On Mon, Oct 12, 2015 at 09:51:13PM +0200, Mark Overmeer wrote:
> > method new(MyClassHere:U: *@args) { ... }
> >
> > in the constructor, which would be quite hostile to newbies. It's still
> > not clear to me how to avoid that.
>
> It is also unclear to me what this means. It is a method
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 distance since its start, read all original designs, but
> this penny
On Thu, Dec 19, 2013 at 11:27:32AM +0800, Richard Hainsworth wrote:
I've been running a perl6 program that runs through a loop, dumps
intermediate results and starts again with new initialisation
values.
[...]
Looking at system resources, the program chews up memory resources
continually.
On Tue, Nov 05, 2013 at 03:36:47PM +0100, Moritz Lenz wrote:
Somehow I have always worked under the assumption that it is under
the Artistic License 2, just as Rakudo and NQP, and community
concensus seem to agree with me. Therefor I've added an AL2 LICENSE
file to the perl6/roast repository,
On Tue, Nov 05, 2013 at 04:21:12PM +0100, Jan Ingvoldstad wrote:
Considering that the specification is sortof actually a language
specification, I think there should at least be some terms regarding how
this should apply.
Just to nit semantics a bit and push a little harder on something I've
On Tue, Nov 05, 2013 at 11:00:59AM -0600, Patrick R. Michaud wrote:
Forking the documentation, or creating derivative works, shouldn't be a
problem, as long as it doesn't change the specification in itself, and
thereby create confusion regarding what the Perl 6 specification
On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 05:17:37PM +0400, Richard Hainsworth wrote:
Pardon the ignorance, but what is the MOP. I sometimes get floored
by the jargon.
Whatever answer we get should go into S99.
https://github.com/perl6/specs/blob/master/S99-glossary.pod
Pm
On Sun, Sep 29, 2013 at 01:28:48PM +0800, Richard Hainsworth wrote:
However, the Synopses are now primary specification and the
Apocalypses have only historical significance. Also there are more
Synopses than Apocalypses.
One correction: The test suite (roast) is the primary specification
On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 02:03:43AM +0800, Richard Hainsworth wrote:
Not wising to disagree with PM, but |docs/feather/syn_index.html
states on line 1:|
The Synopsis documents are to be taken as the formal specification
for Perl 6 implementations
What follows is just my opinion, there's plenty
On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 07:07:20PM +0800, Richard Hainsworth wrote:
I wondered whether the desire to have sets in perl6 was driven by
mathematical fashion sensitivity (in some roundabout unconscious
way) and because sets are important to mathematical foundations.
[...]
Sets do not implement
## A useful, usable, early adopter distribution of Perl 6
On behalf of the Rakudo and Perl 6 development teams, I'm happy to
announce the May 2013 release of Rakudo Star, a useful and usable
distribution of Perl 6. The tarball and Windows .MSI for the May 2013
release are available from
On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 11:08:13PM -0500, Patrick R. Michaud wrote:
This Star release includes [release 2013.05] of the
[Rakudo Perl 6 compiler], version 5.2.0 of the [Parrot Virtual
Machine] ...
Oops. The 2013.05 release actually contains Parrot 5.3.0.
Sorry about the typo.
Pm
On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 01:49:21PM +0100, Tadeusz Sośnierz wrote:
On 03/20/2013 10:21 AM, phi...@free.fr wrote:
Hello,
when I type panda on the Windows command line, I get the following message:
D:\users\mepanda
connect failed: A connection attempt failed because the connected party did
On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 09:59:21AM +0200, Moritz Lenz wrote:
On 10/18/2012 09:02 AM, Darren Duncan wrote:
Something (PyPy et al) got me wondering, is it a goal in the Perl
community before too long to have a (compiling) implementation of Perl 6
written entirely in Perl 6?
A fair amount of
On behalf of the Rakudo and Perl 6 development teams, I'm happy to
announce the September 2012 release of Rakudo Star, a useful and
usable distribution of Perl 6. The tarball for the September 2012
release is available from http://github.com/rakudo/star/downloads.
