Resource Management ?

r resource that is in limited availability. And of course, such a resource management system should degrade to a "everything is free" approach for simple one-liners and small scripts, like the current situation. Elizabeth Mattijsen P.S. Dan: I hope you don't mind not waiting for your PDD,

Re: Default program

At 00:05 -0800 4/1/04, Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon wrote: On the other hand, the current behavior may be somewhat entrenched, and might break our promise to assume that code is Perl 5 until we see a different indication. As an alternative, perhaps the -H command-line switch could be used to use a

Re: Perl 6 in non-English languages

On Jun 23, 2010, at 12:34 AM, SundaraRaman R wrote: This is an idea that originated in #perl6 during a discussion with slavik ( http://irclog.perlgeek.de/perl6/2010-01-17#i_1907093). The goal is to allow Perl 6 source code to be written in natural languages other than English. The motivation

Re: Class attribute introspection

Maybe http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metaobject is a good start for reading up on what a MOP (Meta-Object Protocol) is. Liz === On 28 Oct 2013, at 14:17, Richard Hainsworth rich...@rusrating.ru wrote: Moritz, You are the everflowing font of knowledge. Thanks. However, I read

Re: state and = vs :=

On 01 Oct 2014, at 07:48, Father Chrysostomos spr...@cpan.org wrote: Does ‘state’ govern ‘:=’ the way it governs ‘=’? In other words, just as this: state $x = 1; only assigns to $x once (per closure), does the same apply to this? state $x := $y; I can’t find anything in the

Re: S02 mistake re Blob?

On 21 Feb 2015, at 21:56, Darren Duncan dar...@darrenduncan.net wrote: On 2015-02-21 2:45 AM, Moritz Lenz wrote: On 21.02.2015 08:51, Darren Duncan wrote: I notice from looking at http://design.perl6.org/S02.html that Blob is listed both as being a role and as a type. See

Re: Synopses size and revision state

On 15 May 2015, at 16:05, Parrot Raiser 1parr...@gmail.com wrote: Without doing too much work, can anyone offer an estimate of the volume of the Perl 6 Synopses? I'm assuming that by now, they are unlikely to undergo serious modification. I'm trying to estimate the cost of rendering them

Re: [perl6/specs] 614b6f: doc with/without

If this is about: These may be cascaded: with $s.index(a) { Found a at $_ } orwith $s.index(b) { Found b at $_ } orwith $s.index(c) { Found c at $_ } else { Didn't find a, b or c” } then the code is correct. What would be the point of searching for “a” again

Re: Backwards compatibility and release 1.0

> On 15 Oct 2015, at 12:57, Mark Overmeer <m...@overmeer.net> wrote: > > * Elizabeth Mattijsen (l...@dijkmat.nl) [151015 10:43]: >> FWIW, I’m with FROGGS on this. >> use variables :D; > > In the first response to this message, Moritz spoke about > use

Re: Backwards compatibility and release 1.0

> On 15 Oct 2015, at 11:06, Tobias Leich wrote: > Am 15.10.2015 um 10:47 schrieb Smylers: >> Moritz Lenz writes: >> >>> On 10/13/2015 10:52 AM, Richard Hainsworth wrote: >>> Following on the :D not :D thread, something odd stuck out. On 10/13/2015 03:17 PM,

Re: A practical benchmark shows speed challenges for Perl 6

> On 30 Mar 2016, at 16:06, yary <not@gmail.com> wrote: > > Cross-posting to the compiler group- > > On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 8:10 AM, Elizabeth Mattijsen <l...@dijkmat.nl> wrote: >> If you know the line endings of the file, using >> IO::Handle.split($

Re: Help mechanism in REPL?

FWIW, the .WHY is a method just like any other. What would need to be changed, is the behaviour of Mu.WHY (around line 60 in Mu.pm). > On 10 Sep 2016, at 16:41, Brad Gilbert wrote: > > There was some talk in the past about having `.WHY` look up the > descriptions in the

Re: Is this a bug?

I think you want: .say for reverse lines; not sure what you are trying to achieve otherwise, but: say { } producing something like -> ;; $_? is raw { #`(Block|170303864) … } feels entirely correct to me. :-) Liz > On 18 Sep 2016, at 21:52, Parrot Raiser <1parr...@gmail.com>

Re: Is this a bug?

40268472711224) ... } >>> say { 11 + 31 }(); >> 42 >> >> >> On Sun, Sep 18, 2016 at 12:58 PM, Elizabeth Mattijsen <l...@dijkmat.nl> >> wrote: >> >>> I think you want: >>> >>> .say for reverse lines; >&g

[perl6/specs] 180b53: Revert "Move the design documents into the Raku era"

Branch: refs/heads/master Home: https://github.com/perl6/specs Commit: 180b534bd6f012e7576384326f2e915162c496be https://github.com/perl6/specs/commit/180b534bd6f012e7576384326f2e915162c496be Author: Elizabeth Mattijsen Date: 2019-11-16 (Sat, 16 Nov 2019) Changed paths

[perl6/specs] 6390a5: Move the design documents into the Raku era

Branch: refs/heads/master Home: https://github.com/perl6/specs Commit: 6390a500201b5c26512940b0920cd6e9e5111abf https://github.com/perl6/specs/commit/6390a500201b5c26512940b0920cd6e9e5111abf Author: Elizabeth Mattijsen Date: 2019-11-16 (Sat, 16 Nov 2019) Changed paths

[perl6/specs] c5aa24: Remove obsolete file

Branch: refs/heads/master Home: https://github.com/perl6/specs Commit: c5aa24071599a46240ba09cd9c91a37749799d7e https://github.com/perl6/specs/commit/c5aa24071599a46240ba09cd9c91a37749799d7e Author: Elizabeth Mattijsen Date: 2019-11-16 (Sat, 16 Nov 2019) Changed paths

[perl6/specs] 3d62b9: Move the design documents into the Raku era

Branch: refs/heads/design-into-raku Home: https://github.com/perl6/specs Commit: 3d62b9ea86f586612d5df9ea9460a12239b6ccf2 https://github.com/perl6/specs/commit/3d62b9ea86f586612d5df9ea9460a12239b6ccf2 Author: Elizabeth Mattijsen Date: 2019-11-16 (Sat, 16 Nov 2019) Changed

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