books for learning Perl 6

2017-08-07 Thread Darren Duncan
As was announced a few days ago, see https://perl6book.com which is a good site for outlining what books on learning Perl 6 exist and suggestions on where different kinds of users should start based on their needs. -- Darren Duncan

Re: Suggestions on Learning Perl 6

2017-08-07 Thread Bruce Gray
> On Aug 7, 2017, at 12:39 PM, Ari King wrote: —snip-- > I'm particularly interested in learning about Perl 6 package and module > development (i.e. code organization), ecosystem (i.e. best practice tooling > and modules), and concurrency features. —snip— Concurrency features are under active

Re: Suggestions on Learning Perl 6

2017-08-07 Thread Tom Browder
On Mon, Aug 7, 2017 at 13:39 Ari King wrote: > Hi, > ... > The perl6.org site provides resources that have helped me begin to learn > Perl 6 syntax fairly easily/quickly. But unfortunately, material on the > aforementioned topics is limited. I'd appreciate suggestions in general on > learning Pe

Suggestions on Learning Perl 6

2017-08-07 Thread Ari King
Hi, My background is primarily in JVM languages and python; I've recently started learning Perl 6. To date, I've mostly used Perl 5 for one-liners or an odd-script. Consequently, I'm particularly interested in learning about Perl 6 package and module development (i.e. code organization), ecosystem

Re: another one liner

2017-08-07 Thread Bruce Gray
> On Aug 4, 2017, at 9:12 PM, ToddAndMargo wrote: > > Hi All, > > How would you convert this one liner over to a Perl 6 one > liner with a pipe? > > ifconfig | grep flags | awk '{print $1}' | sort | sed -n 2,2p | sed -e 's/://‘ —snip— First attempt; straight translation: ifconfig | perl6 -e '

Re: need lib notify sub

2017-08-07 Thread ToddAndMargo
On Mon, Aug 7, 2017 at 8:01 AM, ToddAndMargo > wrote: Hi All, If you upgraded from Fedora 25 to 26, you will notice that notify send (libnotify) stopped working. (It works in fresh installs of Fedora 26.) https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi

Re: need lib notify sub

2017-08-07 Thread Fernando Santagata
Hello Todd, You can access libnotify directly from Rakudo using this: https://modules.perl6.org/search?q=desktop%3A%3Anotify HTH On Mon, Aug 7, 2017 at 8:01 AM, ToddAndMargo wrote: > Hi All, > > If you upgraded from Fedora 25 to 26, you will notice that > notify send (libnotify) stopped worki