on the horizon, like perhaps an RDF storage?
-- Darren Duncan
(where I'm more certain they
can have a big impact). However, I'm sure the web modules can
influence improvements to CGI.pm in Perl 6, and I will do so at an
appropriate time.
-- Darren Duncan
At 5:00 PM +0100 9/13/06, David Cantrell wrote:
On Tue, Sep 12, 2006 at 03:08:03PM -0700, Darren Duncan wrote:
The word CGI generally speaks to an old, weak, and relatively
inefficient technology ... modern proper stuff does not spin off a
separate process for each server request; it reuses
any ties to outside environment, though in specific cases
where input and output are too large to easily fit in RAM at once,
there can be enhancements.
-- Darren Duncan
At 7:38 PM +0200 9/16/06, A. Pagaltzis wrote:
* Darren Duncan [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-09-09 20:40]:
4. Make UTF-8 the default HTTP response character encoding,
and the default declared charset for text/* MIME types, and
explicitly declare that this is what the charset is. The only
time
repository, which is basically a copy of Juerd's code in the
discussion emails, which I wrapped with distributions on his behalf
on 20070217.
Presumably Juerd will get back to these when he has the tuits, but
meanwhile you could try improving what he started.
-- Darren Duncan
better to make
this call yourself, having more information on your circumstances.
-- Darren Duncan
P.S. Does anyone think that the main part of this email may provide
a starting point for a general best practices tutorial item or
Perl.com article?
as black and white line-art. I know they are more examples, but some things I
saw suggested looked a bit too complicated. On the other hand, arguably the
gimel is too simple. But I'm sure something good can be worked out.
-- Darren Duncan
Attack Butterfly
that is about to bite your face off... :)
Please don't. I think the happy version is much better than any angry or
violent version. We want the logo to evoke happiness after all.
-- Darren Duncan
and V2, and
ignores V1 and the mutable role for now, as it is a lot easier to implement this
thing when you don't have to worry about deep copying.
The current Set::Relation is licensed LGPLv3+ but I am willing to relicense it
to Artistic v2+ if that assists a porting effort.
-- Darren Duncan
, but if the argument is a variable, they have to look
further out.
-- Darren Duncan
further down the
priority queue of the Rakudo developers. It very much should be done, and
relatively soon, but so far it was quite reasonable to have waited. -- Darren Duncan
.
Or maybe this was an early development that later went away?
-- Darren Duncan
is the best way to distribute Perl 6 modules these days?
-- Darren Duncan
believe that Perl 6 identifiers can be any string at all, but that then they
have to appear quoted in the general case; the above restriction just refers to
the common case of unquoted identifiers. This said, I'm not sure yet what the
syntax is for quoting identifiers. -- Darren Duncan
there may be workarounds such
as by using unspace.
-- Darren Duncan
if
worded in a value-free manner.
There are also those who perceive as fact that the biblical and geological
timelines are not mutually exclusive and are both plausible. -- Darren Duncan
source code files.
-- Darren Duncan
On 2014-08-09, 3:09 PM, Fields, Christopher J wrote:
(accidentally sent to perl6-lang, apologies for cross-posting but this seems
more appropriate)
I have a fairly simple question regarding the feasibility of using grammars
with commonly used biological data
names. -- Darren Duncan
On 2015-03-19 3:20 PM, Tom Browder wrote:
I need to replace the Perl 5 'wantarray' and think a multi method with
differing return types should do it.
So I've tried this:
multi method foo($a, $b -- {Num,Num}) { #... }
multi method foo($a, $b -- Num) { #... }
and get
return type outside the signature. -- Darren Duncan
, each caller context can
call foo() and use the result in the way it expects to. -- Darren Duncan
On 2015-03-19 4:00 PM, Tom Browder wrote (in private):
On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 5:53 PM, Darren Duncan dar...@darrenduncan.net wrote:
I think as a general principle, multi methods should dispatch
I for one did not know/remember about PERL6LIB and rather all I knew was the
more ambitious plan at http://design.perl6.org/S11.html about CompUnitRepo and
such. -- Darren Duncan
See Moritz Lenz' response to this thread on March 26. To summarize, you can use
trusts. Also having to do this may indicate bad code design. -- Darren Duncan
On 2015-05-11 2:13 PM, R. Ransbottom wrote:
I need to test some private routines, so is there a way to do
On 2015-05-12 12:40 PM, R. Ransbottom wrote:
On Mon, May 11, 2015 at 03:22:46PM -0700, Darren Duncan wrote:
you can use trusts. Also having to do this may indicate bad code
design. -- Darren Duncan
I saw Moritz' and Carl's responses and I agree with the smell
issue.
