, in the form of the Ponie project to port the Perl 5 runtime to the Parrot Virtual Machine. For the past year, Nicholas Clark has worked as the pumpking for Ponie as part of his work for Fotango. He's recently moved

Re: Some thoughts on threading

2005-12-14 Thread Ron Blaschke
On Mon, 12 Dec 2005 12:18:47 +1300, Sam Vilain wrote: On Thu, 2005-12-08 at 17:16 +0100, Ron Blaschke wrote: The Free Lunch Is Over: A Fundamental Turn Toward Concurrency in Software. [1] He starts with The biggest sea change in software development since the OO revolution is knocking at the

relational data models and Perl 6

2005-12-14 Thread Darren Duncan
All, P.S. What follows is rough and will be smoothed out or reworked. I propose, perhaps redundantly, that Perl 6 include a complete set of native language constructs for a relational data model, akin to that introduced in E. F. Codd's classic paper, A Relational Model of Data for Large

Re: relational data models and Perl 6

2005-12-14 Thread Luke Palmer
On 12/15/05, Darren Duncan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I propose, perhaps redundantly, that Perl 6 include a complete set of native Okay, I'm with you here. Just please stop saying native and core. Everyone. rant Remember, syntax in Perl 6 can be stuffed in a library like anything else. You

Fully-qualified symbols and exportation

2005-12-14 Thread Gaal Yahas
What should this mean? package Foo; sub Bar::baz is export { ... } The problem is in how callers request this export. use Foo baz; Looks weird, as this demonstrates: package Foo; sub baz is export { I am Foo::baz } sub Bar::baz is export { I am Bar::baz }

Re: Fully-qualified symbols and exportation

2005-12-14 Thread Luke Palmer
On 12/15/05, Gaal Yahas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What should this mean? package Foo; sub Bar::baz is export { ... } The problem is in how callers request this export. use Foo baz; Hmm. My gut reaction is that that is the correct way to request that export. Looks weird,