Fwd: [Boston.pm] Tech Meeting Tuesday

FYI -- Forwarded message -- From: "Bill Ricker" Date: Dec 6, 2013 6:25 PM Subject: [Boston.pm] Tech Meeting Tuesday To: "Boston Perl Mongers" , "Boston Perl Mongers (announce)" Cc: Tuesday December 10, 2013 E51-376 Tim King - Benchmarking Perl6 vs Perl5 * Perl 6's suitability fo

Re: Licensing: Perl 6 specification and test suite

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 wrote: > On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 3:36 PM, Moritz Lenz wrote: > >> I have no idea if the AL2 is well

Re: NQP JVM prototype faster than Perl 5

Did you mean to use $z in the say output of the nqp and perl versions of the microbenchmark, or did you mean to run it twice? On Sat, Feb 2, 2013 at 10:43 AM, Nicholas Clark wrote: > This is surprising, interesting and pleasing... > > There's some example NQP code to time calculating Fibonacci

Re: Ideas for a "Object-Belongs-to-Thread" threading model

On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 8:57 PM, Alex Elsayed wrote: > Forgot to send this to the list. > > -- Forwarded message -- > From: Alex Elsayed ... > It's also CPS based, which fits pretty well. > Here's another, one that might fit more readily with perlesque/CLR: Actors that Unify T

Re: perl6 compiler

As written in pmichaud's journal entries, "stability" is explicitly *not* (and never was) one of the goals of the April 2010 release of Rakudo. On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 7:24 AM, Steve Pitchford wrote: > I think this question was largly addressed in the first link? > > On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 12:59

Re: One-pass parsing and forward type references

On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 9:32 AM, Larry Wall 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 use self-r

Re: s/ DateTime <-> Instant / TAI /

Dare I suggest TAIME? I do. On 9/9/09, Richard Hainsworth 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 th

Re: Grammars that generate stuff

On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 1:48 AM, Timothy S. Nelson wrote: >Perl 6 has a general language (grammars) for taking some input and a > grammar, and separating the data from the formatting, as it were. > >Ideally, it'd be possible to specify one grammar that would act both > for parsing

Re: Logo considerations - 3 logos needed

On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 6:06 PM, Larry Wall wrote: > > http://www.wall.org/~larry/cameliafav.ico > > out to be necessary. Hand-crafted anti-aliasing is your friend. :) > Larry > firefox at 3025%: cameliafav.ico all blown up. [groan] http://feat

Re: [svn:perl6-synopsis] r14494 - doc/trunk/design/syn

> 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 (f