Re: Perl 6 fundraising and related topics.

to perl 5 (not on the language level though) Cheers, Moritz

Re: Perl 6 fundraising and related topics.

of the development. Are there other organisations that routinely sponsor open source software? I know if Software in the Public Interest, but I think they only provide legal backing. Cheers, Moritz

Re: Perl 6 fundraising and related topics.

responsive :( Cheers, Moritz

Re: Perl 6 fundraising and related topics.

clearly. Cheers, Moritz

Re: Perl 6 fundraising and related topics.

. But it would be shame to wait that long ;-) Cheers, Moritz

Project Idea: Perl 6 Syntax Explainer

building a p6 compiler? * Do you have a good idea for a project name? Any other ideas and comments are welcome as well. Cheers, Moritz -- Moritz Lenz http://moritz.faui2k3.org/ | http://perl-6.de/ signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Project Idea: Perl 6 Syntax Explainer

(Sorry for personal message previously, now my answer to the list) Juerd Waalboer wrote: Moritz Lenz skribis 2007-07-10 12:43 (+0200): $ p6explain '[]' [...] can be * '[$expression]': access to one or more array elements if used as postcircumfix Example: @a[2]; # access

Re: Project Idea: Perl 6 Syntax Explainer

Steffen Schwigon wrote: Moritz Lenz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: considering the vast number of Operators and the like, I had the idea to implement a tool where you can enter a small piece of p6 syntax, and it explains what that might mean. (like a perldoc -f for operators/syntax elements

Re: Project Idea: Perl 6 Syntax Explainer

contain this, as would things like prelude. But anyone would be able to add it to any code they distribute so as to provide more comprehensive debug info. Of course that would be the best solution, but I don't see how I can implement that soonish. Do you have good idea how to do it? Moritz

Re: Project Idea: Perl 6 Syntax Explainer

resembling an IDE. I realize that's a long term goal. Which leads me to the question: how should the data be assembled so that it could be used in such a way? Would it be enough to store the name of the token, along with the description? Moritz -- Moritz Lenz http://moritz.faui2k3.org/ | http

Re: Project Idea: Perl 6 Syntax Explainer

Dave Whipp wrote: Moritz Lenz wrote: You're probably right about that, but somebody who writes his own macros and operators probably doesn't need such a tool anyway. And should write very good documentation, otherwise he has lost outright. (I was thinking that your tool would provide

Re: Project Idea: Perl 6 Syntax Explainer: Status

perlhints5.pl (implemented in p5), and a very basic web interface at http://moritz.faui2k3.org/perlhints/, for example http://moritz.faui2k3.org/perlhints/?q=*. What it lacks mostly is the data ;) Currently all data is read from a single flat file. Moritz -- Moritz Lenz http://moritz.faui2k3.org/ | http

Re: In lieu of This Week in Perl 6

/ to be wrong or outdated, feel free to contact me, and I'll send a patch to our webmasters. I tried to update the most important parts (without being too intrusive), but it's surely not complete. Cheers, Moritz -- Moritz Lenz http://moritz.faui2k3.org/ | http://perl-6.de/ signature.asc Description

Re: Strange variable behaviour

the number of tests wrongly. I'll probably move some of the simpler tests to a separate file to work around these limitations for now (currently assign.t has 308 tests, which is way above average anyway) Cheers, Moritz -- Moritz Lenz http://moritz.faui2k3.org/ | http://perl-6.de/

Re: [svn:parrot] r28689 - trunk/languages/perl6/t (- versus _)

Conrad Schneiker wrote: Moritz Lenz wrote (on perl6-compiler) Patrick R. Michaud wrote: +S02-builtin_data_types/num.t S02-builtin_data_types/type.t S02-literals/autoref.t S02-literals/hex_chars.t# pure S02-literals/radix.t S02-polymorphic_types/subset

Re: Modules

or XML and wants a tester, please let me know. I'm sure the November hackers welcome more tests for CGI (cc-ing their mailing list). -- Moritz Lenz http://perlgeek.de/ | http://perl-6.de/ | http://sudokugarden.de/

Re: Argument scoping error or bug?

, Moritz -- Moritz Lenz http://perlgeek.de/ | http://perl-6.de/ | http://sudokugarden.de/

Re: assign to Scalar with hash

; Cannot morph a Perl6Scalar. I didn't know about that, but it could be another manifestation of this bug. Cheers, Moritz -- Moritz Lenz http://perlgeek.de/ | http://perl-6.de/ | http://sudokugarden.de/

Re: reporting bugs

. You still have to send your email to one specific list (for example perl6-compiler would have been the appropriate one). Cheers, Moritz

How to use the sockets?

