Re: Is the cosine page wrong?

On 12/28/20 10:57 PM, ToddAndMargo via perl6-users wrote: On 12/28/20 4:54 AM, Richard Hainsworth wrote: So please take what I say now as a plea for you to adapt a little, not to get pissed off with us even though you do seem to have pissed some of us off. You have very definite ideas about w

Re: Is the cosine page wrong?

On 12/28/20 11:49 PM, ToddAndMargo via perl6-users wrote: I will accept your target audience:   "Someone who already knows how to program and   uses 'Raku.'" I will also accept that the documentation is not for me or anyone else trying to learn Raku. We explained that there are two t

Why does .new initialize?

lock at line 1 > my $q = Rat.new 0 > put $q 0 Peter Scott

Re: Why does .new initialize?

On 7/19/2021 1:24 AM, Elizabeth Mattijsen wrote: If .new wouldn't initialize a type to its basic instantiation, what would be the point of .new then? FWIW, the same goes for: dd Int.new; # 0 dd Num.new; # 0e0 dd Complex.new; # <0+0i> dd Str.new; # "" If you

Re: Why does .new initialize?

be done by external code? Best regards, Vadim Belman On Jul 19, 2021, at 1:00 PM, Peter Scott <mailto:pe...@psdt.com>> wrote: On 7/19/2021 1:24 AM, Elizabeth Mattijsen wrote: If .new wouldn't initialize a type to its basic instantiation, what would be the point of .new then?

Re: Perl 6 Advocacy Suggestion

I have seen Damian demonstrate how Perl 6 can be the best language for teaching functional, procedural, and object-oriented programming. On 1/19/2016 10:37 AM, Darren Duncan wrote: I very much agree with this idea, of arguing Perl 6 as a teaching language. Academia are the ones that would appre

Re: ding!

On 5/31/17 8:44 PM, ToddAndMargo wrote: On 05/31/2017 08:39 PM, Lloyd Fournier wrote: perl6 -e 'say "\a"' No joy under linux. 0x07 does not work either. Just prints a 7 ITYM chr(7).

Missing or wrong version of dependency

Hullo.  I am on     CentOS Linux release 7.5.1804 (Core) and I did     yum install rakudo    [rakudo-0.2018.04-1.el7]     yum install rakudo-zef  [rakudo-zef-0.2.9-1.el7.x86_64] Both came from epel.  Then I tried this: # zef install Readline ===SORRY!=== Missing or wrong version of depend

Re: RFE: contains documentation

this right (at least, initially) by creating the ---tut series of pods. Good programmers are not always good writers or teachers. Peter Scott Author, "Perl Debugged," "Perl Medic," and "Perl Fundamentals."

Re: RFE: contains documentation

On 9/9/18 3:47 PM, ToddAndMargo wrote: I also LOVE examples.  Sometimes an example will get past the fog quicker than anything else.  And you will notice in a (spoken) language dictionary, they ALWAYS give an example of how to use a work in its various contexts. "Learning Perl 6" by brian d fo

Re: A comparison between P5 docs and p6 docs

Ordinarily I would agree with you. But I know my own brain and how it works. I only learn by doing. Have tried to change that and can't. A good tutorial book *will* make you "do." The brian d foy book does exactly that with things to try, and questions to explore in your own code. It takes

Re: Could this be any more obscure?

On 9/26/2018 3:21 PM, ToddAndMargo wrote: I use words all the time.  I never would have figured it out from     multi method words(Str:D $input: $limit = Inf --> Positional) Do your really think any beginner would be able to figure out "words" from the above? If the beginner had studied the

Re: Could this be any more obscure?

On 9/30/18 2:45 AM, ToddAndMargo wrote: The manual need to be written for the common user to understand, not just developer level and very advanced users.  They don't need the manual anyway. Of course we do. I constantly refer to the Perl 5 manual rather than waste memory on rote information.

Re: Could this be any more obscure?

On 10/2/2018 5:45 PM, ToddAndMargo wrote: On 10/2/18 5:31 PM, Curt Tilmes wrote: On Tue, Oct 2, 2018 at 8:28 PM ToddAndMargo > wrote:     Question: in Perl syntaxland, is "postfix" short     for "postcircumfix"? Nope.  Each are different types of oeprator.  Her

Re: need doc help with []

On 10/2/2018 6:29 PM, Trey Harris wrote: So it is for the [] postcircumfix. For those of us who have been following Perl 6 development for 18 years, the fact that it—and almost every other low-level particle—can be described at all in such a way is a remarkable triumph of the language. Amen t

Re: looking for good project to learn perl6

Raku libraries for Keras/Tensorflow, or AWS, or Kubernetes, leveraging the novel features of Raku, could be killer apps for Raku. Ambitious, though. Peter Scott > On Dec 7, 2019, at 7:24 PM, Tom Blackwood wrote: > >  > Hello William, > > We are actually a small team maki

Re: A grand idea on the documentation

ollow the suggestions for how to do that so you can see how they are received. Peter Scott

Re: Once again - You say one thing and do another Re: Bug to report: cardinal called an integer

w their skills while respecting the other members of the community. -- Peter Scott

Re: irrational nubmer?

On 2/26/2020 11:14 AM, ToddAndMargo via perl6-users wrote: I used gnome calculator to 20 digits:     665857/470832     1.41421356237468991063 Sorry.  Not seeing any repeating patterns. Here is NAS doing it to 1 million digits (they have too much time on their hands): https://apod.nasa.gov/html

Re: OAuth2?

On 3/21/20 2:20 PM, ToddAndMargo via perl6-users wrote: On 2020-03-18 18:42, ToddAndMargo via perl6-users wrote: This is a long shot, but have any of you figured out how to send eMail through G-Mail with OAuth2? I have a module that uses cURL, but I can't figure out how to get it to work with O

Re: I am getting flooded with tmp files

Something in your program is keeping them open until your program closes the filehandles on exit.  Unlink can't remove a file that's open, only make a note for later. Restricting the scope of the temp file handles would probably be the cleanest way. On 11/18/2024 8:49 PM, ToddAndMargo via per