Re: perl6

2015-10-20 Thread Brock Wilcox
(My apologies if these are redundant observations for this mailing list community) Also note for anyone who wonders "what's up with this Perl6 thing?" that, despite the name, "Perl6" is a VERY different programming language than Perl5. Perl6 is not Perl5 with some improvements and changes, like p

Re: perl6

2015-10-20 Thread Shlomi Fish
Hi Wah Peng, On Tue, 20 Oct 2015 11:30:20 +0800 Wah Peng wrote: > Hello members, > > Do you know if perl6 the first version will get released this Xmas day? > I believe that the plan is that the first “stable” version of a Perl 6 implementation will be released by Christmas this year. Note th

Re: Perl6

2009-09-01 Thread Shlomi Fish
On Wednesday 02 September 2009 02:46:01 Steve Bertrand wrote: > All, > > Can those who have experience comment with their opinions? Perhaps this > isn't a newb question, but hopefully many have heard about Perl6 [1]. > > Which changes do you like? What changes don't you like? Are any of you > dev

Re: Perl6

2009-09-01 Thread Steve Bertrand
Telemachus wrote: > I've been following Perl6 via these links. You may find some good reading > at one or another of these: > > http://szabgab.com/perl6_tricks_and_treats.html > http://perlgeek.de/blog-en/perl-5-to-6/ > http://perlgeek.de/blog-en/perl-6/ > > You can also find some interesting pro

Re: Perl6

2009-09-01 Thread Telemachus
I've been following Perl6 via these links. You may find some good reading at one or another of these: http://szabgab.com/perl6_tricks_and_treats.html http://perlgeek.de/blog-en/perl-5-to-6/ http://perlgeek.de/blog-en/perl-6/ You can also find some interesting projects on Github that are using Per

Re: Perl6

2009-09-01 Thread Steve Bertrand
Uri Guttman wrote: > this list is not the > place to discuss this. Ok. Steve smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: Perl6

2009-09-01 Thread Uri Guttman
> "SB" == Steve Bertrand writes: SB> All, Can those who have experience comment with their opinions? SB> Perhaps this isn't a newb question, but hopefully many have heard SB> about Perl6 [1]. it isn't a newbie question at all. there is plenty of information on perl6 including synopses

Re: perl6::form simple reporting

2007-02-20 Thread Daniel Kasak
Ken Foskey wrote: > I have a script that takes an sql and formats into a report, simple > stuff. > > I have a product that when it changes I want a sub heading. I have > coded this. > > if( $prior_product ne $sql_product ) { > print form... > $prior_product = $sql_product; > } > > Is there

RE: perl6

2002-04-05 Thread Chas Owens
On Fri, 2002-04-05 at 11:17, Nikola Janceski wrote: > uh... '->' is used as a dereferencer also, but I also dereference my code as > so.. > > $value = $$ref2hash{'key'}; > @slice = @$ref2array[0 .. 2]; > > I really need to find the time to read the Articles but between work and > taxes > >

RE: perl6

2002-04-05 Thread Nikola Janceski
om: Chas Owens [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, April 05, 2002 10:55 AM > To: Timothy Johnson > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: perl6 > > > On Thu, 2002-04-04 at 10:39, Timothy Johnson wrote: > > > > At the risk of beating a dead and bloated horse, I hav

RE: perl6

2002-04-05 Thread Chas Owens
On Thu, 2002-04-04 at 10:39, Timothy Johnson wrote: > > At the risk of beating a dead and bloated horse, I have no doubt that I will > enjoy and take advantages of the improvements in Perl6, but I still don't > see the logic in changing operators. I mean, why make old code unusable? > If you ca

Re: perl6

2002-04-04 Thread Elaine -HFB- Ashton
Timothy Johnson [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth: *> *>At the risk of beating a dead and bloated horse, I have no doubt that I will *>enjoy and take advantages of the improvements in Perl6, but I still don't *>see the logic in changing operators. I mean, why make old code unusable? *>If you can make a

RE: perl6

2002-04-04 Thread Chas Owens
On Thu, 2002-04-04 at 10:39, Timothy Johnson wrote: > > At the risk of beating a dead and bloated horse, I have no doubt that I will > enjoy and take advantages of the improvements in Perl6, but I still don't > see the logic in changing operators. I mean, why make old code unusable? > If you ca

RE: perl6

2002-04-04 Thread Jonathan E. Paton
> At the risk of beating a dead and bloated horse, I have no doubt that I will > enjoy and take advantages of the improvements in Perl6, but I still don't > see the logic in changing operators. I mean, why make old code unusable? > If you can make a Perl5->6 converter, why can't you integrate Per

RE: perl6

2002-04-04 Thread Timothy Johnson
tegrate Perl5 code into Perl6? Like I said, I have no doubt that I will use the many new features of Perl6 and enjoy them, but I think that sums up a lot of the gut reactions of people that I have spoken to. -Original Message- From: Jonathan E. Paton To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 4/4/02 3:01 A

RE: perl6

2002-04-04 Thread Chas Owens
On Thu, 2002-04-04 at 03:25, peter grotz wrote: > > variable sigils ($@%) are now constant (ie you say > >@array[2] instead of $array[2]), the concatenation operator is > changing > >from '.' to ' - ' (note the whitespace), the member of operator '->' is > > >changing to '.', and various other s

RE: perl6

2002-04-04 Thread Jonathan E. Paton
> what at hell should these changes help us? I´m using perl 5.6.1 now for > a long time and I don´t wanna change my kind of writing my progs, only > because some mastermind thinks that he must change the good old!! There are many better changes, including: * Parrot (the interpreter) will be easi

RE: perl6

2002-04-04 Thread peter grotz
> variable sigils ($@%) are now constant (ie you say >@array[2] instead of $array[2]), the concatenation operator is changing >from '.' to ' - ' (note the whitespace), the member of operator '->' is >changing to '.', and various other small things. what at hell should these changes help us? I´m