Re: Perl 6 Module and Program File Extension Conventions?

2016-01-12 Thread Parrot Raiser
For *nix, don't use a suffix. #! does the job. For Windows, you'll want to leave .pl and .pm for Perl 5. On 1/12/16, Tom Browder wrote: > In Perl 5 it seems the prevailing convention (in my experience) is to > use ".pl" for Perl programs and ".pm" as file suffixes for

Perl 6 Module and Program File Extension Conventions?

2016-01-12 Thread Tom Browder
In Perl 5 it seems the prevailing convention (in my experience) is to use ".pl" for Perl programs and ".pm" as file suffixes for Perl modules. In Perl 6 I have seen in the various repos, blogs, and doc both ".pl", ".p6", and ".pl6" for programs and both ".pm" and ".pm6" for modules. Is there any

Re: Perl 6 Module and Program File Extension Conventions?

2016-01-12 Thread Parrot Raiser
Looking at the documentation, http://doc.perl6.org/language/modules see "Basic structure". On 1/12/16, Parrot Raiser <1parr...@gmail.com> wrote: > For *nix, don't use a suffix. #! does the job. > > For Windows, you'll want to leave .pl and .pm for Perl 5. > > On 1/12/16, Tom Browder

Re: Mooch a regex

2016-01-12 Thread Tobias Leich
First of all, your fist line contains a bug, unless the topic variable ($_) is set to something meaningful. Because the regex after the 'and' matches against said topic. See: ~$ perl -E '$_ = "bar"; say ("foo" =~ /f+/ and /o/)' # "", so false ~$ perl -E '$_ = "bar"; say ("foo" =~ /f+/ and /a/)'

Re: Mooch a regex

2016-01-12 Thread ToddAndMargo
On 01/11/2016 11:24 PM, Tobias Leich wrote: hi, what's in ${BaseTag}? Is it a regex rule or just a plain string? (Because that matters in Perl 6) It is a string and can vary. Would you show me both ways to keep me out of trouble? Am 12.01.2016 um 01:55 schrieb ToddAndMargo: Hi All, Would