$epsilon = 1.0e-6 feels too big for Rat()

Folks, I am only beginning to unwrap the christmas present but I immediately fell in love with the perl6 arithmetic system. Not is it rich but it is also fast. % perl6 > 340282366920938463463374607431768211297.is-prime True > 340282366920938460843936948965011886881.is-prime False And type

Re: $epsilon = 1.0e-6 feels too big for Rat()

Considering that a non-fat Rat has a 64-bit denominator, I would expect conversions from Num to make use of that full precision by default, and not round off to 6 decimal places. -- Darren Duncan

Re: release?

On Tue, Dec 29, 2015 at 11:39 AM, webmind wrote: > > Yes, wouldn't it make sense to couple the rakudo release version to the > language it implements? > Naw -- there'll be probably monthly rakudo releases but the Specification releases should be much less frequent -- like

Jonathan's "Perl 6 Introductory course"

Jonathan's intro course, in pdf, here: https://github.com/rakudo/star/raw/master/docs/2015-spw-perl6-course.pdf is excellent, of course. But I really like the presentation theme and the slide formatting! Does anyone know what slide-making process he uses? So far the best I have found that

Re: release?

That's how I have Perl 6 (and a number of other packages) set up; a version-agnostic name in a $PATH place, symbolically linking to package directory. On 12/31/15, Philip Hazelden wrote: > Note that if we want scripts to be interpreter-agnostic, the perl6 binary >

Re: release?

On 29/12/15 17:13, andy_b...@wiwb.uscourts.gov wrote: > On Tue, Dec 29, 2015 at 01:57:57AM -0800, Darren Duncan wrote: >>> On that note, are there going to be Perl 6 versions 6.x.y where {x,y} are >> > integers? Will 6.0.0 be the first such one? -- Darren Duncan > > On Tue, Dec 29, 2015

Re: Bug or PEBCAK?

Thank you. I'm not sure how to classify this one. It never occurred to me that a new Linux installation would NOT include a C compiler. Installing gcc fixed that. On 12/31/15, Dominique Dumont wrote: > On Wednesday 30 December 2015 19:42:38 Parrot Raiser wrote: >>

Re: release?

Note that if we want scripts to be interpreter-agnostic, the perl6 binary needs to exist for #! purposes. So renaming it would be bad, but a simlink would work. On Thu, Dec 31, 2015 at 2:27 PM Brock Wilcox wrote: > On Tue, Dec 29, 2015 at 11:39 AM, webmind

Re: Bug or PEBCAK?

On Wednesday 30 December 2015 19:42:38 Parrot Raiser wrote: > probing whether your compiler thinks that it is gcc Can't compile > simple gcc probe, so something is badly wrong at build/probe.pm line > 92. Looks like probe.pm cannot find gcc when trying to compile a small program. HTH --

Re: Jonathan's "Perl 6 Introductory course"

On 31/12/15 20:43, Tom Browder wrote: > Jonathan's intro course, in pdf, here: > > https://github.com/rakudo/star/raw/master/docs/2015-spw-perl6-course.pdf > > is excellent, of course. But I really like the presentation theme and > the slide formatting! > > Does anyone know what slide-making

Re: Jonathan's "Perl 6 Introductory course"

On Thu, Dec 31, 2015 at 9:26 AM, Sitaram Chamarty wrote: > On 31/12/15 20:43, Tom Browder wrote: >> https://github.com/rakudo/star/raw/master/docs/2015-spw-perl6-course.pdf ... >> Does anyone know what slide-making process he uses? ... > Looks like Beamer (latex+beamer). > >

Re: $epsilon = 1.0e-6 feels too big for Rat()

Considering that the Chinese 5th Century is 1849, I would expect http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015046627348 to present less zuo. -jas On 31 December 2015 at 03:48, Darren Duncan wrote: > Considering that a non-fat Rat has a 64-bit denominator, I would

Re: Jonathan's "Perl 6 Introductory course"

Thanks Sitaram and Moritz! -Tom

Re: Jonathan's "Perl 6 Introductory course"

On 31/12/15 21:26, Tom Browder wrote: > On Thu, Dec 31, 2015 at 9:26 AM, Sitaram Chamarty wrote: >> On 31/12/15 20:43, Tom Browder wrote: >>> https://github.com/rakudo/star/raw/master/docs/2015-spw-perl6-course.pdf > ... >>> Does anyone know what slide-making process he

Re: Jonathan's "Perl 6 Introductory course"

On 12/31/2015 04:26 PM, Sitaram Chamarty wrote: > On 31/12/15 20:43, Tom Browder wrote: >> Jonathan's intro course, in pdf, here: >> >> https://github.com/rakudo/star/raw/master/docs/2015-spw-perl6-course.pdf >> >> is excellent, of course. But I really like the presentation theme and >> the