A Windows .MSI version of Rakudo
On behalf of the Rakudo and Perl 6 development teams, I'm happy to
announce the August 2012 release of Rakudo Star, a useful and
usable distribution of Perl 6. The tarball for the August 2012
release is available from http://github.com/rakudo/star/downloads.
A Windows .MSI version of Rakudo Star
On Sat, May 26, 2012 at 05:34:18AM +0530, Siddhant Saraf wrote:
Rakud[o] is not _the_ reference implementation of Perl 6. Actually, there is
no reference implementation for Perl 6. There never will be. Whoever wants
to make a perl6 implementation is free to do so. Just follow the spec and
you
On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 11:07:08AM -0500, Bruce Gray wrote:
Well, it works in Niecza. It does not (yet) work in Rakudo:
15:25 Util perl6: my @squares := 0, (- *@a { @a.elems ** 2 })
... *; say ~@squares[^11];
15:25 p6eval ..niecza v15-4-g1f35f89: OUTPUT0 1 4 9 16 25 36 49
64 81
On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 03:03:09PM +1300, Martin D Kealey wrote:
On Thu, 22 Mar 2012, Carl Mäsak wrote:
Jonathan Lang (), Daniel ():
1, 2, 4 ... 100 # same as 1,2,4,8,16,32,64
That last one doesn't work on Rakudo :-(
And it never will. Note that 100 is not a power of 2, and that
On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 05:36:27PM +0200, Damian Conway wrote:
And I'd like there to be a more consistent approach than that
(though I don't really care what it actually is).
+1 to consistency.
Pm
On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 06:39:25AM +0100, Nicholas Clark wrote:
Is it? If, at the implementation layer, all accesses to objects are actually
function calls called via vtables, then surely it's *relatively* simple to
change the vtable to replace
* mutator methods with methods which croak (the
On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 04:41:08PM -0700, Darren Duncan wrote:
I believe the general solution to this problem is to make all
objects immutable, with the only exception being explicit
references, and so mutating an object isn't an option; rather you
have to derive a new object.
Values of all
On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 10:41:30AM -0400, Peter Lobsinger wrote:
On Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 11:00 AM, Patrick R. Michaud pmich...@pobox.com
wrote:
On Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 10:21:19AM +0200, Moritz Lenz wrote:
Question to the Parrot developers: How could I implement DESTROY methods
in Rakudo
On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 11:26:49AM -0400, Andrew Whitworth wrote:
On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 10:41 AM, Peter Lobsinger plobs...@gmail.com wrote:
The destructor does exactly that, but is not triggered by global teardown.
That seems wrong to me, we should be sweeping pools and destroying
PMCs on
On Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 10:21:19AM +0200, Moritz Lenz wrote:
Question to the Parrot developers: How could I implement DESTROY methods
in Rakudo? Is there any vtable I can override, or so? Note that such a
method might itself allocate new GCables. While not urgent, it's
important for us in
On Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 10:40:01AM +0200, Moritz Lenz wrote:
On 07/14/2011 11:47 PM, Parrot Raiser wrote:
When a subroutine is invoked with an empty parameter list, as follows:
run_stuff();
sub run_stuff {
my ($parm) = @_;
say Parameter is $parm;
}
@_[0] contains
On behalf of the Rakudo and Perl 6 development teams, I'm happy to
announce the April 2011 release of Rakudo Star, a useful and usable
distribution of Perl 6. The tarball for the April 2011 release is
available from http://github.com/rakudo/star/downloads.
Rakudo Star is aimed at early adopters
On Wed, Mar 09, 2011 at 04:40:19PM -0800, Stefan O'Rear wrote:
This is a more general problem: the distinction between prefix ops
and functions is not well defined. For instance, 'defined 1 0'
is parsed as defined(1) 0 by Rakudo, but as defined(1 0) by
STD and derivatives.
I think STD
On behalf of the Rakudo and Perl 6 development teams, I'm happy to
announce the January 2011 release of Rakudo Star, a useful and usable
distribution of Perl 6. The tarball for the January 2011 release is
available from http://github.com/rakudo/star/downloads.
