Re: Support for ensuring invariants from one loop iteration to the next?

2008-12-03 Thread Bruce Gray
; $_ .= . for @z }' a bb ccc a. bb. a.. By the way, your use of '!$_-valid' instead of '$_-valid' sounds backwards when compared with your text ...assume that [EMAIL PROTECTED] will contain only valid elements. -- Hope this helps, Bruce Gray (Util of PerlMonks)

Re: perl6 compiler

2010-03-16 Thread Bruce Gray
that a compiled version is silently saved during the first compile- run, and future runs check the timestamps of the source and compiled versions, skipping the compile if the source has not been updated. -- Hope this helps, Bruce Gray

Re: Bug?

2011-07-17 Thread Bruce Gray
for @_.elems, @_.perl, @_[0].perl; }; look();' 0 [] Any -- Hope this helps, Bruce Gray (Util)

Re: Recursive lazy lists?

2011-07-30 Thread Bruce Gray
); printf %2d: %5b = %5s = %5s: %2d\n, $n, $n, $g.join, $d.join, : 2($d.join); die if :2($d.join) != $n; } -- Hope this helps, Bruce Gray (Util of PerlMonks)

Re: Recursive lazy lists?

2011-07-30 Thread Bruce Gray
On Jul 30, 2011, at 6:40 PM, Mark J. Reed wrote: On Sat, Jul 30, 2011 at 6:02 PM, Bruce Gray bruce.g...@acm.org wrote: --snip-- our multi sub infix:xor2 ( $x, $y ) { ( $x + $y ) % 2 }; Why did you need to define this yourself instead of just using +^ ? Umm, because that is what was done

Re: How to make a new operator.

2012-03-22 Thread Bruce Gray
closures. These work in Niecza: my @squares := { @_ ** 2 } ... *; my @triangle := 1, { @_[*-1] + @_ + 1 } ... *; -- Hope this helps, Bruce Gray (Util of PerlMonks)

Parrot 5.1.0 Zombie Parrot Released!

2013-02-19 Thread Bruce Gray
to all our contributors for making this possible, and our sponsors for supporting this project. Our next scheduled release is 19 Mar 2013. Enjoy! -- Bruce Gray (Util of PerlMonks)

Parrot 5.2.0 Stuffed Parrot Released!

2013-03-23 Thread Bruce Gray
scheduled release is 16 Apr 2013. Enjoy! -- Bruce Gray (Util of PerlMonks)

Parrot 5.3.0 W00tstock Parrot Released!

2013-04-16 Thread Bruce Gray
We are stardust. Billion year old carbon. We are golden. Caught in the devil's bargain And we've got to get ourselves back to the garden. (To some semblance of a garden.) -- Woodstock, by Joni Mitchell On behalf of the Parrot team, I'm proud to announce Parrot 5.3.0, also known as W00tstock

Parrot 5.4.0 Austin Parrot Released!

2013-05-21 Thread Bruce Gray
Jimi Hendrix, deceased, drugs. Janis Joplin, deceased, alcohol. Mama Cass, deceased, ham sandwich. -- Austin Powers (making a list of friends from the Summer of Love) On behalf of the Parrot team, I'm proud to announce Parrot 5.4.0, also known as Austin Parrot. Parrot

Parrot 5.5.0 Salvadori's Fig Parrot Released!

2013-06-18 Thread Bruce Gray
Obi-Wan: That boy is our last hope. Yoda: No. There is another. -- Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back On behalf of the Parrot team, I'm proud to announce Parrot 5.5.0, also known as Salvadori's Fig Parrot. Parrot (http://parrot.org/) is a virtual machine aimed at running all

Parrot 5.7.0 Azure-rumped Parrot Released!

2013-08-21 Thread Bruce Gray
Rock Concert Movement #237 - Taking the audience on a Jungian journey into the collective unconscious by using the shadow as a metaphor for the primal self that gets repressed by the modern persona and also by using an underground setting and labyrinth office design

Parrot 5.10.0 Sun Conure Released!

