Damian Conway [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Piers Cawley wrote:
Bugger. I was hoping that Perl 6 was going to make a Pixie like Object
database easier to write; looks like I'm wrong. One of the things
Pixie does is to attach its control data by magic to the object itself
(rather than any
Garrett Goebel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
From: Piers Cawley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Garrett Goebel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
And what's to prevent that collection object from handling:
my $queue = SomeQueue.new;
$queue.push('foo');
$queue.push('bar
Allison Randal [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Miko O'Sullivan wrote:
Therefore, I propose that members of the language list provide summaries
of the discussions in the group. Each summary describes a proposed idea
feature of the language, then summarizes the list's feelings on the idea.
Rick Delaney [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I'd also like to point out that ruby has defaults for hashes but
assigning nil (the equivalent of undef) does not set the default; delete
does.
Yeah, but Hashes aren't Arrays. And vice versa.
--
Piers
Aaron Sherman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Wed, 2003-01-29 at 14:54, Jonathan Scott Duff wrote:
Can someone give me a realish world example of when you would want an
array that can store both undefined values and default values and those
values are different?
my @send_partner_email is
Smylers [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Miko O'Sullivan wrote:
The idea of discussion summaries has been well received, ...
I read this thread over the past couple of days. It's only today that,
having thought about it, an objection occurred to me. I've no problem
with people summarizing
The Perl 6 summary for the week ending 20030216
Welcome to the all new, entirely unaltered, all singing, all dancing
Perl 6 summary. Your beacon of reliability in the crazy world that is
Perl 6 design and development.
Another quiet week. Even quieter than last week in fact, unless
The Perl 6 summary for the week ending 20030223
Another week, another Perl 6 Summary, in which you'll find gratuitous
mentions of Leon Brocard, awed descriptions of what Leopold Tötsch got
up to and maybe even a summary of what's been happening in Perl 6 design
and development.
The Perl 6 Summary for the week ending 20030302
Welcome back to another episode in the ongoing saga that is the Perl 6
development process (or at least my attempt to describe it).
We kick off with perl6-internals.
IMCC calling conventions
Piers Cawley attempted to describe tail
at some later date in code written in Jako?
If an appropriate parrot topic, I'd be especially interested to hear the
thoughts of people like Sam Vilain, Dave Rolsky, Piers Cawley, and others
who've already spent a great deal of tuits tackling these issues.
All I want is good object
Larry says that
sub foo { ... }
is equivalent to
sub foo will do {...}
But then goes on to give the grammar for subroutine definitions as:
rule lexicalsub :w {
lexscope type?
subintro subname psignature?
trait*
block
}
rule packagesub :w {
The Perl 6 Summary for the week ending 20030309
Ooh look, it's another of those Perl 6 Summaries where Piers tries to
work a gratuitous reference to Leon Brocard into a summary of what's
been happening to the Perl 6 development process this week.
As tradition dictates, we'll start
Joe Gottman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Will it be possible in perl6 to overload multis on the const-ness of a
parameter, like C++ does? For instance,
multi getX(Foo $self:) returns Int {...} #const version
multi getX(Foo $self: is rw) returns Int is rw {...} #non-const version
Michael Lazzaro [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Wednesday, March 12, 2003, at 11:14 AM, Damian Conway wrote:
Larry wrote:
: I agree. As long as it's not Cis slurpy!
Of course not. We're trying to encourage the use of line noise,
and discourage the use of the long variants, so the long one
Damian Conway [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Austin Hastings wrote:
But what's the vision for p6? My expectation is that the
type-checking stuff will be heavily used
for:
1- Large scale projects.
2- CPAN modules.
I expect that the folks who want to do one-liners will still want to
be
able to
Damian Conway [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
And don't write off the Perl Foundation yet. TPF is just about to do a
survey of what people think they (TPF) should be funding. If you
believe Larry and/or myself and/or other members of the design or
implementation teams are worth sponsoring, I'd
Simon Cozens [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Piers Cawley) writes:
Well... I've finally got my act together and invoice ORA for the
summary money that's destined for TPF and I would dearly love to see
all of that lump of cash go to Larry.
