Perl 6 Meetups in the Southeast US?

2015-04-14 Thread Tom Browder
Unfortunately, I cannot attend the upcoming YAPC::NA in June. Does anyone know of any upcoming public tech meetings or conferences to be held in the southeast or mid-Atlantic US where there might be a Perl 6 dev presence? Thanks. -Tom

generating grammars, capturing in regex interpolation, etc.

2015-04-14 Thread Nathan Gray
I've been playing in Perl 6 (after several years of absence). I am very impressed. I'm porting my recent Date::Reformat into Perl 6, for fun, to get me back into the Perl 6 headspace, and possibly to help others, either with something useful, or something they can look to for examples. I've run

Re: generating grammars, capturing in regex interpolation, etc.

2015-04-14 Thread Patrick R. Michaud
On Tue, Apr 14, 2015 at 08:58:27PM -0400, Nathan Gray wrote: I've run into a snag, in that my strptime processing in Perl 5 relies on building a string that looks like a regex with named captures, and then interpolating that into a real regex. [...] my $pattern = Q/$greeting=[hello]/;