Starting with this January 2011
(Resending, since I had the wrong date in the subject line of
my previous post. Apologies to everyone for the duplicates! --Pm)
On behalf of the Rakudo and Perl 6 development teams, I'm happy to
announce the January 2011 release of Rakudo Star, a useful and usable
distribution of Perl 6. The
On behalf of the Rakudo and Perl 6 development teams, I'm happy to
announce the December 2010 release of Rakudo Star, a useful and usable
distribution of Perl 6. The tarball for the December 2010 release is
available from http://github.com/rakudo/star/downloads.
Rakudo Star is aimed at early
On behalf of the Rakudo and Perl 6 development teams, I'm happy to
announce the November 2010 release of Rakudo Star, a useful and usable
distribution of Perl 6. The tarball for the November 2010 release is
available from http://github.com/rakudo/star/downloads.
Rakudo Star is aimed at early
On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 11:21:10AM -0800, Stefan O'Rear wrote:
TIMTOWDI. Perl without system calls is not Perl.
+1
This is why S16 is junk - too much blue-sky thinking, not enough
pragmatism and practical experience.
Agreed.
Forbidding things out of idealistic concerns like API purity is
On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 01:03:26PM -0500, Chase Albert wrote:
Sorry if this is the wrong forum. I was wondering if there was a way to
specify unicode
categorieshttp://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/category/index.htmin
a regular expression (and hence a grammar), or if there would be any
On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 01:21:57PM -0500, Chase Albert wrote:
That's exactly what I was looking for*. Awesome, thank you.
* Almost. E.g. isL would be nice to have as well.
Those exist also:
$ ./perl6
say 'abCD34' ~~ / isL /
a
say 'abCD34' ~~ / isN /
3
Pm
On behalf of the Rakudo and Perl 6 development teams, I'm happy to
announce the October 2010 release of Rakudo Star, a useful and usable
distribution of Perl 6. The tarball for the October 2010 release is
available from http://github.com/rakudo/star/downloads.
Rakudo Star is aimed at early
On behalf of the Rakudo and Perl 6 development teams, I'm happy to
announce the September 2010 release of Rakudo Star, a useful and usable
distribution of Perl 6. The tarball for the September 2010 release is
available from http://github.com/rakudo/star/downloads.
Rakudo Star is aimed at early
On Wed, Sep 08, 2010 at 04:02:10PM +0400, Richard Hainsworth wrote:
I do want the diffs back: its the only way I have to keep at least
some idea of what is changing any why.
We know that a lot of people would like to see the diffs available
through the commit messages, but afaik none of us
On behalf of the Rakudo and Perl 6 development teams, I'm happy to
announce the August 2010 release of Rakudo Star, a useful and usable
distribution of Perl 6. The tarball for the August 2010 release is
available from http://github.com/rakudo/star/downloads.
Rakudo Star is aimed at early
On Thu, Aug 05, 2010 at 12:29:38AM -0700, Darren Duncan wrote:
Carl Mäsak wrote:
Darren ():
Read what I said again. I was proposing that the namespace comprised of
names matching a pattern like this:
/^ [A..Z]+ | [a..z]+ $/
/^ [[A..Z]+ | [a..z]+] $/
Are the square brackets necessary
On Thu, Aug 05, 2010 at 10:27:50AM -0400, Aaron Sherman wrote:
On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 7:55 AM, Carl Mäsak cma...@gmail.com wrote:
I see this particular thinko a lot, though. Maybe some Perl 6 lint
tool or another will detect when you have a regex containing ^ at its
start, $ at the end, |
On Sat, Jul 31, 2010 at 11:47:13AM -0400, Brandon S Allbery KF8NH wrote:
[...], and
if the point is to be a general case statement then when expr block
should smartmatch expr against $_ instead of evaluating it with $_
available as a shorthand/topic.
This is exactly what when expr block
On Sat, Jul 31, 2010 at 10:56:47AM -0600, David Green wrote:
It's not unreasonable, especially if that's what you expect.
But it's even more reasonable to expect this to work:
given $something {
when True { say That's the truth! }
when 42 { say Good
On Sat, Jul 31, 2010 at 04:29:00PM -0400, Aaron Sherman wrote:
My problem with that is that it's a really odd use of given/when, and given
the implicit smart-match, it doesn't make much sense. Now, to slightly
backtrack, I do agree that there should be at least one way to do something,
and if
On behalf of the Rakudo and Perl 6 development teams, I'm happy to
announce the July 2010 release of Rakudo Star, a useful and usable
distribution of Perl 6. The tarball for the July 2010 release is
available from http://github.com/rakudo/star/downloads.
