# Announce: Rakudo Star Release 2013.12
## A useful, usable, early adopter distribution of Perl 6
On behalf of the Rakudo and Perl 6 development teams, I'm happy to
announce the December 2013 release of Rakudo Star, a useful and usable
distribution of Perl 6. The tarball for the December 2013
FYI
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From: Bill Ricker bill.n1...@gmail.com
Date: Dec 6, 2013 6:25 PM
Subject: [Boston.pm] Tech Meeting Tuesday
To: Boston Perl Mongers boston...@pm.org, Boston Perl Mongers
(announce) boston-pm-annou...@pm.org
Cc:
Tuesday December 10, 2013 E51-376 Tim King
frettled,
Right, it's just the AL2 requires you to thoroughly rename the project's
main name(s) if you redistribute a modified version..
-Matthew
On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 7:21 AM, Jan Ingvoldstad frett...@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 3:36 PM, Moritz Lenz mor...@faui2k3.org wrote
## A useful, usable, early adopter distribution of Perl 6
On behalf of the Rakudo and Perl 6 development teams, I'm happy to
announce the October 2013 release of Rakudo Star, a useful and usable
distribution of Perl 6. The tarball for the October 2013 release is
available from
On 8 July 2011 12:28, Rajeev Prasad rp.ne...@yahoo.com wrote:
will apps made for one distribution of Rakudo work with another?
Yes, provided that the versions of Rakudo used are sufficiently
compatible (one might have newer features that you used that another
one hasn't updated to include yet,
Damian, I use threads in C++ a lot in my day to day job. We use an
in-house library which isn't much more than a thread class which you
inherit from and give a Run method to, and a load of locks of various
(sometimes ill-defined) kinds.
Let me say: it's not good. Threads with semaphores and
Today I propose a pragma that changes how numbers are presented in Perl
6. The idea arises from a discussion on the freenode channel #perl6,
available here: http://irclog.perlgeek.de/perl6/2010-09-01#i_2773432
The most important thing to remember is that the presentation of numbers
in Perl 6
On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 8:57 PM, Alex Elsayed eternal...@gmail.com wrote:
Forgot to send this to the list.
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From: Alex Elsayed eternal...@gmail.com ...
It's also CPS based, which fits pretty well.
Here's another, one that might fit more readily with
I whole-heartedly agree that we need to make a system independent of any
sort of time measurement system. I think the conclusion reached on IRC
was that most of the world uses or is at least familiar with the
Gregorian system.
Now, I can't help but think how we would define an Instant. The
On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 1:22 PM, Shawn H Corey shawnhco...@gmail.com wrote:
Darren Duncan wrote:
See http://perlcabal.org/syn/S02.html#Names for your answers.
Thanks for the link but nowhere in it does it state tha Perl 6 names are
case sensitive. The best the do is this, which implies it
On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 8:04 PM, Shawn H Corey shawnhco...@gmail.com wrote:
Matthew Walton wrote:
On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 1:22 PM, Shawn H Corey shawnhco...@gmail.com
wrote:
So, I'll ask again: Where in the official documentation does it state
that
Perl 6 names are case sensitive?
I
I can't help but agree with Damian. I don't see much of a point in
making a distinction between - and _.
More specifically, if a user were to define a function (say,
i-hate-camel-case()), it would not be good to let them be the same.
Readability would suffer when examining someone's code and
I be able to write
applications that can process huge amounts of data like files,claims or
account transactions on Rakudo in the future? I think this would be a huge
push for perl and any dynamic language. :-)
Matthew Walton wrote:
Rakudo in its normal operation will compile the program
Rakudo in its normal operation will compile the program, then run it
immediately. You can, however, get it to save the compiled code for
later use i fyou wish.
On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 4:09 PM, dell wendell_hatc...@comcast.net wrote:
Hello,
I had just began looking at the perl6
I think the closest things we've got to pattern matching come from a
combination of multiple dispatch, where clauses and signature
unpacking. I don't know much about the latter, but a where clause can
discriminate multiple dispatch variants based on parameter values
rather than just the type, so
On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 9:32 AM, Larry Wall la...@wall.org wrote:
But I also think that type recursion is likelier to indicate a design
error than function recursion, so I'm not sure how far down this road
we want to go. We could, for instance, create a new type name every
I was going to say I
On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 1:19 PM, Carl Mäsak cma...@gmail.com wrote:
Mark (), Carl ():
S05 describes tr/// in terms of the .trans function, a handsome but
very different beast. Specifically, it doesn't seem to have a scalar
context, with which one could count things.
