Hmm, in developing this I was using an old perl6:
This is rakudo version 2015.11-554-g3b4964b built on MoarVM version
2015.11-49-g27f15d9 implementing Perl v6.b.
I updated perl6 to the one that comes with Fedora:
This is Rakudo version 2017.08 built on MoarVM version 2017.08.1
implementing Perl 6.c
Now when I run this program I get an exception when I do:
close $dir-channel;
Tried to get the result of a broken Promise
in block <unit> at ./traverse-dir0.p6 line 7
Original exception:
Cannot resolve caller close(Channel); none of these signatures match:
(IO::Handle:D $fh)
in block at ./traverse-dir0.p6 line 12
However, if I change the line 12 to:
$dir-channel.close;
The program does not throw and exception on this line and runs properly.
On 30 October 2017 at 16:58, Norman Gaywood <ngayw...@une.edu.au> wrote:
> Looking at Andrew Shitov's new "Using Perl6" book and was playing around
> with his "94. Parallel file processing" and came up with the following (I
> think nice) example.
>
> # There is a thread to populate $dir-channel by reading filenames in a
> directory with dir()
> # and $N worker threads to read the filenames from the $dir-channel.
>
> use v6;
>
> sub MAIN( $dir = ".", :$N = 4 ) {
>
> my $dir-channel = Channel.new();
> my $dir-read = start {
> $dir-channel.send( $_ ) for dir $dir;
> close $dir-channel;
> }
>
> my @workers = (^$N).map: {
> start {
> while my $file = $dir-channel.receive() {
> say $file.path;
> }
> CATCH {
> when X::Channel::ReceiveOnClosed { .resume }
> }
> }
> }
>
> await $dir-read, @workers;
> }
>
>
> --
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> School of Science and Technology
> University of New England
> Armidale NSW 2351, Australia
>
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School of Science and Technology
University of New England
Armidale NSW 2351, Australia
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