Re: Micro-articles on Perl 6 Operators

2007-09-18 Thread Agent Zhang
On 9/18/07, Adriano Ferreira [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Join me. The drafts of the introduction and the first article are here: http://ferreira.nfshost.com/perl6/intro.html http://ferreira.nfshost.com/perl6/zip.html I see the following snippet in zip.html: # import num2en from Perl 6

Re: Micro-articles on Perl 6 Operators

2007-09-18 Thread Adriano Ferreira
On 9/18/07, Agent Zhang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 9/18/07, Adriano Ferreira [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Join me. The drafts of the introduction and the first article are here: http://ferreira.nfshost.com/perl6/intro.html http://ferreira.nfshost.com/perl6/zip.html I see the following

Re: Micro-articles on Perl 6 Operators

2007-09-18 Thread brian d foy
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Alberto Simões [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Adriano Ferreira wrote: The plan is to write a series of blog entries discussing a Perl 6 operator at a time or a small group of closely related ones. I think the idea is cool. Also, I do not know how periodically

Re: Micro-articles on Perl 6 Operators

2007-09-18 Thread Adriano Ferreira
On 9/18/07, brian d foy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Alberto Simões [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Adriano Ferreira wrote: The plan is to write a series of blog entries discussing a Perl 6 operator at a time or a small group of closely related ones. I think the

Parrot 0.4.16 Released

2007-09-18 Thread jerry gay
On behalf of the Parrot team, I'm proud to announce Parrot 0.4.16, A Farewell to Alex. Parrot (http://parrotcode.org/) is a virtual machine aimed at running all dynamic languages. Parrot 0.4.16 can be obtained via CPAN (soon), or follow the download instructions at

Re: Micro-articles on Perl 6 Operators

2007-09-18 Thread Paul Hodges
--- Adriano Ferreira [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [[snips here and at end]] . . . I have one suggestion: you might want to mention the roundrobin function in the article on the zip function since the two are very closely related. Thanks, Joe and Alberto. Even though the roundrobin is very

Re: Micro-articles on Perl 6 Operators

2007-09-18 Thread Adriano Ferreira
On 9/18/07, Paul Hodges [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- Adriano Ferreira [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [[snips here and at end]] . . . I have one suggestion: you might want to mention the roundrobin function in the article on the zip function since the two are very closely related. Thanks,

Re: Micro-articles on Perl 6 Operators

2007-09-18 Thread Joe Gottman
Adriano Ferreira wrote: I salute every bit of help. I am trying to organize the production and will hopefully provide more details soon. By now, I think that I can handle suggestions and corrections to the articles. The next one is here: http://ferreira.nfshost.com/perl6/stitching6.html

Re: Micro-articles on Perl 6 Operators

2007-09-18 Thread Paul Hodges
Looks good . . . but how short do we want them? For the non-Perl audience, I think it might be worth mentioning the (to us) obvious automatic context manipulations. e.g., ~ is stitching strings, and will make strings out of its arguments if it can -- it's not adding, but has the same

Re: Micro-articles on Perl 6 Operators

2007-09-18 Thread Larry Wall
On Tue, Sep 18, 2007 at 09:46:14PM -0400, Joe Gottman wrote: : Adriano Ferreira wrote: : I salute every bit of help. I am trying to organize the production and : will hopefully provide more details soon. By now, I think that I can : handle suggestions and corrections to the articles. The next one

Re: Micro-articles on Perl 6 Operators

2007-09-18 Thread Larry Wall
On Tue, Sep 18, 2007 at 07:41:54PM -0700, Paul Hodges wrote: : while length($ruler) $len; # till there's enough There is no length function anymore. Larry