Re: Micro-articles on Perl 6 Operators

2007-09-18 Thread Larry Wall
On Tue, Sep 18, 2007 at 07:41:54PM -0700, Paul Hodges wrote: : while length($ruler) < $len; # till there's enough There is no length function anymore. Larry

Re: Micro-articles on Perl 6 Operators

2007-09-18 Thread Larry Wall
On Tue, Sep 18, 2007 at 09:46:14PM -0400, Joe Gottman wrote: : Adriano Ferreira wrote: : >I salute every bit of help. I am trying to organize the production and : >will hopefully provide more details soon. By now, I think that I can : >handle suggestions and corrections to the articles. The next on

Re: Micro-articles on Perl 6 Operators

2007-09-18 Thread Paul Hodges
Looks good . . . but how short do we want them? For the non-Perl audience, I think it might be worth mentioning the (to us) obvious automatic context manipulations. e.g., ~ is "stitching" strings, and will make strings out of its arguments if it can -- it's not adding, but has the same preceden

Re: Micro-articles on Perl 6 Operators

2007-09-18 Thread Joe Gottman
Adriano Ferreira wrote: I salute every bit of help. I am trying to organize the production and will hopefully provide more details soon. By now, I think that I can handle suggestions and corrections to the articles. The next one is here: http://ferreira.nfshost.com/perl6/stitching6.html Th

Re: Micro-articles on Perl 6 Operators

2007-09-18 Thread Adriano Ferreira
On 9/18/07, Paul Hodges <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- Adriano Ferreira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [[snips here and at end]] > > > . . . I have one suggestion: you might want to mention > > > the roundrobin function in the article on the zip function since > > > the two are very closely relat

Re: Micro-articles on Perl 6 Operators

2007-09-18 Thread Paul Hodges
--- Adriano Ferreira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [[snips here and at end]] > > . . . I have one suggestion: you might want to mention > > the roundrobin function in the article on the zip function since > > the two are very closely related. > > Thanks, Joe and Alberto. > > Even though the roundro

Parrot 0.4.16 Released

2007-09-18 Thread jerry gay
On behalf of the Parrot team, I'm proud to announce Parrot 0.4.16, "A Farewell to Alex." Parrot (http://parrotcode.org/) is a virtual machine aimed at running all dynamic languages. Parrot 0.4.16 can be obtained via CPAN (soon), or follow the download instructions at http://parrotcode.org/source.h

Re: Micro-articles on Perl 6 Operators

2007-09-18 Thread Adriano Ferreira
On 9/18/07, brian d foy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Alberto Simões > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Adriano Ferreira wrote: > > > The plan is to write a series of blog entries discussing a Perl 6 > > > operator at a time or a small group of closely related ones

Re: Micro-articles on Perl 6 Operators

2007-09-18 Thread brian d foy
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Alberto Simões <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Adriano Ferreira wrote: > > The plan is to write a series of blog entries discussing a Perl 6 > > operator at a time or a small group of closely related ones. > > I think the idea is cool. Also, I do not know how period

Re: Micro-articles on Perl 6 Operators

2007-09-18 Thread Adriano Ferreira
On 9/18/07, Agent Zhang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 9/18/07, Adriano Ferreira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Join me. The drafts of the introduction and the first article are here: > > > > http://ferreira.nfshost.com/perl6/intro.html > > http://ferreira.nfshost.com/perl6/zip.html > > > > I