Rakudo Star is aimed at early adopters of
On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 01:52:18AM +0200, Jonathan Worthington wrote:
Mark J. Reed wrote:
Possibly a FAQ, but is there a simple way of asking if an item is
contained in an array?
my @x = 1,2,3; say ?...@x.grep(2); say ?...@x.grep(4);
1
0
Though more efficient would be:
my @x =
I've just completed the rename of the 'ng' branch to become the
new 'master' branch. The old 'master' branch is now called 'alpha'.
If you have an existing checkout (clone) of the Rakudo repository,
it's probably a good idea to get a new fresh clone rather than trying
to pull updates from the
On Fri, Feb 05, 2010 at 03:43:04PM -0500, Austin Hastings wrote:
Second, POD is not XML, and it definitely isn't DOCBOOK. Why do I
need magic reserved words like TOC and APPENDIX? I'm not writing a
book, I'm writing code. And if I was writing a book, I wouldn't be
dumb enough to write it in
On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 06:35:14PM +0100, Carl Mäsak wrote:
I found two ways. Either one uses Caugment (the language construct
formerly known as Cis also):
class B {}
class A { sub foo { B::bar } }
augment class B { sub bar { A::foo } }
...or one may use the C:: notation to index a
[This notice is going out a bit late; the release was indeed
produced on time, but I was delayed in sending out this notice.
With apologies for the delay... --Pm]
On behalf of the Rakudo development team, I'm pleased to announce the
January 2010 development release of Rakudo Perl #25
On Mon, Feb 01, 2010 at 05:55:47PM +0100, Carl Mäsak wrote:
Is it allowed to do 'class B { ... }' several times in different files
before finally declaring the real B? If so, then I'd consider it
equivalent to my proposed keyword, and thus there'd be no need for the
latter.
Yes. And
On Mon, Feb 01, 2010 at 05:56:09PM +0100, Jan Ingvoldstad wrote:
On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 17:46, Patrick R. Michaud pmich...@pobox.com wrote:
There's a third way:
class B { ... }# introduce B as a class name without definition
class A { sub foo { B::bar } }
class B { sub
On Sun, Dec 27, 2009 at 01:30:18AM -0800, Ovid wrote:
my $config = Config::Tiny::Grammar.parse($text);
#say $config ?? 'yes' || 'no';
say $config.perl;
Currently this matches, but if I add a \s* before the final \n
in the section token, it fails to match. I don't know why
On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 03:29:21PM -0800, Jon Lang wrote:
What if I need to make a new type that, like junctions,
should not derive from Any, but isn't a junction? Is it that
explicitly deriving from a type that's already outside of Any (such as
Mu or junction) automatically disables the
On Wed, Dec 09, 2009 at 12:16:32AM -0500, Austin Hastings wrote:
But I'm curious if there's some P6 feature I've forgotten about
(which I've forgotten most of them, excepting the rev number)
that would let me do this without having to go too far away from
the metal.
Coming at this from a
On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 12:49:01PM -0800, Darren Duncan wrote:
I think that a best practice these days is to download and build Parrot
separately (which can be in a custom location) and then separately
download and configure Rakudo to use Parrot's location, rather than use
gen_parrot.
On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 06:35:45PM -0400, Kodi Arfer wrote:
In the process of writing some more tests for CATCH blocks, I've noticed
what appears to be a contradiction between Synopsis 4 on the one hand
and pugs/t/spec/S04-statements/try.t and Rakudo's current behavior on
the other.
On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 10:02:02PM +1000, Timothy S. Nelson wrote:
On Tue, 15 Sep 2009, Saravanan Thiyagarajan wrote:
Would like to be a volunteer in working for perl-6.
Can some one help me to get into right direction ?
Sure. The best way to help depends on your skill-set. One place
On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 11:16:56AM -0500, Kyle Hasselbacher wrote:
On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 11:00 PM, Saravanan Thiyagarajan
perlsa...@gmail.com wrote:
Would like to be a volunteer in working for perl-6.
