Author: moritz
Date: 2010-03-12 13:27:44 +0100 (Fri, 12 Mar 2010)
New Revision: 30037
Modified:
docs/Perl6/Spec/S03-operators.pod
Log:
[S03] two grammeros
Modified: docs/Perl6/Spec/S03-operators.pod
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--- docs/Perl6/Spec/S03-ope
On Mar 10, 9:49 am, la...@wall.org (Larry Wall) wrote:
> Algol68 would have done much better had it been Open Source software...
If Algol68 was *GPL* Open-Source, then I could take the Zilog Z80
implementation Algol68C and have a HLL on my TI-84 _Pocket_ Calculator
(rather the existing choice of "
On Mar 10, 9:49 am, la...@wall.org (Larry Wall) wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 10:10:29AM +1100, Timothy S. Nelson wrote:
> : Algol 68 is notorious as a failure. Let's hope things are
> : different here.
So they say:
http://www.google.com.au/search?q=site:www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD+algol-68
Author: lwall
Date: 2010-03-12 17:52:09 +0100 (Fri, 12 Mar 2010)
New Revision: 30053
Modified:
docs/Perl6/Spec/S02-bits.pod
Log:
[S02] document which ops don't autoclose with *, including assignment
conjecture a generalization of the closure-calling context that subscripts
enforce
note that th
So, I've been looking more closely at Perl's native value types and associated
roles, and there are a few matters of their naming or availability that I have
questions or suggestions on.
1. As a general observation, I note that it is a common pattern for basic Perl
6 value types that a role f
Follow-up, ...
4. If "Integral" is better called "Integer", or regardless ...
Would "Numeric" be better called "Number"? Would there by any objection to
renaming it such? What are advantages of the former over the latter?
Basically, same idea, if we're going more for nouns or adjectives ro
Darren Duncan wrote:
> 2. There doesn't seem to be a role for "complex" as there is for "integer"
> or "rational" or "real" or "numeric". So, if the boxed Perl complex number
> is called "Complex" and the machine native one is called "complex" or
> "complex128" or whatever, what would one name th
Jon, thanks for your feedback; it was both informative and supportive.
Jon Lang wrote:
Darren Duncan wrote:
2. There doesn't seem to be a role for "complex" as there is for "integer"
or "rational" or "real" or "numeric". So, if the boxed Perl complex number
is called "Complex" and the machine
