Re: Perl 6 Summary for 2005-01-31 through 2004-02-8

2005-02-09 Thread John Macdonald
On Wed, Feb 09, 2005 at 11:57:17AM -0800, Ovid wrote: --- Matt Fowles [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Logic Programming in Perl 6 Ovid asked what logic programming in perl 6 would look like. No answer yet, but I suppose I can pick the low hanging fruit: as a limiting case

Perl 6 Summary for 2005-01-31 through 2004-02-8

2005-02-08 Thread Matt Fowles
Perl 6 Summary for 2005-01-31 through 2004-02-8 All~ Welcome to yet another summary in which I will undoubtedly confuse to homophones. Probably more than a few this week as I am a little tired. But perhaps the alien on my window or the vampire on my monitor will help

This weeks summary

2005-01-26 Thread Matt Fowles
All~ I have been struggling with my internet for the past 4 days, so this weeks summary will be part of a double feature fortnight's summary next week. Figured that I would provide advanced notice though... Matt -- Computer Science is merely the post-Turing Decline of Formal Systems Theory. -???

Re: Perl 6 How Do I? (Was: Perl 6 Summary for 2005-01-11 through 2005-01-18)

2005-01-19 Thread Jonathan Scott Duff
On Tue, Jan 18, 2005 at 10:43:00PM -0700, Luke Palmer wrote: Oh, I thought I replied, but now that I look over the question I guess I didn't. The question was: Austin Hasting writes: How do I concisely code a loop that reads in lines of a file, then calls mysub() on each letter in each

Re: Perl 6 How Do I? (Was: Perl 6 Summary for 2005-01-11 through 2005-01-18)

2005-01-19 Thread Austin Hastings
Luke Palmer wrote: Austin Hasting writes: How do I concisely code a loop that reads in lines of a file, then calls mysub() on each letter in each line? Or each xml tag on the line? And I guess the answer is the same as in Perl 5. I don't understand what the problem is with Perl 5's

Re: Perl 6 How Do I? (Was: Perl 6 Summary for 2005-01-11 through 2005-01-18)

2005-01-19 Thread Luke Palmer
Austin Hastings writes: Luke Palmer wrote: Austin Hasting writes: How do I concisely code a loop that reads in lines of a file, then calls mysub() on each letter in each line? Or each xml tag on the line? And I guess the answer is the same as in Perl 5. I don't understand

Perl 6 Summary for 2005-01-11 through 2005-01-18

2005-01-18 Thread Matt Fowles
Perl 6 Summary for 2005-01-11 through 2005-01-18 Welcome to yet another Perl Summary brought to you by music and pizza (although the pizza is late in arriving). Like many summaries before it, we start with an attempt at non sequitur and Perl 6 Language. Perl 6 Language idiomatic

Perl 6 Summary for 2004-01-03 through 2004-01-11

2005-01-11 Thread Matt Fowles
Perl 6 Summary for 2004-01-03 through 2004-01-11 Welcome to another Perl 6 summary. In this summary, we will explore such thrilling issues as multi-dimensional slices of Chinese food. After all, the amount of sauce any piece of Chinese food can absorb is proportional to its surface

Re: Perl 6 Summary for 2004-12-20 through 2005-01-03

2005-01-09 Thread Adam Kennedy
Matt Fowles wrote: Perl 6 Summary for 2004-12-20 through 2005-01-03 All~ Welcome to a New Year of Perl 6 Summaries. I have been doing bi-weekly summaries over the holiday season, but I plan on returning to weekly ones now. Hopefully World of Warcraft won't prevent me, we shall see

Re: Perl 6 Summary for 2004-12-20 through 2005-01-03

2005-01-04 Thread Austin Hastings
Matt Fowles wrote: Perl 6 Summary for 2004-12-20 through 2005-01-03 s/conses/consensus/g ?

