Re: I need `dir` help

2018-05-10 Thread jerry gay
i'm afraid you didn't read the docs very closely... Returns the contents of a directory as a lazy list of IO::Path objects stringifying an IO::Path object gives you a large string. the examples in the docs take up more room than the description of the routine. here's the first: Examples: > #

Re: need <-[x]> help

2018-05-03 Thread jerry gay
you want a negative lookahead assertion, which are described (with an example) at https://docs.perl6.org/language/regexes#Lookahead_Assertions On Thu, May 3, 2018 at 3:10 AM, Todd Chester wrote: > Hi All, > > What I am trying to do is to replace a quote `"` > with

Re: s:g/T/U/ doesn't work ?

2012-10-24 Thread jerry gay
On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 5:35 AM, Marc Chantreux kha...@phear.org wrote: Cannot assign to a non-container in sub infix:= at src/gen/CORE.setting:11692 in block at /tmp/ZZZ:4 you're attempting to modify a string constant, which cannot be modified. try something like (untested):

Announce: Rakudo Perl 6 development release #21 (Seattle)

2009-09-17 Thread jerry gay
On behalf of the Rakudo development team, I'm pleased to announce the September 2009 development release of Rakudo Perl #21 Seattle. Rakudo is an implementation of Perl 6 on the Parrot Virtual Machine [1]. The tarball for the September 2009 release is available from

Re: Why {{}} for regexp closures instead of just {}?

2008-10-27 Thread jerry gay
On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 10:45 PM, Chris Dolan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: S05 always uses single curlies for closures, but throughout Parrot, code seems to use double curlies in PGE regexps. Why is that? That is, why this: m/ foo {{ say found foo }} / and not this: m/ foo { say found foo }

Re: Practical Considerations

2008-10-06 Thread jerry gay
On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 5:49 AM, Elyse M. Grasso [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My company sells an application that links a bugtracking tool with an SCM tool so that, for example, the files changed for each bug are recorded in the bugtracking tool. It is currently written in (mostly)

Re: Perl6 style-guide

2006-09-20 Thread jerry gay
On 9/20/06, Fagyal Csongor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was wondering if there is (or there should be) a documentation on how to elegantly write Perl6 code. yes, there should be. I am afraid that when I will be starting to write Perl6 code, it will be too much Perl5-ish, and I will end up