Patch for S06 (and also S03)

2006-08-07 Thread Agent Zhang
Hi, there~ I've been reading S06 in the past few days. it almost killed me due to its difficulties. ;-) The patch to S06 (as well as S03) is given at the end of the mail. I've also included several fixes from TreyHarris++ and spinclad++. I really appreciate the help from #perl6. :D There's one

Re: Patch for S06 (and also S03)

2006-08-07 Thread Daniel Hulme
Sorry to patch the patch, but in -Other sigils binds only to the Ilast argument with that name: +Other sigil binds only to the Ilast argument with that name: the replacement makes no more sense than the original. Other sigils bind or Any other sigil binds would work here. Also, I believe the

Re: Patch for S06 (and also S03)

2006-08-07 Thread Trey Harris
In a message dated Mon, 7 Aug 2006, Daniel Hulme writes: Sorry to patch the patch, but in -Other sigils binds only to the Ilast argument with that name: +Other sigil binds only to the Ilast argument with that name: the replacement makes no more sense than the original. Other sigils bind or

[svn:perl6-synopsis] r10676 - doc/trunk/design/syn

2006-08-07 Thread larry
Author: larry Date: Mon Aug 7 11:01:23 2006 New Revision: 10676 Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S02.pod Log: Clarified unspace ramifications. Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S02.pod == ---

Re: Patch for S06 (and also S03)

2006-08-07 Thread Agent Zhang
On 8/8/06, Daniel Hulme [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry to patch the patch, but in -Other sigils binds only to the Ilast argument with that name: +Other sigil binds only to the Ilast argument with that name: the replacement makes no more sense than the original. Other sigils bind or Any other

Re: Patch for S06 (and also S03)

2006-08-07 Thread Agent Zhang
(Please ignore the previous mail. I was writing that in sleepy mode. Sorry.) On 8/8/06, Daniel Hulme [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry to patch the patch, but in -Other sigils binds only to the Ilast argument with that name: +Other sigil binds only to the Ilast argument with that name: the

Re: Patch for S06 (and also S03)

2006-08-07 Thread Daniel Hulme
Oh, thank you very much for correcting this. I didn't even read the sentence after I made the change. ;-) I should be more careful the next time. Bah, you don't need to with an army of attentive proof-readers. I'm sorry that I disagree with this one since I am following Audrey's changes made

[svn:perl6-synopsis] r10677 - doc/trunk/design/syn

2006-08-07 Thread larry
Author: larry Date: Mon Aug 7 12:17:22 2006 New Revision: 10677 Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S02.pod Log: Also exempted initial # rule from unspaciness so that you can block comment even unspacey code. Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S02.pod

[svn:perl6-synopsis] r10678 - doc/trunk/design/syn

2006-08-07 Thread larry
Author: larry Date: Mon Aug 7 12:38:13 2006 New Revision: 10678 Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S02.pod Log: Gah, would help if I actually thought about these things before committing... Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S02.pod

RE: [svn:perl6-synopsis] r10678 - doc/trunk/design/syn

2006-08-07 Thread Reed, Mark \(TBS\)
You may interpolate a string into a package or variable name using ::($expr) where you'd ordinarily put a package or variable name. The string is allowed to contain additional instances of ::, which will be interpreted as package nesting. You may only interpolate entire names, since the

RE: [svn:perl6-synopsis] r10678 - doc/trunk/design/syn

2006-08-07 Thread Reed, Mark \(TBS\)
Sorry, over-trimmage. That's in S02. -Original Message- From: Reed, Mark (TBS) Sent: Monday, August 07, 2006 4:28 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'; 'perl6-language@perl.org' Subject: RE: [svn:perl6-synopsis] r10678 - doc/trunk/design/syn You may interpolate a string into a package or

[svn:perl6-synopsis] r10680 - doc/trunk/design/syn

2006-08-07 Thread larry
Author: larry Date: Mon Aug 7 13:37:03 2006 New Revision: 10680 Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S02.pod Log: Interesting fossil discovered by Mark.Reed++. Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S02.pod == ---

RE: [svn:perl6-synopsis] r10680 - doc/trunk/design/syn

2006-08-07 Thread Reed, Mark \(TBS\)
Log: Interesting fossil discovered by Mark.Reed++. Fossil, eh? Hm. Mark Indiana Reed, Documentational Archaeologist. I should get cards made up... Thanks for the fix...

Re: [svn:perl6-synopsis] r10679 - doc/trunk/design/syn

2006-08-07 Thread Darren Duncan
At 1:12 PM -0700 8/7/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S06.pod == @@ -1265,10 +1266,10 @@ :(\Any(Dog)) -and match a function taking a single value of type Dog. +and match a function

weak roles

2006-08-07 Thread Yuval Kogman
The CPAN has many reinvented wheels. This happened since we have so many authors (== opinions) over so many years. For example, we have Mail::Message to Email::Simple, to Mail::Internet to They all do the same thing differently. Then there is Email::Abstract, which provides a simplified API