Re: Perl 6 Summary for 2004-12-20 through 2005-01-03

2005-01-04 Thread Jon Ericson
Austin Hastings [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: s/conses/consensus/g ? I assumed it was a Lisp reference. ;-) Jon

Re: Perl 6 Summary for 2004-12-20 through 2005-01-03

2005-01-04 Thread Ovid
--- Jon Ericson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Austin Hastings [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: s/conses/consensus/g ? I assumed it was a Lisp reference. ;-) contheth? (No, I'm not really *quite* that clueless.) Cheers, Ovid = Silence is Evil

Perl 6 Summary for 2004-12-20 through 2005-01-03

2005-01-03 Thread Matt Fowles
Perl 6 Summary for 2004-12-20 through 2005-01-03 All~ Welcome to a New Year of Perl 6 Summaries. I have been doing bi-weekly summaries over the holiday season, but I plan on returning to weekly ones now. Hopefully World of Warcraft won't prevent me, we shall see, but if anyone

Hyphenated rule names [Was: Perl 6 Summary for 2004-12-06 through 2004-12-20]

2004-12-20 Thread Larry Wall
On Mon, Dec 20, 2004 at 09:52:32PM -0500, Matt Fowles wrote: : Much churning went on and it seems that multiple different : (but identically named) rule captures can now be performed by adding : information after a dash ala ws-1 ws-2 ws-3. Actually, much churning is still going on in

Re: Perl 6 Summary for 2004-11-29 through 2004-12-06

2004-12-07 Thread David Wheeler
On Dec 6, 2004, at 6:27 PM, Matt Fowles wrote: getters and setters John Siracusa wanted to know if Perl 6 would allow one to expose a member variable to the outside world, but then later intercept assignments to it without actually having to switch to using getters and setters

Perl 6 Summary for 2004-11-29 through 2004-12-06

2004-12-06 Thread Matt Fowles
Perl 6 Summary for 2004-11-29 through 2004-12-06 All~ Last week I asked for help identifying the source of a quotation. One friendly soul suggested Alan J. Perlis, but could not find an actual attribution. It did lead me to find a very applicable (and in my mind funny) quote

Re: Perl 6 Summary for 2004-11-22 through 2004-11-29

2004-11-30 Thread Juerd
Matt Fowles skribis 2004-11-29 22:22 (-0500): Juerd suggested scrapping qx and qw in favor of qq:x and qq:w, which Larry liked. Credit for this shouldn't be mine, but Larry's, as it's his invention: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Juerd

Perl 6 Summary for 2004-11-22 through 2004-11-29

2004-11-29 Thread Matt Fowles
Perl 6 Summary for 2004-11-22 through 2004-11-29 All~ Rather than try to do something witty about the strange music I am listening to, or the stuffed animals who are assisting me. I will start this summary off with an entirely self-serving request. abuseA while ago I saw

Perl 6 Summary for 2004-11-08 through 2004-11-15

2004-11-15 Thread Matt Fowles
Perl 6 Summary for 2004-11-08 through 2004-11-15 All~ Welcome to yet another Monday summary. This would have been a Sunday summary, but Avernum (from Spiderweb Software) forcibly prevented it. As usual, we will start out with Perl 6 Language. Perl 6 Language modules

RE: Perl 6 Summary for 2004-11-08 through 2004-11-15

2004-11-15 Thread Joe Gottman
-Original Message- From: Matt Fowles [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 15, 2004 11:27 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Perl 6 Internals List; perl6- [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Perl 6 Summary for 2004-11-08 through 2004-11-15 Perl 6 Summary for 2004-11

Re: Perl 6 Summary for 2004-11-01 through 2004-11-08

2004-11-09 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 10:39 PM -0500 11/8/04, Matt Fowles wrote: calling convenctions, traceback, and register allocation Leo suggested a new way to invoke functions which would clean up calling, tracebacks, and register allocation. While such a change would have great aesthetic value, Dan declared it

Perl 6 Summary for 2004-11-01 through 2004-11-08

2004-11-08 Thread Matt Fowles
Perl 6 Summary for 2004-11-01 through 2004-11-08 All~ Welcome to yet another summary, brought to you (once again) with the aid of the musical stylings of Dar Williams and Soul Coughing and a small stuffed elephant name Aliya. And, without further ado, I give you Perl 6

Perl 6 Summary for 2004-10-23 through 2004-11-01

2004-11-01 Thread Matt Fowles
Perl 6 Summary for 2004-10-23 through 2004-11-01 All~ Welcome to another summary, this one being slightly delayed by Halloween. Before I start off with perl6-language, let me remind all American readers to vote tomorrow. Non-American readers should also vote, but it seems

Re: Regular expressions and closures (was: Perl 6 Summary for 2004-10-01 through 2004-10-17)

