Re: Sequential bias in S04 (and Perl6 in general)

2008-01-03 Thread Moritz Lenz
Dave Whipp wrote: I was reading Synopsis 4 with regards to multi core programming. It seems to be infused with a bias towards non-parallel models of computation. Concurrently appears to be an add-on feature -- whereas we should have a mindset that explicit sequential constraints are the

Re: Multiline comments in Perl6

2008-01-03 Thread Larry Wall
On Wed, Jan 02, 2008 at 11:28:54AM -0800, Jonathan Lang wrote: : Paul Hodges wrote: : http://perl6.org/doc/design/syn/S02.html still says: : Intra-line comments will not be supported in standard Perl : : This is wrong, since S02 also defines intra-line comments, under : Whitespace and

operator minmax

2008-01-03 Thread herbert breunung
just a small question, what speak against this construct: $min, $max = @a.minmax;

Re: $obj.can(bark); # or can it?

2008-01-03 Thread Gianni Ceccarelli
On 2008-01-03 Ovid [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Perl 5 couldn't really solve this and programmers just had to know that all methods were implicitly variadic. I seem to recall that Larry had an idea about how to specify a signature (I could be misremembering and I can't find the response). Hmmm.

Re: Multiline comments in Perl6

2008-01-03 Thread Paul Hodges
--- Jonathan Lang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Paul Hodges wrote: http://perl6.org/doc/design/syn/S02.html still says: Intra-line comments will not be supported in standard Perl This is wrong, since S02 also defines intra-line comments, under Whitespace and Comments. It calls them

[svn:perl6-synopsis] r14479 - doc/trunk/design/syn

2008-01-03 Thread larry
Author: larry Date: Thu Jan 3 16:15:39 2008 New Revision: 14479 Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S09.pod Log: Clarification of autovivification semantics in terms of protoobjects Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S09.pod

Re: Multiline comments in Perl6

2008-01-03 Thread Larry Wall
On Thu, Jan 03, 2008 at 08:55:24PM +0200, Gabor Szabo wrote: : On Jan 3, 2008 6:36 PM, Larry Wall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: : On Wed, Jan 02, 2008 at 11:28:54AM -0800, Jonathan Lang wrote: : : Paul Hodges wrote: : : http://perl6.org/doc/design/syn/S02.html still says: : : Intra-line comments

Re: [svn:perl6-synopsis] r14479 - doc/trunk/design/syn

2008-01-03 Thread Smylers
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S09.pod Log: Clarification of autovivification semantics in terms of protoobjects -my $obj = [EMAIL PROTECTED]; # $obj is a Capture object - see S02 +my $cap = [EMAIL PROTECTED]; # $obj is a Capture object - see S02

[svn:perl6-synopsis] r14480 - doc/trunk/design/syn

2008-01-03 Thread larry
Author: larry Date: Thu Jan 3 19:42:19 2008 New Revision: 14480 Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S09.pod Log: Typo from Smylers++ More clarification of assignment semantics in terms of underlying binding Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S09.pod