:37) called from Sub '_block14' pc 156 (EVAL_18:64) ... Should it work? Cheers, Moritz

Re: attributes initialisation

like $obj.+arg() would work). So the answer seems to be don't do that. Cheers, Moritz

[proto] installing a module if PARROT_DIR is a symlink

/perl6 is a symlink to ~/rakudo/perl6. Now I cloned JSON, and tried this: mor...@trudi:~/src/jsonperl6 Configure Configure.pm is preparing to make your Makefile. Found a PARROT_DIR to be /home/moritz/tmp/parrot-all but there is no Rakudo nearby. Please contact the proto people. Setting

Re: Iterate X times

make to code smaller and easier to understand. Would it? given that Perl 6 has at least 4 loop constructs today (for, while, map, loop), and that * is already taken both as an infix operator and a term, I'm not sure about that one. Cheers, Moritz

Re: Perl 6 IDEs

anyone tried any other Perl 6 aware IDE ?? I'm a vim fanboy, and there's a pretty decent syntax hilighting module for Perl 6 here: http://github.com/petdance/vim-perl Not a full IDE, but enough for me. Cheers, Moritz

Re: Compiling Perl6 code to bytecode

such extra work. I tried to ask for help on #perl6 on freenode, and the following seems to work with rakudo compiled with --gen-parrot. Is this some known case of separately used Parrot? Am I doing something wrong? I don't know of any such relation. Cheers, Moritz

Re: Compiling Perl6 code to bytecode

Tadeusz Sośnierz wrote: On 29-01-2010 14:46:40, Moritz Lenz wrote: Hi, Hi, thanks for your response. Tadeusz Sośnierz wrote: However, compiling the code for later use makes problems: $ perl6 --target=pir hello.pl hello.pir $ parrot /usr/lib/parrot/2.0.0/languages/perl6/perl6.pbc

Re: ^[[A^[[A

- Does your platform support readline.yes. Then reconfigure and rebuild rakudo, and you should be happy. -- Moritz Lenz http://perlgeek.de/ | http://perl-6.de/ | http://sudokugarden.de/

Rakudo Perl 6 development release #28 (Moscow)

On behalf of the Rakudo development team, I'm pleased to announce the March 2010 development release of Rakudo Perl #28 Moscow. Rakudo is an implementation of Perl 6 on the Parrot Virtual Machine (see http://www.parrot.org). The tarball for the April 2010 release is available from

Re: Two questions on Perl 6 functionality

and Actionscript)? I fear I'm not qualified to answer that, and I hope somebody else picks up the topic. Cheers, Moritz

Re: Two questions on Perl 6 functionality

Xi Yang wrote: You might mis-understood method modifiers. I mean: before x() after x() around x() In Perl 6, you do that with wrapping: http://perlcabal.org/syn/S06.html#Wrapping Cheers, Moritz

Re: very basic type checking

low test coverage (and considering that we don't really know how much of our code paths are actually covered by tests). Cheers, Moritz

Re: implementing every(N)

it will be easy to turn every(5) into (do { state $x; $x++}) %% 5 Until then the best you can do for now is probably to use callframe(1).file and .line to fingerprint the source location. You'll only get line-level resolution, but that should be enough for a start. Cheers, Moritz

Grammars: parse tags of which only some need closing tags

this problem even more elegantly, hopefully without any repetition? Cheers, Moritz [1] http://perlgeek.de/en/software/mowyw [2] http://github.com/moritz/6mowyw

Re: New Perl 6 Advent Calendar: call for ideas

editors/IDEs are good for Perl 6 hacking/have syntax hilighting, tools used for hacking and presentations etc.) Cheers, Moritz

Re: Q: Code example in Using Perl 6 - methods and spaces.

that makes it harder to learn the language, and secondly disallowing two terms in a row is what enables predictive parsing, and is very important for getting sensible syntax error messages. Cheers, Moritz

Re: reading binary stream?

with write(). Cheers, Moritz

Re: Questions for Survey about Perl

the relation between 5 and 6 * I don't * Perl 6 hurts Perl 5 * Perl 5 benefits from Perl 5 * The two are mostly independent Cheers, Moritz

Re: Announce: Rakudo Star 2010.12 released

Zavolaj for Fortran too, if you're ready to suffer. Cheers, Moritz

Re: Questions for Survey about Perl

*) never *) I have already started to learn Other: What do you think? Maybe add *) when it's about as fast as perl5 I think it's an interesting question. Cheers, Moritz

Re: Can't download Rakudo Dec 2010 without git

needs to be available. Cheers, Moritz

Re: Dynamic method generation?