What does trans return in
On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 2:30 PM, Richard Hainsworth
rich...@rusrating.ru wrote:
Can't exec svn: No such file or directory at build/gen_parrot.pl line 47.
You need to install Subversion in order to allow the build script to
obtain Parrot.
not
sure what the proper behaviour should be.
Matthew
On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 5:35 PM, David Green david.gr...@telus.net wrote:
I would expect $foo where {$_ ~~ X} and X $foo simply to be different
ways of writing the same thing, but whatever works!
Yes, but the where clause lets you test against multiple types at
once. They don't participate in
On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 10:07 AM, Ovid
publiustemp-perl6langua...@yahoo.com wrote:
Reading the paper I linked to could help to clarify the issue. In short,
there are times under my current understanding of roles where you *can't*
resolve the conflicts. Two roles, each providing and
On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 4:41 AM, yary not@gmail.com wrote:
Perl is being actively developed for the Parrot VM. LLVM is another
interesting option and if someone or some group would like to take it
on, it would be a welcome alternate implementation.
What parts in particular of Cobra and
On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 4:13 AM, Saravanan T mail2sarava...@gmail.com wrote:
Thanks everyone for sharing the links...
Thought of working in porting Data::Dumper functionality in perl 6 .Seems
like already there is .perl function which does the same..
and a monker mberends said there is a bug
On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 6:58 PM, yary not@gmail.com wrote:
Matthew Walton wrote
Yes, Perl 6 does - it is not backwards compatible with Perl 5.
That so? I thought Perl6 was supposed to recognize and execute perl5
code. That statement itself implies that perl6 and perl5 are different
Dare I suggest TAIME? I do.
On 9/9/09, Richard Hainsworth rich...@rusrating.ru wrote:
Carl Mäsak wrote:
Darren (), commit-bot ():
+Returns a TAI epoch value for the current time.
Shouldn't the result type of time() be an Instant object (Instant and
Duration are defined in S02) rather than
Woops - forgot to reply all (I'm on an irritating mixture of lists
which set reply-to and don't, and I never remember which is which).
Sorry!
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From: Matthew Walton matt...@matthew-walton.co.uk
Date: Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 7:10 AM
Subject: Re: More flexible
Then you could be like TeX and have releases numbered with
ever-increasing parts of an irrational number.
On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 12:37 PM, Mark J. Reedmarkjr...@gmail.com wrote:
Wrong reply button...
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From: Mark J. Reed markjr...@gmail.com
Date: Mon,
an excellent use for a mixin,
especially as I could then smartmatch against it in order to pick out
the relevant methods from the .^methods list.
Matthew
externally before
you return Bad Things Could Happen.
Matthew
externally before
you return Bad Things Could Happen.
Matthew
some
crazy dream caused by waking up too early on a Saturday morning and
thinking about Perl before breakfast.
Matthew
of
browser-based examples... (it's also the subversion repo). Also if you
don't mind things Microsoft, there's the (part of Oslo) M language family.
-Matthew
On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 6:06 PM, Larry Wall la...@wall.org wrote:
http://www.wall.org/~larry/cameliafav.icohttp://www.wall.org/%7Elarry/cameliafav.ico
out to be necessary. Hand-crafted anti-aliasing is your friend. :)
Larry
firefox at 3025%: cameliafav.ico all blown up. [groan]
BEGIN (right now at compile time)
UNITCHECK (at end of this compilation unit)
CHECK (at end of main compilation)
(compile time finishes)
...time passes...
(run time starts)
INIT
(main starts running)
ENTER (every block entry)
START (first time
in a sensible manner (naturally this lets you parallelise things
the compiler isn't sure are safe to parallelise due to possible side
effects. That's fine, since you know which side effects are okay to do that
to in your program).
Matthew
On Fri, 2008-01-11 at 10:34 -0800, Dave Whipp wrote:
Matthew Walton wrote:
I wouldn't agree with that at all. I think of arrays as ordered constructs,
so I'd want the default iteration over my array to happen in the order of
the indices.