Can some one help me to get into right direction ?
This is how I did it:
On Mon, Sep 07, 2009 at 09:56:51AM -0700, yary wrote:
I just saw the intent for this in the split up compilation of the
setting thread- that it is useful to:
Enable a class stub syntax that allows us to declare a given symbol
as being a valid class without having to declare the body of the
On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 01:28:08PM -0700, Darren Duncan wrote:
This is a great move; thanks for this change.
So now writing things like 5/43 in code will DWIM and produce a Rat which
maintains the intended value exactly, with no floating-point imprecision;
and so plain 5/43 is now a plain
On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 04:54:10AM -0700, Moritz Lenz via RT wrote:
On Wed Apr 08 14:59:19 2009, moritz wrote:
23:55 @moritz_ rakudo: my @a = 1..4; say @a[1..*].perl
23:56 p6eval rakudo 6b9755: OUTPUT«[2, 3, 4, undef]»
It should just be [2, 3, 4].
Since the discussion came up on
On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 06:46:34PM +0100, smuj wrote:
Although I can see some minimal uses for embedded comments, I think in
general the cost/benefit ratio isn't enough to warrant their existence.
I could be wrong of course! :-) I'd like to know if anyone has made much
use of them in
On Sun, Aug 09, 2009 at 04:30:07PM +0400, Richard Hainsworth wrote:
Referring to Patrick's blog about an official 'useable' version of
Rakudo, a suggestion:
Since Rakudo* (not sure how it is to be written) is intended to be a
cut-down version of perl6.0.0 that is useable, how about
On Sun, Aug 09, 2009 at 10:57:16PM +0100, Tim Bunce wrote:
Since Rakudo* (not sure how it is to be written) is intended to be a
cut-down version of perl6.0.0 that is useable, how about Rakudo-lite?
Hmmm, that's a very reasonable name. Over the past few days I've
become a little
On Sun, Aug 09, 2009 at 04:35:42PM -0600, David Green wrote:
On 2009-Aug-9, at 3:57 pm, Tim Bunce wrote:
Perhaps it's worth asking what we might call the release after that
one.
Rakudo not-quite-so-lite?
Rakudo ** (aka Rakudo Exponentiation)? Though I think Patrick is
optimistic that
On Sat, Aug 08, 2009 at 05:45:40PM -0400, Austin Hastings wrote:
[...]
Specifically, is
token { ... ?after x }
going to match the same pattern as
rule { ... ?after x }
??
I ask because (I just did it, and) with rules encouraging the liberal
use of whitespace, and implicitly
On Fri, Aug 07, 2009 at 08:17:30AM +0200, Moritz Lenz wrote:
pugs-comm...@feather.perl6.nl wrote:
Author: jimmy
Date: 2009-08-07 05:02:42 +0200 (Fri, 07 Aug 2009)
New Revision: 27888
Log:
[Spec]fixed the wrong space, now it's \x20, not \xC2A0
What was wrong with the non-breaking
On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 10:29:04AM -0500, Kyle Hasselbacher wrote:
In Rakudo right now, this lives: {$foo;$^foo}(1)
However, the spec test expects it to die during compilation (see the
end of S06-signature/positional-placeholders.t). It says, A
non-twigil variable should not precede a
On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 05:56:31PM +0200, TSa wrote:
Hmm, it seems to be the case that the binding is defined to be a
readonly binding to the variable. I consider this a bad thing.
We should have my $x = 1; foo($x++,$x,$x++); to call foo(1,2,2)
and not foo(1,3,2) or even foo(2,3,1). The
On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 02:47:55PM +1000, Timothy S. Nelson wrote:
What would happen if we had an operator that returned the number of
true values? Say we call it boolean plus, or bop.
...why an operator?
sub bop(*...@values) { + grep { $_ }, @values }
To give one example:
On behalf of the Rakudo development team, I'm pleased to announce
the June 2009 development release of Rakudo Perl #18 Pittsburgh.
Rakudo is an implementation of Perl 6 on the Parrot Virtual Machine [1].
