Re: user and group of a file?

2017-09-26 Thread Brandon Allbery
On Tue, Sep 26, 2017 at 11:02 AM, Parrot Raiser <1parr...@gmail.com> wrote: > This is the capability provided by Perl 5's "stat". Would a clone with > the same properties and behaviours be the right thing, or are there > "features" to fix? Same features, probably. It is just one of those things

Re: user and group of a file?

2017-09-26 Thread Parrot Raiser
This is the capability provided by Perl 5's "stat". Would a clone with the same properties and behaviours be the right thing, or are there "features" to fix? On 9/26/17, Brandon Allbery wrote: > On Tue, Sep 26, 2017 at 2:11 AM, ToddAndMargo > wrote: >

Re: user and group of a file?

2017-09-26 Thread Brandon Allbery
On Tue, Sep 26, 2017 at 2:11 AM, ToddAndMargo wrote: > Does Perl 6 have one of those fancy subs that will tell me > the user and group association of a file? Or do I just > make a system call to "ls"? > At the moment you'll have to use ls. There's an ecosystem want out

Re: Need a second pair of eyes

2017-09-26 Thread Brandon Allbery
This explanation confuses me a bit, actually. (more inline) On Tue, Sep 26, 2017 at 9:45 AM, Larry Wall wrote: > In slightly greater detail, we're currently treating an undeclared > variable as a syntax error rather than a semantic error, and we treat > those differently.

Re: Need a second pair of eyes

2017-09-26 Thread Larry Wall
On Mon, Sep 25, 2017 at 10:25:42AM -0400, Brandon Allbery wrote: : So as to make this not entirely content-free: I would suggest that the : string language note the line on which it sees a bare newline, and if it : subsequently hits a syntax error while still parsing that string it could : output

undeclared variables inside double-quoted string lwas: Re: Need a second pair of eyes]

2017-09-26 Thread Timo Paulssen
On 26/09/17 04:26, Brandon Allbery wrote: > On Mon, Sep 25, 2017 at 10:23 PM, ToddAndMargo > wrote: > > On 09/25/2017 07:25 AM, Brandon Allbery wrote: > > So as to make this not entirely content-free: I would suggest > that

user and group of a file?

2017-09-26 Thread ToddAndMargo
Dear list, Does Perl 6 have one of those fancy subs that will tell me the user and group association of a file? Or do I just make a system call to "ls"? Many thanks, -T