Given that the code
Considering that a non-fat Rat has a 64-bit denominator, I would expect
conversions from Num to make use of that full precision by default, and not
round off to 6 decimal places. -- Darren Duncan
k
of the spec or such, though in hindsight of your implementations leading spec
comment, I assume this is also how one indicates dependencies on a spec-leading
compiler.
Thank you.
-- Darren Duncan
On 2015-12-29 5:46 AM, Patrick R. Michaud wrote:
On Tue, Dec 29, 2015 at 01:57:57AM -0800, Darr
On that note, are there going to be Perl 6 versions 6.x.y where {x,y} are
integers? Will 6.0.0 be the first such one? -- Darren Duncan
On 2015-12-29 12:51 AM, Tobias Leich wrote:
Hi, the first official Perl 6 (the language) release is not called 6.0.0, it is
called 6.c.
And this is what has
Red Hat is quite conservative. Usually what happens in situations like this
when you want more up to date stuff you get it from alternate repositories that
make Red Hat compatible packages. See also repositories for Fedora or Cent OS.
-- Darren Duncan
On 2016-01-10 11:16 PM, ToddAndMargo
significant rewrites to take better advantage of the new Perl
6 features and idioms that a more mechanical automatic translation wouldn't.
Did that tell you anything useful?
-- Darren Duncan
I very much agree with this idea, of arguing Perl 6 as a teaching language.
Academia are the ones that would appreciate what Perl 6 offers the most in the
short term, whereas industry would demand a higher standard for it becoming
popular. And the first can lead to the second. -- Darren Duncan
but it may
have been something like "SUB" or "SELF". -- Darren Duncan
On 2017-02-04 12:34 AM, ToddAndMargo wrote:
Hi All,
Just out of curiosity, in Perl 6 can a subroutine call itself?
-T
I am fighting with a broken Net:FTP::rmdir in Perl 5 that
will not recuse as ad
to have a single variable or keyword to represent
the entire argument list as a single value. Logically, a single value is what
an entire argument list is anyway, with individual arguments being components of
that. -- Darren Duncan
Thank you for this Timo, and to everyone else who replied. It did indeed
address what I wanted to know. -- Darren Duncan
On 2016-09-13 5:15 AM, Timo Paulssen wrote:
I'll answer based on the data structures MoarVM uses internally:
On 09/13/2016 05:13 AM, Darren Duncan wrote:> (Pret
the types?
Thank you.
-- Darren Duncan
Just speculating, but try replacing the "||" with the "|" operator which should
create an ANY Junction, if I'm not mistaken, which may then do what you want. --
Darren Duncan
On 2017-03-24 5:58 PM, ToddAndMargo wrote:
Hi All,,
if $Terminal ~~ /xterm/ || /lin
, but okay), but there should also be an operator for multiplying 1 bag
by a natural number, that is a scalar multiply of a bag. Unless it is assumed
the standard hyper-operator syntax is best for this.
-- Darren Duncan
On 2017-07-21 1:33 PM, Elizabeth Mattijsen wrote:
On 21 Jul 2017, at 21:30, Darren Duncan <dar...@darrenduncan.net> wrote:
Firstly, I believe ∆ (U+2206) is the standard symbol for symmetric difference,
and not circled minus as the above url currently gives.
https://en.wikipedia.or
On 2017-07-25 8:32 AM, Steve Mynott wrote:
On 25 July 2017 at 16:23, Darren Duncan <dar...@darrenduncan.net> wrote:
There's a key difference however.
While programming languages continue to evolve, the expectation is that a
production-complete Rakudo would always be a functional su
Perl 6.c?"
-- Darren Duncan
On 2017-07-25 1:02 AM, Elizabeth Mattijsen wrote:
If that is the question, the answer is: the junction of “never" and “now".
Which would also be the answer for Pumpking Perl 5, or any other programming language
like ever. Because as long
On 2017-07-25 10:05 AM, Brandon Allbery wrote:
On Tue, Jul 25, 2017 at 11:45 AM, Darren Duncan wrote:
However I assume it is the 3 bullet points that the release announcement
highlights: advanced macros, non-blocking I/O, bits of Synopsis 9 and 11.
The fact the announcement
PC makers, and yet other makers were shipping 32 bit only
still 4 years after Apple stopped?
-- Darren Duncan
On 2017-07-25 12:16 PM, Mark Carter wrote:
On 2017-07-25 11:05 AM, Mark Carter wrote:
On 25/07/2017 18:34, Darren Duncan wrote:
How often would someone reasonably be using a cutting
describe are considered essential, they should receive
updates to run with Win32; otherwise they should be dropped from Star as they
are clearly not considered that essential.
Dropped modules can still be installed separately as add-ons where they work.
