Re: Parrot and Perl 6 Summary

2010-02-02 Thread Lithos
Please find: http://lith-ology.blogspot.com/2010/02/seven-days-between-parrot-and-camel.html Lithos

Re: Parrot and Perl 6 Summary

2010-01-26 Thread Lithos
Please find: http://lith-ology.blogspot.com/2010/01/seven-days-between-parrot-and-camel_26.html Lithos

Re: Parrot and Perl 6 Summary

2010-01-15 Thread Lithos
Please find: http://lith-ology.blogspot.com/2010/01/seven-days-between-parrot-and-camel_15.html Lithos

Re: Parrot and Perl 6 Summary

2010-01-06 Thread Lithos
Please find: http://lith-ology.blogspot.com/2010/01/seven-days-between-parrot-and-camel.html Lithos

Re: Parrot and Perl 6 Summary

2009-12-28 Thread Lithos
Please find: http://lith-ology.blogspot.com/2009/12/seven-days-between-parrot-and-camel_28.html Lithos

Re: Parrot and Perl 6 Summary

2009-12-22 Thread Lithos
Please find: http://lith-ology.blogspot.com/2009/12/seven-days-between-parrot-and-camel_22.html Lithos

Re: Parrot and Perl 6 Summary

2009-12-13 Thread Lithos
Please find: http://lith-ology.blogspot.com/2009/12/seven-days-between-parrot-and-camel_13.html Lithos

Re: Parrot and Perl 6 Summary

2009-12-09 Thread Lithos
Please find: http://lith-ology.blogspot.com/2009/12/seven-days-between-parrot-and-camel.html Lithos

Re: Parrot and Perl 6 Summary

2009-11-30 Thread Lithos
[now CC-ing the list, d'oh!] On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 4:33 PM, Geoffrey Broadwell ge...@broadwell.org wrote: On Mon, 2009-11-23 at 01:15 +0100, Lithos wrote: Today I posted my first attempt at summarizing Perl 6 and Parrot things at    http://lith-ology.blogspot.com/ Any comments and

Parrot and Perl 6 Summary

2009-11-23 Thread Lithos
Hello! I posted my first attempt at summarizing Perl 6 and Parrot things at http://lith-ology.blogspot.com/ Any comments and corrections welcome! Lithos

Re: Parrot and Perl 6 Summary

2009-11-23 Thread Darren Duncan
Lithos wrote: I posted my first attempt at summarizing Perl 6 and Parrot things at http://lith-ology.blogspot.com/ Any comments and corrections welcome! Looks good so far. If you intend to do that weekly, it should be a valuable service, like the summaries done years ago. I also

Parrot and Perl 6 Summary

2009-11-23 Thread Lithos
Hello! Today I posted my first attempt at summarizing Perl 6 and Parrot things at http://lith-ology.blogspot.com/ Any comments and corrections welcome! Lithos

Re: Parrot and Perl 6 Summary

2009-11-23 Thread Geoffrey Broadwell
On Mon, 2009-11-23 at 01:15 +0100, Lithos wrote: Today I posted my first attempt at summarizing Perl 6 and Parrot things at http://lith-ology.blogspot.com/ Any comments and corrections welcome! This is *very* valuable to us. Please keep it up! -'f

Re: Perl 6 Summary for 2006-01-10 though 2006-01-24

2006-01-25 Thread Klaas-Jan Stol
Matt Fowles wrote: LuaNil Morphing Klaas-Jan Stol proffered a patch which changed LuaNil from a singleton and made it morph to other Lua types when asked. Warnock applies. Actually, François Perrad applied this patch, but I think he only sent a reply to me. http://xrl.us/jpww

Re: Perl 6 Summary for 2005-11-14 through 2005-11-21

2005-11-23 Thread Leopold Toetsch
On Nov 23, 2005, at 3:06, chromatic wrote: On Wed, 2005-11-23 at 01:39 +0100, Leopold Toetsch wrote: But my argument was: whenever you start introspecting a call frame, by almost whatever means, this will keep the call frame alive[1] (see Continuation or Closure). That is: timely destruction

