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: > # T

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 `inches`, but NOT when the quot

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 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): my $snippet

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 http://github.com/rakudo/rakud

Re: A Logo design for Rakudo Perl 6

2009-01-16 Thread jerry gay
On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 07:46, Guy Hulbert wrote: > On Fri, 2009-16-01 at 09:16 -0600, Patrick R. Michaud wrote: >> I agree fully about the need for a visual representation; as far as >> the name goes I'm hoping that people will think of "Rakudo Perl" in >> a manner to the way that we currently t

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 "f

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) non-object-o

Re: am I doing something wrong - hanoi example with 0.5.1 parrot release

2008-01-02 Thread jerry gay
On Jan 2, 2008 2:54 AM, Ovid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- Aaron Trevena <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > running the example at > > http://svn.pugscode.org/pugs/examples/algorithms/hanoi.pl > > > > parrot ~/downloads/parrot-0.5.1/languages/perl6/perl6.pbc hanoi.pl > > > > I get.. > > > > Null P

Re: what can I do in perl 6 today?

2007-12-28 Thread jerry gay
On Dec 28, 2007 5:34 AM, Aaron Trevena <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I was wondering about this - people keep on asking about "when it will > be finnished" - I'm more interested in "can I do X in it" where X is > something I'm interested in and/or something I can contribute to > and/or s

Re: Introspection and list question

2006-12-12 Thread jerry gay
On 12/12/06, Ovid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi all, A couple of quick things. First, how do I do introspection in Pugs? CPAN's Perl6::Bible hasn't been updated in a while, but the various ways to get a list of methods (from http://search.cpan.org/dist/Perl6-Bible/lib/Perl6/Bible/S12.pod#Intro

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 rew