Re: Needed: Rakudo Star with 6.c Christmas Perl 6 release

2016-01-25 Thread Will Coleda
FYI, http://blogs.perl.org/users/coke/2016/01/perl-6c-christmas-rakudo-star-coming-soon.html We hope to have an R* release out in the next two weeks. Thanks for your patience. On Sat, Jan 16, 2016 at 1:45 PM, Brandon Allbery wrote: > On Sat, Jan 16, 2016 at 1:40 PM, James E Keenan wrote: >> >>

Re: '!' versus 'not' in boolean expression

2016-01-25 Thread Carl Mäsak
Tom (>): > In creating some new Perl 6 programs I've run across several instances > I'm confused about, to wit: > > Example 1 > --- > >> my %h; say 'false' if !%h:exists; > Unexpected named parameter 'exists' passed I can explain this one. But it's the kind of explanation that makes a

Re: '!' versus 'not' in boolean expression

2016-01-25 Thread Brandon Allbery
On Mon, Jan 25, 2016 at 2:42 PM, Carl Mäsak wrote: > >> my %h; say 'false' if !%h:exists; > > Unexpected named parameter 'exists' passed By the way, is it me or would it be a lot more appropriate and helpful if this error said *what* it was passed to? -- brandon s allbery kf8nh

Re: Needed: Rakudo Star with 6.c Christmas Perl 6 release

2016-01-25 Thread James E Keenan
On 01/25/2016 08:49 AM, Will Coleda wrote: FYI, http://blogs.perl.org/users/coke/2016/01/perl-6c-christmas-rakudo-star-coming-soon.html We hope to have an R* release out in the next two weeks. Thanks for your patience. Thanks for the update! jimk