Re: Perl 6 Summary for 2005-11-14 through 2005-11-21

2005-11-22 Thread Leopold Toetsch
On Nov 22, 2005, at 1:40, Matt Fowles wrote: Call Frame Access Chip began to pontificate about how one should access call frames. Chip suggested using a PMC, but Leo thought that would be too slow. No, not really. It'll be slower, yes. But my argument was: whenever you start

Re: Perl 6 Summary for 2005-11-14 through 2005-11-21

2005-11-22 Thread chromatic
On Wed, 2005-11-23 at 01:39 +0100, Leopold Toetsch wrote: But my argument was: whenever you start introspecting a call frame, by almost whatever means, this will keep the call frame alive[1] (see Continuation or Closure). That is: timely destruction doesn't work for example... Destruction

Re: Perl 6 Summary for 2005-10-10 through 2005-10-24

2005-10-25 Thread Jonathan Worthington
Matt Fowles [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: =head3 Obsolete Win32 Exports Michael Walter found and removed some obsolete Win32 Exports. Jonathan Worthington applied the patch. Weren't we planning on auto generating these? The Plan is to mark functions that are to be exported with something that

Re: Perl 6 Summary for 2005-09-26 through 2005-10-02

2005-10-05 Thread Leopold Toetsch
On Oct 5, 2005, at 1:17, Matt Fowles wrote: Here Doc in PIR Will Coleda revived a thread from February about PIR here doc syntax. Looks like the syntax is ok. Jonathan Worthington has already implemented here doc syntax. Data::Escape::String Dislikes Unicode Will

Re: Perl 6 Summary for 2005-08-15 through 2005-08-22

2005-08-23 Thread Leopold Toetsch
On Aug 23, 2005, at 3:43, Matt Fowles wrote: Perl 6 Summary for 2005-08-15 through 2005-08-22 Java on Parrot I vote for Jot. That's already occupied by another language http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iota_and_Jot. Perl 6 Language Type Inferencing in Perl 5 Autrijus

Re: Perl 6 Summary for 2005-08-15 through 2005-08-22

2005-08-23 Thread Tim Bunce
On Mon, Aug 22, 2005 at 09:43:41PM -0400, Matt Fowles wrote: Java on Parrot Tim Bunce asked some preliminary questions about Java on Parrot. I provide preliminary answers, and Nattfodd and Autrijus posted links to related work. The important question of what it should be

Re: more .method (was: Perl 6 Summary for 2005-07-05 through 2005-07-12)

2005-07-14 Thread Larry Wall
On Thu, Jul 14, 2005 at 12:14:57PM -0600, John Williams wrote: : Actually I took his question to be: : : If I explicitly name my invocant in the method signature, does that give : the compiler enough assurance that I'm not going to use .method to mean : $?SELF.method, and it will allow me to

Re: Perl 6 Summary for 2005-07-05 through 2005-07-12

2005-07-13 Thread Dave Whipp
Damian Conway wrote: Important qualification: Within a method or submethod, C.method only works when C$_ =:= $?SELF. C.method is perfectly legal on *any* topic anywhere that $?SELF doesn't exist. Just to be clear, this includes any method/submethod with an explicitly named invocant,

Re: Perl 6 Summary for 2005-07-05 through 2005-07-12

2005-07-13 Thread Juerd
Dave Whipp skribis 2005-07-13 8:44 (-0700): Within a method or submethod, C.method only works when C$_ =:= $?SELF. C.method is perfectly legal on *any* topic anywhere that $?SELF doesn't exist. Just to be clear, this includes any method/submethod with an explicitly named invocant, I

