It’s far from obvious that playing with the name is likely to make things
significantly better. Perl 6 has been P6 longer than Perl 5 had been P5 — or
Perl Anything — at the time it was conceived. That’s not to say nothing should
be done about it, but as some people have pointed out in the
On 2018-09-30 9:31 pm, ToddAndMargo wrote:
>By the way, schools have books. Why is it do you suppose that that
schools also have teacher?
Well, why is it, do you suppose, that hiring a tutor costs so much more
than buying a book?
Certainly, some people learn better aurally than visually.
On 2018-10-02 9:57 pm, ToddAndMargo wrote:
Does anyone know of a paper out in web land showing how to do bitwise
operations?
$ p6 'my $v = 32 & 16; say $v;'
If you search docs.perl6.org for "bitwise" you will find "+&":
https://docs.perl6.org/language/operators#infix_+;
And sure enough, 'say
On 2018-10-02 6:28 pm, ToddAndMargo wrote:
Question: in Perl syntaxland, is "postfix" short for "postcircumfix"?
Again, search for "postcircumfix" in docs.perl6.org, and you will get this:
https://docs.perl6.org/language/operators#index-entry-postcircumfix_operator
>>term++ postfix
On 2018-10-03 5:03 pm, Ralph Mellor wrote:
I've been building a collection of P6 videos for about 5 years.
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLRuESFRW2Fa77XObvk7-BYVFwobZHdXdK_polymer=true
Terrific -- I was going to say this should be listed on
https://perl6.org/resources/ but it is indeed
On 2018-09-30 9:31 pm, ToddAndMargo wrote:
>By the way, schools have books. Why is it do you suppose that that
schools also have teacher?
Well, why is it, do you suppose, that hiring a tutor costs so much more
than buying a book?
Certainly, some people learn better aurally than visually.
On 2018-10-02 9:57 pm, ToddAndMargo wrote:
Does anyone know of a paper out in web land showing how to do bitwise
operations?
Trying to AND 0010 with 0001
$ p6 'my $v = 32 & 16; say $v;'
If you search docs.perl6.org for "bitwise" you will find "+&":
On 2018-09-30 9:31 pm, ToddAndMargo wrote:
>By the way, schools have books. Why is it do you suppose that that
schools also have teacher?
Well, why is it, do you suppose, that hiring a tutor costs so much more
than buying a book?
Certainly, some people learn better aurally than visually.
Richard Hainsworth wrote:
Five years seem an eternity in the frenetic world of dot_coms and the like.
But it is not a long time in other areas of human activity.
Indeed. To quote Alan Perlis, Some cathedrals took a century to complete. Can
you imagine the grandeur and scope of a program that
On 2008-Mar-18, at 1:42 am, Aristotle Pagaltzis wrote:
[...] how is he going to tell whether the breakage is due to your
API changes or due to his own code not being Py3k-ready?
Sounds quite well reasoned to me. Is this something that makes
sense to encourage for 5-to-6 migrations of Perl
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