Yay, another attempt to confuse me
Brad Hughes [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Piers Cawley wrote:
[...]
Nope, send it to TPF as discussed. It's what I've said in all the
summaries after all. I just hope that a chunk of it ends up in Larry's
pocket.
Does anyone know if TPF is set up to allow earmarked contributions?
Dunno
Michael Lazzaro [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
As much as people hated it, I think the P6 Operators thread was
*quite* beneficial. It lead to the saving of ^ xor, and the hyper
syntax, and quite a few other improvements, and got things pinned down
squarely. I wouldn't mind seeing more of that
to know if the new declaration would
automagically turn the old one into a multimethod. Michael Lazzaro
thought not. As did Damian and Larry. Damian provided a summary of the
rules for subroutine/method dispatch, which look wonderfully
subvertable. Piers Cawley wondered if it would
Matthijs van Duin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Sat, Mar 22, 2003 at 10:24:09PM +0200, arcadi shehter wrote:
sub a {
state $x;
my $y;
my sub b { state $z ; return $x++ + $y++ + $z++ ; }
return b; # is a \ before b needed?
}
will all b refer to the same $z ?
yes,
David Storrs [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Piers,
Apologies...I actually put them into one mail deliberately, because I
didn't want to burn more mindspace than necessary...people could skim
all my questions at once, answer those they were interested in, and be
done. I didn't think about how
The Perl 6 Summary for the week ending 20030323
Assuming I can tear myself away from stroking the cat who has just
magically appeared on my chest and is even now trying to wipe his dags
on my nose, welcome one and all to another Perl 6 summary, which should
go a lot quicker now
Matthijs van Duin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Apologies for nitpicking, but you misspelled my name as Mattijs 4
times in the summary. The right spelling is Matthijs :-)
Argh! Kill me now. Please. Damn, damn and double damn. I say, Simon
old chap, you couldn't fix that on the perl.com site could
Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Hi all.
I note that quite often I find myself wanting to express agreement or
disagreement with some point made on the list, but without anything of
value to add other than a vote on the matter. When this happens I
usually ~try~ to bite my metaphorical tongue
Luke Palmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 07:29:37AM -0800, Austin Hastings wrote:
This has been alluded to before.
What would /A*B*/ produce?
Because if you were just processing the rex, I think you'd have to
finish generating all possibilities of A* before you began
The Perl 6 Summary for the week ending 20030330
Welcome once again to the gallimaufry that is a Perl 6 summary.
Unfettered this week by the presence of feline distraction we plunge
straight into the crystal clear waters of perk6-internals.
Iterator proof of concept
People must
Michael Lazzaro [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Monday, May 26, 2003, at 06:10 PM, Dave Whipp wrote:
So, in summary, its good to have a clean abstraction for all the
HCCCT things. But I think it is a mistake to push them too
close. Each of the HCCCT things might be implemented as facades over
Nicholas Clark [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Mon, Jun 09, 2003 at 09:56:06AM +0100, Piers Cawley wrote:
Is this thing on? No messages since last Wednesday. Which admittedly
makes a summarizer's life a good deal easier...
It looks like it is.
However, your life may be easier this week only
The Perl 6 Summary for the week ending 20030608
It's another Monday, it's another summary and I need to get this
finished so I can starting getting the house in order before we head off
to Boca Raton and points north and west on the long road to Portland,
Oregon. Via Vermont. (I'm
The Perl 6 Summary for the week ending 20030601
Another Monday, another Perl 6 Summary. Does this man never take a
holiday? (Yes, but only to go to Perl conferences this year, how did
that happen?)
We start with the internals list as usual.
More on timely destruction
The
David Storrs [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
So, as I sweat here in the salt mines of C++, longing for the
cleansing joy that Perl(5 or 6, I'd even take 4) is, I find myself
with the following problem:
Frequently, I find myself writing stuff like this:
void Ficp400::SaveRow(long p_row)
{
The Perl 6 Summary for the week ending 20030615
Welcome to the last Perl 6 Summary of my first year of summarizing. If I
were a better writer (or if I weren't listening with half an ear to
Damian telling YAPC about Perl 6 in case anything's changed) then this
summary might well be
Adam Turoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Damian just got finished his YAPC opening talk, and managed to allude
to dispatching and autoloading.