Re: Perl 6 Summary for 2005-07-05 through 2005-07-12

2005-07-12 Thread Damian Conway
Matt Fowles summarized: Method Call on Invocant Now ./method is gone, and .method only works when $_ =:= $?SELF . Important qualification: Within a method or submethod, C.method only works when C$_ =:= $?SELF. C.method is perfectly legal on *any*

Re: Perl 6 Summary for 2005-06-21 through 2005-06-28

2005-06-29 Thread Patrick R. Michaud
On Tue, Jun 28, 2005 at 08:11:24PM -0400, Matt Fowles wrote: Parrot Loses with Fedora Core 4 Patrick reported that Fedora Core 4 and Parrot don't get along well. Leo suggested a possible solution. No response from Patrick. An update: Patrick submitted a patch based on Leo's

Re: Perl 6 Summary... p6rules

2005-05-31 Thread Dino Morelli
Thank you for the summary, Matt I have a correction, though: subrules tests Dino Morelli provided a patch adding tests for subrules to PGE. Warnock applies. http://xrl.us/f955 This and my other two patches to p6rules tests (RT #35950, 35971, 35994) have not yet been applied.

Re: Perl 6 Summary... p6rules

2005-05-31 Thread Patrick R. Michaud
On Tue, May 31, 2005 at 11:58:12PM -0400, Dino Morelli wrote: Thank you for the summary, Matt I have a correction, though: subrules tests Dino Morelli provided a patch adding tests for subrules to PGE. Warnock applies. http://xrl.us/f955 This and my other two patches

This week's Perl 6 Summary

2005-05-25 Thread The Perl 6 Summarizer
The Perl 6 Summary for the week ending 2005-05-24 Note to self: It's generally not a good idea to go installing Tiger on the day you return from holiday. It's especially not a good idea to fail to check that it didn't completely and utterly radish your Postfix configuration

Re: Perl 6 Summary for 2004-04-26 through 2005-05-03

2005-05-04 Thread Michele Dondi
On Tue, 3 May 2005, Matt Fowles wrote: Perl 6 Summary for 2004-04-26 through 2005-05-03 ^^ ^^ Wow! Michele -- Why should I read the fucking manual? I know how to fuck! In fact the problem is that the fucking manual only gives you

Re: Perl 6 Summary for 2005-04-12 through 2005-04-19

2005-04-20 Thread Michele Dondi
On Tue, 19 Apr 2005, Matt Fowles wrote: Python on Parrot ^^ Kevin Tew wondered what the state of pyrate was. Sam Ruby provided a general explanation. (I'm not on all of the lists, so this may have come out before and I

Re: Perl 6 Summary for 2005-03-07 through 2005-03-22

2005-03-23 Thread Miroslav Silovic
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: pugs too lazy Miroslav Silovic noticed that closing a file handle in pugs did not force all the thunks associated with the file. While this was a bug in pugs, it led to conversation about whether = should be lazy or eager. Larry thinks that it will be safer

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

2005-02-10 Thread Michele Dondi
On Wed, 9 Feb 2005, Larry Wall wrote: roadblocks thrown in their way. That's true not only for LP, but also for FP, MP, XP, AOP, DBC, and hopefully several other varieties ^^ ^^^ ^^ ^^^ 1. 2. Ehmmm... sorry for the ignorance, but... 1.

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

2005-02-10 Thread Uri Guttman
MD == Michele Dondi [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: MD On Wed, 9 Feb 2005, Larry Wall wrote: roadblocks thrown in their way. That's true not only for LP, but also for FP, MP, XP, AOP, DBC, and hopefully several other varieties MD ^^ ^^^ MD ^^ ^^^

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

2005-02-10 Thread Markus Laire
John Macdonald wrote: The basic problem is that a junction does not work well with boolean operations, because the answer is usually sometimes yes and sometimes no and until you resolve which of those is the one you want, you have to proceed with both conditions. Well, just patch the boolean

