On Wed, Apr 13, 2005 at 03:50:38AM +0800, Autrijus Tang wrote:
I am delighted to report that the first major milestone of Pugs, version
6.2.0, has been released to CPAN:
Autrijus and everyone else who has been working on Pugs,
As someone who has been following the Perl6 lists for years, I'd
On Thu, Apr 28, 2005 at 03:28:41PM +0200, Ingo Blechschmidt wrote:
so we had junctions of Code references some days ago, what's with
junctions of Class and Role objects? :)
Could we see some code that shows why this is a good idea? My initial
reaction is horror; I can very easily see huge
On Sat, Apr 30, 2005 at 09:13:26AM -0500, Abhijit Mahabal wrote:
On Fri, 29 Apr 2005, Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon wrote:
David Storrs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Could we see some code that shows why this is a good idea? My initial
reaction is horror; I can very easily see huge numbers of subtle
On Mon, May 02, 2005 at 06:49:10PM +0200, Thomas Sandlaß wrote:
David Storrs wrote:
Let's move this away from simple types like Str and Int for a moment.
If you consider them simple...
When compared to
arbitrary-class-that-was-defined-by-
arbitrary-programmer
On May 4, 2005, at 2:38 PM, Thomas Sandlaß wrote:
Aaron Sherman wrote:
If we agree that the first say should print 7, then we must conclude
that either we've changed the value of undef to 7, or we've created a
circular reference.
In my view of refs 7 is printed, indeed. But I've difficulty to
On May 12, 2005, at 11:59 AM, Autrijus Tang wrote:
On Thu, May 12, 2005 at 04:53:06PM +0200, TSa (Thomas Sandla)
wrote:
Autrijus Tang wrote:
pugs split /(..)*/, 1234567890
('', '12', '34', '56', '78', '90')
Is this sane?
Why the empty string match at the start?
I don't know, I didn't
On May 19, 2005, at 10:56 PM, Luke Palmer wrote:
In general, you should probably be declaring your parameters
with uppercase types, [...]
Luke
If so, wouldn't it make sense that 'int' is the boxed type (one less
keystroke) and 'Int' is the special case? Optimize for the common
case,
On May 31, 2005, at 9:51 AM, Rob Kinyon wrote:
On 5/31/05, Nathan Gray [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
As I am interested in human-readable dates and times, and having
found
no conclusive discussion on time formatting, I make my recommendation
for a syntax (to start discussion, and allow for date
On May 31, 2005, at 1:16 PM, Rob Kinyon wrote:
What's wrong with porting DateTime?
It's back to the old question of what's in core? Are dates and
times something that are used in such a large proportion of programs
that they deserve to be shipped in the basic grammar? Or perhaps in
the
On May 31, 2005, at 2:22 PM, Rob Kinyon wrote:
my ($launch_date = now() + 6 weeks) but time(9am);
Sure. $launch_date is of type DateTime. It will numify to the
seconds-since-the-epoch, stringify to some date string, and provide
all the neat-o-keen methods you want it to have.
Works for
On Jun 15, 2005, at 3:33 PM, Patrick R. Michaud wrote:
And here they are... this is just a draft -- feel free to flame/edit/
tear it apart liberally. These are also written assuming we don't
create a perl6-general list (but it shouldn't be hard to adapt them
should one be created).
Well,
On Jun 17, 2005, at 10:42 PM, John Siracusa wrote:
But the truth is that /
really does look file-path-y to me, and just plain old ugly. I
think at
least two other people had similar reactions (Martin Kuehl and Carl
Franks).
David Storrs, reporting to show solidarity, sir(acusa)!
Maybe
On Jun 18, 2005, at 9:24 PM, Damian Conway wrote:
chromatic wrote:
I find it ugly enough that I plan to name my invocants explicitly.
...which should be construed as a *feature* of the current syntax. ;-)
Damian
In that case, why do we have this feature?
Seriously. Are default
First off, it seems like there are at least 3 topics being discussed
under the Re: Hackathon notes subject line. Could we break them
out into separate threads so that our poor summarizer doesn't go
bonkers?
