Re: Parrot and Perl 6 Summary

2010-02-02 Thread Lithos
Please find: http://lith-ology.blogspot.com/2010/02/seven-days-between-parrot-and-camel.html Lithos

Re: Parrot and Perl 6 Summary

2010-01-26 Thread Lithos
Please find: http://lith-ology.blogspot.com/2010/01/seven-days-between-parrot-and-camel_26.html Lithos

Re: Parrot and Perl 6 Summary

2010-01-15 Thread Lithos
Please find: http://lith-ology.blogspot.com/2010/01/seven-days-between-parrot-and-camel_15.html Lithos

Re: Parrot and Perl 6 Summary

2010-01-06 Thread Lithos
Please find: http://lith-ology.blogspot.com/2010/01/seven-days-between-parrot-and-camel.html Lithos

Re: Parrot and Perl 6 Summary

2009-12-28 Thread Lithos
Please find: http://lith-ology.blogspot.com/2009/12/seven-days-between-parrot-and-camel_28.html Lithos

Re: Parrot and Perl 6 Summary

2009-12-22 Thread Lithos
Please find: http://lith-ology.blogspot.com/2009/12/seven-days-between-parrot-and-camel_22.html Lithos

Re: Parrot and Perl 6 Summary

2009-12-13 Thread Lithos
Please find: http://lith-ology.blogspot.com/2009/12/seven-days-between-parrot-and-camel_13.html Lithos

Re: Parrot and Perl 6 Summary

2009-12-09 Thread Lithos
Please find: http://lith-ology.blogspot.com/2009/12/seven-days-between-parrot-and-camel.html Lithos

Re: Parrot and Perl 6 Summary

2009-11-30 Thread Lithos
[now CC-ing the list, d'oh!] On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 4:33 PM, Geoffrey Broadwell ge...@broadwell.org wrote: On Mon, 2009-11-23 at 01:15 +0100, Lithos wrote: Today I posted my first attempt at summarizing Perl 6 and Parrot things at    http://lith-ology.blogspot.com/ Any comments and

Parrot and Perl 6 Summary

2009-11-23 Thread Lithos
Hello! I posted my first attempt at summarizing Perl 6 and Parrot things at http://lith-ology.blogspot.com/ Any comments and corrections welcome! Lithos

Re: Parrot and Perl 6 Summary

2009-11-23 Thread Darren Duncan
Lithos wrote: I posted my first attempt at summarizing Perl 6 and Parrot things at http://lith-ology.blogspot.com/ Any comments and corrections welcome! Looks good so far. If you intend to do that weekly, it should be a valuable service, like the summaries done years ago. I also

Parrot and Perl 6 Summary

2009-11-23 Thread Lithos
Hello! Today I posted my first attempt at summarizing Perl 6 and Parrot things at http://lith-ology.blogspot.com/ Any comments and corrections welcome! Lithos

Re: Parrot and Perl 6 Summary

2009-11-23 Thread Geoffrey Broadwell
On Mon, 2009-11-23 at 01:15 +0100, Lithos wrote: Today I posted my first attempt at summarizing Perl 6 and Parrot things at http://lith-ology.blogspot.com/ Any comments and corrections welcome! This is *very* valuable to us. Please keep it up! -'f

Re: This weeks summary, part 2

2006-02-19 Thread Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
On 2/18/06, The Perl 6 Summarizer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Smart match table Robin Houston had some questions/observations about the smart match table in synopsis 4. This is the table that describes how the smart match (~~) operator does its comparisons. It turns out that the

This weeks summary, part 2

2006-02-18 Thread The Perl 6 Summarizer
The Perl 6 summary for the week ending 2006-02-12 Did I say Thursday night? What was I thinking? Blame Nikon for finally delivering my D200; or just blame me for being a lazy git who spent Thursday night recovering from the drive home from Liverpool and Friday playing with a new

This week's summary. Part 1

2006-02-14 Thread The Perl 6 Summarizer
The Perl 6 summary for the week ending 2006-02-12 Welcome to part one of this week's summary. Owning to chronic problems with deadlines I've only got time to summarize perl6-compiler and perl6-internals tonight; I'll do perl6-language when I get back from $paying_job on Thursday

Perl 6 Summary for 2006-01-24 though 2006-02-07

2006-02-07 Thread Matt Fowles
Perl 6 Summary for 2006-01-24 though 2006-02-07 All~ Welcome to another fortnight's summary. I would say more, but my throat really hurts. Perl 6 Language Pugs's Minimum GHC Darren Duncan proposed moving the minimum GHS requirement from 6.4.0 to 6.4.1. Based