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

2005-02-10 Thread David Landgren
Uri Guttman wrote: [...] i think so but i can't read larry's mind (nor would i want to! :) XP = extreme programming DBC = design by contract (or even designed by conway :) MP = ?? Modular Programming David

Re: = vs == [was: Perl 6 Summary for 2005-01-31 through 2004-02-8]

2005-02-10 Thread David Landgren
Aaron Sherman wrote: So hold on to your socks... what about: @x @y; This reminds me of AWK's string concatenation behaviour: print this $1 that $2 This was nice feature at the time, but caused problems down the track when they wanted to add functions to the language in a subsequent

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

2005-02-10 Thread Miroslav Silovic
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i think so but i can't read larry's mind (nor would i want to! :) XP = extreme programming DBC = design by contract (or even designed by conway :) MP = ?? Modular Programming David I think it's Metaprogramming. :) Miro

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

2005-02-10 Thread Larry Wall
On Thu, Feb 10, 2005 at 12:32:21PM +0100, Miroslav Silovic wrote: : [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: : : i think so but i can't read larry's mind (nor would i want to! :) : : XP = extreme programming : DBC = design by contract (or even designed by conway :) : MP = ?? : : : Modular

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

2005-02-09 Thread Michele Dondi
On Tue, 8 Feb 2005, Matt Fowles wrote: pipe dreams Juerd wondered if he could mix = and == in a sane way. The answer appears to be no. Once you bring in == you should stick with it. Huh?!? It doesn't seem to me that the answer is 'no'. In fact C == is supposed to be yet another operator,

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

2005-02-09 Thread Matthew Walton
Michele Dondi wrote: On Tue, 8 Feb 2005, Matt Fowles wrote: pipe dreams Juerd wondered if he could mix = and == in a sane way. The answer appears to be no. Once you bring in == you should stick with it. Huh?!? It doesn't seem to me that the answer is 'no'. In fact C == is supposed to be

= vs == [was: Perl 6 Summary for 2005-01-31 through 2004-02-8]

2005-02-09 Thread Larry Wall
On Wed, Feb 09, 2005 at 10:04:48AM +0100, Michele Dondi wrote: : On Tue, 8 Feb 2005, Matt Fowles wrote: : : pipe dreams :Juerd wondered if he could mix = and == in a sane way. The answer :appears to be no. Once you bring in == you should stick with it. : : Huh?!? It doesn't seem to me

Re: = vs == [was: Perl 6 Summary for 2005-01-31 through 2004-02-8]

2005-02-09 Thread Michele Dondi
On Wed, 9 Feb 2005, Larry Wall wrote: Yes, you can certainly intermix them as long as you keep your precedence straight with parentheses. Though I suppose we could go as far as to say that = is only scalar assignment, and you have to use == or == for list assignment. That would

Re: = vs == [was: Perl 6 Summary for 2005-01-31 through 2004-02-8]

2005-02-09 Thread Rod Adams
Larry Wall wrote: On Wed, Feb 09, 2005 at 10:04:48AM +0100, Michele Dondi wrote: : On Tue, 8 Feb 2005, Matt Fowles wrote: : : pipe dreams :Juerd wondered if he could mix = and == in a sane way. The answer :appears to be no. Once you bring in == you should stick with it. : : Huh?!? It

Re: = vs == [was: Perl 6 Summary for 2005-01-31 through 2004-02-8]

2005-02-09 Thread Aaron Sherman
On Wed, 2005-02-09 at 06:04, Rod Adams wrote: Larry Wall wrote: Yes, you can certainly intermix them as long as you keep your precedence straight with parentheses. Though I suppose we could go as far as to say that = is only scalar assignment, and you have to use == or == for list

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

2005-02-09 Thread Ovid
--- 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 you could always back out the entire perl 6 grammar and insert

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

2005-02-09 Thread Larry Wall
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 :