2004-10-28 Thread Luke Palmer
Aaron Sherman writes: The current syntax for what you're trying to write is: /ab(c|b) ($1 eq 'c')/ which is equivalent to /ab(c|b) {fail unless $1 eq 'c'}/ Now, what does fail mean? I can think of two definitions: 1. proceed to trap state (backtracking then

Re: Regular expressions and closures (was: Perl 6 Summary for 2004-10-01 through 2004-10-17)

2004-10-27 Thread Aaron Sherman
On Wed, 2004-10-27 at 14:01, Luke Palmer wrote: Aaron Sherman writes: /ab(c|b) {fail unless $1 eq 'c'}/ Now, what does fail mean? I can think of two definitions: 1. proceed to trap state (backtracking then happens) 2. exit (probably using an exception) the rule? The

Re: [OT] Perl 6 Summary for 2004-10-01 through 2004-10-17

2004-10-26 Thread Aldo Calpini
Larry Wall wrote: I suppose if I were Archimedes I'd have climbed back out and shouted Eureka, but as far as I know Archimedes never made it to Italy, so it didn't occur to me... well, Archimedes *was* italian. for some meaning of italian, at least. he was born in Syracuse (the one in Sicily, not

Re: Perl 6 Summary for 2004-10-01 through 2004-10-17

2004-10-26 Thread Matthew Walton
Larry Wall wrote: On Tue, Oct 19, 2004 at 09:35:27PM +0100, Matthew Walton wrote: : Austin Hastings wrote: : Does this mean that we're done? :) : : No, it means Larry's about to stun us with something seemingly bizarre : and inexplicable which turns out to be a stroke of genius. The only

Re: Perl 6 Summary for 2004-10-01 through 2004-10-17

2004-10-26 Thread Michele Dondi
On Mon, 25 Oct 2004, Larry Wall wrote: : No, it means Larry's about to stun us with something seemingly bizarre : and inexplicable which turns out to be a stroke of genius. The only bizarre and inexplicable thing that has occurred to me in the last week is that I fell into a canal in Venice. It

Regular expressions and closures (was: Perl 6 Summary for 2004-10-01 through 2004-10-17)

2004-10-26 Thread Aaron Sherman
On Tue, 2004-10-26 at 05:17, Matthew Walton wrote: Also, climbing back out and shouting 'Eureka' would only really be appropriate if you actually had experienced a moment of revelation about something. I suspect you were too busy with the not drowning part for that. Well, such moments of

Re: [OT] Perl 6 Summary for 2004-10-01 through 2004-10-17

2004-10-26 Thread Piers Cawley
Aldo Calpini [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Larry Wall wrote: I suppose if I were Archimedes I'd have climbed back out and shouted Eureka, but as far as I know Archimedes never made it to Italy, so it didn't occur to me... well, Archimedes *was* italian. for some meaning of italian, at least.

Re: Regular expressions and closures (was: Perl 6 Summary for 2004-10-01 through 2004-10-17)

2004-10-26 Thread Larry Wall
On Tue, Oct 26, 2004 at 01:42:02PM -0400, Aaron Sherman wrote: : Larry, while you're feeling chatty, I have a question about Perl 6 : regular expressions for you. You answered a question of mine, long ago : with a correction. I had said something like: : : /ab(c|b){$1 eq 'c'}/ : : If I

Re: Regular expressions and closures (was: Perl 6 Summary for 2004-10-01 through 2004-10-17)

2004-10-26 Thread Aaron Sherman
On Tue, 2004-10-26 at 20:16, Larry Wall wrote: On Tue, Oct 26, 2004 at 01:42:02PM -0400, Aaron Sherman wrote: : /ab(c|b){$1 eq 'c'}/ : : If I recall correctly you had said something like, there is no plan : (yet) to allow embedded closures to affect matching directly, other than :

Re: Perl 6 Summary for 2004-10-01 through 2004-10-17

2004-10-25 Thread Larry Wall
On Tue, Oct 19, 2004 at 09:35:27PM +0100, Matthew Walton wrote: : Austin Hastings wrote: : Does this mean that we're done? :) : : No, it means Larry's about to stun us with something seemingly bizarre : and inexplicable which turns out to be a stroke of genius. The only bizarre and