As it *appears* today, regular dispatching and multimethod dispatching
are going to be wired into the langauge (as appropriate). Runtime
dispatch
The Perl 6 Summary for the week ending 20030622
Welcome to my first anniversary issue of the Perl 6 Summary. Hopefully
there won't too many more anniversaries to celebrate before we have a
real, running Perl 6, but there's bound to be ongoing development after
that. My job is
Further to the lightweight proxy thing, one of the things that proves
to be something of a pain in Pixie is writing 'self replacing'
proxies, where, once something is actually fetched from the database,
the proxy should go away. You can't simply assign to $_[0] (at least
in Perl 5) because that
Luke Palmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
This is more of a language thang, so I've redirected your message
there [here].
The most fundamental feature throwing an exception is that it transfers
program execution from the call site. Allowing the caller to resume
execution at that site is a very
Rafael Garcia-Suarez [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Jonathan Scott Duff wrote in perl.perl6.language :
My only dream is that by this time next year we have a fully-
functional-people-can-use-it-in-production Perl6. It doesn't even
have to be 100% complete; I think just 85% would be enough if it
The Perl 6 Summary for the week ending 20030629
Welcome to the third of my US tour Perl 6 summaries. Once again I'm
pleased to report that the denizens of the Perl 6 mailing lists continue
to make the life of a touring summarizer an easy one by not posting all
that much to the
Perl 6 Summary for the week ending 20030706
Welcome to this week's Perl 6 Summary, coming to you live from a
gatecrashed Speakers' lounge at OSCON/TPC, surrounded by all the cool
people like Dan Sugalski, Lisa Wolfisch, Graham Barr and Geoff Young,
who aren't distracting me from
Perl 6 Summary for the week ending 20030713
Welcome once again to the Perl 6 Summary, in a week of major
developments and tantalizing hints.
Starting, as usual, with what's happening in perl6-internals
Targeting Parrot from GCC
Discussion in the thread entitled 'WxWindows
Perl 6 Summary for the week ending 20030720
Welcome back to an interim Perl 6 Summary, falling as it does between
two conference weeks; OSCON and YAPC::Europe. For reasons involving
insanity, a EuroStar ticket going begging, and undeserved generosity I
shall be bringing my
Perl 6 Summary for the week ending 20030727
Welcome to another in the ongoing series of Perl 6 summaries in which
your faintly frazzled summarizer attempts to find a native speaker of
Esperanto to translate this opening paragraph in honour of the huge
amount of money (1371 Euros)
Iain Truskett [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
* Alberto Manuel Brandão Simões [15 Aug 2003 00:36]:
On Thu, 2003-08-14 at 15:19, Iain Truskett wrote:
[...]
Much like Perl 6 Essentials then?
I must say that its chapter 4 is the clearest look at
the perl 6 syntax (as it was at the time of
Perl 6 Summary for the week ending 20030817
Picture, if you will, a sunny garden unaffected by power cuts, floods,
plagues of frog or any of the other troubles that assail us in this
modern world. Picture, if you will, your summarizer sat in this garden
with a laptop on his knee,
Robin Berjon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Uri Guttman wrote:
MS == Melvin Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
MS This has been a major stumbling block for me in getting back
the MS motivation to help with Parrot again.
so if that helps salve your wound, i am sure you contributions (past
and
Perl 6 Summary for the week ending 20030703
Ooh look, it's another Perl 6 summary. Doesn't that man ever take a
holiday?
I think he took one last month.
Is it in Esperanto this week?
I don't think so.
Does Leon Brocard get a mention?
It certainly looks that way.
The Perl 6 Summary for the week ending 20030824
Another week, another Perl 6 summary. I'm running late writing this and
I don't care because I spent the bank holiday weekend at a folk festival
and didn't get back 'til Monday evening.
Predictably enough, we'll start with the
Perl 6 Summary for the week ending 20030810
Another week, another summary. How predictable is that?
In keeping with the predictability, we'll start with the internals list.