Re: Perl 6 Summary for 2006-01-10 though 2006-01-24

2006-01-25 Thread Klaas-Jan Stol
Matt Fowles wrote: LuaNil Morphing Klaas-Jan Stol proffered a patch which changed LuaNil from a singleton and made it morph to other Lua types when asked. Warnock applies. Actually, François Perrad applied this patch, but I think he only sent a reply to me. http://xrl.us/jpww

Perl 6 Summary for 2006-01-10 though 2006-01-24

2006-01-24 Thread Matt Fowles
Perl 6 Summary for 2006-01-10 though 2006-01-24 All~ Welcome to another fortnight's summary. This summary marks a return to a Tuesday schedule for summaries. Hopefully this will help me get summaries to you on time. Oddly appropriate that I just started reading Don Quixote

Um... this week's summary

2006-01-18 Thread The Perl 6 Summarizer
Unless Matt takes pity on me, and writes a summary at disgustingly high speed, there won't be a summary this week. Assorted things got in the way on Monday or Tuesday, and I'm now at my consulting gig 'til the end of the week with no time for summarizing. I'm really, really sorry. -- Piers

Perl 6 Summary for 2006-01-02 though 2006-01-09

2006-01-11 Thread Matt Fowles
Perl 6 Summary for 2006-01-02 though 2006-01-09 All~ Welcome to another Perl 6 Summary. On a complete tangent, if you are playing World of Warcraft and see a troll hunter named Krynna, she rocks. She royally saved me. Be nice to her. Perl 6 Compiler PIL Containers and Roles

This week's summary

2006-01-03 Thread The Perl 6 Summarizer
The Perl 6 summary for the week ending 2006-01-01 Another year, another summary. You might think I'm going to summarize the events of the whole year, but it turns out that chromatic's already done it. So in the spirit of laziness, I'll just point you at his year end summary

Re: This week's summary

2006-01-03 Thread Ilmari Vacklin
ti, 2006-01-03 kello 13:57 +, The Perl 6 Summarizer kirjoitti: Planet Perl Six is a handy news aggregator of several Perl 6 related sources. http://planet6.perl.org/ I believe that is actually http://planetsix.perl.org Thanks for the great summary! -- wolverian [EMAIL

This week's summary

2005-12-19 Thread The Perl 6 Summarizer
The Perl 6 summary for the week ending 2005-12-18 Welcome to another Perl 6 summary. This has been a week of shootouts, cleanups, relationships and cunning translations. Read on for the details (or, this being a summary, pointers to the details). This week in perl6-compiler 2

Perl 6 Summary for 2005-12-05 through 2005-12-12

2005-12-12 Thread Matt Fowles
Perl 6 Summary for 2005-12-05 through 2005-12-12 All~ Welcome to another Perl 6 summary. This week, like last, Parrot has produced the highest volume of emails. Fine by me, Parrot tends to be easiest to summarize. This summary is brought to you by Snow (the latest soft toy

This week's summary

2005-12-08 Thread The Perl 6 Summarizer
The Perl 6 Summary for the week ending 2005-12-04 I heard a rumour on the London.pm mailing list week. Apparently the Perl 6 Summaries are no longer being published. As I'm sure you can imagine, it came as something of a surprise to me. This week has been all about Parrot, Leo's

This week's summary

2005-11-30 Thread The Perl 6 Summarizer
The Perl 6 Summary for the week ending 2005-11-27 Another week passes. Another summary is written. Another sentence remains steadfastly in the passive voice. This week in perl6-compiler Perl 5 tests for PGE::P5Regexp Jerry Gay announced that he'd checked in a subset of perl 5.9.2's

Re: This week's summary

2005-11-30 Thread Matt Fowles
this week's summary. I hope to be writing next week's summary as well because the week after I'll be moving house and don't quite know when I'll have my bandwidth back. That sounds fine to me. After next weeks I will start writing weekly summaries until you send me an email saying you

Re: Perl 6 Summary for 2005-11-14 through 2005-11-21

2005-11-23 Thread Leopold Toetsch
On Nov 23, 2005, at 3:06, chromatic wrote: On Wed, 2005-11-23 at 01:39 +0100, Leopold Toetsch wrote: But my argument was: whenever you start introspecting a call frame, by almost whatever means, this will keep the call frame alive[1] (see Continuation or Closure). That is: timely destruction