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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
--- Matt Fowles [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Joshua Gatcomb accidentally introduced a dependency on Config::IniFiles. Since it is implemented in pure perl he offered to add it to the repository. Warnock applies. http://xrl.us/div3 In the note offering to fix it, I also listed numerous

This week's Perl 6 Summary

2003-09-01 Thread Piers Cawley
The Perl 6 Summary for the week ending 20030831 Welcome to this week's Perl 6 summary. This week, for one week only I'm going to break with a long established summary tradition. No, that doesn't mean I won't be mentioning Leon Brocard this week. Nope, this week we're going to start

The Perl 6 Summary

2003-08-26 Thread Piers Cawley
The Perl 6 Summary for the week ending 20030824 Another week, another Perl 6 summary. I'm running late writing this and I don't care because I spent the bank holiday weekend at a folk festival and didn't get back 'til Monday evening. Predictably enough, we'll start

Re: The Perl 6 Summary

2003-08-18 Thread Bryan Donlan
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The Perl 6 Summary

2003-08-18 Thread Piers Cawley
Perl 6 Summary for the week ending 20030817 Picture, if you will, a sunny garden unaffected by power cuts, floods, plagues of frog or any of the other troubles that assail us in this modern world. Picture, if you will, your summarizer sat in this garden with a laptop on his knee

Re: The Perl 6 Summary

2003-08-18 Thread Melvin Smith
Piers, Regarding your Perl6 Essentials summary: Or, he can write code for IMCC using Parrot Intermediate Language (known as PIR for reasons that aren't entirely clear even to one who has been watching the mailing list since the Parrot project started) I suppose noone has much read the README

Re: The Perl 6 Summary

2003-08-18 Thread Uri Guttman
MS == Melvin Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: MS I suppose I could have provided some more explanation (I haven't MS read the book yet) but as the original author of IMCC PIR, I MS wasn't even contacted out of courtesy to write the chapter and was MS informed after the book was finished.

Re: The Perl 6 Summary

2003-08-18 Thread Robin Berjon
Uri Guttman wrote: MS == Melvin Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: MS This has been a major stumbling block for me in getting back the MS motivation to help with Parrot again. so if that helps salve your wound, i am sure you contributions (past and future) to parrot are welcomed and appreciated

Re: The Perl 6 Summary

2003-08-18 Thread Piers Cawley
Robin Berjon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Uri Guttman wrote: MS == Melvin Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: MS This has been a major stumbling block for me in getting back the MS motivation to help with Parrot again. so if that helps salve your wound, i am sure you contributions (past and

This Week's Perl 6 Summary

2003-08-14 Thread Piers Cawley
Perl 6 Summary for the week ending 20030703 Ooh look, it's another Perl 6 summary. Doesn't that man ever take a holiday? I think he took one last month. Is it in Esperanto this week? I don't think so. Does Leon Brocard get a mention? It certainly looks that way

This week's Perl 6 Summary

2003-07-29 Thread Piers Cawley
Perl 6 Summary for the week ending 20030727 Welcome to another in the ongoing series of Perl 6 summaries in which your faintly frazzled summarizer attempts to find a native speaker of Esperanto to translate this opening paragraph in honour of the huge amount of money (1371 Euros

Re: This week's Perl 6 Summary

2003-07-29 Thread Leopold Toetsch
Piers Cawley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Okay, okay, PONIE really stands for 'Perl On New Internal Engine'. That's that what they say. Actually it was: PONIEPONIE: Perl5 Obsoletes Nasty Internals Entirely: Parrot Occupies Numerous Interpreters Everywhere But that was to bulky. Or too many

Re: The Perl 6 Summary -- preprocessors

2003-07-23 Thread Benjamin Goldberg
Luke Palmer wrote: grammar Grammars::Languages::C::Preprocessor { rule CompilationUnit { ( Directive | UnprocessedStuff )* } rule Directive { Hash ( Include | Line | Conditional | Define ) Continuation* } rule