-- Darren Duncan
a 64 bit Windows these days?
-- Darren Duncan
On 2017-07-23 10:29 AM, Steve Mynott wrote:
Rakudo itself probably does compile on Windows 32-bit (or least it did
last time I tried it).
But here is no Rakudo Star 32 bit MSI due to problems with modules not
working -- I think linenoise failed
As was announced a few days ago, see https://perl6book.com which is a good site
for outlining what books on learning Perl 6 exist and suggestions on where
different kinds of users should start based on their needs. -- Darren Duncan
comparing that to zero,
and it also has meaning for list-like uncountable collections.
-- Darren Duncan
On 2017-12-11 1:02 PM, Vittore Scolari wrote:
I think that this stems from a confusion between the divisibility problem in
integer number (on a ring) and the divisibility problem resolved by th
An Excuse does compare
equal to itself. -- Darren Duncan
Your saying "count all the number" is confusing and doesn't seem to relate to
what follows. Did you mean to say "sum all the number"? -- Darren Duncan
On 2018-07-10 2:02 AM, ToddAndMargo wrote:
Hi All,
Remembering from my school days, a famous mathematician
whose n
full stop. -- Darren Duncan
ay not be
particularly useful in the face of NFG.
For a wider context, I know that in other programming languages like .NET or
Java it is possible for their strings to have invalid surrogates, and I'm trying
to figure out if Perl 6 can have the same problem or not.
Thank you.
-- Darren Duncan
.
-- Darren Duncan
on the situation and be ready to change it again quickly if something else
actually becomes the official replacement.
-- Darren Duncan
On 2019-10-16 9:09 a.m., Joseph Brenner wrote:
Last I looked, raku.org redirects to perl6.org already.
On 10/15/19, Darren Duncan wrote:
One of the earliest
Raku has the Native Call interface https://docs.raku.org/language/nativecall
which is what you use instead. -- Darren Duncan
On 2020-02-02 6:36 p.m., wes park wrote:
HI
In perl5 we can use the underline C library for example JSON C with XS
interface.
In perl6 how can we implement it?
Thanks
On 2020-02-20 2:22 p.m., ToddAndMargo via perl6-users wrote:
On 2020-02-20 00:41, Darren Duncan wrote:
On 2020-02-20 12:10 a.m., Tobias Boege wrote:
Granted, Todd would not have anticipated this answer if he calls
arbitrary length integers "magic powder" and the question "
into Raku are non-symbolic, so the test is simply
"false".
There probably are or probably can be symbolic numeric types, but they wouldn't
be core.
-- Darren Duncan
On 2020-02-19 6:57 p.m., ToddAndMargo via perl6-users wrote:
Hi All,
This is a complete trivia question.
Is
ype can represent is exactly expressible as the
ratio of 2 integers. -- Darren Duncan
an "unsigned integer" or "cardinal"
is inaccurate in the same way that calling it an "integer" is. In either case,
the variable can only hold a proper subset of either type, not all of them. If
you're calling integer wrong then one will have to call the type something like
"integers in the range 0..^2**32".
-- Darren Duncan
On 2020-01-17 9:00 p.m., ToddAndMargo via perl6-users wrote:
Still don't know what they used the word "sub"
The term "sub" is short for "subroutine", and declaring routines that way is
part of the Perl legacy that lasted into Raku. -- Darren Duncan
e unsigned integer: P6opaque, Str
I also believe the latter would work best for this. -- Darren Duncan
.
-- Darren Duncan
Brad is saying what I've been saying, while a uint CAN represent a cardinal
number, one does NOT ALWAYS represent a cardinal number, so saying this only IS
a cardinal number is WRONG. -- Darren Duncan
On 2020-01-13 12:56 p.m., Brad Gilbert wrote:
Ok looking into it, zero is inside of the set
On 2020-01-12 11:32 p.m., ToddAndMargo via perl6-users wrote:
On 2020-01-12 20:03, Darren Duncan wrote:
A uint32 is NOT specifically a cardinal.
Since a uint32 ca not be negative or a fraction,
it is a cardinal. Other operating system do call
them cardinals, such as Modula2. Pascal, C++ (I
ze number and it can also be
negative.