Re: Perl 6 Summary for 2005-11-14 through 2005-11-21

2005-11-22 Thread Leopold Toetsch
On Nov 22, 2005, at 1:40, Matt Fowles wrote: Call Frame Access Chip began to pontificate about how one should access call frames. Chip suggested using a PMC, but Leo thought that would be too slow. No, not really. It'll be slower, yes. But my argument was: whenever you start

Re: Perl 6 Summary for 2005-11-14 through 2005-11-21

2005-11-22 Thread chromatic
On Wed, 2005-11-23 at 01:39 +0100, Leopold Toetsch wrote: But my argument was: whenever you start introspecting a call frame, by almost whatever means, this will keep the call frame alive[1] (see Continuation or Closure). That is: timely destruction doesn't work for example... Destruction

Perl 6 Summary for 2005-11-14 through 2005-11-21

2005-11-21 Thread Matt Fowles
Perl 6 Summary for 2005-11-14 through 2005-11-21 All~ Welcome to another Perl 6 Summary. The attentive among you may notice that this one is on time. I am not sure how that happened, but we will try and keep it up. On a complete side note, I think there should be a Perl guild

This week's summary

2005-11-15 Thread The Perl 6 Summarizer
The Perl 6 Summary for the fortnight ending 2005-11-13 Welcome to another fortnight's worth of summary. We'll get back to a weekly schedule one of these fine days, you see if we don't. This fortnight in perl6-compiler There was a surprisingly large amount of activity on the list

Re: This week's summary = Perl 6 perlplexities

2005-11-15 Thread Michele Dondi
On Tue, 15 Nov 2005, The Perl 6 Summarizer wrote: Perl 6 perlplexities Michele Dondi worries that the increase in complexity of some aspects of Perl 6 is much bigger than the increase in functionality that the complexity buys us. In particular Michele is concerned that the Perl 6

Re: This week's summary

2005-11-15 Thread Leopold Toetsch
On Nov 15, 2005, at 17:24, The Perl 6 Summarizer wrote: The Perl 6 Summary for the fortnight ending 2005-11-13 string_bitwise_* Leo, it seems to boil down to a choice between throwing an exception or simply mashing everything together and marking the 'resulting bit mess

Re: This week's summary

2005-11-05 Thread Michele Dondi
On Fri, 4 Nov 2005, The Perl 6 Summarizer wrote: Slightly tangentially to this, Dan Sugalski blogged a couple of weeks ago about his successes and failures with Parrot. The comments are worth reading -- there's a fair few more or less well founded complaints about the way the Perl 6

This week's summary

2005-11-04 Thread The Perl 6 Summarizer
The Perl 6 Summary for the week ending 2005-10-30 Hmm... Thursday afternoon and I've only just started writing the summary... What happened to professionalism? What happened to rigid, albeit self-imposed deadlines? Um... I've had a cold. The cats ate my homework. This week

Re: This week's summary

2005-11-04 Thread Juerd
The Perl 6 Summarizer skribis 2005-11-04 14:34 (+): $_ defaulting for mutating ops Probably I have not been clear enough about that I no longer think this is a good idea. Juerd -- http://convolution.nl/maak_juerd_blij.html http://convolution.nl/make_juerd_happy.html

Perl 6 Summary for 2005-10-10 through 2005-10-24

2005-10-25 Thread Matt Fowles
=head1 Perl 6 Summary for 2005-10-10 through 2005-10-18 All~ Welcome to another Perl 6 Summary. Sadly, this week's summary is not brought to you by cookies as I already finished them. Sadder still, it is also brought to you a week late. On the plus side, Mike Doughty's Haughty Melodic

Re: Perl 6 Summary for 2005-10-10 through 2005-10-24

2005-10-25 Thread Jonathan Worthington
survived the experience and did what was needed in there, though I think maybe my post about that was missed in the summary. I've got just a couple of small things to clear up now, but otherwise the PASM/PIR debug seg stuff is about done. Next up: HLL debug segs. Thanks for the summary, Jonathan

This week's summary

2005-10-10 Thread The Perl 6 Summarizer
The Perl 6 Summary for the week ending 2005-10-09 Hello, and welcome to the first Perl 6 Summary to be published on my website rather than its former home at http://www.perl.com/ This week in perl6-compiler PGE error on failing subrules Allison broke the resounding silence