, Moritz

Re: Dynamic method generation?

On 01/09/2011 02:26 AM, Sean McAfee wrote: On Sat, Jan 8, 2011 at 3:50 PM, Moritz Lenz mor...@faui2k3.org wrote: class MyMatcher { for FOO BAR BAZ BLETCH QUUX - $field { MyMatcher.^add_method($field, method() { self!matches($field

Re: Fwd: FOSDEM - perl 6 critic

how well Perl 6 can be optimized, and if/when we can muster the resources to do it. Cheers, Moritz

Re: Fwd: FOSDEM - perl 6 critic

On 02/23/2011 02:10 AM, Frank S Fejes III wrote: On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 10:46 AM, Moritz Lenz mor...@faui2k3.org wrote: We can't be everybody's darling, as much as we would love to. That's a fair statement, however do consider that perl5 is still a darling for many system administrators

Re: Criteria for production-ready?

different production environments have different needs. Which is why you usually don't gain much by such discussions. Instead we tend to focus on making the language and the compilers better. Cheers, Moritz

Re: Current vs future Perl 6 binary size

on #perl6, regarding executing speed. Cheers, Moritz

Re: Using precompiled modules, Assembling a project into one single file (pbc)

. This can be very useful for scripting in desktop applications. I pinned my hopes on pbc_merge, but it seems compiled modules do not work together. It would be useful, but I don't think it is as straight-forward as you hoped it would be. Cheers, Moritz

Re: Form of I/O statements

this error message: Two terms in a row (method call requires colon or parens to take arguments) Sorry for the inconvenience. Cheers, Moritz

Re: Handling binary files

= open('MyFile'); # read 10 bytes: my $buf = $file.read(10); $file.close; You can write a buffer to another file handle with $fh.write($buf), and decode them to a string via the $buf.decode($encoding) method. Hope that helped, Moritz

Announcing the Perl 6 Coding Contest 2011

Dear all, you can have fun using Perl 6 and win 100€ worth of books -- just join the Perl 6 Coding Contest: http://strangelyconsistent.org/blog/the-2011-perl-6-coding-contest Merry Christmas, Moritz

Re: use v6

Perl 6 semantics. So in most cases today it's not strictly necessary to write 'use v6;', but it's usually a good idea to write it nonetheless. Cheers, Moritz

Re: Is rindex broken or does my brain need a reboot?

Now fixed in 2012.04.1-93-g128e996: $ ./perl6 -e 'say @*ARGS[0].rindex(e)' perl 1

Re: Perl6 grammars -- Parsing english

haven't tested it though. If you experiment with it, please report your findings here, I'm curious about what works right now. If it doesn't work, we can surely find some way to make it work by going through the meta object to add methods to the grammar. Cheers, Moritz

Re: Panda with git:// or https:// ?

the META.info URL to https://github.com/perl6/ecosystem/blob/master/META.list, and if you don't have access, ask for it (here or on #perl6). Or make a pull request Cheers, Moritz

Re: say vs print for .WHAT

circumstances are each likely to be useful? I've tried to answer that here: http://faq.perl6.org/#say Cheers, Moritz

Re: Capturing warning

: oh noes Where is 'between' and 'after' ? I've just added a .resume method to class Exception in Rakudo, along with a method .resumable, which checks if .resume may be called. Cheers, Moritz

Re: perl6 spec tests results ?

). Then there are areas that don't seem to have moved a lot recently, but that have unresolved issues smoldering under the surface, and it's unclear how large the waves will be when those issues are resolved. Cheers, Moritz .oO( Never ask a 6er for completion estimates, for he will say both Yay and Nay )

Re: the nature of a scalar?

passes Match objects instead of strings into the function, $path evaluates to True in boolean context even if it matched the empty string. Cheers, Moritz

Rakudo Star 2012.11 released

On behalf of the Rakudo and Perl 6 development teams, I'm happy to announce the November 2012 release of Rakudo Star, a useful and usable distribution of Perl 6. The tarball for the November 2012 release is available from http://github.com/rakudo/star/downloads. A Windows .MSI version of Rakudo

Announce: Rakudo Star 2012.12 release

Announce: Rakudo Star - a useful, usable, early adopter distribution of Perl 6 On behalf of the Rakudo and Perl 6 development teams, I'm happy to announce the December 2012 release of Rakudo Star, a useful and usable distribution of Perl 6. The tarball for the December 2012 release is available

