--- Larry Wall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 18, 2007 at 07:41:54PM -0700, Paul Hodges wrote:
> : while length($ruler) < $len; # till there's enough
>
> There is no length function anymore.
duh. I knew that. Still thinking in v5.
Thanks, Larry.
On 9/18/07, David Vergin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On 9/18/07, Paul Hodges <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >>
> >> For the Gearheads
> >> We won't bore you with excess details,
> >> but for more info... c.f. ...
> >>
>
> on 9/19/2007 10:19 AM Adriano Ferreira said the following:
>
On 9/18/07, Paul Hodges <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Looks good . . . but how short do we want them?
Very short. The usual length that an IT-savvy guy (with at least some
curiosity on programming languages) reads in a glimpse instead of
going somewhere else looking for shorter or more immediate
On 9/18/07, Joe Gottman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Adriano Ferreira wrote:
> > I salute every bit of help. I am trying to organize the production and
> > will hopefully provide more details soon. By now, I think that I can
> > handle suggestions and corrections to the articles. The next one is
>
On 9/19/07, Moritz Lenz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Adriano Ferreira wrote:
> > http://ferreira.nfshost.com/perl6/stitching6.html
>
> A grammatical nit: "The infix operator '~' keeps the same precedence of
> '+' in Perl 6."
> I think that should be "the same precedence _as_" (but I'm not a native
> On 9/18/07, Paul Hodges <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>> For the Gearheads
>> We won't bore you with excess details,
>> but for more info... c.f. ...
>>
on 9/19/2007 10:19 AM Adriano Ferreira said the following:
> I am thinking about such hooks and good ways to do that.
As an eager r
On Tue, Sep 18, 2007 at 07:41:54PM -0700, Paul Hodges wrote:
: while length($ruler) < $len; # till there's enough
There is no length function anymore.
Larry
On Tue, Sep 18, 2007 at 09:46:14PM -0400, Joe Gottman wrote:
: Adriano Ferreira wrote:
: >I salute every bit of help. I am trying to organize the production and
: >will hopefully provide more details soon. By now, I think that I can
: >handle suggestions and corrections to the articles. The next on
Looks good . . . but how short do we want them?
For the non-Perl audience, I think it might be worth mentioning the
(to us) obvious automatic context manipulations. e.g.,
~ is "stitching" strings, and will make strings out of its arguments
if it can -- it's not adding, but has the same preceden
Adriano Ferreira wrote:
I salute every bit of help. I am trying to organize the production and
will hopefully provide more details soon. By now, I think that I can
handle suggestions and corrections to the articles. The next one is
here:
http://ferreira.nfshost.com/perl6/stitching6.html
Th
On 9/18/07, Paul Hodges <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> --- Adriano Ferreira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> [[snips here and at end]]
> > > . . . I have one suggestion: you might want to mention
> > > the roundrobin function in the article on the zip function since
> > > the two are very closely relat
--- Adriano Ferreira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[[snips here and at end]]
> > . . . I have one suggestion: you might want to mention
> > the roundrobin function in the article on the zip function since
> > the two are very closely related.
>
> Thanks, Joe and Alberto.
>
> Even though the roundro
On 9/18/07, brian d foy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Alberto Simões
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
> > Adriano Ferreira wrote:
> > > The plan is to write a series of blog entries discussing a Perl 6
> > > operator at a time or a small group of closely related ones
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Alberto Simões
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Adriano Ferreira wrote:
> > The plan is to write a series of blog entries discussing a Perl 6
> > operator at a time or a small group of closely related ones.
>
> I think the idea is cool. Also, I do not know how period
On 9/18/07, Agent Zhang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 9/18/07, Adriano Ferreira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > Join me. The drafts of the introduction and the first article are here:
> >
> > http://ferreira.nfshost.com/perl6/intro.html
> > http://ferreira.nfshost.com/perl6/zip.html
> >
>
> I
On 9/18/07, Adriano Ferreira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Join me. The drafts of the introduction and the first article are here:
>
> http://ferreira.nfshost.com/perl6/intro.html
> http://ferreira.nfshost.com/perl6/zip.html
>
I see the following snippet in zip.html:
# import &num2en from Per
Adriano Ferreira wrote:
Jesse Vincent has announced the acceptance of my microgrant proposal
(http://use.perl.org/~jesse/journal/34451). It is a plain simple
idea, whose effects are yet to be seen. Comments and feedback most
welcome.
snip
Join me. The drafts of the introduction and the fir
On 9/17/07, Joe Gottman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Adriano Ferreira wrote:
> > Jesse Vincent has announced the acceptance of my microgrant proposal
> > (http://use.perl.org/~jesse/journal/34451). It is a plain simple
> > idea, whose effects are yet to be seen. Comments and feedback most
> > welc
Hi
Adriano Ferreira wrote:
The plan is to write a series of blog entries discussing a Perl 6
operator at a time or a small group of closely related ones.
I think the idea is cool. Also, I do not know how periodically that
would be, but it might be a good idea to join some of them in turns an
Jesse Vincent has announced the acceptance of my microgrant proposal
(http://use.perl.org/~jesse/journal/34451). It is a plain simple
idea, whose effects are yet to be seen. Comments and feedback most
welcome.
The plan is to write a series of blog entries discussing a Perl 6
operator at a time o
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