Re: Perl 6 Summary for 2005-09-26 through 2005-10-02

2005-10-05 Thread Leopold Toetsch
function (__add) - I should have mentioned this in the first place. 'is no longer necessary' isn't quite correct. Usually there is no need to call any of these builtins directly, as Parrot's MMD system handles operator overloading. And finally: the bug is fixed. Thanks for the summary, leo

Perl 6 Summary for 2005-09-26 through 2005-10-02

2005-10-04 Thread Matt Fowles
Perl 6 Summary for 2005-09-26 through 2005-10-02 All~ Welcome to another summary, this time a day late because I was in Philly for Serenity. If you haven't seen Serenity yet you should stop reading this summary and go see it. The summary will be here when you get back. I

Re: This week's summary

2005-09-27 Thread TSa
HaloO, The Perl 6 Summarizer wrote: Meanwhile, in perl6-language \(...) Oh look, a thread in p6l that's still going more than a fortnight later. How unusual. Is a long running thread considered a bad thing on this list? I have grasped so far, that spawning a new thread after some

Re: This week's summary

2005-09-27 Thread Juerd
TSa skribis 2005-09-27 10:15 (+0200): Is a long running thread considered a bad thing on this list? Just like how a post being Warnocked can have one or more of several causes, a long running thread can. Some are bad, some are good. As a thread becomes longer and more fanned out, it becomes

Re: This week's summary

2005-09-27 Thread Piers Cawley
TSa [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: HaloO, The Perl 6 Summarizer wrote: Meanwhile, in perl6-language \(...) Oh look, a thread in p6l that's still going more than a fortnight later. How unusual. Is a long running thread considered a bad thing on this list? Nah, it's just hard to

Summary rollover date

2005-09-26 Thread The Perl 6 Summarizer
I thought we'd switched to a Monday deadline for the summary and a Sunday night roll over. I just noticed your last summary ended on a Monday night. -- Piers Cawley [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.bofh.org.uk/

This week's summary

2005-09-26 Thread The Perl 6 Summarizer
The Perl 6 Summary for the week ending 2005-09-25 Hello all. It's another Monday afternoon, which means I'm writing another summary. There's no cricket to distract me this week, so I'm letting iTunes Party Shuffle attempt to distract me instead. This week in perl6-compiler Nobody

Re: This week's summary

2005-09-26 Thread Yuval Kogman
On Mon, Sep 26, 2005 at 18:12:23 +0100, The Perl 6 Summarizer wrote: Allomopherencing Not satisfied with inventing Exceptuations, Yuval invented Allomopherencing as well. Just don't ask me what it means because I don't know. It was just a bad joke on Exceptuation's expense ;-)

Perl 6 Summary for 2005-09-12 through 2005-09-19

2005-09-19 Thread Matt Fowles
Perl 6 Summary for 2005-09-12 through 2005-09-19 All~ Welcome to another Perl 6 Summary, this time brought to you with a shorter pause (::grumble:: $WORK ::grumble::) and assisted by cookies. Perl 6 Compilers Circular Preludes for Fun and Confusion Yuval Kogman posted

Summary for the last 3 weeks

2005-09-12 Thread The Perl 6 Summarizer
The Perl 6 Summary from 2005-08-24 to 2005-09-11 It's been a while hasn't it? We'll start as usual with perl6-compiler This week in perl6-compiler Changed ??:: to ??!! in Pugs Following discussion of the ternary operator in perl6-language, Benjamin Smith altered pugs to use

Re: Perl 6 Summary for 2005-08-15 through 2005-08-22

2005-08-23 Thread Leopold Toetsch
On Aug 23, 2005, at 3:43, Matt Fowles wrote: Perl 6 Summary for 2005-08-15 through 2005-08-22 Java on Parrot I vote for Jot. That's already occupied by another language http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iota_and_Jot. Perl 6 Language Type Inferencing in Perl 5 Autrijus

Re: Perl 6 Summary for 2005-08-15 through 2005-08-22

2005-08-23 Thread Tim Bunce
On Mon, Aug 22, 2005 at 09:43:41PM -0400, Matt Fowles wrote: Java on Parrot Tim Bunce asked some preliminary questions about Java on Parrot. I provide preliminary answers, and Nattfodd and Autrijus posted links to related work. The important question of what it should be

