Re: Perl 6 Parrot Essentials as project documentation

2007-06-19 Thread herbert breunung
thats great because i actually use some parts for the article i currently write about perl6 and i think some musings about perl6 in theory could in this way flow back to the book because i think its not written the easiest way in some corners. but will see. great step herbert proton-ce.sf.net

Re: Perl 6 Parrot Essentials as project documentation

2007-06-19 Thread Moritz Lenz
Allison Randal wrote: I just signed an agreement with O'Reilly that assigns the full copyright in the book Perl 6 and Parrot Essentials to The Perl Foundation. The text is out-of-date, but can be updated much more rapidly than it can be rewritten from scratch. Sounds great. Does TPF have a

Re: Perl 6 Parrot Essentials as project documentation

2007-06-19 Thread Jesse Vincent
On Jun 18, 2007, at 8:13 PM, Moritz Lenz wrote: Allison Randal wrote: I just signed an agreement with O'Reilly that assigns the full copyright in the book Perl 6 and Parrot Essentials to The Perl Foundation. The text is out-of-date, but can be updated much more rapidly than it can be

Re: Perl 6 Parrot Essentials as project documentation

2007-06-19 Thread Jesse Vincent
I'm pleased to announce that the Perl 6 parts of /Perl 6 and Parrot Essentials/ are now available at http://svn.pugscode.org/pugs/docs/tutorial/ [1] for your hacking pleasure. Thanks to Allison for navigating the sometimes murky waters of copyright assignment and licensing to get this

Query regarding Java/perl interface

2007-06-19 Thread sameerlt1983
Hi I am sameer and am new to this group. It would realy help if any body can let me know is there a book or reference guiode where in i can get help regarding the perl/java interface and also about the tool named Java perl lingo.

Request for kp6 compiler architecture review

2007-06-19 Thread Flavio S. Glock
I'm working on the development plan for the next generation of the Perl6-in-Perl6 compiler kp6. kp6 is implemented in mp6, a basic version of Perl 6 which is written in mp6 itself, and bootstrapped on Perl 5. kp6, while incomplete, runs today and can already parse and compile a subset of Perl

Re: Generalizing ?? !!

2007-06-19 Thread Charles Bailey
[ Sorry to fall off the net for several days . . .] On 6/13/07, Larry Wall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Jun 13, 2007 at 05:08:34PM -0400, Charles Bailey wrote: : I'm concerned that the relevant precedent isn't just Perl5. The ?: spelling : of the ternary is pretty deeply embedded in

assign-if-uninitialized [Was: Generalizing ?? !!]

2007-06-19 Thread Larry Wall
On Tue, Jun 19, 2007 at 11:50:35AM -0400, Charles Bailey wrote: : Yep. For that matter, if I had to pick one change in this area that'd : have maximum impact, I'd say a good assign-if-uninitialized idiom : would be way ahead of an if-then-else idiom. Depending on how you mean uninitialized, that

Re: [svn:perl6-synopsis] r14421 - doc/trunk/design/syn

2007-06-19 Thread Chaddaï Fouché
I'm quite surprised by this debate... To me it seems a clear rule that state that if a line begin with = then it starts a POD section is way easier to understand than a line beginning by = will start a POD section except if it is in a Perl statement, or in a :to section, or in a string literal,

Parrot 0.4.13 Clifton Released

2007-06-19 Thread Allison Randal
On behalf of the Parrot team, I'm proud to announce Parrot 0.4.13 Clifton. Parrot (http://parrotcode.org/) is a virtual machine aimed at running all dynamic languages. Parrot 0.4.13 can be obtained via CPAN (soon), or follow the download instructions at http://parrotcode.org/source.html. Parrot

Perl6 new features

2007-06-19 Thread cdumont
Hi everyone, I am working with perl 5.8 at the moment after developping web apps in PHP. I know that perl doesn't only focus on web apps and my question might seem irrelevant but I've been searching the web in order to find the new features of perl6 regarding new functions, core module lists

Re: Query regarding Java/perl interface

2007-06-19 Thread Agent Zhang
On 6/19/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I am sameer and am new to this group. It would realy help if any body can let me know is there a book or reference guiode where in i can get help regarding the perl/java interface and also about the tool named Java perl lingo. For the

Referring to source code within Perldoc: the new A code

2007-06-19 Thread Damian Conway
Here's the first draft (documented in Pod 6, of course ;-). Feedback and suggestions are most welcome. (But please don't bother explaining to me this feature won't suffice as the high-level automatic code-to-documentation mechanism that Markov has been championing. I promise that I'm very

And for those who prefer their design documents pre-cooked...

2007-06-19 Thread Damian Conway
!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC -//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN html head title/title style type=text/css !-- th, td { padding-right: 2em; } th p{ margin: 3pt; text-align: left; border-bottom: thin solid; } td p{ margin: 3pt; } -- /style