Re: Per-Object Roles..

remove roles. check to see if a role is attached to an object? With normal type checking: if $obj ~~ YourRole { ... } Cheers, Moritz

Announce: Rakudo Star 2013.02 released

On behalf of the Rakudo and Perl 6 development teams, I'm happy to announce the February 2013 release of Rakudo Star, a useful and usable distribution of Perl 6. The tarball for the February 2013 release is available from http://rakudo.org/downloads/star/. A Windows .MSI version of Rakudo star

Re: Packaging Perl 6 (or rather, Rakudo Star)

approach, which worked well in other areas of Perl 6 development. Cheers, Moritz

Re: prove that the meaning of live is math

, please tell me. (Using '`'.ord instead of 'a'.ord - 1 seems too obscure for my taste). Cheers, Moritz

Rakudo Star 2013.08 released

On behalf of the Rakudo and Perl 6 development teams, I'm happy to announce the August 2013 release of Rakudo Star, a useful and usable distribution of Perl 6. The tarball for the August 2013 release is available from http://rakudo.org/downloads/star/. A Windows .MSI version of Rakudo star will

Announce: Rakudo Star Release 2013.09

## A useful, usable, early adopter distribution of Perl 6 On behalf of the Rakudo and Perl 6 development teams, I'm happy to announce the September 2013 release of Rakudo Star, a useful and usable distribution of Perl 6. The tarball for the September 2013 release is available from

Rakudo Star 2013.11 released

## A useful, usable, early adopter distribution of Perl 6 On behalf of the Rakudo and Perl 6 development teams, I'm happy to announce the November 2013 release of Rakudo Star, a useful and usable distribution of Perl 6. The tarball for the November 2013 release is available from

Re: how to set constants from command line?

, there is no guarantee that command line arguments are known at compile time, so mucking with @*ARGS in BEGIN seems like a very bad idea. Cheers, Moritz

Re: perl 6 beginner: regex questions

don't have the time to look at this in detail; I hope somebody else does. Cheers, Moritz

Re: Does perl have ensue override?

://gist.github.com/moritz/2c6ed01eef0029dabdeb Feel inspired :-) Cheers, Moritz

Re: Regex: fail if ... present

+ / So, you solve it with a negative look-ahead. Cheers, Moritz

Re: Regex: fail if ... present

Hi Peter, On 30.05.2014 22:39, Peter Schwenn wrote: Dear Moritz, $txt ~~ s:g/ !before System \. Guid /.Moniker/; transforms (in $txt):System.Guid - System.Moniker i.e. the match succeeds. So obviously I'm not understanding negative look-ahead correctly. Where's there a good

Re: Perl6 and wxwidgets

Hallo Erik, On 08.06.2014 12:54, Erik Colson wrote: Is it possible to use an external C-library like wxwidgets from perl6/moarvm ? If so, is there any doc how this can be achieved ? It is, through the NativeCall library: https://github.com/jnthn/zavolaj/ Cheers, Moritz

Re: Code execution during compilation

the two are roughly equivalent). Cheers, Moritz On 06/15/2014 02:31 AM, Kamil Kułaga wrote: Hi, I got amazed little bit when this code: class A { method wow{say I'm alive} } role Xx{ my $th = A.wow; } class B does Xx { } Started to live

Re: Date truncated-to method argument?

be awesome! Cheers, Moritz

Re: Rationale for a VM + compiler approach instead of an interpreter?

(now perlito), rakudo, niecza)), which lead to friendly competition, fresh ideas and generally lots of fun. Cheers, Moritz

Announce: Rakudo Star Release 2015.01

# Announce: Rakudo Star Release 2015.01 ## A useful, usable, early adopter distribution of Perl 6 On behalf of the Rakudo and Perl 6 development teams, I'm happy to announce the January 2015 release of Rakudo Star, a useful and usable distribution of Perl 6. The tarball for the January 2015

Re: time and now showing different time?

second during the test. Cheers, Moritz

Re: Object Contruction

is BUILDALL with a callsame; see the last example (or example skeleton) in that section. Cheers, Moritz

Re: Can a class have an attribute and a method with the same name?

also http://doc.perl6.org/language/objects#Attributes So, you can have an attribute $!x and a method x, but if you write class A { has $.x; method x() {... } } then the method will prevent the automatic accessor from being generated. Cheers, Moritz

Re: Need help with: Cannot find method 'postcircumfix:( )'...

is just short for $(self.elem); if you want direct access to the variable you'd write $!elem. Also, an indirect method call would be self.$elem, small correction: self.$elem(). self.$elem is an error, which is useful to catch p5 programmers who use . for string concatenation. Cheers, Moritz

Announce: Rakudo Star Release 2015.03

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 ## A useful, usable, early adopter distribution of Perl 6 On behalf of the Rakudo and Perl 6 development teams, I'm happy to announce the March 2015 release of Rakudo Star, a useful and usable distribution of Perl 6. The tarball for the March 2015

Re: How to get indirect access to a class attribute?