Perl 6 Summary for 2005-08-15 through 2005-08-22

2005-08-22 Thread Matt Fowles
Perl 6 Summary for 2005-08-15 through 2005-08-22 All~ Welcome to another monday summary, which hopefully provides some evidence that mondays can get better. It always feels like writing summaries is an uphill battle, perhaps I should switch to writing about Perl 6 Language

This week's summary

2005-08-15 Thread The Perl 6 Summarizer
The Perl 6 Summary for the week ending 20050814 As you will note from the date in the title, it's been a short week. We're switching back to a midnight Sunday/Monday rollover in order to make life easier for the perl.com types. So, if I can avoid being distracted too much

Perl 6 Summary for 2005-08-02 through 2005-08-10

2005-08-10 Thread Matt Fowles
Perl 6 Summary for 2005-08-02 through 2005-08-10 All~ Welcome to another summary, brought to you by chinese food. The attentive among you will notice that this summary is a day late, because I did not feel like doing it yesterday. If only I could do that at work... Perl 6

Perl 6 Summary for 2005-07-19 through 2005-07-26

2005-07-26 Thread Matt Fowles
Perl 6 Summary for 2005-07-19 through 2005-07-26 All~ Welcome to another Perl 6 Summary brought to you by microwaved chinese food and air conditioning. I love the modern era. Without further ado, I bring you Perl 6 Compilers Grégoire Péan announed the release of PxPerl

This week's summary

2005-07-20 Thread The Perl 6 Summarizer
The Perl 6 Summary for the week ending 2005-07-19 Welcome to another Perl 6 Summary, brought to you by the words 'displacement' and 'activity'. So far today I've caught up with everything unread in NetNewsWire, my Flickr groups, every other mailing list I'm subscribed

Re: more .method (was: Perl 6 Summary for 2005-07-05 through 2005-07-12)

2005-07-14 Thread Larry Wall
On Thu, Jul 14, 2005 at 12:14:57PM -0600, John Williams wrote: : Actually I took his question to be: : : If I explicitly name my invocant in the method signature, does that give : the compiler enough assurance that I'm not going to use .method to mean : $?SELF.method, and it will allow me to

Re: Perl 6 Summary for 2005-07-05 through 2005-07-12

2005-07-13 Thread Dave Whipp
Damian Conway wrote: Important qualification: Within a method or submethod, C.method only works when C$_ =:= $?SELF. C.method is perfectly legal on *any* topic anywhere that $?SELF doesn't exist. Just to be clear, this includes any method/submethod with an explicitly named invocant,

Re: Perl 6 Summary for 2005-07-05 through 2005-07-12

2005-07-13 Thread Juerd
Dave Whipp skribis 2005-07-13 8:44 (-0700): Within a method or submethod, C.method only works when C$_ =:= $?SELF. C.method is perfectly legal on *any* topic anywhere that $?SELF doesn't exist. Just to be clear, this includes any method/submethod with an explicitly named invocant, I

Perl 6 Summary for 2005-07-05 through 2005-07-12

2005-07-12 Thread Matt Fowles
Perl 6 Summary for 2005-07-05 through 2005-07-12 All~ Welcome to another summary from the frog house. A house so green it can be seen from outerspace (according to google earth). Perl 6 Compiler Building Pugs Workaround Sam Vilain posted a useful work around to the error

Re: Perl 6 Summary for 2005-07-05 through 2005-07-12

2005-07-12 Thread Damian Conway
Matt Fowles summarized: Method Call on Invocant Now ./method is gone, and .method only works when $_ =:= $?SELF . Important qualification: Within a method or submethod, C.method only works when C$_ =:= $?SELF. C.method is perfectly legal on *any*

This week's summary

2005-07-06 Thread The Perl 6 Summarizer
The Perl 6 summary for the week ending 2005-07-05 My, doesn't time fly? Another fortnight gone and another summary to write. It's a hard life I tell you! This week in perl6-compiler Where's everyone gone? It seems that most of the Perl 6 compiler development is being discussed

Re: Perl 6 Summary for 2005-06-21 through 2005-06-28

2005-06-29 Thread Patrick R. Michaud
On Tue, Jun 28, 2005 at 08:11:24PM -0400, Matt Fowles wrote: Parrot Loses with Fedora Core 4 Patrick reported that Fedora Core 4 and Parrot don't get along well. Leo suggested a possible solution. No response from Patrick. An update: Patrick submitted a patch based on Leo's