Re: Perl 6 Summary for 2004-10-01 through 2004-10-17

2004-10-25 Thread Uri Guttman
LW == Larry Wall [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: LW The only bizarre and inexplicable thing that has occurred to me in LW the last week is that I fell into a canal in Venice. It was LW definitely somewhat stunning, but I have yet to figure out how to LW view it as a stroke of genius. I

Perl 6 Summary for 2004-10-18 through 2004-10-23

2004-10-23 Thread Matt Fowles
Perl 6 Summary for 2004-10-18 through 2004-10-23 All~ Last week I received a request to summarize perl6-language before internals. Frankly, it seems like a reasonable idea. Perl6-internals has always been first as long as I can remember. So perhaps, it is time to switch it up

Re: Perl 6 Summary for 2004-10-01 through 2004-10-17

2004-10-21 Thread Michele Dondi
On Tue, 19 Oct 2004, Austin Hastings wrote: Yes: no traffic at all for quite a while... Does this mean that we're done? :) By any means... I don't think so! I wonder if this could in any way support what occasionally trolls claim e.g. in clpmisc, i.e. that the Perl community is devoted to the

Re: Perl 6 Summary for 2004-10-01 through 2004-10-17

2004-10-20 Thread Peter Scott
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Matthew Walton) writes: Austin Hastings wrote: Does this mean that we're done? :) No, it means Larry's about to stun us with something seemingly bizarre and inexplicable which turns out to be a stroke of genius. This conjured up an image of

Re: Perl 6 Summary for 2004-10-01 through 2004-10-17

2004-10-19 Thread Michele Dondi
On Sun, 17 Oct 2004, Matt Fowles wrote: Google groups has nothing for Perl6.language between October 2 and 14. Is this really the case? (I had not signed up until shortly before Yes: no traffic at all for quite a while... Michele -- Except people don't actually read the documentation, and when

Re: Perl 6 Summary for 2004-10-01 through 2004-10-17

2004-10-19 Thread Austin Hastings
Michele Dondi wrote: On Sun, 17 Oct 2004, Matt Fowles wrote: Google groups has nothing for Perl6.language between October 2 and 14. Is this really the case? (I had not signed up until shortly before Yes: no traffic at all for quite a while... Does this mean that we're done? :)

Re: Perl 6 Summary for 2004-10-01 through 2004-10-17

2004-10-19 Thread Matthew Walton
Austin Hastings wrote: Michele Dondi wrote: On Sun, 17 Oct 2004, Matt Fowles wrote: Google groups has nothing for Perl6.language between October 2 and 14. Is this really the case? (I had not signed up until shortly before Yes: no traffic at all for quite a while... Does this mean that we're

Re: Perl 6 Summary for 2004-10-01 through 2004-10-17

2004-10-19 Thread Joshua Gatcomb
. Having now just finished my first summary Thank you for stepping up to the plate - good job Joshua Gatcomb a.k.a. Limbic~Region __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

Perl 6 Summary for 2004-10-01 through 2004-10-17

2004-10-17 Thread Matt Fowles
All~ Welcome to my first summary. Since I am relatively new at this game, I will just steal Piers's approach and start with Perl6 internals. But before that let me warn you that my ability to make strange characters with accents is not great, thus please do not be offended if I don't include

This week's summary

2004-09-26 Thread The Perl 6 Summarizer
The Perl 6 Summary for the week ending 2004-09-24 So, this is my last summary before I start my teaching practice. Hopefully I've got things set up so writing the summary isn't going to interfere with that, and vice versa. This week in perl6-compiler State of Rules Discussion

Re: This week's summary

2004-09-23 Thread Michele Dondi
On Wed, 22 Sep 2004, The Perl 6 Summarizer wrote: Writing pack, or something like it Michele Dondi wondered how to write pack-like functions in Perl 6, where the first argument is a string which specifies the signature of the rest of the function call. The proposal stumped me, but maybe

Re: This week's summary

2004-09-23 Thread Buddha Buck
On Wed, 22 Sep 2004 21:11:02 +0100, The Perl 6 Summarizer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The Perl 6 Summary for the week ending 2004-09-17 Another week, another summary, and I'm running late. So: This week in perl6-compiler Bootstrapping the grammar Uri Guttman had some thoughts

