request addition of immutable Blob type

2006-08-09 Thread Darren Duncan
That #perl6 discussion on character strings over the last hour then evolved into a discussion on binary strings, where the pseudo-conclusion started here: http://colabti.de/irclogger/irclogger_log/perl6?date=2006-08-09,Wedsel=294#l520 And so, I formally propose the addition of an immutable

Re: request addition of immutable Blob type

2006-08-09 Thread Yuval Kogman
What about str? Or is it called buf now? -- Yuval Kogman [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://nothingmuch.woobling.org 0xEBD27418 pgpaF4yq94mUW.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: request addition of immutable Blob type

2006-08-09 Thread Darren Duncan
At 10:57 AM +0300 8/9/06, Yuval Kogman wrote: What about str? Or is it called buf now? What was once spelled 'str' is now spelled 'buf'. That autoboxes to Buf, according to Synopsis 6, which is a mutable type. The Blob I propose is immutable by contrast, and can be treated like Num or Str

[svn:perl6-synopsis] r10758 - doc/trunk/design/syn

2006-08-09 Thread larry
Author: larry Date: Wed Aug 9 18:34:02 2006 New Revision: 10758 Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S02.pod doc/trunk/design/syn/S03.pod doc/trunk/design/syn/S04.pod doc/trunk/design/syn/S06.pod doc/trunk/design/syn/S12.pod Log: Renamed pseudo-methods and functions in uppercase to be

Parrot 0.4.6 Released!

2006-08-09 Thread Chip Salzenberg
On behalf of the Parrot team, I'm proud to announce Parrot 0.4.6, the most recent close-to-monthly release of Parrot. I'm particularly pleased to report that Parrot 0.4.6 includes the beginnings of a Ruby implementation (named Cardinal), thanks to the work of Kevin Tew. What is Parrot? Parrot

[svn:perl6-synopsis] r10762 - doc/trunk/design/syn

2006-08-09 Thread larry
Author: larry Date: Wed Aug 9 21:22:30 2006 New Revision: 10762 Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S02.pod Log: More SKIP acronyms. Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S02.pod == --- doc/trunk/design/syn/S02.pod

Re: [svn:perl6-synopsis] r10758 - doc/trunk/design/syn

2006-08-09 Thread Agent Zhang
On 8/10/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: @@ -1339,8 +1339,8 @@ =head2 Undefined types -These can behave as values or objects of any class, but always return -a C.valid that evaluates to false. One can create them with the +These can behave as values or objects of any class,

[svn:perl6-synopsis] r10763 - doc/trunk/design/syn

2006-08-09 Thread larry
Author: larry Date: Wed Aug 9 22:32:05 2006 New Revision: 10763 Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S06.pod Log: Fossil found by luqui++. Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S06.pod == --- doc/trunk/design/syn/S06.pod