Set vs. Assign
T.O.G of Spookware has an issue with the way IMCC treats =;
sometimes an = means set and
lowercased chromatic
argued that what Leo had implemented should actually be called does.
Chris Dutton thought does should be an alias for has. Piers Cawley
thinks he might be missing something.
http://xrl.us/rtm
More on constant PMCs and classes
Leo Tötsch's RFC on constant
So, I was wondering about how to do multidispatch based on the
context in which something is called, which leads me to wonder if
there's going to be a way of reifying calling context so I could
write:
method whatever($arg1, $arg2)
{ my multi whatever ($self, Scalar $context:
The Perl 6 Summary for the week ending 20030907
Welcome to the last Perl 6 summary of my 35th year. Next week's summary
will (in theory) be written on my 36th birthday (a year of being square,
so no change there then). I'll give you fair warning that it might be
late, though it
Luke Palmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Also, the standard library, however large or small that will be, will
definitely be mutable at runtime. There'll be none of that Java you
can't subclass String, because we think you shouldn't crap.
Great. But will it also be possible to add methods (or
Luke Palmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Alex Burr writes:
In theory you could write one as a perl6 macro, although it would be
more convenient if there was someway of obtaining the syntax tree of a
previously defined function other than quoting it (unless I've missed
that?).
There is a
Austin Hastings [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
--- Luke Palmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Alex Burr writes:
But I confidently predict that no-one with write a useful
partial evaluator for perl6. The language is simply too big.
Then again, there are some very talented people with a lot of free
Luke Palmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Piers Cawley writes:
Luke Palmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Also, the standard library, however large or small that will be, will
definitely be mutable at runtime. There'll be none of that Java you
can't subclass String, because we think you shouldn't
Simon Cozens [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Piers Cawley) writes:
Great. But will it also be possible to add methods (or modify them)
to an existing class at runtime? You only have to look at a Smalltalk
image to see packages adding helper methods to Object and the like
People
Austin Hastings [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
There's a growing body of interesting work on what's essentially
disposable or partially-useful optimizations. Given the dynamic
nature of most of the languages we care about for parrot, throwaway
optimizations make a lot of sense--we can build
with and move onto the meat of the week, we'll start this week
with the language list.
Dispatch on context
Piers Cawley wondered about doing multiple dispatch based on context and
came up with a scheme which involved wrapping multimethods in a simple
method that would 'reify' context
Leopold Toetsch [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Piers Cawley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
... spending the morning of your 36th birthday
Happy birthday to you and us.
Thanks.
The Perl 6 Summary of the week ending 20030921
Deadlines, I love the sound they make as they fly past.
Those of you who receive this summary via mail may have noticed that
this summary is a little late, with any luck it will make up for its
tardiness by being inaccurate and badly
The Perl 6 Summary of the week ending 20030928
This week, on perl6-internals, stuff was said, code was written, Leo
Tötsch was the patchmonster, life got some colour, Amir Karger needs to
work harder if he wants to be mentioned in the summary again, Dan
Sugalski was our glorious
Dan Sugalski [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Thu, 2 Oct 2003, Mark A. Biggar wrote:
Austin Hastings wrote:
But that imposes Ceval()/C pretty frequently. Better to provide
some lower-level hackish way to agglutinate Blocks.
Isn't this one of the prime examples of why CPS is being use, it
Dan Sugalski [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
At 11:55 PM +0100 10/3/03, Piers Cawley wrote:
Dan Sugalski [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Thu, 2 Oct 2003, Mark A. Biggar wrote:
Austin Hastings wrote:
But that imposes Ceval()/C pretty frequently. Better to provide
some lower-level hackish way
The Perl 6 Summary of the week ending 20031005
Hello, good evening, and welcome from the teeming metropolis that is
Newcastle/Gateshead, home of The Angel of the North, the Winky Eye
Bridge, the ham and pease pudding stotty and freezing your extremities
off on a Saturday night down
The Perl 6 Summary of the week ending 20031012
Good afternoon readers. You find me sitting comfortably and tired after
a vaguely frantic week involving large amounts of new (and huge)
equipment, the delivery of a new Mini Cooper, and four days offline at a
large format photography
The Perl 6 Summary of the week ending 20031019
Lumme! Another week, another summary.
