Re: Module naming conventions

2009-06-03 Thread Daniel Carrera
John M. Dlugosz wrote: Yes. did you read mine? Yes, I read your email. Sounds like you are thinking of Parrot vs pure perl, and missed my point about being utterly different implementations, not choices within one. Chances are, the most popular implementations of Perl 6 will allow C

Re: Module naming conventions

2009-06-03 Thread Chris Fields
On Jun 2, 2009, at 5:11 PM, Daniel Carrera wrote: John M. Dlugosz wrote: So CPAN6 is basically only going to be for Parrot? What are you talking about? Did you even read my email? I said that a module might be implemented in multiple languages (see Digest::SHA VS Digest::SHA::PurePerl)

Re: Information Model manuscript, pt.2

2009-06-03 Thread TSa
HaloO, John M. Dlugosz wrote: Please see part 2 of my comprehensive explaination of the Perl 6 Information Model, at http://www.dlugosz.com/Perl6/web/lvalues.html. This isn't linked up to my main page yet. I'm taking comments and further discussion here before I make it public. This is a

Re: Module naming conventions

2009-06-03 Thread Patrick R. Michaud
On Tue, Jun 02, 2009 at 02:56:46AM +0200, Daniel Carrera wrote: Jon Lang wrote: On Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 5:44 PM, Daniel Carrera daniel.carr...@theingots.org wrote: I think we might need to come up with some sort of standard naming convention to distinguish dependencies. Something that the

Re: Module naming conventions

2009-06-03 Thread Patrick R. Michaud
On Tue, Jun 02, 2009 at 10:58:21AM +0200, Daniel Carrera wrote: John M. Dlugosz wrote: The front-end should figure out which binary is proper for your platform. I don't like that idea in the slightest. (1) It is not Perl's job to know if you have a C compiler, C libraries and tool chain.

Re: Module naming conventions

2009-06-03 Thread Daniel Carrera
Hi Patrick, To reduce list traffic, I'm replying to both of your emails together. Just because these are the only adverbs mentioned doesn't necessarily mean they're the only ones that will be allowed. Ok. My interpretation was that adding adverbs would require updating the spec. More

Re: CPAN -- moving forward

2009-06-03 Thread Patrick R. Michaud
On Mon, Jun 01, 2009 at 06:34:02PM +0200, Daniel Carrera wrote: I am in IRC working with Rakudo folk on how Rakudo is going to store modules on the disk. Once that is done, one can begin talking about a package format and an installer, and then go from there. So far the discussion has

slowness in grammar

2009-06-03 Thread Richard Hainsworth
Is this a good place to come with code that runs into speed problems? I am writing a program in perl6 to read the xml file from a Sony book reader, list the books, and move books into collections (the Sony software to do this will only work on windoz and not on wine). I have a grammar that