Re: Perl 6 fundraising and related topics.

2008-02-21 Thread Joshua Gatcomb
over. Hopefully you will find the sweet spot - I sure hope you do. Cheers, Joshua Gatcomb a.k.a. Limbic~Region

Re: Perl 6 fundraising and related topics.

2008-02-21 Thread Joshua Gatcomb
On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 4:23 PM, chromatic [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 21 February 2008 06:25:42 Joshua Gatcomb wrote: I could take a month's sabbatical from my day job for $5000 without losing insurance coverage or other benefits. That's slightly more than Audrey's $100/day, I

Re: Perl 6 fundraising and related topics.

2008-02-21 Thread Joshua Gatcomb
efficient way to accomplish that goal. Cheers, Joshua Gatcomb a.k.a. Limbic~Region

Re: Using Rules Today

2006-07-05 Thread Joshua Gatcomb
not had a chance to look at Flavio's links yet. Since no one who actually knows rules seemed to be inspired to write an example for me - I will *eventually* figure it out on my own and post back to the list as an FYI. Paul Seamons Cheers, Joshua Gatcomb a.k.a. Limbic~Region

Using Rules Today

2006-07-03 Thread Joshua Gatcomb
be run in Perl 5 today without needing Pugs or Parrot. Cheers, Joshua Gatcomb a.k.a. Limbic~Region

Do junctions support determining interesections of lists

2006-04-04 Thread Joshua Gatcomb
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Re: Do junctions support determining interesections of lists

2006-04-04 Thread Joshua Gatcomb
On 4/4/06, Larry Wall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Apr 04, 2006 at 09:16:23AM -0400, Joshua Gatcomb wrote: Junctions are not intended for that use. We have Sets for that now. Ok. So this will work out of the box if you use the right tool. Cool. The cabal already decided once

Ponie Inquiry

2005-11-21 Thread Joshua Gatcomb
the repository to the public http://use.perl.org/~nicholas/journal/24649 but is anyone else working on the project? With the excitement of Perl6, Parrot, and Pugs I wonder if Ponie is being neglected. Inquiring minds want to know. Cheers, Joshua Gatcomb a.k.a. Limbic~Region

Re: Perl 6 fears

2005-10-24 Thread Joshua Gatcomb
to the minute facts concerning the project. Juerd Cheers, Joshua Gatcomb a.k.a. Limbic~Region

Re: Perl 6 fears

2005-10-24 Thread Joshua Gatcomb
On 10/24/05, Joshua Gatcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/24/05, Juerd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Feel free to add your own, or fears you heard about! This really isn't a fear as much as it is a complaint. It has to do with design decisions and the list. Perl 5 was my rewrite of Perl. I

Re: zip: stop when and where?

2005-10-04 Thread Joshua Gatcomb
(insert undefs as needed) -error (blow up if the lists are not equal in size) etc Juerd Just my 2 cents from the peanut gallery. Cheers, Joshua Gatcomb a.k.a. L~R

Re: Sort of do it once feature request...

2005-09-21 Thread Joshua Gatcomb
the op in. Michele Cheers, Joshua Gatcomb a.k.a. Limbic~Region

Re: scalar dereferencing.

2005-06-17 Thread Joshua Gatcomb
On 6/17/05, Larry Wall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Jun 17, 2005 at 03:56:50AM +0800, Autrijus Tang wrote: : : my $x = 3; : my $y = \$x; : say $y + 10; : $y++; : say $y; : say $x; : I suspect people will find that counterintuitive. A more consistent

Re: State of Design Documents

2005-06-14 Thread Joshua Gatcomb
the 'packed' warnings/strictures pragma, and stick it the right place. The patch to S09 has me stumped. Is there any other reference material I can use to put together solid frameworks that are closely representative to what @larry might produce? Pm Cheers, Joshua Gatcomb a.k.a. L~R