I guess that depends on whether you think
On Thu, 21 Jul 2005, TSa (Thomas Sandlaß) wrote:
Matthew Hodgson wrote:
I guess $::('Foo') was a bad example - $Foo=Foo; $::($Foo) would have
been better at illustrating my point - which was that if $::($Foo)
searches outwards through namespace for a variable whose name is held in
$Foo
On Wed, 20 Jul 2005, TSa (Thomas Sandlaß) wrote:
Matthew Hodgson wrote:
I'm very surprised that package variables end up in OUR::, however -
because surely they're not necessarily lexically scoped - and the whole
point of 'our' was lexical global scoping, right? :/
Sorry, what is 'lexical
' namespace? $::foo? $?PACKAGENAME::foo?
$::($?PACKAGENAME)::foo? %PACKAGENAME::foo?
cheers,
Matthew.
--
Matthew Hodgson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 7968 722968
Arathorn: Co-Sysadmin, TheOneRing.net®
On Tue, 19 Jul 2005, Larry Wall wrote:
On Tue, Jul 19, 2005 at 07:25:35PM +0100, Matthew Hodgson wrote:
:
: So the question is: what is the correct syntax for referring to package
: variables in the default namespace?
The * looks like a twigil but it isn't really. It's short for *::,
where
point. I mean no offense, nor do I wish to beat a dead horse. I
just want to make sure it's dead, instead of merely resting.
--
Matt
Matthew Zimmerman
Interdisciplinary Biophysics, University of Virginia
http://www.people.virginia.edu/~mdz4c/
[Sorry, sent this to the wrong list by mistake.]
Matthew Zimmerman wrote:
Juerd wrote:
Kurt skribis 2005-06-20 19:46 (-0400):
On 6/20/05, Juerd wrote:
Or you can just get your self with a simple (module that does)
macro self () { '$?SELF' }
And you could do the same
On 15/05/05 22:48 +0100, Matthew Walton wrote:
I don't think that is what Rob is saying at all.
It wasn't aimed entirely at Rob. I have a bad habit on mailing lists of
vaguely replying to the entire thread without remembering who said what
and being too lazy to check.
My read:
.method
.
On 15 May 2005, at 16:17, Rob Kinyon wrote:
Right now, P6 has $?SELF and I'm saying that instead of using $?SELF,
we should use $self wherever $?SELF would be used. $_ is still the
topic and would be the default invocant if you have .method($foo).
What I'm saying is that you can have
method (
On Thu, Apr 21, 2005 at 11:45:27AM +0200, Paul Johnson wrote:
It certainly makes more sense to me that the answer would be 2 2. But
however it ends up, so long as we know what the answer will be, we can
utilize it effectively in our programs.
The trick with this construct usually in C is
delurk
even sillier question:
if [a.z] matches a, . and z
and [a...] matches all characters from a including (for some
definition of 'all')
how will be range \x21 .. \x2e written?
[!..\.]? (i.e. . escaped?)
/delurk
I was assuming from Larry's mail that [a...] would parse as either:
Matt Fowles wrote:
This is Just Wrong, IMO. How confusing is it going to be to find that
calling is_prime($x) modifies the value of $x despite it being a very
simple test operation which appears to have no side effects?
As far as I can see it, in the example, it's perfectly logical for
Michele Dondi wrote:
On Tue, 8 Feb 2005, Matt Fowles wrote:
pipe dreams
Juerd wondered if he could mix = and == in a sane way. The answer
appears to be no. Once you bring in == you should stick with it.
Huh?!? It doesn't seem to me that the answer is 'no'. In fact C ==
is supposed to be
Rod Adams wrote:
Does
($k, $v) == pop %hash;
or
($k, $v) == %hash.pop;
make sense to anyone except me?
Makes sense to me. Although I would be more inclined to think of pop as
returning a pair - but does a pair in list context turn into a list of
key, value? If so then the above makes lots of
Matt Fowles wrote:
All~
On Tue, 08 Feb 2005 17:51:24 +0100, Miroslav Silovic [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Well, we see the same kind of thing with standard interval arithmetic:
(-1, 1) * (-1, 1) = (-1, 1)
(-1, 1) ** 2 = [0, 1)
The reason that junctions behave this way is
Juerd wrote:
This probably goes against everything a shell based platform wants, but
would it be possible to give the program a sub-like signature?
