Re: Micro-articles on Perl 6 Operators

2007-09-19 Thread David Vergin
On 9/18/07, Paul Hodges [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hypothetical For the Gearheads We won't bore you with excess details, but for more info... c.f. ... /hypothetical on 9/19/2007 10:19 AM Adriano Ferreira said the following: I am thinking about such hooks and good ways to do that.

Re: Micro-articles on Perl 6 Operators

2007-09-19 Thread Adriano Ferreira
On 9/19/07, Moritz Lenz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Adriano Ferreira wrote: http://ferreira.nfshost.com/perl6/stitching6.html A grammatical nit: The infix operator '~' keeps the same precedence of '+' in Perl 6. I think that should be the same precedence _as_ (but I'm not a native speaker, so

Re: Micro-articles on Perl 6 Operators

2007-09-19 Thread Adriano Ferreira
On 9/18/07, Joe Gottman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Adriano Ferreira wrote: I salute every bit of help. I am trying to organize the production and will hopefully provide more details soon. By now, I think that I can handle suggestions and corrections to the articles. The next one is here:

Re: Micro-articles on Perl 6 Operators

2007-09-19 Thread Adriano Ferreira
On 9/18/07, Paul Hodges [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Looks good . . . but how short do we want them? Very short. The usual length that an IT-savvy guy (with at least some curiosity on programming languages) reads in a glimpse instead of going somewhere else looking for shorter or more immediate

Re: Micro-articles on Perl 6 Operators

2007-09-19 Thread Adriano Ferreira
On 9/18/07, David Vergin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 9/18/07, Paul Hodges [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hypothetical For the Gearheads We won't bore you with excess details, but for more info... c.f. ... /hypothetical on 9/19/2007 10:19 AM Adriano Ferreira said the

Re: Micro-articles on Perl 6 Operators

2007-09-19 Thread Paul Hodges
--- Larry Wall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Sep 18, 2007 at 07:41:54PM -0700, Paul Hodges wrote: : while length($ruler) $len; # till there's enough There is no length function anymore. duh. I knew that. Still thinking in v5. Thanks, Larry.

Re: Micro-articles on Perl 6 Operators

2007-09-18 Thread Agent Zhang
On 9/18/07, Adriano Ferreira [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Join me. The drafts of the introduction and the first article are here: http://ferreira.nfshost.com/perl6/intro.html http://ferreira.nfshost.com/perl6/zip.html I see the following snippet in zip.html: # import num2en from Perl 6

Re: Micro-articles on Perl 6 Operators

2007-09-18 Thread Adriano Ferreira
On 9/18/07, Agent Zhang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 9/18/07, Adriano Ferreira [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Join me. The drafts of the introduction and the first article are here: http://ferreira.nfshost.com/perl6/intro.html http://ferreira.nfshost.com/perl6/zip.html I see the following

Re: Micro-articles on Perl 6 Operators

2007-09-18 Thread brian d foy
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Alberto Simões [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Adriano Ferreira wrote: The plan is to write a series of blog entries discussing a Perl 6 operator at a time or a small group of closely related ones. I think the idea is cool. Also, I do not know how periodically

Re: Micro-articles on Perl 6 Operators

2007-09-18 Thread Adriano Ferreira
On 9/18/07, brian d foy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Alberto Simões [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Adriano Ferreira wrote: The plan is to write a series of blog entries discussing a Perl 6 operator at a time or a small group of closely related ones. I think the

Re: Micro-articles on Perl 6 Operators

2007-09-18 Thread Paul Hodges
--- Adriano Ferreira [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [[snips here and at end]] . . . I have one suggestion: you might want to mention the roundrobin function in the article on the zip function since the two are very closely related. Thanks, Joe and Alberto. Even though the roundrobin is very

Re: Micro-articles on Perl 6 Operators

2007-09-18 Thread Adriano Ferreira
On 9/18/07, Paul Hodges [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- Adriano Ferreira [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [[snips here and at end]] . . . I have one suggestion: you might want to mention the roundrobin function in the article on the zip function since the two are very closely related. Thanks,

Re: Micro-articles on Perl 6 Operators

2007-09-18 Thread Joe Gottman
Adriano Ferreira wrote: I salute every bit of help. I am trying to organize the production and will hopefully provide more details soon. By now, I think that I can handle suggestions and corrections to the articles. The next one is here: http://ferreira.nfshost.com/perl6/stitching6.html

Re: Micro-articles on Perl 6 Operators

2007-09-18 Thread Paul Hodges
Looks good . . . but how short do we want them? For the non-Perl audience, I think it might be worth mentioning the (to us) obvious automatic context manipulations. e.g., ~ is stitching strings, and will make strings out of its arguments if it can -- it's not adding, but has the same

Re: Micro-articles on Perl 6 Operators

2007-09-18 Thread Larry Wall
On Tue, Sep 18, 2007 at 09:46:14PM -0400, Joe Gottman wrote: : Adriano Ferreira wrote: : I salute every bit of help. I am trying to organize the production and : will hopefully provide more details soon. By now, I think that I can : handle suggestions and corrections to the articles. The next one

Re: Micro-articles on Perl 6 Operators

2007-09-18 Thread Larry Wall
On Tue, Sep 18, 2007 at 07:41:54PM -0700, Paul Hodges wrote: : while length($ruler) $len; # till there's enough There is no length function anymore. Larry

Re: Micro-articles on Perl 6 Operators

2007-09-17 Thread Alberto Simões
Hi Adriano Ferreira wrote: The plan is to write a series of blog entries discussing a Perl 6 operator at a time or a small group of closely related ones. I think the idea is cool. Also, I do not know how periodically that would be, but it might be a good idea to join some of them in turns

Re: Micro-articles on Perl 6 Operators

2007-09-17 Thread Adriano Ferreira
On 9/17/07, Joe Gottman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Adriano Ferreira wrote: Jesse Vincent has announced the acceptance of my microgrant proposal (http://use.perl.org/~jesse/journal/34451). It is a plain simple idea, whose effects are yet to be seen. Comments and feedback most welcome.

Re: Micro-articles on Perl 6 Operators

2007-09-17 Thread Joe Gottman
Adriano Ferreira wrote: Jesse Vincent has announced the acceptance of my microgrant proposal (http://use.perl.org/~jesse/journal/34451). It is a plain simple idea, whose effects are yet to be seen. Comments and feedback most welcome. snip Join me. The drafts of the introduction and the