-- Darren Duncan
excludes them.) -- Darren Duncan
On 2020-01-03 12:03 a.m., Todd Chester via perl6-users wrote:
On 2020-01-02 22:19, Darren Duncan wrote:
On 2020-01-02 10:01 a.m., ToddAndMargo via perl6-users wrote:
How do I do a 32 bit unsigned integer (cardinal)? I
have a situation where I need to be able
On 2020-01-04 5:21 p.m., Patrick Spek via perl6-users wrote:
On Sat, 4 Jan 2020 15:43:37 -0800
Darren Duncan wrote:
Isn't there typically automated test suites that can prove in a few
minutes that Rakudo works on a particular platform? Would running
this typically be good enough to show
Isn't there typically automated test suites that can prove in a few minutes that
Rakudo works on a particular platform? Would running this typically be good
enough to show that nothing broke in an update? -- Darren Duncan
On 2020-01-04 11:10 a.m., Patrick Spek via perl6-users wrote:
On Fri
On 2020-01-05 1:51 p.m., Patrick Spek via perl6-users wrote:
On Sat, 4 Jan 2020 22:23:30 -0800 Darren Duncan wrote:
Last I recall, there was no Mac installer for Rakudo Star at all, nor
was there any need for one. The compiled project is simply in a zip
file which the end-uaer unzips
On 2020-01-06 1:18 a.m., Patrick Spek via perl6-users wrote:
On Sun, 5 Jan 2020 18:27:01 -0800 Darren Duncan wrote:
The normal Rakudo Star releases so far are compiled, [...]
For Mac and Windows, perhaps, but the release is similar as it always
was for GNU+Linux. And I'm mostly aiming
These messages are archived on the public internet as far as I know so you've
just made your room and its password published publicly. I hope your Zoom has a
waiting room enabled. -- Darren Duncan
On 2020-10-01 12:24 p.m., Joseph Brenner wrote:
Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge
This reminds me of my 2009 Set::Relation Perl module, which works to help you do
SQL features like this in your application, but will soon be superseded by
another module that also has a Raku version. -- Darren Duncan
On 2020-07-19 1:02 p.m., Joseph Brenner wrote:
I was thinking about
I would put the examples folder at the root level of the distro, as a peer to
lib and a peer to the tests folder. -- Darren Duncan
On 2020-08-13 9:25 p.m., Stuart Hungerford wrote:
Hi,
I'd like to add some example modules to a Raku module I'm working on.
These are not strictly tests, nor
ar
compile in 1 second rather than 6-7 seconds on my 2013 machine.
See
https://github.com/muldis/Muldis_Object_Notation/commit/568713257c474ad393d2dd6777e2147432cf6ec5
for the exact diff in question that led to this speedup.
-- Darren Duncan
I agree, I would also like to know of this official channel and join it. --
Darren Duncan
On 2021-03-12 11:21 p.m., Richard Hainsworth wrote:
This is a request to the Raku Coordinating Council that was elected at the end
of last year.
Please name a channel where community wide plans
see why they can't BOTH be
official sites, like Version 1 plus Version A, no reason to have to pick one.
-- Darren Duncan
Thank you to those who replied to my question with private messages.
I now understand what is meant by "keeper" here.
-- Darren Duncan
On 2021-02-14 1:38 p.m., Darren Duncan wrote:
On 2021-02-12 8:12 p.m., ToddAndMargo via perl6-users wrote:
I have been working on this keeper f
em.
So does "keeper" mean "documentation" here?
Otherwise please explain, thank you.
-- Darren Duncan
and be the primary
developer working on it? -- Darren Duncan
On 2022-07-10 10:56 a.m., Elizabeth Mattijsen wrote:
Fez (aka https://360.zef.pm) will provide *all* versions.
The above url just displays a big data structure when visiting it in a web
browser, and not a normal website, is that correct? -- Darren Duncan
.muldis"
form, as an "auth" while making it explicit that this is an internet domain
name, but without naming any protocols like "http" or "https" etc.
Is there some kind of best standard format for indicating this, eg
"domain:muldis.com" but standa
The video is less than 10 minutes long, its not that much effort to watch.
The TL;DW is some bad stuff happened but some things are improving after.
-- Darren Duncan
On 2023-06-09 12:26 a.m., Veesh Goldman wrote:
Could I get a TL;DW on that video? I love Rust, and would hate to see anything
And here Rust seemed to be massively gaining in popularity, and was just
supported officially for Linux kernel driver support etc. -- Darren Duncan
On 2023-06-08 11:17 a.m., Parrot Raiser wrote:
See https://youtu.be/QEnuzwCWpgQ <https://youtu.be/QEnuzwCWpgQ>
This is not meant to be an e
g for a fully declarative solution in the grammar itself, not
something involving post-processing.
Thank you.
-- Darren Duncan
considers a char, and this seemed the best way to be sure.
-- Darren Duncan
On 2023-07-30 9:30 p.m., William Michels via perl6-users wrote:
Hi Darren (and Marcel),
Two different approaches:
https://docs.raku.org/language/regexes#Conjunction:_&;
<https://docs.raku.org/language/regexes#Conjunc
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