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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