On Jul 8, 2005, at 4:25 PM, Dave Whipp wrote:
Rod Adams wrote:
multi
On Jul 13, 2005, at 1:12 PM, Larry Wall wrote:
If class Dog does role Bark and also does role Wag, then passing a
Dog to
multi (Bark $x)
multi (Wag $x)
should result in ambiguity.
My understanding is that a Role is an abstract (i.e. cannot be
instantiated) blob of methods and,
(Taking things slightly out of order.)
On Jul 13, 2005, at 7:32 PM, Larry Wall wrote:
A class is
restricted to having to provide a working interface to real objects.
Can't there be pure-abstract, non-instantiable classes? Or are you
still considering those to be interfaces to real
On Jul 27, 2005, at 6:18 PM, Uri Guttman wrote:
this thingy should encompass
all about this perl and the world it is in and the shell env is
part of
that.
How about *?PERL ?
if ( *?PERL.COMPILED_OS eq 'Unix') {...}
if ( *?PERL.CURRENT_OS eq 'Unix') {...}
*?PERL.Grammars{Regex} =
On Aug 25, 2005, at 7:16 AM, David Formosa (aka ? the Platypus) wrote:
On Wed, 24 Aug 2005 16:13:03 +0300, Yuval Kogman
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[...]
perl6 creates a new instance of the perl compiler (presumably an
object). The compiler will only compile the actual file 'foo.pl',
and
On Aug 28, 2005, at 5:52 AM, Yuval Kogman wrote:
On Sun, Aug 28, 2005 at 05:18:42 -0400, David Storrs wrote:
On Aug 28, 2005, at 5:12 AM, Yuval Kogman wrote:
On Sun, Aug 28, 2005 at 05:02:25 -0400, David Storrs wrote:
nested_call.wrap(), maybe?
It's not 100% the same thing... Wrapping
On Aug 28, 2005, at 5:52 AM, Yuval Kogman wrote:
oops... Can I forward our correspondence to the mailing list?
Sure. I was wondering why you took it private. :
--Dks
On Sep 22, 2005, at 3:08 AM, Luke Palmer wrote:
On 9/22/05, Carl Mäsak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
FWIW, to me it looks fairly intuitive. undef here means don't alias
the element, just throw it away... gaal joked about using _ instead
of undef. :)
Joked? Every other language that has
On Sep 26, 2005, at 4:19 PM, Juerd wrote:
Perl 5's $ is inefficient because of this. If the variable is used
anywhere, Perl will for every regex used capture everything.
My understanding is that this died with 5.10. Is that right?
--Dks
Both Luke and I missed the fact that my mail and his response went
only to each other so, with his permission, here it is as a forward.
--Dks
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From: Luke Palmer [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: October 5, 2005 1:48:54 AM EDT
To: David Storrs [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re
From: Luke Palmer [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: October 5, 2005 1:48:54 AM EDT
To: David Storrs [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: zip: stop when and where?
Reply-To: Luke Palmer [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 10/4/05, David Storrs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
How about:
@foo = ('a', 'b', 'c');
for @foo ¥ 1..6
On Oct 5, 2005, at 7:49 PM, Damian Conway wrote:
Providing a :fillin() adverb on Czip is a suboptimal solution,
because it implies that you would always want to fill in *any* gap
with the same value. While that's likely in a two-way zip, it seems
much less likely in a multiway zip.
I
On Oct 13, 2005, at 6:45 PM, Dave Whipp wrote:
I started thinking about the in general, unverifiable
programmatically bit. While obviously true, perhaps we can get
closer than just leaving them as comments. It should be possible to
associate a unit-test-generator with the theory, so I can
On Oct 15, 2005, at 7:39 AM, Rutger Vos wrote:
Good idea. A fat new O'reilly tome will go some way to capturing
mind share
for perl6. Gathering ideas wiki-style is also very Web2.0. Perhaps
perl6
could be marketed as such, what with the development style -
Perl6, the
first Web2.0
Drat, thought I was sending this to the list:
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On Nov 17, 2005, at 8:31 PM, Ilmari Vacklin wrote:
Hi all,
I think that grep should be renamed to something English and more,
well,
semantic. 'Filter' comes to mind as a suggestion. I realise there's a
lot of
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