deciphering infix:

2009-03-26 Thread Patrick R. Michaud
Rakudo gives some strange results when sorting a list of mixed strings and numbers, which leads me to look for some clarification on infix: (which S03:2866 says that sort uses by default). Here's the case I found in Rakudo: > say ('a', 1, 'b', 2 , 'c', 3, 'd', 4).sort.perl; ["a", "b", "c", 1

Re: Logo considerations

2009-03-26 Thread Darren Duncan
Larry Wall wrote: On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 09:49:42AM -0700, Jon Lang wrote: : 2009/3/24 Larry Wall : : > http://www.wall.org/~larry/camelia.pdf Not picking on you in particular, but I think there's a tendency to go way too abstract in most of these proposals. I want something with gut appeal on

Metacharacters in character classes

2009-03-26 Thread Carl Mäsak
It started by yours truly asking impertinent questions on #perl6... ...and ended with a general feeling that the way metacharacters and backwhacking work in <[ ]> character classes, is at worst inconsistent and at best underspecified by S05.

Camelia - Queen of Perl

2009-03-26 Thread Richard Hainsworth
Just read nearly 100 emails on Re: Logo Considerations, a whole lot in reverse order and repeated! Is this the result of a perl6 implementation of a listserver using junctions? But I agree with Brett, Camelia is the first logo idea I really liked. I vote we tell Camelia she has the prize she s

Re: Logo considerations - 3 logos needed

2009-03-26 Thread Guy Hulbert
On Wed, 2009-25-03 at 18:06 -0700, Larry Wall wrote: > : Here is something then: > : http://p6.hpfamily.net/rakudo-0.png > > I like Camelia at that size, though the left-right balance is off in a > couple ways. i was informed of that but so far this is just rescaling and cut-and-paste > > : > S

Re: use v5 Support

2009-03-26 Thread Daniel Ruoso
Em Qua, 2009-03-25 às 23:11 -0500, jason switzer escreveu: > S01 says that perl5 code will be supported via "use v5". Can someone confirm > that embedded perl5 code is still required of any valid implementation? I wouldn't think it would be a really bad idea if inline "use v5" inside Perl 6 code t