Re: My unicode keeper

I am having a ton if fun with this! E = ½MV² my $e; my $m=5; my $v=22; $e=½*$m*$v²; say $e 1210

Re: My unicode keeper

On 2019-12-10 13:50, ToddAndMargo via perl6-users wrote: Hi All, My unicode keeper.  It is a work in progress.  Pelase comment, if you be of a mind to. Do we use `U2248 ≈` at all?  Maybe I just use that on in writing, instead of ~ -T Today's revised revision with new additions and

Re: A grand idea on the documentation

On 2019-12-10 07:31, Tom Browder wrote: On Mon, Dec 9, 2019 at 12:49 Peter Scott > wrote: ... Developers need reminders, in the most succinct form, to minimize time, of data that they should not need to memorize.  The documentation satisfies that need in the

Re: My unicode keeper

On 2019-12-10 13:55, Veesh Goldman wrote: literal, not litter. Hi Veesh, Chuckle. Thank you! So, how many kittens did the typo produce? :-) -T

Re: Fwd: Raku, docs, help [was: Re: vulgar?]

On 2019-12-10 16:07, Trey Harris wrote: On Mon, Dec 9, 2019 at 9:53 PM ToddAndMargo via perl6-users mailto:perl6-users@perl.org>> wrote: On 2019-12-09 09:44, Trey Harris wrote: > Signatures are important to Raku. Trey, The signatures are very important to the developers.

Re: My keeper on "contains"

On 2019-12-10 15:19, Elizabeth Mattijsen wrote: I feel that ToddAndMargo are only capable of "magical programming". Hi Elizabeth, By any chance were you involved in the writing of the documentation? That would explain your hurt feelings. I seriously did to intent to hurt anyone's feelings.

Re: My keeper on "contains"

On 2019-12-10 15:02, Laurent Rosenfeld via perl6-users wrote: You've made a very interesting point on how difficult it is to write proper documentation. I hope that Todd will reflect on that. Hi Laurent, Oh good lord. I do no have to do any reflecting on it at all. I spend hours and hours

Re: My keeper on "contains"

On 2019-12-10 14:40, Rocco Caputo wrote: It seems that you're saying the difference between a method and other kinds of routines is that methods are "fed" something? Hi Rocco, Indeed! It is my sloppy way of saying what a method is. I am not using programming terminology. My purpose was to

Re: Fwd: Raku, docs, help [was: Re: vulgar?]

On Mon, Dec 9, 2019 at 9:53 PM ToddAndMargo via perl6-users < perl6-users@perl.org> wrote: On 2019-12-09 09:44, Trey Harris wrote: > > Signatures are important to Raku. > > Trey, > > The signatures are very important to the developers. > They only confuse the programmer. > I explained in the

Re: My keeper on "contains"

I feel that ToddAndMargo are only capable of "magical programming". I call that "magical", because people who program this way, only work with remembering from what they put into something, and what came out, *without* attempting to build a mental image of *how* the damn thing works. The

Re: My keeper on "contains"

You've made a very interesting point on how difficult it is to write proper documentation. I hope that Todd will reflect on that. Le mar. 10 déc. 2019 à 23:45, Rocco Caputo a écrit : > On Dec 10, 2019, at 15:35, ToddAndMargo via perl6-users < > perl6-users@perl.org> wrote: > > A method is a

Re: My keeper on "contains"

On Dec 10, 2019, at 15:35, ToddAndMargo via perl6-users wrote: > A method is a routine that you feed: Str.foo. It seems that you're saying the difference between a method and other kinds of routines is that methods are "fed" something? The only thing I can think of that routines are fed are

Re: My unicode keeper

> > For use as a litter quote in a regex (Q[] does not work inside regex's) > >say so Q[A:\] ~~ / ｢:\｣ /; >True > literal, not litter. On Tue, Dec 10, 2019 at 11:54 PM ToddAndMargo via perl6-users < perl6-users@perl.org> wrote: > Hi All, > > My unicode keeper. It is a work in

My unicode keeper

Hi All, My unicode keeper. It is a work in progress. Pelase comment, if you be of a mind to. Do we use `U2248 ≈` at all? Maybe I just use that on in writing, instead of ~ -T Perl6: Unicode characters: References:

Re: How do I do literal quotes in a regex?

