Re: A Logo design for Rakudo Perl 6

2009-01-16 Thread Guy Hulbert
On Fri, 2009-16-01 at 07:53 -0800, jerry gay wrote: > > Yes, I know there is pugs but I thought that was a prototype. > > > from http://perlcabal.org/syn/S01.html#Project_Plan: Thanks (also R Dice). I probably saw that but memory dulls with age. -- --gh

Re: A Logo design for Rakudo Perl 6

2009-01-16 Thread Richard Dice
Perl 6 is a language specification, tied to a test suite. It will have as many implementations as there are people / teams that wish to implement it. Pugs is a Haskell implementation-in-progress. Rakudo is an implementation-in-progress on top of the Parrot VM. One would expect a JPerl6 and an Ir

Re: A Logo design for Rakudo Perl 6

2009-01-16 Thread jerry gay
On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 07:46, Guy Hulbert wrote: > On Fri, 2009-16-01 at 09:16 -0600, Patrick R. Michaud wrote: >> I agree fully about the need for a visual representation; as far as >> the name goes I'm hoping that people will think of "Rakudo Perl" in >> a manner to the way that we currently t

Re: A Logo design for Rakudo Perl 6

2009-01-16 Thread Guy Hulbert
On Fri, 2009-16-01 at 09:16 -0600, Patrick R. Michaud wrote: > I agree fully about the need for a visual representation; as far as > the name goes I'm hoping that people will think of "Rakudo Perl" in > a manner to the way that we currently think of "Strawberry Perl" or > "Vanilla Perl". Huh?! ;

Re: A Logo design for Rakudo Perl 6

2009-01-16 Thread Patrick R. Michaud
On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 03:45:48AM -0700, Perl wrote: > Moritz was one of the first to guide it to the idea of making a logo for > Rakudo Perl 6 - as there's nothing yet (really) available. I thought that > would be a neat project and scratch some of my person itches. It would be a very neat pro

A Logo design for Rakudo Perl 6

2009-01-16 Thread Perl
Hello everyone, A few weeks ago, probably more than I want to admit (but here! See! My Notes! I've been up to something!), there was one of those, "OMG! Perl is going to DIE!" threads, somewhere and the, "Well, do something about it" call came out, and I sort of replied, "well, alright" and

Re: Operating on pairs, Was Re: Revised solution #2

2009-01-16 Thread Richard Hainsworth
Carl Mäsak wrote: Andy (>): map? perl6 -e 'my $x = :a<5>; say $x.map( { .value / 10} ).fmt("%s")' Yes, sure. That'll print a tenth of the value of $x. The '.fmt("%s")' is a no-op in this case. // Carl Not entirely a no-op. Thus $perl6 > my $x=:a<5>; say $x.map({.value/10}).fmt("