On 2015-10-14 6:14 AM, Parrot Raiser wrote:
Is this particular change one that could be implemented
algorithmically, or at least partially so?
(E.g. For all modules
check for the presence of a ":D".
If it's there, no action.
If not, insert a line of code. Run a test.
If su
Is this particular change one that could be implemented
algorithmically, or at least partially so?
(E.g. For all modules
check for the presence of a ":D".
If it's there, no action.
If not, insert a line of code. Run a test.
If successful, post change.
If not, alert a human)
> * Patrick R. Michaud (pmich...@pobox.com) [151013 01:05]:
>> On Tue, Oct 13, 2015 at 12:32:01AM +0200, Mark Overmeer wrote:
>>> Yes, that what I started realizing when I saw all the pain Perl6 goes to
>>> ignore the existence of a real "undef" in the language. (I follow Perl6
>>> from a short d
Hi Patrick, thank you for your thoughts. I needed a bit more time
for the response ;-)
* Patrick R. Michaud (pmich...@pobox.com) [151013 01:05]:
> On Tue, Oct 13, 2015 at 12:32:01AM +0200, Mark Overmeer wrote:
> > Yes, that what I started realizing when I saw all the pain Perl6 goes to
> > ignor
I have a proposal.
Unlike with say the GLR, perhaps this whole :D thing may be a good test case for
the Perl 6 feature of explicit language versioning.
How about we don't make the :D change now, and give more thought as to whether
we actually want to do it at all.
If we do decide it is wort
* Moritz Lenz (mor...@faui2k3.org) [151014 09:54]:
> In Practice, there's a small number of people who try to update modules to
> match when the compiler changed. Most module authors don't hang out in
> #perl6, eager to update their modules to the lastest rakudo change.
With the relatively small n
On 10/13/2015 10:52 AM, Richard Hainsworth wrote:
Following on the :D not :D thread, something odd stuck out.
On 10/13/2015 03:17 PM, Moritz Lenz wrote:
But hopefully none of them breaking backwards compatibility on such a
large scale. The last few backwards incompatible changes still cause
p
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