The tarball for the June 2009 release is available from
On Tue, Jun 02, 2009 at 02:56:46AM +0200, Daniel Carrera wrote:
Jon Lang wrote:
On Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 5:44 PM, Daniel Carrera
daniel.carr...@theingots.org wrote:
I think we might need to come up with some sort of standard naming
convention to distinguish dependencies. Something that the
On Tue, Jun 02, 2009 at 10:58:21AM +0200, Daniel Carrera wrote:
John M. Dlugosz wrote:
The front-end should figure out which binary is proper for your
platform.
I don't like that idea in the slightest. (1) It is not Perl's job to
know if you have a C compiler, C libraries and tool chain.
On Mon, Jun 01, 2009 at 06:34:02PM +0200, Daniel Carrera wrote:
I am in IRC
working with Rakudo folk on how Rakudo is going to store modules on the
disk. Once that is done, one can begin talking about a package format
and an installer, and then go from there.
So far the discussion has
On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 11:20:20AM -0700, Larry Wall wrote:
Can't help you with PGE, but STD supports a trace facility by
setting the STD5DEBUG environent variable to -1, or a set of bits
defined in src/perl6/Cursor.pmc in the pugs repo.
I'll look at what STD is using for its traces and see if
On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 10:04:39AM -0700, Larry Wall wrote:
On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 09:50:36AM -0700, yary wrote:
: Show that much of the basics still work:
: my @x=('a' .. 'z'); @x[3,4]=qw(DeeDee Ramone);
: say @x.splice(2,4).join(',')
: c,DeeDee,Ramone,f
That qw is not a good example
On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 12:37:34PM -0700, yary wrote:
That's an enjoyable and educational read, thanks!
There's one form under TMTOWTDI that I'd like to see, but can't figure
out myself. It's the version analogous to this perl5 snippet-
sub odd {$_ % 2}
say grep odd,0..6;
-where the
On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 06:43:40PM -0500, John M. Dlugosz wrote:
Daniel Carrera daniel.carrera-at-theingots.org |Perl 6| wrote:
The following construction doesn't do what a user might expect:
for 0...@foo.elems - $k { do_something($k,@foo[$k]) }
Write ^...@foo.elems as a shortcut of
On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 04:10:45PM -0700, yary wrote:
On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 1:57 PM, Patrick R. Michaud pmich...@pobox.com
wrote:
On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 12:37:34PM -0700, yary wrote:
How about...?
sub odd { ^$a % 2 }
typo. sub odd {$^a % 2} works (caret goes between
On behalf of the Rakudo development team, I'm pleased to announce
the May 2009 development release of Rakudo Perl #17 Stockholm.
Rakudo is an implementation of Perl 6 on the Parrot Virtual Machine [1].
The tarball for the May 2009 release is available from
http://github.com/rakudo/rakudo/downloads
On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 07:55:55PM -0500, John M. Dlugosz wrote:
If you would be so kind, please take a look at
http://www.dlugosz.com/Perl6/web/med-loop.html.
The page currently says:
The reason this [.prime] works is because the method-call
syntax will call an ordinary
On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 01:28:40PM -0400, Mark J. Reed wrote:
On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 10:22 AM, Larry Wall la...@wall.org wrote:
Does anyone know offhand whether the Unicode Consortium has an explicit
policy against use of punctuation in a charname? So far they only
seem to use hyphen and
On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 07:22:18AM -0700, Larry Wall wrote:
On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 11:04:03AM +0200, Helmut Wollmersdorfer wrote:
Std.pm allows e.g.
\x[ 41 , 42 , 43 ]
For convenience - especially with long charnames - it should be possible
to write
\c[
SPACE,
On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 03:08:05PM -0400, Mark J. Reed wrote:
On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 2:27 PM, Patrick R. Michaud pmich...@pobox.com
wrote:
* The Unicode character name database [2] has parens in the
name property field for many characters
000A;control;Cc;0;B;N;LINE FEED (LF
As some of you are aware, this week is the Nordic Perl Workshop [1],
and in the days immediately following the workshop we will have
the Oslo Perl 6 Hackathon [2]. During the first day of the hackathon
Gabor Szabo will be doing a Hands-on Perl 6 training course [3],
the other two days will be for
On Wed, Apr 01, 2009 at 09:55:37AM -0300, Daniel Ruoso wrote:
Em Qua, 2009-04-01 às 05:41 -0700, Jon Lang escreveu:
...nor would I expect it to. I'm just wondering if (@_, %_) _are_
still part of a placeholder-generated signature. In short, is there a
way to access a slurpy array or hash
On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 05:49:02PM -0400, Henry Baragar wrote:
I believe that there are hands where $p = 15|26 which would not beat a
hand where $d = 17.
