Testing Perl 6 analog to Perl 5's tie.

2009-07-07 Thread Kyle Hasselbacher
My patchwork readings lead me to believe I could test Perl 6's tie-like feature with something like the below code, which I don't expect to even compile, what with '???' in places. My question is: am I on the right track? Obviously there are details I haven't nailed down, and any guidance would

Re: YAPC::EU and Perl 6 Roles

2009-07-08 Thread Kyle Hasselbacher
On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 7:13 AM, Jonathan Worthingtonjonat...@jnthn.net wrote: (Note to the bored: feel free to beat me to adding something like these last two to the spectests...I'm away for the afternoon/evening.) In r27483, I added these tests to S12-methods/multi.t:

Placeholder variable misuse.

2009-07-30 Thread Kyle Hasselbacher
In Rakudo right now, this lives: {$foo;$^foo}(1) However, the spec test expects it to die during compilation (see the end of S06-signature/positional-placeholders.t). It says, A non-twigil variable should not precede a corresponding twigil variable. In Rakudo right now, this says 3: sub foo {

Re: Rukudo-Star = Rakudo-lite?

2009-08-09 Thread Kyle Hasselbacher
Rakudo Light Rakudo Star Light Rakudo Rock Star Rakudo Hard Rock Rakudo Play Hard Rakudo Play Just musing...

Should @x be defined after only my @x? (RT #64968)

2009-08-12 Thread Kyle Hasselbacher
use v6; my $s;   #  ! $x.defined my @a;  # @a.defined That's the current Rakudo behavior. RT #64968 suggests that this is a bug. In Perl 5, @a would not be defined until something was put into it. Which should it be? I'd like to write a test for this. Thanks. Kyle.

Re: S26 - The Next Generation

2009-08-17 Thread Kyle Hasselbacher
On Sun, Aug 16, 2009 at 3:26 PM, Damian Conwaydam...@conway.org wrote:   * The DOC statement prefix constrains any block to which it is applied     (including BEGIN, CHECK, INIT and similar) to run only if -doc is     specified on the commandline   * You can tell if you're running under -doc

Re: S26 - The Next Generation

2009-08-19 Thread Kyle Hasselbacher
On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 11:54 AM, Damian Conwaydam...@conway.org wrote: Moritz wrote: However it seems we have to pay a price: each act of rendering a Pod file actually means executing the program that's being documented (at least the BEGIN blocks and other stuff that happens at compile

Announce: Rakudo Perl 6 development release #20 (PDX)

2009-08-19 Thread Kyle Hasselbacher
On behalf of the Rakudo development team, I'm pleased to announce the August 2009 development release of Rakudo Perl #20 PDX. Rakudo is an implementation of Perl 6 on the Parrot Virtual Machine [1]. The tarball for the August 2009 release is available from http://github.com/rakudo/rakudo/downloads

Re: How can i contribute for perl 6 ?

2009-09-15 Thread Kyle Hasselbacher
On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 11:00 PM, Saravanan Thiyagarajan perlsa...@gmail.com wrote: Would like to be a volunteer in working for perl-6. Can some one help me to get into right direction ? This is how I did it: http://perlmonks.org/?node_id=780001 Kyle.

Re: r30480 - docs/Perl6/Spec/S32-setting-library

2010-04-26 Thread Kyle Hasselbacher
There's a 'minmax' operator in S03. Is this coherent with that? On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 6:51 PM, pugs-comm...@feather.perl6.nl wrote: Author: colomon Date: 2010-04-27 01:51:12 +0200 (Tue, 27 Apr 2010) New Revision: 30480 Modified:   docs/Perl6/Spec/S32-setting-library/Containers.pod Log: