Re: comments as preserved meta-data (was Re: Embedded comments ...)

2009-08-13 Thread Darren Duncan
Timothy, you raise a good point that I had been thinking about earlier as a consequence of my proposal about comments being preserved and attached as meta-data to what is most appropriate contextually. I'm thinking that it should be formally defined somewhere (maybe as an extra section in the

Re: comments as preserved meta-data (was Re: Embedded comments ...)

2009-08-13 Thread raiph mellor
On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 1:00 AM, Darren Duncandar...@darrenduncan.net wrote: Timothy, you raise a good point... [discussion] I think this can be made to work without much fuss I'm curious about these sorts of conversations, and the way the community works in relation to them. I'm also curious

Re: comments as preserved meta-data (was Re: Embedded comments ...)

2009-08-13 Thread Damian Conway
Raiph Mellor raiph.mel...@gmail.com wrote: Anyhoo, I'd love to see a session of brainstorming, with nitty gritty detail, about possible ways to get what you guys and Mark and I and perhaps others think we would like to see in the way of super tightly woven together comments and code, where

Re: Embedded comments: two proposed solutions to the comment-whole-lines problem

2009-08-13 Thread David Green
On 2009-Aug-11, at 1:38 pm, raiph mellor wrote: For a quick backgrounder, Larry had talked of reserving backtick for use as a user defined operator [1], Mark had suggested its use as a (tightly bound) comment [2], and James et al had suggested using it to declare units [3]. I'd like to see

Re: comments as preserved meta-data (was Re: Embedded comments ...)

2009-08-13 Thread raiph mellor
Excellent idea. But may I suggest you perhaps might like to hold off that discussion until next week? @Larry had some very fruitful discussions about the long-overdue Pod spec during YAPC::EU last week and, as a result, I plan to (finally!!!) release a new version of S26 this week-end. I

Re: comments as preserved meta-data (was Re: Embedded comments ...)

2009-08-13 Thread Damian Conway
Raiph Mellor raiph.mel...@gmail.com hyperpunned: With this whiny man exchange ultimately having bourne supreme fruit, the apocalypse watch for the post damian weekend begins... ARRRG! Damian ;-)

r27978 - docs/Perl6/Spec/S32-setting-library

2009-08-13 Thread pugs-commits
Author: jani Date: 2009-08-13 14:19:25 +0200 (Thu, 13 Aug 2009) New Revision: 27978 Modified: docs/Perl6/Spec/S32-setting-library/Containers.pod Log: S32/Containers iterator rephrase (similar to S09 hash keys spec) Modified: docs/Perl6/Spec/S32-setting-library/Containers.pod

Filename literals

2009-08-13 Thread Hinrik Örn Sigurðsson
I was wondering if there had been any discussion about how to type file and directory names in Perl 6. I've read a couple of posts about file test operators, where some have suggested making filenames special, either as a subtype of Str or something else entirely. That way Str wouldn't have all

Re: Filename literals

2009-08-13 Thread Darren Duncan
Hinrik Örn Sigurðsson wrote: I was wondering if there had been any discussion about how to type file and directory names in Perl 6. I've read a couple of posts about file test operators, where some have suggested making filenames special, either as a subtype of Str or something else entirely.

Re: Should @x be defined after only my @x? (RT #64968)

2009-08-13 Thread Nicholas Clark
On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 04:25:49PM -0500, Kyle Hasselbacher wrote: use v6; my $s;   #  ! $x.defined my @a;  # @a.defined That's the current Rakudo behavior. RT #64968 suggests that this is a bug. In Perl 5, @a would not be defined until something was put into it. Which should it be?