I believe that the correct way to calculate the value of the hand is:
my $p = ([+] @p).map{.eigenstates}.grep{$_ 21}.max;
Since the
On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 02:08:22PM +0300, Richard Hainsworth wrote:
3) Conjecture: The following is true of all junction types, eg.,
junc(..., junc(...)) === junc(..., ...)
The conjecture is false for one/none junctions:
one(0, one(1, 1)) # true
one(0, 1, 1) #
On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 10:19:31AM -0500, Patrick R. Michaud wrote:
On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 02:08:22PM +0300, Richard Hainsworth wrote:
3) Conjecture: The following is true of all junction types, eg.,
junc(..., junc(...)) === junc(..., ...)
The conjecture is false for one/none junctions
Rakudo gives some strange results when sorting a list
of mixed strings and numbers, which leads me to look
for some clarification on infix:cmp (which S03:2866 says
that sort uses by default). Here's the case I found
in Rakudo:
say ('a', 1, 'b', 2 , 'c', 3, 'd', 4).sort.perl;
[a, b, c, 1,
On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 10:36:56AM -0400, Mark J. Reed wrote:
Rakudo is a particular implementation of Perl 6 using Parrot. While
it is a separate project from both Perl 6 and Parrot, it is intimately
tied to both, and I think its logo should reflect that. I don't see
much point in having
On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 10:24:47AM -0700, Larry Wall wrote:
I want something
with gut appeal on the order of Tux. In particular I want a logo
for Perl 6 that is:
Fun
Cool
Cute
Named
Lively
Punable
[...]
+2 to this approach.
Pm
On behalf of the Rakudo development team, I'm pleased to announce
the March 2009 development release of Rakudo Perl #15 Oslo.
Rakudo is an implementation of Perl 6 on the Parrot Virtual Machine [1].
The tarball for the March 2009 release is available from
On Sun, Mar 08, 2009 at 09:31:19PM -0700, Larry Wall wrote:
On Sun, Mar 08, 2009 at 09:36:17PM +0100, Moritz Lenz wrote:
: But both pugs and rakudo respect the arity of the code ref passed to it,
: so that (1..6).map({$^a + $^b + $^c}) returns the list (6, 15), which is
: very nice and very
On Fri, Mar 06, 2009 at 01:37:16PM +1100, Timothy S. Nelson wrote:
I guess the way I decide things like this is:
- If it's a method on a role/object, then it lives in S32
- If it's not a method, then it lives in S29
Do we have many things that aren't methods?
* Should there
On Sun, Mar 08, 2009 at 09:43:17AM +0100, pugs-comm...@feather.perl6.nl wrote:
=item * ws
Match whitespace between tokens.
=item * space
Match a single whitespace character. Hence C ws is equivalent to C
space+ .
The definitions of ws and space above are incorrect, or at least
On Mon, Mar 09, 2009 at 10:32:02AM -0700, jerry gay wrote:
To make things a bit quicker for people writing custom versions of
ws (which may need to include comment whitespace), the Parrot
Compiler Toolkit also provides an optimized ww rule that matches
only between a pair of word
On Mon, Mar 09, 2009 at 10:53:12AM -0700, Larry Wall wrote:
: - PGE doesn't implement ww by default, because that's not (yet?)
: part of the spec. It only appears in PCT::Grammar, for people
: using the Parrot Compiler Toolkit to create languages.
I have wanted !ww a number of times,
On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 08:30:25AM -0800, Larry Wall wrote:
So anyway, just because other languages call it a prelude doesn't
mean that we have to. Perl is the tail that's always trying to
wag the dog...
What is the sound of one tail wagging?
For my dog Sally, the sound of one tail wagging
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