I ask this after another painful session of forgetting how things
work, reading Getopt::Long's documentation.
signature (
Rule $pattern,
Austin Hastings wrote:
David Storrs wrote:
On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 07:35:19PM -0500, Joe Gottman wrote:
In Perl5, given code like
for (my $n = 0; $n 10; ++$n) {.}
the control variable $n will be local to the for loop. In the
equivalent
Perl6 code
loop my $n = 0; $n 10; ++$n {.}
$n
Michele Dondi wrote:
On Sun, 5 Dec 2004, Matthew Walton wrote:
At least we had the sense to call them subroutines instead of functions.
Of course, that also upset the mathematicians, who wanted to call them
functions anyway. Go figure.
That might be because the mathematicians haven't heard
Austin Hastings wrote:
I'll guess that you're pointing at
.:send_one($_);
Which supposedly uses topic to resolve .:send_one into $this.send_one.
If that works, then I'm happy -- I like being able to control topic and
$_ differently. But if Cfor changes topic, then what?
OUTER::.:send_one($_);
Larry Wall wrote:
On Sun, Dec 05, 2004 at 12:05:46AM +, Matthew Walton wrote:
: I'm sorry, but from a C++ background, overriding postcircumfix:( )
: feels far more natural to me than setting 'is default' on some method.
That only works for disambiguation if you know which .() to call
Luke Palmer wrote:
The remaining problem is what to do about unary dot. Repeated here for
the, er, benefit? of p6l:
class Duple {
has $.left;
has $.right;
method perform (oper) {
oper($.left);
oper($.right);
}
}
Let's change that
Elyse M. Grasso wrote:
But you need to process the file while you haven't reached the end yet, or
until you reach the end. And I can't think of an occasion where I knew going
in what the length of the file I was processing was going to be. I suppose
foreach might make sense if you sucked in the
Larry Wall wrote:
: of course, that analogy isn't going to work for true functions, which
: returns the same all the time, for some given set of arguments.
Oh, well, we pissed off the mathematicians long ago. :-)
At least we had the sense to call them subroutines instead of functions.
Of
Larry Wall wrote:
I thought so.
: I don't think I've ever used a hash slice in my life. Is there something
: wrong with me?
No, a lot of people are naturally monoindexous.
I like that word.
: * The :w splitting happens after interpolation. So
:
: « foo $bar @baz »
:
: can end up
Juerd wrote:
Matthew Walton skribis 2004-12-01 9:55 (+):
Yes, that would be fun... almost worth throwing out a compiler warning
for that, especially if we've still got use warnings. Something like
Warning: «{ }» creates empty list
It should generate a warning similar to the warning
Larry Wall wrote:
I rather like it too. I'm glad someone else is thinking along the
same lines. The basic problem with «...» is that most of its uses
were turning out to be more useful that the corresponding
In fact, I was thinking about all this on the way home from Seattle
yesterday (a
James Mastros wrote:
Larry Wall wrote:
On Fri, Nov 26, 2004 at 07:32:58AM +0300, Alexey Trofimenko wrote:
: ah, I forget, how could I do qx'echo $VAR' in Perl6? something like
: qx:noparse 'echo $VAR' ?
I think we need two more adverbs that add the special features of qx
and qw,
so that you
Randal L. Schwartz wrote:
Luke == Luke Palmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Luke But you don't really need to parse to syntax highlight, either. You
Luke just need to tokenize.
Unfortunately, to tokenize, you also have to know the state of the parse.
As long as / is both divide and begin regex,
Randal L. Schwartz wrote:
Matthew == Matthew Walton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Matthew So you're saying that in Perl 6 it will be entirely impossible to
Matthew determine if / appears as the division operator or as the beginning of
Matthew a regex from a purely syntactic examination of the source
Randal L. Schwartz wrote:
Matthew == Matthew Walton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Matthew Perl 6 has formal parameters for subs, methods etc. I don't see any
Matthew mention of Perl 5-style prototypes in S6, and I honestly can't see how
Matthew they could possibly fit with formal parameters
for that is because you can get yourself into
paradoxes that way.
I didn't think we would be, as it would be hideously difficult to pick
the right method to dispatch to, but I thought I'd check.
Thanks
Matthew
types?
Thanks
Matthew
I suggest you read more about Parrot... it's designed to allow these
things. There is a project (Ponie) to make Perl 5 run on Parrot, and
there will be other languages as well - which will be able to call each
others libraries. Making the Perl 5 libraries available to Perl 6 being
a primary
Larry Wall wrote:
On Tue, Oct 19, 2004 at 09:35:27PM +0100, Matthew Walton wrote:
: Austin Hastings wrote:
: Does this mean that we're done? :)
:
: No, it means Larry's about to stun us with something seemingly bizarre
: and inexplicable which turns out to be a stroke of genius.
