Re: Logic Programming for Perl6 (Was Re: 3 Good Reasons... (typo alert!))

2006-05-25 Thread A. Pagaltzis
* Ovid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-05-25 20:45]: > The first hurdle would be the syntax. The programmer just > looking at the code would need to know when one section of code > represents a snippet of logic programming. Is the following a > function call or a Prolog fact? > > loves( 'foo', 'bar'

Fwd: 3 Good Reasons...

2006-05-25 Thread Michael Mathews
Hi Steffen, I'm glad you made that point. If I understand your statement, it's a common "gain" cited by Perl 6 (actually Parrot) advocates: you can mix languages. But a point I was trying to make was that while this is fun for us developers, managers hate it, with very good reason. Having one cru

Re: 3 Good Reasons...

2006-05-25 Thread Steffen Schwigon
"Michael Mathews" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > So my question to the list is, in simple terms even an IT manager > could grasp, explain what problems Perl 5 has that Perl 6 fixes, > such that they would want to undergo the pain of ever switching. >From a Perl point of view: there should be no pai

Re: Logic Programming for Perl6 (Was Re: 3 Good Reasons... (typo alert!))

2006-05-25 Thread Ovid
- Original Message From: David Romano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > duplicate results and this is almost always wrong. (See > > http://use.perl.org/~Ovid/journal/28378 > > for an SQL example of this problem). > I re-read your journal entry and comments (I had read it back when you > first had

Re: Logic Programming for Perl6 (Was Re: 3 Good Reasons... (typo alert!))

2006-05-25 Thread Larry Wall
This topic may be better suited to perl6-language, unless you consider its denizens to already be self-selected against logic programming. :) Larry

Re[2]: perl 6 hosting?

2006-05-25 Thread Andrew Shitov
GS> The hard part is to make sure they won't write code to exploit other sites or GS> create hug load on your machine... Any idea of how to avoid endless loops? :-) Restricting execution time? -- ___ Andrew, [EMAIL PROTECTE

perldoc or pod parser in Perl6

2006-05-25 Thread Gabor Szabo
sligthly related to the Perl6 wiki issue, is there a perldoc command or a podparser implemented in Perl6 already ? Gabor

Re: Perl 6 Wiki -- 2 more possibilities, & further discussion.

2006-05-25 Thread Michael Mathews
The (oh so very cool) idea of implementing the perl 6 wiki IN perl 6 (eventually) is a powerful argument. I also concede that control issues mean we don't want the official wiki to be on wikipedia. Kwiki is already a perl-based wiki, but I have no experience using it. We don't have to put perl 6 u

Re: eval

2006-05-25 Thread David Romano
Hi Michael, On 5/24/06, Michael Mathews <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Oh "try"! I like that! But is CATCH implemented in pugs? Anyone care to give a working example of try/CATCH? I don't think CATCH is implemented in pugs yet: #!/usr/local/bin/pugs catcher; sub catcher { say "here"; try {

Perl 6 Wiki -- 2 more possibilities, & further discussion.

2006-05-25 Thread Conrad Schneiker
(Responding to 3 notes on 2 mail lists here; Changed subject line.) Juerd wrote: > Feather, the semi-public, semi-private, Perl 6 development server, is > available to host a Perl 6 wiki. > > The hostname www.perl6.nl is deliberately kept available for something > like that. Does that mean you a