Re: Where can I find a Perl 6 langauge reference?

2006-05-18 Thread David Romano
On 5/18/06, Michael Mathews <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Like Thomas, I'm interested in having a go, in my case I'd like to install something I can play with. The link is appreciated but what I was hoping for was a simple set of instructions for just installing Perl6 (maybe I missed it--sorry) . D

Re: Getting to hello world?

2006-05-20 Thread David Romano
Hi James, On 5/20/06, James Peregrino wrote: Is any document yet that gets you to the point of running a perl6 'hello world'? I believe it's as simple as "Hello world!".say. Look to http://svn.openfoundry.org/pugs/docs/ or http://svn.openfoundry.org/pugs/examples for more stuff. David

parrot and pugs builds for os x

2006-05-22 Thread David Romano
Hi everyone, I fiddled around with PackageMaker and created packages for Pugs (r10396) and Parrot (r12747) for OS X. I used my laptop to check if they installed everything properly, and it seems they do. If you want to try them out, I'd be interested in some feedback: http://www.unobe.com/packages

Re: parrot and pugs builds for os x

2006-05-22 Thread David Romano
Hi everyone, On 5/22/06, Michael Mathews <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi David, Just downloaded both and ran the installers on my iBook G4 with OS X 10.4.6 (and ghc-6.4.2). So it just worked. I can now pugs -e 'say "hello";' with the rest of them. But I only wish I'd had this three days ago, /be

Re: parrot and pugs builds for os x

2006-05-23 Thread David Romano
FYI, another mirror is set up at http://lenin.net/~emile/www.unobe.com/packages/ David

Logic Programming for Perl6 (Was Re: 3 Good Reasons... (typo alert!))

2006-05-24 Thread David Romano
Hi Ovid, On 5/24/06, Ovid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: As an aside for those who, like me, wanted to see support for logic programming: the only significant disappoinment I have with Perl6 is also, oddly enough, accompanied by a sigh of relief. Perl6 will easily support imperative, functional

Re: eval

2006-05-25 Thread David Romano
Hi Michael, On 5/24/06, Michael Mathews <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Oh "try"! I like that! But is CATCH implemented in pugs? Anyone care to give a working example of try/CATCH? I don't think CATCH is implemented in pugs yet: #!/usr/local/bin/pugs catcher; sub catcher { say "here"; try {

Exception Handling (Was Re: More bugs or PEBKAC)

2011-09-07 Thread David Romano
k the hint should be with the error object itself. Perhaps die() is too ingrained to die. - David P.S. I haven't been following IRC as much as I used to, so my apologies if something similar has already been suggested there. -- David Romano .:. un...@cpan.org