Perl 6 Summary for 2005-06-21 through 2005-06-28

2005-06-28 Thread Matt Fowles
Perl 6 Summary for 2005-06-21 through 2005-06-28 All~ Long time no see... err, write... uh, read... um... this. Yeah, long time no this. As Piers hinted, two weeks ago I moved. Moving sucks. For those of you who care, I am still in Cambridge, for those of you who care more, I

This week's summary

2005-06-23 Thread The Perl 6 Summarizer
The Perl 6 summary for the fortnight ending 2005-06-21 Surprise! It's me again. You may be wondering what happened to last week's summary (I know I was) and where Matt had gone. Well, I'm not entirely sure where exactly he is now, but last week was moving week for him. Those

This week's summary, correctly formatted

2005-06-23 Thread The Perl 6 Summarizer
The Perl 6 summary for the fortnight ending 2005-06-21 Surprise! It's me again. You may be wondering what happened to last week's summary (I know I was) and where Matt had gone. Well, I'm not entirely sure where exactly he is now, but last week was moving week for him. Those

This week's summary

2005-06-08 Thread The Perl 6 Summarizer
The Perl 6 summary for the week ending 2005-06-07 Crumbs. I've remembered to write the summary this week. Now if I can just remember to bill O'Reilly for, err, 2003's summaries. Heck, it's not like waiting for the dollar to get stronger has paid off. Ah well, no use crying over

Perl 6 Summary for 2005-05-24 through 2005-05-31

2005-05-31 Thread Matt Fowles
Perl 6 Summary for 2005-05-24 through 2005-05-31 All~ Welcome to another Perl 6 summary, brought to you by Aliya's new friends, Masha Nannifer and Philippe, and my own secret running joke. Without further ado, I bring you Perl 6 Compiler. Perl 6 Compiler method chaining

Re: Perl 6 Summary... p6rules

2005-05-31 Thread Dino Morelli
Thank you for the summary, Matt I have a correction, though: subrules tests Dino Morelli provided a patch adding tests for subrules to PGE. Warnock applies. http://xrl.us/f955 This and my other two patches to p6rules tests (RT #35950, 35971, 35994) have not yet been applied

Re: Perl 6 Summary... p6rules

2005-05-31 Thread Patrick R. Michaud
On Tue, May 31, 2005 at 11:58:12PM -0400, Dino Morelli wrote: Thank you for the summary, Matt I have a correction, though: subrules tests Dino Morelli provided a patch adding tests for subrules to PGE. Warnock applies. http://xrl.us/f955 This and my other two patches

This week's Perl 6 Summary

2005-05-25 Thread The Perl 6 Summarizer
The Perl 6 Summary for the week ending 2005-05-24 Note to self: It's generally not a good idea to go installing Tiger on the day you return from holiday. It's especially not a good idea to fail to check that it didn't completely and utterly radish your Postfix configuration

Perl 6 Summary for 2005-05-03 through 2005-05-17

2005-05-18 Thread Matt Fowles
Perl 6 Summary for 2005-05-03 through 2005-05-17 All~ Welcome ot another fortnight's summary. Wouldn't it just figure that I can't think of anything sufficiently non-sequiterish to amuse myself. Perhaps I need a running gag like Leon Brocard or chromatic's cummingseque

Re: Perl 6 Summary for 2004-04-26 through 2005-05-03

2005-05-04 Thread Michele Dondi
On Tue, 3 May 2005, Matt Fowles wrote: Perl 6 Summary for 2004-04-26 through 2005-05-03 ^^ ^^ Wow! Michele -- Why should I read the fucking manual? I know how to fuck! In fact the problem is that the fucking manual only gives you

Perl 6 Summary for 2004-04-26 through 2005-05-03

2005-05-03 Thread Matt Fowles
Perl 6 Summary for 2004-04-26 through 2005-05-03 All~ Welcome to another weeks summary. This week I shall endeavor not to accidentally delete my summary or destroy the world. So here we go with p6c. Perl 6 Compilers implicit $_ on for loops Kiran Kumar found a bug

This week's summary

2005-04-27 Thread The Perl 6 Summarizer
The Perl 6 Summary for the week ending 2005-04-26 It's my turn again. What fun. What, I hear you all ask, has been going on in the crazy mixed up world of Perl 6 design and development? Read this summary and, beginning with perl6-compiler, I shall tell you. This week in perl6

