Hi Andy,
A quick test with my (older) Raku install and I was able to get one of the
examples (Daniel's) below to work. However I had to use "Int" instead of
"int":
user@mbook:~$ raku
Welcome to 𝐑𝐚𝐤𝐮𝐝𝐨™ v2020.10.
Implementing the 𝐑𝐚𝐤𝐮™ programming language v6.d.
Built on MoarVM version 2020.10.
To exit type 'exit' or '^D'
> my int $f = 0;
0
> sub foo($) { ++$f }('a' | 'b,b' | 'c');
Cannot find method 'qast' on object of type NQPMu
> my Int $g = 0;
0
> sub foo($) { ++$g }('a' | 'b,b' | 'c');
any(1, 2, 3)
>
HTH, Bill.
On Mon, May 24, 2021 at 2:40 PM Andy Bach <andy_b...@wiwb.uscourts.gov>
wrote:
> > Cannot sent this email in 'plain text' mode as ATOM SYMBOL disappears.
>
> I was impressed I could copypasted that in the text/terminal sesion of
> raku's REPL and have it work. As a matter of fact:
> > sub foo($) { ++⚛$c }('a' | 'b,b' | 'c');
> any(1, 2, 3)
> > say $c;
> 3
>
> but, trying it without the cabbage, er, atomic symbol
> > my atomicint $d = 0;
> 0
> > sub foo($) { ++$d }('a'|'b,b'|'c');
> Cannot find method 'qast' on object of type NQPMu
>
> > my int $f = 0;
> 0
> > sub foo($) { ++$f }('a' | 'b,b' | 'c');
> Cannot find method 'qast' on object of type NQPMu
>
> but my raku's a tad long in tooth
> $ raku -v
> This is Rakudo version 2020.05.1 built on MoarVM version 2020.05
> ------------------------------
> *From:* William Michels <w...@caa.columbia.edu>
> *Sent:* Monday, May 24, 2021 2:41 PM
> *To:* perl6-users <perl6-us...@perl.org>
> *Subject:* Re: File::Find using a junction with exclude
>
>
> *CAUTION - EXTERNAL: *
> WATs are everywhere, and (I'm not trying to pick on one language
> here), I find this SO question to be intruiging:
>
> https://stackoverflow.com/q/58340585/7270649
>
> Joseph (and Ralph): thanks for starting off this conversation!
> Fernando and Vadim: amazed at your code!
> Andy: good questions always welcome!
>
> Daniel: Thank you for your confirmation on EVAL. Also, I tried parsing
> the ATOM SYMBOL character to look at classification, and this is the
> best I could do (in the Raku REPL):
>
> > say "⚛".uniprop
> So
> > dd "⚛".comb>>.uniprop
> ("So",)
> Nil
> > say "{uniparse 'ATOM SYMBOL'}"
> ⚛
> > say "{uniparse 'ATOM SYMBOL'}".uniprop
> So
> > say "{uniparse 'ATOM SYMBOL'}".uniprop('Alphabetic')
> False
>
> HTH, Bill.
>
> PS. Cannot sent this email in 'plain text' mode as ATOM SYMBOL disappears.
>
>
> On Mon, May 24, 2021 at 11:28 AM Daniel Sockwell <dan...@codesections.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Oh, and WAT is [short for] "Weird/will Ass Thing"?
>
> No, it's not an abbreviation for anything – it's the word "what", but
> pronounced in a way that
> indicates the speaker is surprised/confused. More specifically, it's a
> reference to the WAT talk (a
> really good one, even if it is about a different language)
> https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/wat
>
> (All of that is pretty much strait from the glossary, by the way)
> https://docs.raku.org/language/glossary#index-entry-WAT
>
> – codesections
>
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