Re: Perl 6 fears

2005-10-24 Thread Alberto Manuel Brandão Simões
Christian Renz wrote: Feel free to add your own, or fears you heard about! Fear: Perl 6 will not attract enough interested developers and companies to gain momentum. People will continue to be excited about digital watches and PHP 5. I think Perl 6 will take time to insterest developers. One

Re: This "week"'s summary

2004-08-02 Thread Alberto Manuel Brandão Simões
ICU outdated Joshua Gatcomb noted that the ICU that comes with Parrot is, not to put too fine a point on it, old and buggy. The ICU developers have suggested that Parrot move to version 3.0. Josh proposed various ways of doing this. Leo wants ICU out of the Parrot CVS, but Dan's a

Re: Apocalypses and Exegesis...

2003-08-14 Thread Alberto Manuel Brandão Simões
On Thu, 2003-08-14 at 15:19, Iain Truskett wrote: > * Jonathan Scott Duff ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [15 Aug 2003 00:16]: > > [...] > > Besides you could always provide online updates to your book as the > > language changes. The first (dead tree) edition would be the rough > > cut, and later editions wo

Re: Apocalypses and Exegesis...

2003-08-14 Thread Alberto Manuel Brandão Simões
On Thu, 2003-08-14 at 14:49, Simon Cozens wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alberto Manuel Brandão simões) writes: > > The question is simple, and Dan can have the same problem (or him or > > Larry). I am thinking on a Perl 6 book in portuguese (maybe only a > > tutorial... but

Re: Apocalypses and Exegesis...

2003-08-14 Thread Alberto Manuel Brandão Simões
write at least one more Apocalypse :) Cheers, Alberto On Thu, 2003-08-14 at 13:52, Dan Sugalski wrote: > On 14 Aug 2003, Alberto Manuel Brandão Simões wrote: > > > Hi > > > > Apocalypses and Exegesis are not an 'official' specification for Perl6, > > I me

Apocalypses and Exegesis...

2003-08-14 Thread Alberto Manuel Brandão Simões
Hi Apocalypses and Exegesis are not an 'official' specification for Perl6, I mean, they are subject to change. Is there any idea when will we have a freeze on the syntax and features for perl6? Thanks, Alberto

Re: "As soon as she walked through my door..."

2003-08-04 Thread Alberto Manuel Brandão Simões
ext of a technical document. > > How long till Ex 6 is online, for those of us who weren't there? :) http://www.perl.com/lpt/a/2003/07/29/exegesis6.html ? -- Alberto Manuel Brandão Simões <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Departamento de Informática - Universidade do Minho

Simple RegExp (Ap5) question

2002-06-15 Thread Alberto Manuel Brandão Simões
If spaces delimit tokens, /abc* def/ means in perl5 /abc*def/ or /(?:abc)*def/ ? Thanks Alberto -- Alberto Manuel B. Simoes Departamento de Informática - Universidade do Minho http://alfarrabio.di.uminho.pt/~albie - http://numexp.sf.net