Re: Perl 6 Summary for 2005-04-12 through 2005-04-19

2005-04-20 Thread Michele Dondi
On Tue, 19 Apr 2005, Matt Fowles wrote: Python on Parrot ^^ Kevin Tew wondered what the state of pyrate was. Sam Ruby provided a general explanation. (I'm not on all of the lists, so this may have come out before and I

Perl 6 Summary for 2005-04-12 through 2005-04-19

2005-04-19 Thread Matt Fowles
Perl 6 Summary for 2005-04-12 through 2005-04-19 All~ Sadly, a slip of the mouse cause me to delete a partially completed summary, so I am going to push ahead on the rewrite without a witty intro. Feel free to make one up for yourself involving stuffed animals, musicians

Summary for the week ending 2005-04-12

2005-04-12 Thread The Perl 6 Summarizer
The Perl 6 Summary for the week ending 2005-04-12 Whoa! Deja vu! Where'd Matt go? Don't worry, Matt's still writing summaries. As you may have noticed, Matt's been writing summaries every two weeks. And now so am I. Because we love you, we've decided to arrange things so I write

Perl 6 Summary for 2005-03-22 through 2005-04-05

2005-04-05 Thread Matt Fowles
-for-adds --summary` to find the offending files. http://xrl.us/fogb BEGIN {} time Autrijus wondered when BEGIN was supposed to run. Markus Laire posted a useful summary of when the various CAPITAL things were run. Larry confirmed Autrijus suspicion. http://xrl.us/fogc YAML

Re: Perl 6 Summary for 2005-03-07 through 2005-03-22

2005-03-23 Thread Miroslav Silovic
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: pugs too lazy Miroslav Silovic noticed that closing a file handle in pugs did not force all the thunks associated with the file. While this was a bug in pugs, it led to conversation about whether = should be lazy or eager. Larry thinks that it will be safer

Perl 6 Summary for 2005-03-07 through 2005-03-22

2005-03-22 Thread Matt Fowles
Perl 6 Summary for 2005-03-07 through 2005-03-22 All~ Welcome to yet another fortnights summary. I believe this is the highest volume I have ever seen the three lists at simultaneously. Hopefully they will keep it up, because good work is being done. To aid in the epic

Perl 6 Summary for 2005-02-22 though 2005-03-07

2005-03-07 Thread Matt Fowles
Perl 6 Summary for 2005-02-22 though 2005-03-07 All~ Welcome to yet another fortnight summary. Once again brought to you by chocolate chips. This does have the distinction of being the first summary written on a mac. So if I break into random swear words, just bear with me

Perl 6 Summary for 2005-02-08 through 2005-02-22

2005-02-22 Thread Matt Fowles
Perl 6 Summary for 2005-02-08 through 2005-02-22 All~ Welcome to yet another fortnight summary. Lately p6l has been out stripping p6i in volume. While this used to be the norm, lately it has become a rare occurrence. Strange... Anyway, this summary would be brought to you buy

Re: Perl 6 Summary for 2005-01-31 through 2004-02-8

2005-02-10 Thread Michele Dondi
On Wed, 9 Feb 2005, Larry Wall wrote: roadblocks thrown in their way. That's true not only for LP, but also for FP, MP, XP, AOP, DBC, and hopefully several other varieties ^^ ^^^ ^^ ^^^ 1. 2. Ehmmm... sorry for the ignorance, but... 1.

Re: Perl 6 Summary for 2005-01-31 through 2004-02-8

2005-02-10 Thread Uri Guttman
MD == Michele Dondi [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: MD On Wed, 9 Feb 2005, Larry Wall wrote: roadblocks thrown in their way. That's true not only for LP, but also for FP, MP, XP, AOP, DBC, and hopefully several other varieties MD ^^ ^^^ MD ^^ ^^^

Re: Perl 6 Summary for 2005-01-31 through 2004-02-8

2005-02-10 Thread Markus Laire
John Macdonald wrote: The basic problem is that a junction does not work well with boolean operations, because the answer is usually sometimes yes and sometimes no and until you resolve which of those is the one you want, you have to proceed with both conditions. Well, just patch the boolean

Re: Perl 6 Summary for 2005-01-31 through 2004-02-8

2005-02-10 Thread David Landgren
Uri Guttman wrote: [...] i think so but i can't read larry's mind (nor would i want to! :) XP = extreme programming DBC = design by contract (or even designed by conway :) MP = ?? Modular Programming David

Re: = vs == [was: Perl 6 Summary for 2005-01-31 through 2004-02-8]

