Re: S26 - The Next Generation

2009-08-24 Thread Smylers
Damian Conway writes: It's Sunday evening and, as promised, here's the new draft of S26. Wow, thanks for that -- it's most impressive and I'm already excited about what it will allow and how it permits improved documentation. * Hence it must always parsed using full Perl 6 grammar: perl6

Re: S26 - The Next Generation

2009-08-24 Thread Smylers
Jon Lang writes: FWIW, the current proposal for aliasing blocks of ambient text is functional; it just feels a bit kludgey, Why? To me it seems the opposite: what could be more natural for delimiting a block of code than braces? and I'm a bit bothered by the fact that you can't alias any

Synopsis 02: Range objects

2009-08-24 Thread Michael Zedeler
Hi Perl 6 people. I've been looking closely at the definition of the Range class in S02 and the current Rakudo implementation, and I have some comments... It seems that there are two intended uses for this class: Range A pair of Ordered endpoints Lets call the above the interval

Re: Synopsis 02: Range objects

2009-08-24 Thread Daniel Ruoso
Em Seg, 2009-08-24 às 23:50 +0200, Michael Zedeler escreveu: The most elegant solution would be if the data types themselves indicated their capabilities. One thing I think you missed entirely is the fact that the infix:.. operator is a multi sub, so it falls to regular dispatch semantics, in

Re: S26 - The Next Generation

2009-08-24 Thread Jon Lang
Smylers wrote: Jon Lang writes: FWIW, the current proposal for aliasing blocks of ambient text is functional; it just feels a bit kludgey, Why?  To me it seems the opposite: what could be more natural for delimiting a block of code than braces? Because sometimes you'll want to capture only

r28058 - docs/Perl6/Spec

2009-08-24 Thread pugs-commits
Author: lwall Date: 2009-08-25 02:21:44 +0200 (Tue, 25 Aug 2009) New Revision: 28058 Modified: docs/Perl6/Spec/S02-bits.pod Log: [S02] disallow alphanums as quote delims [S02] document WhateverCode and HyperWhateverCode Modified: docs/Perl6/Spec/S02-bits.pod

r28059 - docs/Perl6/Spec

2009-08-24 Thread pugs-commits
Author: lwall Date: 2009-08-25 02:24:05 +0200 (Tue, 25 Aug 2009) New Revision: 28059 Modified: docs/Perl6/Spec/S06-routines.pod Log: [S06] remove fossil spotted by jnthn++ Modified: docs/Perl6/Spec/S06-routines.pod === ---

r28060 - in docs/Perl6: Perl5 Spec

2009-08-24 Thread pugs-commits
Author: carlin Date: 2009-08-25 02:26:56 +0200 (Tue, 25 Aug 2009) New Revision: 28060 Modified: docs/Perl6/Perl5/Differences.pod docs/Perl6/Spec/S03-operators.pod Log: [Differences.pod] Added a before/after comparison of the binary numeric AND. Added a note about the bitwise operator