The only
Austin Hastings wrote:
Michele Dondi wrote:
On Sun, 17 Oct 2004, Matt Fowles wrote:
Google groups has nothing for Perl6.language between October 2 and 14.
Is this really the case? (I had not signed up until shortly before
Yes: no traffic at all for quite a while...
Does this mean that we're
Andrew Rodland wrote:
On Tuesday 21 September 2004 07:18 pm, Thomas A. Boyer wrote:
Larry Wall wrote:
Somebody needs to talk me out of using A..Z for the simple cases.
Larry
[ for array dimension placeholder ]
That might confuse users of languages that were not
C-syntax-influenced, who think
Michele Dondi wrote:
On Thu, 2 Sep 2004, Larry Wall wrote:
To declare a multidimensional array, you add a shape parameter:
my num @nums is shape(3); # one dimension, @nums[0..2]
my int @ints is shape(4;2); # two dimensions, @ints[0..3; 0..1]
Just a random thought, and probably a minor
Aaron Sherman wrote:
=table C$_ | C$x | Type of Match Implied | Matching Code
=row Any | CodeC $ | scalar sub truth | match if
C$x($_)
That's (the above comments aside) the same thing, and as I said when
Luke suggested it, it seems fine if that's the way we'd prefer to go.
Aaron Sherman wrote:
I was thinking about the case where you use a module, only to define a
class that you then instantiate like this:
use Some::Module::That::Defines::A::Class;
our Some::Module::That::Defines::A::Class $foo := new;
and I keep thinking that that's too redundant.
Alexey Trofimenko wrote:
On Fri, 20 Aug 2004 09:21:02 +0100, Matthew Walton
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 19 Aug 2004, at 18:04, Luke Palmer wrote:
[...]
my $num = $param == 0 ?? 0 : rand $param;
my $num = $param == 0 ?? 0 :: rand $param;
surely?
a little off theme.. I wanna ask, could
Larry Wall wrote:
On Fri, Aug 20, 2004 at 09:21:02AM +0100, Matthew Walton wrote:
: It would be nice if rand behaved a bit more sanely in Perl 6. I can
: understand the reasoning for making rand 0 produce between 0 and 1, but
: that doesn't mean I have to like it.
What makes you think
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On 19 Aug 2004, at 18:04, Luke Palmer wrote:
The one in Perl 5 that stands out most was the cause for the only patch
I ever sent to p5p: the rand function. rand $x will give you a
uniformly distributed random number in [0, $x) for any $x EXCEPT 0. If
Joe Gottman wrote:
There's something wrong with the mailing list archives at
http://dev.perl.org/perl6/lists/. I can get to this page OK, but when I
click on a link to the perl6-internals or perl6-language archives, I get a
This page cannot be displayed error.
The perl.org list server's been
Larry Wall wrote:
The rand function may be a bad example, since it's by nature a
generator, and you should maybe have to work harder to get a single
value out of it. We haven't really said what $fh xx 100 should do,
for instance. I guess the real question is whether xx supplies a
list context to
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Paul Hodges wrote:
| --- Luke Palmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
|
|Paul Hodges writes:
|
|So, in P6:
|
| if 0 { print 0\n; } # I assume this won't print.
| if '0' { print '0'\n; } # I assume this won't print.
| if ''{ print ''\n;}
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Michele Dondi wrote:
| I don't know if this is already provided by current specifications, but
| since I know of Perl6 that is will support quite a powerful system of
| function prototyping (signatures?), I wonder wether it will be possible
| to
' in
their code is... umm... well, let's just say the Haskell programmer me
is curling up in fright and screaming his head off, because the idea is
entirely abhorrent to him. Gadget Matthew says it's a substanceless
'wow' feature. Both are also skeptical about 'one', and my psychiatrist
is rattling pill
Mark J. Reed wrote:
On 2004-06-14 at 22:58:58, Matthew Walton wrote:
'it would be better to explicitly just say
(@list.grep value) = undef
although I think that might be supposed to be
(@list.grep value) »= undef;
Those do different things according to my understanding. The first
removes all
Ingo Blechschmidt wrote:
Hello,
quoting Apocalypse 6:
You may ask a subroutine to wrap itself up in another subroutine in
place, so that calls to the original are intercepted and interpreted by
the wrapper, even if access is only through the reference:
$id = $subref.wrap({
#
Mark Lentczner wrote:
All -
Awhile back, I saw Larry Wall give a short talk about the current design
of Perl 6. At some point he put up a list of all the operators - well
over a hundred of them! I had a sudden inspiration, but it took a few
months to get around to drawing it...
