On Mar 19, 2009, at 2:35 PM, Andy Lester wrote:
I love love LOVE starting to get people together to talk about Perl
6. It's a crucial step in letting people know that Perl 6 is real.
However, starting social groups that say they are specifically about
Perl 6 makes me uncomfortable.
I th
On Mar 2, 2009, at 12:04 AM, Timothy S. Nelson wrote:
Hi. I note that we have $?OS, $?VM, and $?DISTRO (and their $*
counterparts). I'd like to recommend that we eliminate $?OS, and
replace it with $?KERNEL (ie. Linux) and maybe $?ARCH (ie. i386).
Thoughts?
I disagree.
User-space cod
On Feb 23, 2009, at 11:16 PM, Larry Wall wrote:
if $x ~~ $y ± $epsilon {...}
where infix:<±> turns the single value into a range for the
smartmatch.
That's very cool. However, my first impression is that "$y ±
$epsilon" maps more naturally to "any($y-$epsilon, $y+$epsilon)" than
t
Smack me down if this has already been discussed to death, please...
S16 (and now S28) say that $*DEFOUT, $*DEFIN and $*DEFERR are what
most programs should use instead of $*OUT, $*IN and $*ERR. That
seems anti-huffman to me, and I'll bet many programmers will use
$*OUT when they should be
On Feb 22, 2009, at 12:39 AM, Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH wrote:
On 2009 Feb 20, at 14:36, Chris Dolan wrote:
UTC: TAI with an offset, as corrected for the actual revolution
of the
Earth: usually 60 seconds in a minute, but occasionally 59 or
61. 60
minutes in every hour (so 3599, 3600, or
> Considering time scales, there are three that significantly
> interrelate, and no matter what Perl 6 uses internally, it needs to be
> able to convert to and from these:
>
> TAI: continuous count of time using SI seconds as measured by atomic
> clocks, 60 seconds in every minute, 60 minutes in ev
On Feb 19, 2009, at 10:17 PM, Timothy S. Nelson wrote:
On Thu, 19 Feb 2009, Larry Wall wrote:
Well, leaving that rant aside, I'm still tempted to say that times
in Perl 6 are TAI seconds since 2000. Standard TAI would work too.
I've wondered sometimes about the idea of having a dual/moving
On Feb 13, 2009, at 11:50 PM, Larry Wall wrote:
On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 11:34:03PM -0600, Chris Dolan wrote:
Argh! I submitted a patch implementing $?PROGRAM in Rakudo
literally 5
minutes before you sent this...
http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=63228
Indeed, why do you
Argh! I submitted a patch implementing $?PROGRAM in Rakudo literally
5 minutes before you sent this...
http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=63228
Chris
On Feb 13, 2009, at 11:21 PM, pugs-comm...@feather.perl6.nl wrote:
Author: lwall
Date: 2009-02-14 06:21:13 +0100 (Sat, 14 Feb 2
1) Will the "{*}" syntax to invoke an external action method from
within a grammar be an official part of the language, or an
implementation hack?
2) If it becomes official, how should people specify the action class/
instance to be used with a grammar?
Currently in Rakudo, I use the follo
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