Re: Placeholder Variable (was: Perl 6 Debugging)

2015-03-15 Thread Tom Browder
On Sun, Mar 15, 2015 at 2:55 PM, Timo Paulssen wrote: ... Thanks, Timo! Subroutine arg handling is an awkward but very exciting improvement for an old but non-expert Perl 5 user. Very briefly, how does one properly translate this to Perl 6: sub foo {my @a = @_; } Best, -Tom

Re: Placeholder Variable (was: Perl 6 Debugging)

2015-03-15 Thread Timo Paulssen
On 03/15/2015 08:48 PM, Tom Browder wrote: > The initial part of the code for the offending method definition is: > > method set_custom_ellipsoid > { > my ($name, $major, $recip) = @_; > $name = uc $name; > $recip = 0 unless defined $recip; > if ($major) { > %ellipsoids{$name} = [ $major, $recip

Re: Perl 6 Debugging

2015-03-15 Thread Tom Browder
On Sat, Mar 14, 2015 at 5:19 PM, Tom Browder wrote: > I am trying to convert a fairly simple Perl 5 program and supporting > modules to Perl 6 and making slow progress. I have made much progress since Moritz showed me how to use perl6-m. Now I have come to a point where I haven't yet found what

Re: Perl 6 Debugging

2015-03-15 Thread Tom Browder
sed to show how little progress I've made. > > 2. A pointer to perl 6 debugging. > * use the MoarVM backend :-) Okay... > * For runtime errors, https://github.com/jnthn/rakudo-debugger/ can help > you. > Okay... Thanks so much, Moritz Now I have more tools to move along to my goal. Warmest regards, -Tom

Re: Perl 6 Debugging

2015-03-14 Thread Moritz Lenz
ix Which is because my() (with parens immediately after the 'my') is being interpreted as a subroutine call, not a declarator. Somehow, this still very much looks like Perl 5 code to me :-) > 2. A pointer to perl 6 debugging. * use the MoarVM backend :-) * For runtime errors, https://github.com/jnthn/rakudo-debugger/ can help you. Cheers, Moritz

Re: Perl 6 Debugging

2015-03-14 Thread Tom Browder
On Mar 14, 2015 6:46 PM, "yary" wrote: > > For some reason your github link comes up as an empty page when I click on it. I was able to find it here: > > https://gist.github.com/search?q=test_ellipsoid.pl I've never used gist.github.com before and probably murfled it. There should be a single re

Re: Perl 6 Debugging

2015-03-14 Thread yary
For some reason your github link comes up as an empty page when I click on it. I was able to find it here: https://gist.github.com/search?q=test_ellipsoid.pl -y

Re: Perl 6 Debugging

2015-03-14 Thread Tom Browder
ub.com/08e881d7f1c7a7072dc9.git I don't expect anything more than: 1. The offending statement. 2. A pointer to perl 6 debugging. Thanks! Best, -Tom

Re: Perl 6 Debugging

2015-03-14 Thread Elizabeth Mattijsen
> On 14 Mar 2015, at 23:19, Tom Browder wrote: > > I am trying to convert a fairly simple Perl 5 program and supporting > modules to Perl 6 and making slow progress. > > Executing 'perl6 -v': > > This is perl6 version 2015.02-247-gab55cb7 built on MoarVM version > 2015.02-25-g3d0404a > > I am

Perl 6 Debugging

2015-03-14 Thread Tom Browder
I am trying to convert a fairly simple Perl 5 program and supporting modules to Perl 6 and making slow progress. Executing 'perl6 -v': This is perl6 version 2015.02-247-gab55cb7 built on MoarVM version 2015.02-25-g3d0404a I am trying to get something equivalent to Carp to show me the exact fai