Ternary endweight alternative?

2007-06-29 Thread raiph
nally, but very importantly imo, what if there are 3 or more alternatives? love, raiph

Re: Rukudo-Star => Rakudo-lite?

2009-08-10 Thread raiph mellor
citing for me. "What is Rakudo Star? Well, it's..." I would love to see this meme encouraged, the notion that we all get to continuously (re)define just what Rakudo Star is. -- love, raiph

Re: Embedded comments: two proposed solutions to the comment-whole-lines problem

2009-08-11 Thread raiph mellor
2], and James et al had suggested using it to declare units [3]. I've long been in Mark's camp about a lightweight and attractive docstring syntax being likely to be helpful for encouraging habits that would likely contribute to improved long term maintainability of code with com

Re: comments as preserved meta-data (was Re: Embedded comments ...)

2009-08-13 Thread raiph mellor
spects of macros, the existing unfinished POD6 spec, and any other relevant existing bits I'm forgetting. Did that make sense? Anyone interested? ;) -- love, raiph

Re: comments as preserved meta-data (was Re: Embedded comments ...)

2009-08-13 Thread raiph mellor
S26 this week-end. I very much hope that this > new revision will satisfy The Overmeer Desiderata [1] too. > > Damian > > > [1] Sounds like a Robert Ludlum novel, eh? With this whiny man exchange ultimately having bourne supreme fruit, the apocalypse watch for the post damian weekend begins... -- love, raiph

Re: S26 - The Next Generation

2009-08-17 Thread raiph mellor
an ugly/heavyweight/suboptimal approach. Anyhoo, thanks for the time spent and great design skills that are so evident in this new spec. :) -- love, raiph

Re: S26 - The Next Generation

2009-08-17 Thread raiph mellor
ry* good > sandbox. Is that worth it? >From the spec: However, during parsing and initialization under K<-doc>, the interpreter only executes those C, C, and C blocks (and equivalents, such as C statements and subroutine declarations) that are preceded by the special prefix: C -- love, raiph

Re: S26 - The Next Generation

2009-08-17 Thread raiph mellor
s use'd files, and merely parses but does not execute DOC blocks in the file passed on the command line and files it use's. -- love, raiph

Re: S26 - The Next Generation

2009-09-04 Thread raiph mellor
declaration which has just been parsed, or which is just about to be parsed, and that simply referencing these variables would be ok and would save the need to create explicit named anchors. -- love, raiph

Re: Problem using a module containing a grammar

2013-03-25 Thread raiph mellor
s intended for posts related to language design. (Which is why just about the only traffic is the slow trickle of updates to the language specification, which is relatively stable, and a very occasional burst of discussion about some topic. It may get noisier in the second half of this year when concurrency starts to get a work through, but I think most of that will be on #perl6 too.) Hth, -- raiph

Re: Licensing: Perl 6 specification and test suite

2013-11-05 Thread raiph mellor
Perhaps these help? http://pugs.blogs.com/pugs/2005/02/day_28_609.html https://www.google.com/#q=site:http%3A%2F%2Fpugs.blogs.com%2F+licensing -- raiph On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 9:36 AM, Moritz Lenz wrote: > Hi, > > > On 11/05/2013 03:16 PM, Jan Ingvoldstad wrote: > >> O

Re: question - languages with set/foo as only base data type

2013-11-17 Thread raiph mellor
oundation will be replaced by a "homotopical interpretation of type theory". I have about zero understanding of what this stuff is or if it will have any impact on programming language type systems, but thought I'd speak up. :) -- raiph

Re: [perl6/specs] 89cc32: Spec Bag.kxxv

2014-04-14 Thread raiph mellor
e code you recently published? How confident are you that your all-in-one CS teaching platform concept will be taken up by some educational institutions? What timeframe are you thinking is involved here? Are you thinking P6 is already ready for it? I don't think we're there yet but it seems

Re: Naming debate- what's the location for it?

2018-02-14 Thread raiph mellor
27;s going to be fascinating to see what happens in 2020s re Python vs Perl in particular and Hindley Milner static typing vs nominal static/dynamic typing] ^3 http://news.perlfoundation.org/2012/12/the-first-twenty-five-years.html love to all, raiph