On 2019-12-09 00:46, Fernando Santagata wrote: On Mon, Dec 9, 2019 at 9:38 AM Fernando Santagata mailto:nando.santag...@gmail.com>> wrote: It can be used this way: $ raku -e'say „Hello!“' Hello! But it must be used with that closing quote '“' (U+201C); it cannot be used

Re: My keeper on "contains"

On 2019-12-10 12:35, ToddAndMargo via perl6-users wrote: Excluding something from the search:     Warning: in the following, use "none" not "not" to negate if "coming soon" is found.  "not" will always return False.     say so Q[2018.2.0; Coming Soon].fc.contains("strong" &

Re: My keeper on "contains"

On 2019-12-10 03:12, ToddAndMargo via perl6-users wrote: Today's revised revision of yesterday's new revisions with amendments! :-) At it again; perl 6: method: 12/10/2019 #2 Also see: "starts-with" and "ends-with" References: https://docs.raku.org/routine/contains

Re: Fwd: Raku, docs, help [was: Re: vulgar?]

Hi Folks, While the tone of this conversation is a little unpleasant I think there are good points about the readability of the reference documentation. For instance, I understand that List inherits from "Cool", but listing trigonometric functions on this page https://docs.raku.org/type/List

Re: A grand idea on the documentation

On Mon, Dec 9, 2019 at 12:49 Peter Scott wrote: ... Developers need reminders, in the most succinct form, to minimize time, > of data that they should not need to memorize. The documentation > satisfies that need in the same way that a phone book satisfies the need > to look up someone's

Re: Fwd: Raku, docs, help [was: Re: vulgar?]

On 2019-12-10 03:31, Veesh Goldman wrote: Nobody said not to do it. Please make more documentation available to the public. But that doesn't mean that these docs need to change. It's reference, not guides. And also it doesn't need to be a wiki. You could do everything on GitHub, where most

Re: Fwd: Raku, docs, help [was: Re: vulgar?]

On 2019-12-10 03:02, ToddAndMargo via perl6-users wrote: I would "It would", not "I would" Stinkin' typos

Re: Fwd: Raku, docs, help [was: Re: vulgar?]

Nobody said not to do it. Please make more documentation available to the public. But that doesn't mean that these docs need to change. It's reference, not guides. And also it doesn't need to be a wiki. You could do everything on GitHub, where most people already do their collaboration, with the

Re: My keeper on "contains"

Today's revised revision of yesterday's new revisions with amendments! :-) perl 6: method: 12/10/2019 perl 6: method: 12/10/2019 Also: "starts-with" and "ends-with" A method is a routine that you feed: .foo $ p6 'say "abc".contains( "a" );' True $ p6 'say "abc".contains( "z"

Re: Fwd: Raku, docs, help [was: Re: vulgar?]

On 2019-12-10 02:37, ToddAndMargo via perl6-users wrote: On 2019-12-10 01:14, Simon Proctor wrote: On Tue, 10 Dec 2019 at 02:40, ToddAndMargo via perl6-users mailto:perl6-users@perl.org>> wrote:     On 2019-12-09 07:21, Simon Proctor wrote: > I think this does highlight something we

Re: Fwd: Raku, docs, help [was: Re: vulgar?]

On 2019-12-10 01:14, Simon Proctor wrote: On Tue, 10 Dec 2019 at 02:40, ToddAndMargo via perl6-users mailto:perl6-users@perl.org>> wrote: On 2019-12-09 07:21, Simon Proctor wrote: > I think this does highlight something we probably should document more. > > How to

Re: Fwd: Raku, docs, help [was: Re: vulgar?]

On 2019-12-10 00:57, Fernando Santagata wrote: On Tue, Dec 10, 2019 at 3:53 AM ToddAndMargo via perl6-users mailto:perl6-users@perl.org>> wrote: On 2019-12-09 09:44, Trey Harris wrote: > Signatures are important to Raku. Trey, The signatures are very important to the

Re: Fwd: Raku, docs, help [was: Re: vulgar?]

On Tue, 10 Dec 2019 at 02:40, ToddAndMargo via perl6-users < perl6-users@perl.org> wrote: > On 2019-12-09 07:21, Simon Proctor wrote: > > I think this does highlight something we probably should document more. > > > > How to read signatures. Because it's a *very* powerful part of the > > language

Re: Fwd: Raku, docs, help [was: Re: vulgar?]

On Tue, Dec 10, 2019 at 3:53 AM ToddAndMargo via perl6-users < perl6-users@perl.org> wrote: > On 2019-12-09 09:44, Trey Harris wrote: > > Signatures are important to Raku. > > Trey, > > The signatures are very important to the developers. > They only confuse the programmer. > > -T > I'm a