Re: [svn:perl6-synopsis] r8532 - doc/trunk/design/syn

2006-04-02 Thread Uri Guttman
AT == Audrey Tang [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: AT Uri Guttman wrote: one of these days when i have tuits of large circumference, i will do a nit pass over as much of the A/E/S as i can handle before my brain explodes. having done tech editing for perl books is good training for this.

curly-quotes

2006-04-02 Thread Jonathan Lang
Given perl6's use of unicode as a basis, could we get curly quotes, both single and double, to do the same things that straight quotes do? That is: text does the same thing as text, and 'text' does the same thing as 'text'. Other than looks neat, why do this? Because curly-quotes come in

Parrot 0.4.3 Cold Conure Released

2006-04-02 Thread Leopold Toetsch
On behalf of the Parrot team I'm proud to announce another monthly release of Parrot. I'd like to thank all involved people as well as our sponsors for supporting us. What is Parrot? Parrot is a virtual machine aimed at running Perl6 and other dynamic languages, see http://www.parrotcode.org/

Re: [svn:perl6-synopsis] r8520 - doc/trunk/design/syn

2006-04-02 Thread Dr.Ruud
Larry Wall schreef: Ruud H.G. van Tol: Uri Guttman: When cast into an array, you can access all the positional arguments; Into a hash, all named arguments; Into a scalar, the invocant; Into code, into slurpy nameless block. The last 'into' should be 'the'. And it has become 'its', which

Re: [svn:perl6-synopsis] r8532 - doc/trunk/design/syn

2006-04-02 Thread Dr.Ruud
Uri Guttman schreef: you might as well attribute the s:g/Into/into/ to dr. ruud. Right, s:g/I/i/ is all that remained. I really was amazed by your new capitalization style. :) -- Affijn, Ruud Gewoon is een tijger. (posted via news://nntp.perl.org again)