Every week (almost) we start with the perl6-internals list, so here
goes.
An Evil task for the interested
Our Glorious Leader, Dan Sugalski, last week asked for volunteers to
work on making
The Perl 6 Summary of the week ending 20031026
Where does the time go? It seems like only yesterday that I was sat
hiding Leon Brocard in the first letters of the first 11 body paragraphs
of the last summary. Now, here I am, on the train, typing away in a
desperate attempt to get
The Perl 6 Summary of the week ending 20031102
It's Monday morning, the croissants have been baked, the focaccia is
glistening with all the extra virgin olive oil I poured on it as it left
the oven and, in the airing cupboard, a raisin borodinsky slouches
towards full proof
Leopold Toetsch [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Piers Cawley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Parrot Calling Convention Confusion
... -- I thought they were exactly the same as an unprototyped call,
but you invoke the return continuation (P1) instead of P0, the other
registers are set up
The Perl 6 Summary of the week ending 20031109
Traditionally this paragraph concerns itself with a few words on what
I've been up to before finally settling down to get the summary written.
But despite the fact that it's nearly four o'clock, it's been one of
those days where I seem
Leopold Toetsch [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Piers Cawley wrote:
newsub and implicit registers
[...] ops [...] that IMCC needed to
track. Leo has a patch in his tree that deals with the issue.
Sorry, my posting seems to have been misleading. The register tracking
code is in the CVS
Stéphane Payrard [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
s/// in string context should return the string after substituion.
It seems obvious to me but I mention it because I can't find it
in the apocalypses.
Surely it should return the string after substitution, but with an
appropriate 'but true' or
Joe Gottman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
- Original Message -
From: Austin Hastings [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2003 3:04 PM
Subject: [perl] RE: s/// in string context should return the string
As a Bvalue where possible, so
Smylers [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Larry Wall writes:
And nested modifiers are still quite illegal in Standard Perl 6.
Right.
Anybody else get the feeling we should write that down somewhere, so we
don't have to have this conversation again in a few months?
It'll be in the summary.
Simon Cozens [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Luke Palmer:
So modules that introduce new concepts into the language can add new
syntax for them without working with (ugh) a source filter. And some of
these new syntaxes in the core language will actually be in standard
modules, if they're not
Jonathan Scott Duff [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 08:23:30PM +, Smylers wrote:
This, however, is irritating:
my @new = map { s:e/$pattern/$replacement/; $_ } @old;
I forget the C; $_ far more often than I like to admit and end up with
an array of integers
Mark J. Reed [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On 2003-11-25 at 18:17:04, Piers Cawley wrote:
aString replace: aPattern with: aString.
aString replaceAll: aPattern with: aString.
Stop! Stop that at once! No small talk; we're here for
serious discussions!
:)
Except... the second
Michael Lazzaro [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Wednesday, November 26, 2003, at 12:29 PM, Larry Wall wrote:
If you contrast it with an explicit try block, sure, it looks
better. But
that's not what I compare it with. I compare it with Perl 5's:
$opus.write_to_file($file) or die Couldn't
Jonathan Scott Duff [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Sat, Dec 13, 2003 at 01:44:34PM -0800, Larry Wall wrote:
On Sat, Dec 13, 2003 at 12:50:50PM -0500, Austin Hastings wrote:
: It seems to me there's an argument both ways --
:
: 1. Code written in the absence of a role won't anticipate the role
The Perl 6 Summarizer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Vocabulary
If you're even vaguely interested in the workings of Perl 6's object
system, you need to read the referenced post.
Luke Palmer, worrying about people using Object related vocabulary in
subtly inconsistent ways,
Larry Wall [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 07:05:19AM -0700, Luke Palmer wrote:
: Michael Lazzaro writes:
:
: On Sunday, December 14, 2003, at 06:14 PM, Larry Wall wrote:
: But the agreement could be implied by silence. If, by the time the
: entire program is parsed,
Michael Lazzaro [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Tuesday, December 16, 2003, at 12:20 PM, Gordon Henriksen wrote:
finally by default? None for me; thanks, though.
