Re: Using raku/perl6 as unix "cat"....

2020-01-19 Thread William Michels via perl6-users
Hi Yary (and Todd), Thank you both for your responses. Yary, the problem seems to be with "get". I can change 'while' to 'for' below, but using 'get' raku/perl6 actually returns fewer lines with "for" than it did with "while": [1]mydir$ cat testthis_abc_def.txt a b c d e f [2]mydir$ perl6 -e

Re: Ping JJ: string literals

2020-01-19 Thread ToddAndMargo via perl6-users
Follow up: Hi All, Once JJ agreed this was a bug and it got posted, the developers ran with it and even created a new class to handle the problem. https://github.com/Raku/doc/pull/3171#issuecomment-575991403 # class CArray multi new (Str $data , :$encoding = 'utf8') {

Re: definition confusion of + and +^

2020-01-19 Thread ToddAndMargo via perl6-users
One last question on htis. What does multi sub prefix:<+^>(Any --> Int:D) Mean. Prefix means before. +^(Any) get me a participation trophy, so I do not understand. :'( INQUIRING MINDS WANT TO KNOW! (That is a joke referencing a tabloid commercial.) -T

Re: my first two doc issues

2020-01-19 Thread ToddAndMargo via perl6-users
On 2020-01-19 15:09, Tobias Boege wrote: On Sun, 19 Jan 2020, ToddAndMargo via perl6-users wrote: RFE: Please add the following examples to routine +^ https://github.com/Raku/doc/issues/3177 Now I wait and see what kind of reception I get. It will be nice to contribute to the docs, rather

Re: my first two doc issues

2020-01-19 Thread Tobias Boege
On Sun, 19 Jan 2020, ToddAndMargo via perl6-users wrote: > RFE: Please add the following examples to routine +^ > https://github.com/Raku/doc/issues/3177 > > Now I wait and see what kind of reception I get. It > will be nice to contribute to the docs, rather than > just always griping about them

Creating a doc PR

2020-01-19 Thread Tom Browder
There is recipe on the doc repo now which should be usable for a VERY BASIC intro to creating a doc PR. See it here: https://github.com/Raku/doc/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING_PRs.md

my first two doc issues

2020-01-19 Thread ToddAndMargo via perl6-users
Hi All, I just posted my first two doc issues: RFE: Please add the following examples to routine +^ https://github.com/Raku/doc/issues/3177 RFE: add some missng explanation to Operators #3175 https://github.com/Raku/doc/issues/3175 Now I wait and see what kind of reception I get. It will be

my keeper on operators

2020-01-19 Thread Tony Ewell via perl6-users
Hi All, Since several of you help me on this, this is my keeper on the definition of operators. Marcel helped a lot. He did an extraordinary job of explaining things. He is cited in the keeper, so I am not plagiarizing him. :-) -T Raku /Perl 6:

Re: definition confusion of + and +^

2020-01-19 Thread ToddAndMargo via perl6-users
On 2020-01-19 08:52, Marcel Timmerman wrote: On 1/19/20 2:47 AM, ToddAndMargo via perl6-users wrote: Hi All, Thank you all for the wonderful help on this. What I am still confused about is how to read these silly definition lines:   multi sub infix:<+>($a, $b --> Numeric:D)   multi

Re: my keeper on bitwise operations

2020-01-19 Thread ToddAndMargo via perl6-users
On 2020-01-19 05:17, Mark Senn wrote: Bitwise += / ~=: Put and "=" after the bitwise operator: s/and/an/? Mark Senn, Senior Software Engineer, Engineering Computer Network, Purdue University technical editor for four Perl 5 books Hi Mark, Oops. Thank you! I think I also have some Perl 5

Re: definition confusion of + and +^

2020-01-19 Thread Marcel Timmerman
On 1/19/20 2:47 AM, ToddAndMargo via perl6-users wrote: Hi All, Thank you all for the wonderful help on this. What I am still confused about is how to read these silly definition lines:   multi sub infix:<+>($a, $b --> Numeric:D)   multi sub infix:<+^>($a, $b --> Int:D) How exactly

Re: Ping JJ: string literals

2020-01-19 Thread ToddAndMargo via perl6-users
On 2020-01-19 00:08, Tobias Boege wrote: On Sat, 18 Jan 2020, ToddAndMargo via perl6-users wrote: Would you be so kind to post this as an issue in the documentation, so we can pick up on it? Thanks! JJ Would you mind posting back the link to it, so I can get on the following list?

Re: Ping JJ: string literals

2020-01-19 Thread Tobias Boege
On Sat, 18 Jan 2020, ToddAndMargo via perl6-users wrote: > > > Would you be so kind to post this as an issue in the documentation, so > > we can pick up on it? > > > > Thanks! > > > > JJ > > Would you mind posting back the link to it, so I can > get on the following list?