Re: This week's summary

2004-09-23 Thread Peter Sinnott
On Thu, Sep 23, 2004 at 09:12:32AM -0400, Buddha Buck wrote: On Wed, 22 Sep 2004 21:11:02 +0100, The Perl 6 Summarizer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The Perl 6 Summary for the week ending 2004-09-17 Another week, another summary, and I'm running late. So: This week in perl6-compiler

This week's summary

2004-09-22 Thread The Perl 6 Summarizer
The Perl 6 Summary for the week ending 2004-09-17 Another week, another summary, and I'm running late. So: This week in perl6-compiler The current state of the compiler Discussion of the current state of the nascent perl 6 compiler and how best to contribute to its development even

This week's Summary

2004-09-06 Thread The Perl 6 Summarizer
The Perl 6 Summary for the week ending 2004-09-03 Another week, a free weekend, and still I haven't started writing the summary until Monday. Still, I don't actually start at college 'til next week, so that's all right then. We start with perl6-internals. Compile op with return

This Week's Summary

2004-09-02 Thread The Perl 6 Summarizer
NB: The links are probably broken at present. Normal service will hopefully be resumed once Google gets caught up with the perl6 lists. The Perl 6 Summary for the week ending 2004-08-27 Where does the time go? I blame folk festivals. Once I'm getting busy with the teacher training I'm

Re: This fortnight's summary

2004-08-31 Thread Nicholas Clark
On Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 08:19:06PM +0100, The Perl 6 Summarizer wrote: Chia-liang Kao announced that he (I'm guessing, I'm not very good at Yes, he. But I assume that someone's already confirmed this to you. He's been in London recently. I'm not sure if he's still here. Nick

Re: This fortnight's summary

2004-08-25 Thread John Macdonald
On Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 08:19:06PM +0100, The Perl 6 Summarizer wrote: A small task for the interested Dan posted another of his small tasks for the interested (maybe we should start calling them STFTIs?). This time he's after source tests to test the embedding interface and some

RE: This fortnight's summary

2004-08-25 Thread Joe Gottman
None of the links for the perl6-language threads work. Joe Gottman

Absence of summary

2004-08-16 Thread The Perl 6 Summarizer
You may have noticed that the mailing lists weren't working for a large chunk of last week. So I'm taking a break in summarizing this week. I'll catch up next week.

This week's summary

2004-08-09 Thread The Perl 6 Summarizer
The Perl 6 Summary for the six days ending 2004-08-06 Another short week and the rollover point is now set to Friday nights in preparation for September when I'll almost certainly not have weeknights free. (Of course, I don't expect the summary will be coming out any earlier

Re: This week's summary

2004-08-09 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 1:26 PM +0100 8/9/04, The Perl 6 Summarizer wrote: Spilling problems The thing about writing naive compilers for naive languages is you end up with rather large Parrot subroutines. Dan's work project is generating ~6000 line subs. That was only for a program triggering degenerate

This week's summary

2004-08-02 Thread The Perl 6 Summarizer
The Perl 6 Summary for the six days ending 2004-07-31 As I threatened last week, I'm moving the rollover point for these summaries from midnight on Sunday/Monday to midnight on Friday/Saturday, but rather than do it in one swell foop I'm doing a couple of six day weeks. The theory

Re: This week's summary

2004-08-02 Thread Alberto Manuel Brandão Simões
ICU outdated Joshua Gatcomb noted that the ICU that comes with Parrot is, not to put too fine a point on it, old and buggy. The ICU developers have suggested that Parrot move to version 3.0. Josh proposed various ways of doing this. Leo wants ICU out of the Parrot CVS, but Dan's

Re: This week's summary

2004-07-29 Thread Piers Cawley
Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Piers Cawley wrote: Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Care to explain what those are, O great math teacher? What's a math teacher? It's the right^H^H^H^H^HAmerican way to say maths teacher. You mean American and 'right' are

RE: This week's summary

2004-07-29 Thread Butler, Gerald
PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: This week's summary Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Piers Cawley wrote: Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Care to explain what those are, O great math teacher? What's a math teacher? It's the right^H^H^H^H^HAmerican way

RE: This week's summary

2004-07-29 Thread Simon Glover
On Thu, 29 Jul 2004, Butler, Gerald wrote: sarcasm Of course American and Right are synonymous! Just ask OUR WONDERFUL GOD (I mean President) GEORGE W. BUSH. He'll tell ya' /sarcasm OK, gentlemen, this is both way off topic and starting to head into flame war territory, so I suggest that

