Re: Quoting issue in Windows

2019-11-30 Thread ToddAndMargo via perl6-users
On 2019-11-30 06:28, Timo Paulssen wrote: On 30/11/2019 09:05, ToddAndMargo via perl6-users wrote: One of the weirdest was for @Result.kv -> $I, $Line {    if $I % 2 = 0 being told I could not change an immutable object. Here you're trying to assign 0 to the result of $I % 2, if that's

Re: Quoting issue in Windows

2019-11-30 Thread ToddAndMargo via perl6-users
On 2019-11-30 08:37, Veesh Goldman wrote: Also, you may want to use the divisibility operator %% instead of modulo. I think     if $i %% 2 Is clearer to read. Hi Veesh, Indeed! Thank you. Modulus (%) is burned into my head. Now all I have to do is remember divisible (%%). :-) Thank you.

Re: Quoting issue in Windows

2019-11-30 Thread ToddAndMargo via perl6-users
On 2019-11-30 00:57, William Michels via perl6-users wrote: Hi Todd, You should definitely write up some code and post it here on the mailing list, so we all can test it. I found an error "Cannot modify an immutable Match" a while back (Oct 2019), and it turned out to be a bug:

Re: run line question

2019-11-30 Thread ToddAndMargo via perl6-users
On 2019-11-30 00:10, ToddAndMargo via perl6-users wrote: On 2019-11-23 18:26, ToddAndMargo via perl6-users wrote: Hi All, When folks write programs that read the run line like    /a abc /r xyz or    /r xyz /a aaabc or    dd bs=4096 if=xxx.iso of=/dev/sdc basically, in

Re: Quoting issue in Windows

2019-11-30 Thread Veesh Goldman
Also, you may want to use the divisibility operator %% instead of modulo. I think if $i %% 2 Is clearer to read. On Sat, Nov 30, 2019, 16:28 Timo Paulssen wrote: > > On 30/11/2019 09:05, ToddAndMargo via perl6-users wrote: > > One of the weirdest was > > > > for @Result.kv -> $I, $Line { >

Re: Quoting issue in Windows

2019-11-30 Thread Timo Paulssen
On 30/11/2019 09:05, ToddAndMargo via perl6-users wrote: > One of the weirdest was > > for @Result.kv -> $I, $Line { >    if $I % 2 = 0 > > being told I could not change an immutable object. Here you're trying to assign 0 to the result of $I % 2, if that's actually exactly the code. You want

Re: Quoting issue in Windows

2019-11-30 Thread William Michels via perl6-users
On Sat, Nov 30, 2019 at 12:05 AM ToddAndMargo via perl6-users wrote: > > On 2019-11-29 23:49, William Michels via perl6-users wrote: > > On Fri, Nov 29, 2019 at 8:33 PM ToddAndMargo via perl6-users > > wrote: > >> > >> Hi All, > >> > >> Windows 7, sp1, x64 > >> rakudo-star-2019.03-x86_64

Re: run line question

2019-11-30 Thread ToddAndMargo via perl6-users
On 2019-11-23 18:26, ToddAndMargo via perl6-users wrote: Hi All, When folks write programs that read the run line like   /a abc /r xyz or   /r xyz /a aaabc or   dd bs=4096 if=xxx.iso of=/dev/sdc basically, in any order. How do they keep track of what goes where?

Re: Quoting issue in Windows

2019-11-30 Thread ToddAndMargo via perl6-users
On 2019-11-29 23:49, William Michels via perl6-users wrote: On Fri, Nov 29, 2019 at 8:33 PM ToddAndMargo via perl6-users wrote: Hi All, Windows 7, sp1, x64 rakudo-star-2019.03-x86_64 (JIT).msi Why does this type of line keep giving me heartburn? print( "Drive $Drive" ~ ":" ~ '\' ~ "