I actually find myself having somewhat coherent thoughts on this matter.
Apologies if they seem rather obvious or naive, but I'm still new to all
this.
Dov Wasserman wrote:
my $id = ...;
my Int age = ...;
my Str $name = ...;
my DbHandle $db = ...;
my Int of Hash @array = ...;
Therefore, the
Austin Hastings wrote:
I think of this as very much like the typed-undef we discussed last
month or so: ... should return an unthrown exception wrapped in
undef-ness.
The type returned by ... should just have a multitude of type-casting
tricks associated:
my int $i = ...; # Fails at compile
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Austin Hastings wrote:
my int $i = ...; # Fails at compile time -- no good conversion.
my Int $i = ...; # Warns at compile time, fails at runtime.
I don't get the reasoning here. If Yada Yada Yada is to indicate code
that you haven't written yet, it should never
Larry Wall wrote:
On Wed, May 12, 2004 at 11:37:44PM +0200, Juerd wrote:
: Aaron Sherman skribis 2004-05-12 17:30 (-0400):
: I like C... I like it a LOT. In fact, I'm partial to the idea that
: it should be usable anywhere
:
: I agree. It'd make even more of my pseudo code (#perlhelp and
:
Stéphane Payrard wrote:
Le Wed, May 12, 2004 at 02:00:42AM +0200, le valeureux mongueur Pedro Larroy a dit:
Hi
Is there any chance that in perl6 there will be the possibility to write
if/else statements without {}s with the condition at the beginning?
Like
if (condition)
statement;
In
Larry Wall wrote:
On Wed, May 12, 2004 at 09:47:04AM +0100, Matthew Walton wrote:
: For some reason, lots of people don't like it when indentation is
: what's controlling their code structure...
Indentation is a wonderful form of commentary from programmer to
programmer, but its symbology
Mark J. Reed wrote:
Let me just chime in with my support for John's basic idea. I would
definitely prefer that it be easy to arrange things such that
$obj.foo = 'bar'
winds up invoking a method on $obj with 'bar' as an argument, rather
than invoking a method on $obj that returns an lvalue to
something, because I usually have.
Thanks
Matthew
Luke Palmer wrote:
Matthew Walton writes:
But can I do
@things».=method();
Of course.
Excellent. Thankyou.
Not this time :-)
Next time then, probably.
Juerd wrote:
Sean O'Rourke skribis 2004-04-15 8:55 (-0700):
I find that there are still plenty of contexts in which `` is nice and
security is irrelevant.
This is the second time in this thread that I read about security being
unimportant. I still don't know what to say about it, though I feel
Juerd wrote:
chromatic skribis 2004-04-14 12:32 (-0700):
That's exactly my objection to this idea. I think it goes too far to
make simple things simpler while making complex things impossible.
Absolutely false.
This is an addition to the already existing {}, which should stay.
%foo{
Mark J. Reed wrote:
On 2004-04-13 at 13:16:02, David Cantrell wrote:
Perl 6, we are promised, will try to run legacy code unchanged. How
will it spot such legacy code?
My understanding has been that perl6 will assume a program is Perl 5 unless
it sees a Perl 6 keyword such as 'module' or
Thomas A. Boyer wrote:
Matthew Walton wrote:
That could be problematic, because if Perl 6 sees something like:
my %myhash;
%myhash{'foo'} = 'bar';
Is it going to think 'ahah, perl 6' or 'perl 5 with errors'?
It's going to think 'ahah', perl 5'. Because it doesn't contain any Perl
6 keyword
Thomas A. Boyer wrote:
The original question was how do I label my code as Perl 5? The
correct answer, according to Apocalypse 1, is to start your source with
package. If you didn't want to put your code in a package, then start
it with package main.
The other question was how do I label my
Robin Berjon wrote:
Specifying the OS is not enough, you need at least the keyboard layout.
It would be impossible to have shortcuts involving | or \ on a French
keyboard since they are respectively Alt-Shift-L and Alt-Shift-:
OS X / iBook / fr-fr
« Alt-è
» Alt-Shit-è
Good point. I tend to
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