2005-02-10 Thread David Landgren
Aaron Sherman wrote: So hold on to your socks... what about: @x @y; This reminds me of AWK's string concatenation behaviour: print this $1 that $2 This was nice feature at the time, but caused problems down the track when they wanted to add functions to the language in a subsequent

Re: Perl 6 Summary for 2005-01-31 through 2004-02-8

2005-02-10 Thread Miroslav Silovic
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i think so but i can't read larry's mind (nor would i want to! :) XP = extreme programming DBC = design by contract (or even designed by conway :) MP = ?? Modular Programming David I think it's Metaprogramming. :) Miro

Re: Perl 6 Summary for 2005-01-31 through 2004-02-8

2005-02-10 Thread Larry Wall
On Thu, Feb 10, 2005 at 12:32:21PM +0100, Miroslav Silovic wrote: : [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: : : i think so but i can't read larry's mind (nor would i want to! :) : : XP = extreme programming : DBC = design by contract (or even designed by conway :) : MP = ?? : : : Modular

Re: Perl 6 Summary for 2005-01-31 through 2004-02-8

2005-02-09 Thread Michele Dondi
On Tue, 8 Feb 2005, Matt Fowles wrote: pipe dreams Juerd wondered if he could mix = and == in a sane way. The answer appears to be no. Once you bring in == you should stick with it. Huh?!? It doesn't seem to me that the answer is 'no'. In fact C == is supposed to be yet another operator,

Re: Perl 6 Summary for 2005-01-31 through 2004-02-8

2005-02-09 Thread Matthew Walton
Michele Dondi wrote: On Tue, 8 Feb 2005, Matt Fowles wrote: pipe dreams Juerd wondered if he could mix = and == in a sane way. The answer appears to be no. Once you bring in == you should stick with it. Huh?!? It doesn't seem to me that the answer is 'no'. In fact C == is supposed to be

= vs == [was: Perl 6 Summary for 2005-01-31 through 2004-02-8]

2005-02-09 Thread Larry Wall
On Wed, Feb 09, 2005 at 10:04:48AM +0100, Michele Dondi wrote: : On Tue, 8 Feb 2005, Matt Fowles wrote: : : pipe dreams :Juerd wondered if he could mix = and == in a sane way. The answer :appears to be no. Once you bring in == you should stick with it. : : Huh?!? It doesn't seem to me

Re: = vs == [was: Perl 6 Summary for 2005-01-31 through 2004-02-8]

2005-02-09 Thread Michele Dondi
On Wed, 9 Feb 2005, Larry Wall wrote: Yes, you can certainly intermix them as long as you keep your precedence straight with parentheses. Though I suppose we could go as far as to say that = is only scalar assignment, and you have to use == or == for list assignment. That would

Re: = vs == [was: Perl 6 Summary for 2005-01-31 through 2004-02-8]

2005-02-09 Thread Rod Adams
Larry Wall wrote: On Wed, Feb 09, 2005 at 10:04:48AM +0100, Michele Dondi wrote: : On Tue, 8 Feb 2005, Matt Fowles wrote: : : pipe dreams :Juerd wondered if he could mix = and == in a sane way. The answer :appears to be no. Once you bring in == you should stick with it. : : Huh?!? It

Re: = vs == [was: Perl 6 Summary for 2005-01-31 through 2004-02-8]

2005-02-09 Thread Aaron Sherman
On Wed, 2005-02-09 at 06:04, Rod Adams wrote: Larry Wall wrote: Yes, you can certainly intermix them as long as you keep your precedence straight with parentheses. Though I suppose we could go as far as to say that = is only scalar assignment, and you have to use == or == for list

Re: Perl 6 Summary for 2005-01-31 through 2004-02-8

2005-02-09 Thread Ovid
--- Matt Fowles [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Logic Programming in Perl 6 Ovid asked what logic programming in perl 6 would look like. No answer yet, but I suppose I can pick the low hanging fruit: as a limiting case you could always back out the entire perl 6 grammar and insert

Re: Perl 6 Summary for 2005-01-31 through 2004-02-8

2005-02-09 Thread Larry Wall
On Wed, Feb 09, 2005 at 11:57:17AM -0800, Ovid wrote: : --- Matt Fowles [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: : : Logic Programming in Perl 6 : Ovid asked what logic programming in perl 6 would look like. No : answer : yet, but I suppose I can pick the low hanging fruit: as a : limiting case :

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