Re: Language design

2015-06-16 Thread Fields, Christopher J
I like that I can start with a fairly simple subset of Perl 6 but pick up more as I go along, if it’s needed. chris On Jun 16, 2015, at 9:45 AM, Paweł Murias pawelmur...@gmail.commailto:pawelmur...@gmail.com wrote: I think Perl 6 tries to include too much rather than too little. It will be

Re: Grammars and biological data formats

2014-08-16 Thread Fields, Christopher J
the parsing process is somewhat stream-like, the OS will take care of swapping in chunks as you need them. You don't even need anything special to support backtracking -- it's just a memory address, after all. -Martin On Thu, 14 Aug 2014, Fields, Christopher J wrote: Yeah, I'm thinking of a Cat

Re: Grammars and biological data formats

2014-08-14 Thread Fields, Christopher J
that use case, because it takes on the role of a session/lifetime object for the parse process itself. // Carl On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 3:19 PM, Fields, Christopher J cjfie...@illinois.edu wrote: On Aug 13, 2014, at 8:11 AM, Christopher Fields cjfie...@illinois.edu wrote: On Aug 13, 2014, at 4

Grammars and biological data formats

2014-08-13 Thread Fields, Christopher J
I have a fairly simple question regarding the feasibility of using grammars with commonly used biological data formats. My main question: if I wanted to parse() or subparse() vary large files (not unheard of to have FASTA/FASTQ or other similar data files exceed 100’s of GB) would a grammar

Re: Grammars and biological data formats

2014-08-13 Thread Fields, Christopher J
On Aug 13, 2014, at 4:50 AM, Solomon Foster colo...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Aug 9, 2014 at 7:26 PM, Fields, Christopher J cjfie...@illinois.edu wrote: I have a fairly simple question regarding the feasibility of using grammars with commonly used biological data formats. My main question

Re: Grammars and biological data formats

2014-08-13 Thread Fields, Christopher J
On Aug 13, 2014, at 8:11 AM, Christopher Fields cjfie...@illinois.edu wrote: On Aug 13, 2014, at 4:50 AM, Solomon Foster colo...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Aug 9, 2014 at 7:26 PM, Fields, Christopher J cjfie...@illinois.edu wrote: I have a fairly simple question regarding the feasibility

Re: [perl6/specs] 89cc32: Spec Bag.kxxv

2014-04-22 Thread Fields, Christopher J
On Apr 22, 2014, at 7:21 PM, Damian Conway dam...@conway.org wrote: It's an awesome language, which is exactly the problem. Inspiring awe is not far from inducing panic and terror, especially in people who aren't feeling too confident in the first place. We want to be accessible to the people