I don't think so; we're just talking about whether you can extend a
class at _runtime_, not _compiletime_. Whether or not Perl can
Luke Palmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Piers Cawley writes:
The Perl 6 Summarizer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
http://groups.google.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
This should, of course, read:
http://groups.google.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Or even:
http://groups.google.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
We
Larry Wall [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 12:11:59AM +, Piers Cawley wrote:
: When you say CHECK time, do you mean there'll be a CHECK phase for
: code that gets required at run time?
Dunno about that. When I say CHECK time I'm primarily referring
to the end
A. Pagaltzis [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
* The Perl 6 Summarizer [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2003-12-16 11:57]:
bear in mind that the authors of the paper use the term
'trait' for what we're calling a 'role' (We already have
traits you see).
Larry Wall [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Fri, Dec 19, 2003 at 10:36:01AM -0600, Adam D. Lopresto wrote:
: I've been trying to follow the recent discussion on roles and
: properties and traits and such, but there's something that bugs
: me. If I understand correctly, adding a role at runtime
Michael Joyce [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Thank you for a lovely Christmas Present.
Any time.
Coo... you really can hear a pin drop in here.
Anyway, happy new year everyone.
--
Beware the Perl 6 early morning joggers -- Allison Randal
Lars Balker Rasmussen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
The Perl 6 Summarizer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Me? I think Perl 6's design 'in the large' will be pretty much
done once Apocalypse 12 and its corresponding Exegesis are
finished. Of course, the devil is in the details, but I don't
Melvin Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
At 09:30 PM 1/5/2004 +, Piers Cawley wrote:
Melvin Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
At 07:55 PM 1/5/2004 +0100, Lars Balker Rasmussen wrote:
The Perl 6 Summarizer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
people's salaries will depend on Parrot. I confess I
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter Scott) writes:
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Austin Hastings) writes:
PS: While I'm somewhat sympathetic to the fact that eu guys are trying to
spin up 200 years worth of amendments and supreme court decisions at the
same time, it's still a ratf*ck.
Jonathan Lang [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Luke Palmer wrote:
Renaming methods defeats the purpose of roles. Roles are like
interfaces inside-out. They guarantee a set of methods -- an interface
-- except they provide the implementation to (in terms of other,
required methods). Renaming the
Joe Gottman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
- Original Message -
From: Luke Palmer [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2004 4:51 AM
Subject: [perl] Re: Roles and Mix-ins?
David Storrs writes:
On Sat, Dec 13, 2003 at 11:12:31AM -0800, Larry Wall wrote:
chromatic [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Tue, 2004-01-06 at 22:26, Austin Hastings wrote:
So on the grand balance of utility, what are the metrics that traits are
supposed to help improve?
Two big ones:
- naming collections of behavior that are too fine-grained to fit into
classes
Luke Palmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
michael.firestone writes:
Is there somewhere I can get the entire perl6-language archive in a
tarball?
I personally don't know, but there could be somewhere.
I am trying to work on turning the Apocalypses into story cards at
Uri Guttman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
LW == Larry Wall [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
LW This would be relatively straightforward for syntax highlighters,
LW I think. But Perl 6 will throw other curves at highlighters that
LW will be much more difficult to solve, such as the fact that any
Tom Christiansen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Tue, Mar 02, 2004 at 10:01:11AM +1100, Damian Conway wrote:
: That's a *very* interesting idea. What do people think?
I think anyone who does full justification without proportional
spacing and hyphenation is severely lacking in empathy for the
David Wheeler [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Mar 20, 2004, at 1:32 PM, Calle Dybedahl wrote:
You don't need Unicode display « and », just plain old ISO 8859-1.
True, but I'd like to get Unicode working for other projects, as well.
They're characters number 171 and 187 there. And AFAIK every
David Wheeler [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Mar 22, 2004, at 5:02 PM, Piers Cawley wrote:
Try this:
(cond
((eq window-system 'mac)
(when (string= default-directory /)
(setq default-directory ~/))
(setq mac-command-key-is-meta t
mac-reverse-ctrl-meta nil
process
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