2013-11-21 Thread Bruce Gray
Great quotations are the wisdom of the tribe. They bridge time and space. They connect the living and the dead. The Talmud says the right quotation at the right moment is like bread to the Famished. May you be Fed. -- from Sunbeams:

Parrot 6.0.0 Red-necked Amazon Released!

2014-01-21 Thread Bruce Gray
May your pleasures be many, your troubles be few. -- Cast of Hee Haw On behalf of the Parrot team, I'm proud to announce Parrot 6.0.0, also known as Red-necked Amazon. Parrot (http://parrot.org/) is a virtual machine aimed at running all dynamic languages. Parrot 6.0.0 is available on

Parrot 6.2.0 Imperial Amazon Released!

2014-03-18 Thread Bruce Gray
Beside him, Melvin and Lavender and Allen all seemed to feel like marching too. And Neville softly began to sing the Song of Chaos. The tune was what a Muggle would have identified as John Williams's Imperial March, also known as Darth Vader's Theme; and the words Harry had added were easy to

Parrot 6.4.0 Double-eyed Fig Parrot released!

2014-05-27 Thread Bruce Gray
(Dateline: 2014-05-21) On behalf of the Parrot team, I'm proud to announce Parrot 6.4.0, also known as Double-eyed Fig Parrot. Parrot (http://parrot.org/) is a virtual machine aimed at running all dynamic languages. Parrot 6.4.0 is available on Parrot's FTP site

Parrot 6.6.0 Parrothead released!

2014-07-15 Thread Bruce Gray
As a dreamer of dreams and a travelin' man, I have chalked up many a mile. Read dozens of books about heroes and crooks, And I've learned much from both of their styles. -- Heard playing in Margaritaville bar, in Orlando after YAPC::NA::2014. On behalf of the

Parrot 6.8.0 Little Lorikeet released!

2014-09-16 Thread Bruce Gray
Lories and lorikeets (tribe Lorini) are small to medium-sized arboreal parrots characterized by their specialized brush-tipped tongues for feeding on nectar of various blossoms and soft fruits, preferably berries. -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lories_and_lorikeets (Parrots that eat

Parrot 6.10.0 New Caledonian lorikeet released!

2014-11-18 Thread Bruce Gray
Now instead of four in the eights place You've got three, 'Cause you added one, That is to say, eight, to the two, But you can't take seven from three, So you look at the sixty-fours... Sixty-four? How did sixty-four get into it? I hear you cry! Well, sixty-four is eight

Parrot 7.0.0 Crimson Shining Parrot released!

2015-01-20 Thread Bruce Gray
We'll show him! We'll show them *all*! Okay, said Susan, that was *definitely* evil - No, said Lavender, that's a Chaos Legion motto, actually. Only she didn't do the insane laughter. That's right, Tracey said, her voice low and grim. This time I'm not laughing. The girl went on stalking

Parrot 7.2.0 Blue-crowned racquet-tail released!

2015-03-18 Thread Bruce Gray
This is the bright candlelit room where the life-timers are stored—shelf upon shelf of them, squat hourglasses, one for every living person, pouring their fine sand from the future into the past. The accumulated hiss of the falling grains makes the room roar like the sea. This

Parrot 7.4.0 Festive Amazon released!

2015-05-19 Thread Bruce Gray
On behalf of the Parrot team, I'm proud to announce Parrot 7.4.0, also known as Festive Amazon. Parrot (http://parrot.org/) is a virtual machine aimed at running all dynamic languages. Parrot 7.4.0 is available on Parrot's FTP site (ftp://ftp.parrot.org/pub/parrot/releases/devel/7.4.0/), or by

Re: Language design

2015-06-12 Thread Bruce Gray
On Jun 12, 2015, at 8:54 AM, Parrot Raiser 1parr...@gmail.com wrote: Has somebody been following the discussions on types? http://xkcd.org/1537/ :-)* Yes; see the 4 minute lightning talk: https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/wat :^) — Bruce Gray (Util of PerlMonks)