Re: This week's summary

2004-07-28 Thread Piers Cawley
Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The Perl 6 Summarizer wrote: The infinite thread Pushing onto lazy lists continued to exercise the p6l crowd (or at least, a subset of it). Larry said that if someone wanted to hack surreal numbers into Perl 6.1 then that would

Re: This week's summary

2004-07-28 Thread Mark J. Reed
On 2004-07-28 at 20:55:28, Piers Cawley wrote: What's a math teacher? Oh, come now. You may refuse to *use* the Leftpondian short form, but pretending not to *recognize* it is a bit much. :) -- Mark REED| CNN Internet Technology 1 CNN Center Rm SW0831G | [EMAIL

Re: This week's summary

2004-07-28 Thread Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon
Piers Cawley wrote: Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Care to explain what those are, O great math teacher? What's a math teacher? It's the right^H^H^H^H^HAmerican way to say maths teacher. -- Brent Dax Royal-Gordon [EMAIL PROTECTED] Perl and Parrot hacker Oceania has always been

Re: This week's summary

2004-07-27 Thread Michele Dondi
On Mon, 26 Jul 2004, Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon wrote: The Perl 6 Summarizer wrote: The infinite thread Pushing onto lazy lists continued to exercise the p6l crowd (or at least, a subset of it). Larry said that if someone wanted to hack surreal numbers into Perl 6.1 then that

Re: This week's summary

2004-07-26 Thread Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon
The Perl 6 Summarizer wrote: The infinite thread Pushing onto lazy lists continued to exercise the p6l crowd (or at least, a subset of it). Larry said that if someone wanted to hack surreal numbers into Perl 6.1 then that would be cool. Care to explain what those are, O great math

Re: This week's summary

2004-07-26 Thread Stéphane Payrard
On Mon, Jul 26, 2004 at 10:29:15AM -0700, Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon wrote: The Perl 6 Summarizer wrote: The infinite thread Pushing onto lazy lists continued to exercise the p6l crowd (or at least, a subset of it). Larry said that if someone wanted to hack surreal numbers into

Re: This week's summary

2004-07-26 Thread Kurt Starsinic
On Mon, 26 Jul 2004 10:29:15 -0700, Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The Perl 6 Summarizer wrote: The infinite thread Pushing onto lazy lists continued to exercise the p6l crowd (or at least, a subset of it). Larry said that if someone wanted to hack surreal

Re: This week's summary

2004-07-26 Thread Jonadab the Unsightly One
Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [surreal numbers] Care to explain what those are, O great math teacher? Surreal Number theory was an attempt in the latter half of the twentieth century to unify several existing sets of numbers (including the complex numbers, generalized

Re: This week's summary

2004-07-21 Thread Piers Cawley
this mathematical summary helpful, please consider paying your tuition you ungrateful little bastards. ** Gurfle **

This week's summary

2004-07-20 Thread The Perl 6 Summarizer
The Perl 6 Summary for the week ending 2004-07-18 Following last week's bizarrely dated summary (I misplaced a day) we're back with the correct week ending date, but I'm ashamed to admit that I've slipped to writing on a Tuesday again. My head hangs in shame and I am filled

Re: This week's summary

2004-07-20 Thread Austin Hastings
summary helpful, please consider paying your tuition you ungrateful little bastards. Congratulations, Piers! The fate of a generation rests on your shoulders. =Austin

Re: This week's summary

2004-07-20 Thread Juerd
The Perl 6 Summarizer skribis 2004-07-20 14:46 (+0100): Another subthread discussed interpolation in strings. Larry's changed his mind so that $file.ext is now interpreted as $object.method. You need to do ${file}.ext or $( $file ).ext. Or maybe $«file».ext by analogy with

Re: This week's summary

2004-07-20 Thread Alexey Trofimenko
On Tue, 20 Jul 2004 19:15:49 +0200, Juerd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The Perl 6 Summarizer skribis 2004-07-20 14:46 (+0100): Another subthread discussed interpolation in strings. Larry'schanged his mind so that $file.ext is now interpreted as $object.method. You need to do ${file}.ext

Re: This week's summary

2004-07-08 Thread Piers Cawley
Jonadab the Unsightly One [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The Perl 6 Summarizer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Different OO models Jonadab the Unsightly One had wondered about having objects inheriting behaviour from objects rather than classes in Perl 6. Urgle. I've completely failed to