, you just got too many other details wrong to make it work. Cheers, Moritz

Re: Fancy sub arg handling: ability to expand error message?

should be able to understand the error message (or we need to improve the error messages, if that's not the case). Also it makes it harder for others to extend your API by providing additional multi candidates. Cheers, Moritz -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1

Re: Passing arrays to subroutines

the arrays into elements inside the foo call? foo(|@combined) Cheers, Moritz

Re: Can a user cheat and call a class's private method?

Hi, On 05/12/2015 09:40 PM, R. Ransbottom wrote: On Mon, May 11, 2015 at 03:22:46PM -0700, Darren Duncan wrote: you can use trusts. Also having to do this may indicate bad code design. -- Darren Duncan I saw Moritz' and Carl's responses and I agree with the smell issue. Given

Re: Perl 5's $0 vs. Perl 6's $*EXECUTABLE_NAME

/ building the docs alone takes ~17min; the cron job runs every 5 minutes, so it's more likely 17-22min before it becomes available :-) And thanks for adding $*PROGRAM to the docs! Cheers, Moritz

Re: Sub args: choose one of two?

consider not making it an option (prefixed with --), but rather a simple command: $ cat door #!/usr/bin/env perl6 multi MAIN('open') { say Opening door; } multi MAIN('close') { say Closing door; } $ ./door Usage: ./door open ./door close $ ./door open Opening door Cheers, Moritz

Re: Is creating and Array or Parcel ?

Hi, On 02.08.2015 06:43, Gabor Szabo wrote: On Fri, Jul 31, 2015 at 4:16 PM, Moritz Lenz mor...@faui2k3.org mailto:mor...@faui2k3.org wrote: On 07/31/2015 03:02 PM, Gabor Szabo wrote: The following code (with comments) is confusing me. Can someone give some explanation

Re: Forking or running external process in background

uot;, :out); There's a shell() function that might be closer to what you want, if you don't want to pass each argument separately. There's also Proc::Async: http://doc.perl6.org/type/Proc::Async But to me, it also looks like a perfect use case for threads. Have you tried that? Cheers, Moritz

Re: How to call a super class method?

meant for users; this has consequences on the number of examples, language, information density etc.) Cheers, Moritz

Re: combine hashes

On 11/07/2015 10:17 AM, Marc Chantreux wrote: > hello Moritz, > > On Sat, Nov 07, 2015 at 08:17:21AM +0100, Moritz Lenz wrote: >> my %x = < login jdoe first john last doe >; >> my %y = flat (:enable, %x< login first >:p); > > i tried :p but the thing is

Re: What are Perl 6's killer advantages over Perl 5?

in the past, with no good way forward. Cheers, Moritz

Re: require on string stopped working in rakudo 2015.09

o require a module name (and not a file name) is require ::($name); which does work in 2015.09. I guess there's no deprecation, because it was only an accident that the string form worked before. Cheers, Moritz

Re: require on string stopped working in rakudo 2015.09

rakudobug it so that it doesn’t fall through the cracks? > This change did not fire any spectest alarm either, so maybe we need a test > for it as well :-) I've opened https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=126096 and later rejcted it when learning about the desired behavior. Cheers, Moritz

Re: Method 'send' not found for invocant of class 'IO::Socket::INET'

Hi, method .send was deprecated in favor of .print (for strings) and .write (with bufs/blobs) Maybe Bailador or one of its dependencies needs updating. Cheers, Moritz

Re: How to push a hash on an array without flattening it to Pairs?

e list item from a .map call, for example. Cheers, Moritz

Announce: Rakudo Star Release 2015.09

On behalf of the Rakudo and Perl 6 development teams, I'm excited to announce the September 2015 release of "Rakudo Star", a useful and usable distribution of Perl 6. The tarball for the September 2015 release is available from . This Rakudo Star release comes

Re: Constants as members of a class

e a waste for a constant. Just do class MyClass { method TheConstant { 42 } } Then you can use it both on the class: say MyClass.TheConstant or on an instance: say MyClass.new.TheConstant Cheers, Moritz

Re: Gather/take & return, PHP7-style

h the list. Cheers, Moritz

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