Re: Cardinals

2020-01-02 Thread Darren Duncan
On 2020-01-02 10:01 a.m., ToddAndMargo via perl6-users wrote: How do I do a 32 bit unsigned integer (cardinal)?  I have a situation where I need to be able to have the first bit be a one and not have Raku think it is a negative number. Why do you use the term "cardinal" to refer to a 32 bit

Re: Cardinals

2020-01-02 Thread Todd Chester via perl6-users
On 2020-01-02 10:14, Tobias Boege wrote: On Thu, 02 Jan 2020, ToddAndMargo via perl6-users wrote: Hi All, “He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.” ― Mark Twain This would be my five minutes. I will live. How do I do a 32

Re: Cardinals

2020-01-02 Thread Tobias Boege
On Thu, 02 Jan 2020, ToddAndMargo via perl6-users wrote: > Hi All, > > “He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who > does not ask remains a fool forever.” > ― Mark Twain > > This would be my five minutes. I will live. > > How do I do a 32 bit unsigned integer (cardinal)?

Cardinals

2020-01-02 Thread ToddAndMargo via perl6-users
Hi All, “He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.” ― Mark Twain This would be my five minutes. I will live. How do I do a 32 bit unsigned integer (cardinal)? I have a situation where I need to be able to have the first bit be a

Re: NativeCall bug: can't find final ')'

2020-01-02 Thread ToddAndMargo via perl6-users
*From:* ToddAndMargo via perl6-users *Sent:* Tuesday, December 31, 2019 8:53 PM *To:* perl6-users *Subject:* NativeCall bug: can't find final ')' perl6 -I. -e "use WinReg :WinReadRegKey; say WinReadRegKey(

Re: NativeCall Doc booboo

2020-01-02 Thread ToddAndMargo via perl6-users
On 2020-01-01 19:27, Alexis wrote: Hi Todd, In my experience, /most/ programming languages in general use have 0-based indexing, rather than 1 (Lua is one exception that comes to mind). So when dealing with a new language, i assume 0-based indexing, unless explicitly told otherwise.

Re: NativeCall bug: can't find final ')'

2020-01-02 Thread Andy Bach
Just a guess, but isn't it possible that this is a quoting problem? Doing work from the Winx cmd line and trying to match up the single/double quote/multi-line mess is a way towards madness ... if you put your "-e" program in a file and run that, do you get a different error? Just my 2 cents,