Re: State of Design Documents

2005-06-10 Thread Joshua Gatcomb
with a volunteer to act as the approving authority. Hmmm. Thanks. I guess I will have to go back over the questions I have asked and see if any decisions were rendered not relfected in docs and be a pioneer. Pm Cheers, Joshua Gatcomb a.k.a. L~R

Re: State of Design Documents

2005-06-10 Thread Joshua Gatcomb
On 6/10/05, Joshua Gatcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hmmm. Thanks. I guess I will have to go back over the questions I have asked and see if any decisions were rendered not relfected in docs and be a pioneer. Ok, are there any guidelines for what should and should not be put forward

Revisiting .chars (and friends) in list context

2005-06-02 Thread Joshua Gatcomb
and leaving the hard choices for doing the right thing up to you all. Whatever the right thing is, will there be a way to do what my code snippet showed? Cheers, Joshua Gatcomb a.k.a. L~R

Argument Type Checking

2005-05-19 Thread Joshua Gatcomb
but forget it ever happened, and 1 would be an outright failure. Ok - so could someone set me straight? What should that code snippet do? Would it do anything different if Int had been int? Cheers, Joshua Gatcomb a.k.a. L~R

Question on is chomped

2005-05-12 Thread Joshua Gatcomb
and non-mutator versions of chomp (and other functions) have been kicked around the list. Any definitive word yet? Cheers, Joshua Gatcomb a.k.a. L~R

Binding to a sub's return value

2005-05-10 Thread Joshua Gatcomb
can change. sub some_rourtine { state $foo = 42; return $foo++; } My apologies if this has been previously discussed or is documented somewhere. I am still playing catch up. Ok, ok - it's true - I am looking for a little instant gratification. Cheers, Joshua Gatcomb a.k.a. L~R

Re: Coroutine Question

2005-05-04 Thread Joshua Gatcomb
On 5/4/05, Luke Palmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 5/4/05, Joshua Gatcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So without asking for S17 in its entirety to be written, is it possible to get a synopsis of how p6 will do coroutines? I ask because after reading Dan's What the heck is: a coroutine

Re: Coroutine Question

2005-05-04 Thread Joshua Gatcomb
On 5/4/05, Luke Palmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 5/4/05, Joshua Gatcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok - this isn't what I was expecting at all. That doesn't make it a bad thing. Given something that looks a lot more like a typical coroutine: sub example is coroutine { yield 1

Re: Malfunction Junction, what's your function?

2005-04-28 Thread Joshua Gatcomb
answered the questions enough times in p5 circles though, it would be nice to have a real simple easy answer for p6. Cheers, Joshua Gatcomb a.k.a. L~R

Malfunction Junction, what's your function?

2005-04-27 Thread Joshua Gatcomb
, if anything, is the proper way to do what I want. The worst that could happen is that I find out there isn't a way to get a what matched from an any() eq any() comparison. Cheers, Joshua Gatcomb a.k.a. L~R

Formal Parameters To While Block

2005-04-26 Thread Joshua Gatcomb
happy to write tests to get the appropriate functionality in Pugs, but I am not sure what is appropriate??? Cheers, Joshua Gatcomb a.k.a. L~R

Formal Parameters To While Block

2005-04-26 Thread Joshua Gatcomb
{ ... } is what I think it might be modeling it after the for loop, but the closest thing I see for while is: while =$*IN - $line {...} I am happy to write tests to get the appropriate functionality in Pugs, but I am not sure what is appropriate??? Cheers, Joshua Gatcomb a.k.a. L~R

Re: Perl 6 Summary for 2004-10-01 through 2004-10-17

2004-10-19 Thread Joshua Gatcomb
--- Matt Fowles [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Joshua Gatcomb accidentally introduced a dependency on Config::IniFiles. Since it is implemented in pure perl he offered to add it to the repository. Warnock applies. http://xrl.us/div3 In the note offering to fix it, I also listed numerous