RE: The Perl 6 Summary -- preprocessors

2003-07-23 Thread Austin Hastings
We're not quite in the world of ACME::DWIM, so you can't just replace the important stuff with ... . :-) Maybe, but the C preprocessor isn't important, here, for itself. Otherwise I could cheat: grammar Grammar::Language::C::Preprocessor { rule CompilationUnit { FIRST { static

The Perl 6 Summary

2003-07-21 Thread Piers Cawley
Perl 6 Summary for the week ending 20030720 Welcome back to an interim Perl 6 Summary, falling as it does between two conference weeks; OSCON and YAPC::Europe. For reasons involving insanity, a EuroStar ticket going begging, and undeserved generosity I shall be bringing my

Re: The Perl 6 Summary -- preprocessors

2003-07-21 Thread Dave Whipp
Piers Cawley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote Parsers with Pre-processors I didn't quite understand what Dave Whipp was driving at when he talked about overloading the ws pattern as a way of doing preprocessing of Perl 6 patterns. I didn't understand Luke Palmer's answer either. Help.

Re: The Perl 6 Summary -- preprocessors

2003-07-21 Thread Austin Hastings
--- Dave Whipp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Piers Cawley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote Parsers with Pre-processors I didn't quite understand what Dave Whipp was driving at when he talked about overloading the ws pattern as a way of doing preprocessing of Perl 6 patterns. I didn't understand Luke

Re: The Perl 6 Summary -- preprocessors

2003-07-21 Thread David Storrs
On Mon, Jul 21, 2003 at 12:19:11PM -0700, Austin Hastings wrote: Likewise: my $fh = open perl.1.gz; $fh =~ /Grammars::Languages::Runoff::Nroff(input_method = Grammars::Languages::Runoff::tbl(input_method = Grammars::Language::Runoff::eqn(input_method =

Re: The Perl 6 Summary -- preprocessors

2003-07-21 Thread Dave Whipp
Austin Hastings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What you really want is to be able to chain grammars: my $fh = open hello.c; $fh =~ /Grammars::Languages::C/; grammar Grammars::Languages::C { method init { SUPER::init; $.source = (new

Re: The Perl 6 Summary -- preprocessors

2003-07-21 Thread Austin Hastings
--- David Storrs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Jul 21, 2003 at 12:19:11PM -0700, Austin Hastings wrote: Likewise: my $fh = open perl.1.gz; $fh =~ /Grammars::Languages::Runoff::Nroff(input_method = Grammars::Languages::Runoff::tbl(input_method =

Re: The Perl 6 Summary -- preprocessors

2003-07-21 Thread Austin Hastings
--- Dave Whipp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Austin Hastings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: $.source = (new Grammars::Language::C::Preprocessor).open($source); I find myself wondering if this is covered by the P6 equiv of TieHandle. I.e. is it just an input stream filter? Doubtful. Do you

Re: The Perl 6 Summary -- preprocessors

2003-07-21 Thread Dave Whipp
Austin Hastings [EMAIL PROTECTED] I.e. is it just an input stream filter? Doubtful. Do you want to do this at the grammar level, or the file level? If you want it at the file level, you Ctie a translator (ooh! my first p6 idiom!) to the file handle. If you want it at the grammar level

Re: The Perl 6 Summary -- preprocessors

2003-07-21 Thread Luke Palmer
grammar Grammars::Languages::C::Preprocessor { rule CompilationUnit { ( Directive | UnprocessedStuff )* } rule Directive { Hash ( Include | Line | Conditional | Define ) Continuation* } rule Hash { /^\s*#\s*/ } rule

This week's Perl 6 Summary

2003-06-16 Thread Piers Cawley
The Perl 6 Summary for the week ending 20030615 Welcome to the last Perl 6 Summary of my first year of summarizing. If I were a better writer (or if I weren't listening with half an ear to Damian telling YAPC about Perl 6 in case anything's changed) then this summary might well

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