Re: Rakudo won't install

2016-01-06 Thread Timo Paulssen
I'm sorry, but the JVM back-end of rakudo is currently known to not compile and/or run very well.

Rakudo won't install

2016-01-06 Thread Albert Berger
Greetings! Today I tried to install Rakudo with both MoarVM and JVM support on ArchLinux. After cloning Rakudo git repository I did the following: $ perl Configure.pl --gen-moar --gen-nqp --backends=moar,jvm $ make $ make install And got the following error: ./perl6-j tools/build/install-core-d

Re: Use of ':' in identifiers

2016-01-06 Thread mt1957
Hi Tobias, $foo:bar and Foo:bar are variable/package names with an colonpair appended. The entire thing is then called a longname, at least internally. Test:ver(v1) makes it clearer what it does. You $abc:def example boils down to $abd:def(True) btw. Thanks for your answer. I now found someth

Re: Use of ':' in identifiers

2016-01-06 Thread Tobias Leich
Hi, $foo:bar and Foo:bar are variable/package names with an colonpair appended. The entire thing is then called a longname, at least internally. Test:ver(v1) makes it clearer what it does. You $abc:def example boils down to $abd:def(True) btw. Am 06.01.2016 um 12:24 schrieb mt1957: L.s. I

Use of ':' in identifiers

2016-01-06 Thread mt1957
L.s. I'am a bit confused about the use of ':' in an identifier. I've read a bit about the ':' twigil but that seems to be used at the front of the id giving it a special use. Under 'identifiers' on the syntax page I couldn't find any about it. So I am referring to things like $abc:def and the

Re: Rakudo star 2015.12?

2016-01-06 Thread Tobias Leich
I am working on it, and made some progress yesterday. I hope to ship it soon. Am 06.01.2016 um 01:57 schrieb Parrot Raiser: There doesn't seem to be a tarball for rakudo star 2015.12. Is that going to be skipped?