Re: opposite of when (fewer stupid errors)

2009-01-07 Thread Ted Zlatanov
On Tue, 06 Jan 2009 16:48:47 +0300 Richard Hainsworth rich...@rusrating.ru wrote: RH Suppose I want a 'when' clause to fire when the test is *not* RH met. What syntax should be used? Maybe the parser can be smart enough to recognize this: given $x { ! /digit/ {say 'this does not contain a

implementing every(N)

2010-07-30 Thread Ted Zlatanov
I have a Perl 5 module called Every which provides, simply, every(5); # true on invocation 5, 10, etc. every(seconds = 5); # true at 5, 10, etc. seconds It's really nice in endless loops, logging, etc. I'd like to translate it to Perl 6 (using Rakudo specifically). Its current implementation

Re: implementing every(N)

2013-01-07 Thread Ted Zlatanov
On Fri, 30 Jul 2010 12:56:37 -0500 Ted Zlatanov t...@lifelogs.com wrote: TZ On Fri, 30 Jul 2010 12:19:16 -0500 Patrick R. Michaud pmich...@pobox.com wrote: PRM I suspect something like CALLER::$?FILE and CALLER::$?LINE might PRM eventually do what you want -- they would at least get

Re: implementing every(N)

2013-01-08 Thread Ted Zlatanov
On Mon, 7 Jan 2013 17:51:52 +0100 Carl Mäsak cma...@gmail.com wrote: CM Ted (): Are state variables available now, or is the every(N) functionality possible in some other way now? CM Why not try it by writing a small program? :) CM Rakudo is available at a discount right now -- download it

Re: implementing every(N)

2013-01-09 Thread Ted Zlatanov
On Tue, 8 Jan 2013 11:29:47 -0600 Patrick R. Michaud pmich...@pobox.com wrote: PRM On Tue, Jan 08, 2013 at 12:14:22PM -0500, Ted Zlatanov wrote: Since I'm writing a module, I didn't think a one-liner was sufficient proof that state variables are reliable. Sorry I didn't make that clear