Re: This week's summary

2004-07-08 Thread Dan Sugalski
On Thu, 8 Jul 2004, Piers Cawley wrote: Jonadab the Unsightly One [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The Perl 6 Summarizer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Different OO models Jonadab the Unsightly One had wondered about having objects inheriting behaviour from objects rather than classes

Re: This week's summary

2004-07-07 Thread Jonadab the Unsightly One
The Perl 6 Summarizer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Different OO models Jonadab the Unsightly One had wondered about having objects inheriting behaviour from objects rather than classes in Perl 6. Urgle. I've completely failed to explain myself so as to be understood. That wasn't at

This week's summary

2004-07-05 Thread The Perl 6 Summarizer
The Perl 6 Summary for the week ending 2004-07-04 Another week, another Perl 6 Summary. This is becoming a habit. Let's do perl6-internals first shall we? Japhy's Perl 6 rules parser Last week Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan announced that he'd be working on a Perl 6 rules parser once

Re: This week's Summary

2004-07-01 Thread Leopold Toetsch
The Perl 6 Summarizer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Congratulations Ion, don't forget to send in a patch to the CREDITS file. $ grep -1 Ion CREDITS N: Ion Alexandru Morega D: string.pmc Thanks again for your summary, leo

This week's Summary

2004-06-29 Thread The Perl 6 Summarizer
The Perl 6 Summary for the week ending 2004-06-27 What's this? No! It can't be! It's a *weekly* Perl 6 Summary. What is the world coming to? Sorry, I can't answer that one, so I'll tell you what's been happening this week in perl6-internals. Bignums, licenses, pie As you

Re: This week's Summary

2004-06-29 Thread Robin Berjon
The Perl 6 Summarizer wrote: Mmm... Pie-thon Dan reminded everyone of the URL of the benchmark that's going to be run for the Pie-thon. If Parrot doesn't run it faster than the C implementation of Python, then Dan's going to get a pie in the face and he'll have to spring for a

This fortnight's summary

2004-06-23 Thread The Perl 6 Summarizer
The Perl 6 Summary for the fortnight ending 20040621 Good evening. You find me typing away in a motel room on the edge of the Lake District on the shortest night of the year. I suppose, by rites, I should be spending the night by some stone circle drinking, dancing and generally

Re: This fortnight's summary

2004-06-23 Thread Dan Sugalski
On Wed, 23 Jun 2004, The Perl 6 Summarizer wrote: Bignums! Dan asked for a volunteer to get Bignums working. Alin Iacob stepped up to the plate. Leo suggested that, rather than starting from types/bignum.c, it might be better to use an existing, maintained, maths (Look,

Re: This fortnight's summary

2004-06-23 Thread Scott Bronson
On Wed, 2004-06-23 at 08:12, Dan Sugalski wrote: The license issues there require that the full source of GMP ship with any binary copy. (the license has no provide a place to fetch it provision--the source is required) Which would make the Gameboy version of Parrot somewhat cumbersome. :)

[Summary] Help

2004-06-20 Thread Piers Cawley
For various annoying reasons involving a pernickety external drive and a service centre that, after more than a week *still* hasn't taken a look at my main machine, I find myself missing a tranche of messages to perl6-internals and perl6-language. If some kind soul were to send me mbox files

Re: [Summary] Help

2004-06-20 Thread Piers Cawley
Piers Cawley [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: For various annoying reasons involving a pernickety external drive and a service centre that, after more than a week *still* hasn't taken a look at my main machine, I find myself missing a tranche of messages to perl6-internals and perl6-language. If

Re: This fortnight's summary

2004-06-08 Thread Leopold Toetsch
The Perl 6 Summarizer wrote: PIO_unix_pipe() Leo's implemented a PIO_unix_pipe() method which allows you to run an external program and capture the results with a Parrot IO handle. He doctored the open opcode to use it pipe = open /bin/ls -l, -| While that's right regarding

This fortnight's summary

2004-06-07 Thread The Perl 6 Summarizer
The Perl 6 Summary for the fortnight ending 2004-06-06 Whee! There's a new graphics card in the G5, which means I can type this at the big screen again, which makes me happy. Well, it would make me far happier if the new card didn't leave horrible artifacts all over the screen like

