As a little Perl 6 exercise I translated the Perl 5 Markov chain /
dissociated-press script from _The Practice of Programming_:
http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/tpop/markov.pl
Here's my Perl 6 attempt, with support for different prefix lengths.
my $n = 2; # prefix
On Mon, 12 Mar 2007 17:41:27 -0700, Larry Wall wrote:
On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 01:33:50PM -0500, Ryan Richter wrote:
: while ($_ = %state{@@w}.pick).say {
You maybe don't want each word on a separate line...
They did that in the original for some reason. In the unlikely event
that I want
On Mon, May 14, 2007 at 20:41:35 +0300, Gabor Szabo wrote:
On 5/14/07, John Macdonald [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Removing the sigil
on a function call (it used to always be written sub(args...))
did, I think, lead to the difficulty in perl5 where it became
difficult to add new keyword
On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 07:39:16AM -0800, Larry Wall wrote:
On Sun, Oct 07, 2007 at 03:01:06PM -0600, David Green wrote:
What happened to the suggestion of using ` to designate units?
It's kinda caught between two other notions. On the one hand,
we're trying to reserve ` for user
On Fri, Dec 21, 2007 at 08:41:54AM -0800, Jonathan Lang wrote:
and so on, you might do something like:
with qq :(c = false) {
I think this can be done with normal currying, something like
temp circumfix: := quote:qq.assuming(:!c);
-ryan
On Thu, Jan 17, 2008 at 10:57:11AM +0100, Moritz Lenz wrote:
what happens if some of the characters aren't cased at all, like white
spaces?
my $str = AB DE;
$str ~~ s:ii/.*/abcde/;
is the result ABcDE ? or is the space ignored and the substition is
performed as if $str was ABDE in the
On Sun, Feb 10, 2008 at 12:56:14PM +0300, Richard Hainsworth wrote:
How - in sketch form - would I go about creating a module to do what I
suggest? I am not suggesting someone writes a module I have suggested,
but the barebones steps to creating a new metacharacter.
I have written infix
On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 07:28:46PM +0800, Agent Zhang wrote:
The latest HTML version of all the Synopses can be found at
http://perlcabal.org/syn/ , which is automatically updated from both
SVN repositories every one hour by a cron job running on feather.
Actually, that cron job hasn't been
On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 09:54:58AM +0800, Agent Zhang wrote:
On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 9:23 PM, Ryan Richter
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Actually, that cron job hasn't been working for a long time...
I've just checked the cronjob mails and it seems to me that the
update-syn script
On Fri, Apr 04, 2008 at 06:31:56PM -0500, John M. Dlugosz wrote:
chromatic chromatic-at-wgz.org |Perl 6| wrote:
It shouldn't be.
So you are saying that in the example of
class C {
has $.a;
method a ($self:)
You've declared method a twice here. has $.a is equivalent to
On Sat, Apr 05, 2008 at 08:22:42AM -, John M. Dlugosz wrote:
OK, you got me. What is the � used for? For example, ?{ $�.pos
=== $!ws_to }.
I only see that character as used in this manner (a variable name?),
never defined (e.g. as a variable or parameter) anywhere.
Something is
On Sat, Apr 05, 2008 at 09:16:13AM -0400, Ryan Richter wrote:
On Sat, Apr 05, 2008 at 08:22:42AM -, John M. Dlugosz wrote:
OK, you got me. What is the ? used for? For example, ?{ $?.pos
=== $!ws_to }.
I only see that character as used in this manner (a variable name?),
never
On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 04:38:27PM -0400, Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH wrote:
On Apr 10, 2008, at 13:29 , John M. Dlugosz wrote:
I might have misremembered, but i thought labels were followed by a
colon in Perl 6. A quick scan of the docs...
It is illegal for a provisional subroutine call to
On Sat, Apr 12, 2008 at 05:06:53AM -, John M. Dlugosz wrote:
What is the difference between:
sub head(*$head, [EMAIL PROTECTED])
and
sub head($head?, [EMAIL PROTECTED])
If you call head(@foo), in the first $head gets @foo[0] and in the
second it gets nothing (you didn't pass a
On Mon, Jun 02, 2008 at 11:50:20AM -0700, Jon Lang wrote:
TSa wrote:
John M. Dlugosz wrote:
The sqrt(2) should be a Num of 1.414213562373 with the precision of the
native floating-point that runs at full speed on the platform.
That makes the Num type an Int with non-uniform spacing.
On Tue, Jun 03, 2008 at 12:03:00PM +0200, Moritz Lenz wrote:
My last successful build was r18093 with GHC 6.6.1.
Maybe we should just die in Makefile.PL until somebody finds a fix.
Maybe we should just revert the pugs source to that rev. Haven't the
modifications since then basically just
On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 02:09:41PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
+Note that these differ:
+
+$min ..^ $max$ min .. $max-1
+$min .. ^$max# $min .. (0..$max-1)
The punctuation looks a little funny on the first line. Also, are
$min ..^ $max and $min .. $max-1 really the same
On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 04:49:18PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
-$min ..^ $max$ min .. $max-1
-$min .. ^$max# $min .. (0..$max-1)
+0 ..^ 10 # 0 .. 9
+0 .. ^10 # 0 .. (0..9)
Ah, I should have been more specific - I meant that, since ~~ treats
Ranges as continuous
On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 09:55:09AM -0700, Larry Wall wrote:
We could go as far as to guarantee that Nums do rational arithmetic
out to a certain point, but probably what the financial insitutions
want is special fixed-point types that assume a divisor anyway.
Would any financial institution
On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 08:16:21PM +0100, Moritz Lenz wrote:
Andy Colson wrote:
(The thing that's still wrong with your code is that you need a
whitespace after the 'my', otherwise my(...) should be parsed as a
function call).
Also this, I think:
return($a, $b);
-ryan
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