This week's summary

2004-05-26 Thread The Perl 6 Summarizer
The Perl 6 Summary for the fortnight ending 2004-05-23 Yes. I know. This week's summary is a week late. So it's a summary of the last two weeks. So let's get straight to perl6-internals shall we? Working on the Perl 6 Compiler Abhijit A. Mahabal posted his first ever patch, which

This week's summary

2004-05-05 Thread The Perl 6 Summarizer
The Perl 6 Summary for the week ending 2004-05-02 So, May Day didn't quite knock me for six this year (but being up at 4am on Newcastle Town Moor on Saturday morning to welcome in the summer with a bunch of rapper dancers (and no, rapper does not involve large shouty men wearing

Re: Required Named Parameters Strike Back - P6 Summary Clarification

2004-04-28 Thread John Siracusa
From the recent P6 Summary: Larry's response is a masterpiece of conciseness: Well, actually, we saved you last summer when we decided to make + mean that the parameter must be named. Larry's response also didn't really address the issue, since parameters marked

Re: Required Named Parameters Strike Back - P6 Summary Clarification

2004-04-28 Thread Larry Wall
On Wed, Apr 28, 2004 at 02:16:00PM -0400, John Siracusa wrote: : ...but I'm not sure if this is just one of Damian's Crazy Ideas(tm) : or if it'll actually end up as a standard part of the Perl 6 language. I've never considered the two to be mutually exclusive. :-) Larry

This week's Summary

2004-04-28 Thread The Perl 6 Summarizer
The Perl 6 Summary for the week ending 2004-04-25 And we're back on a weekly schedule again (unless the Mayday bank holiday knocks me for six next week). As I expected, the Apocalypse has brought out a rash of prophets and prognosticators in perl6-language, but perl6-internals

This fortnight's summary

2004-04-21 Thread The Perl 6 Summarizer
The Perl 6 Summary for the fortnight ending 2004-04-18 The only problem with summarizing two week's worth of Perl 6 happenings is that there's twice as much stuff to summarize. Still, there's no way I could have made the time to write a summary last week so I'll take my lumps. I am

This week's Summary

2004-04-07 Thread The Perl 6 Summarizer
The Perl 6 Summary for the week ending 2004-04-04 Wednesday? Why did I leave it 'til Wednesday to write the summary? I must have *some* reason. Or maybe not. I'll give fair warning that I won't be doing a summary for next week though, what with Easter and everything, but you'll get

This week's summary

2004-03-29 Thread The Perl 6 Summarizer
The Perl 6 Summary for the week ending 2004-03-28 ... and we're back! Another interesting week in Perl 6. Your Summarizer even wrote some [parrot] code and it's been simply ages since he did that. In accordance with ancient custom, we'll start the summary with perl6-internals

This week's summary

2004-03-16 Thread The Perl 6 Summarizer
The Perl 6 Summary for the week ending 2004-03-14 Another week, another summary. It's been a pretty active week so, with a cunningly mixed metaphor, we'll dive straight into the hive of activity that is perl6-internals. Benchmarking Discussion and development of Sebastien

Re: This week's summary

2004-03-09 Thread Jerome Quelin
The Perl 6 Summarizer wrote: Parrotbug reaches 0.0.1 Jerome Quelin responded to Dan's otherwise ignored request for a parrot equivalent of perlbug when he offered an implementation of parrotbug for everyone's perusal, but didn't go so far to add it to the distribution. I don't think it's

This week's summary

2004-03-08 Thread The Perl 6 Summarizer
The Perl 6 Summary for the week ending 2004-03-07 Time marches on, and another summary gets written, sure as eggs are eggs and chromatic is a chap with whom I will never start a sentence. We start, as always, with perl6-internals. Platform games Work continued this week

This week's summary

2004-03-01 Thread The Perl 6 Summarizer
The Perl 6 Summary for the week ending 20040229 Welcome to the leapday summary. We'll crack straight on with perl6-internals Running up to release time As Leapday had been chosen as the release date for Parrot 0.1.0, the week was mostly spent getting things ready for release

This week's summary

2004-02-26 Thread The Perl 6 Summarizer
The Perl 6 Summary for the week ending 20040222 Welcome to the latest belated Perl 6 Summary. I'm running late, so we'll just dive straight into perl6-internals Loading bytecode at runtime Last week Dan had specced out the rules for runtime loading of bytecode. This week, Leo

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