Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> hopefully without dependencies on external non-Perl things like gcc).
>
> Don't think it'll be possible for modules that have C components,
I'm really hoping Perl6 will be sufficiently powerful that C
components won't be needed or wanted.
>
Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
[surreal numbers]
> Care to explain what those are, O great math teacher?
Surreal Number theory was an attempt in the latter half of the
twentieth century to unify several existing sets of numbers (including
the complex numbers, generalized eps
David Green wrote:
I was also going to say something tongue-in-cheek about Unicode quotation
marks, but curly-quotes could actually be quite useful.
Reasons not to use them as anything but synonyms for normal double quotes:
1) They look too much like each-other.
2) They look too much like normal
On Mon, 26 Jul 2004 10:29:15 -0700, Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The Perl 6 Summarizer wrote:
> > The infinite thread
> > Pushing onto lazy lists continued to exercise the p6l crowd (or at
> > least, a subset of it). Larry said that if someone wanted to hack
> >
On Mon, Jul 26, 2004 at 10:29:15AM -0700, Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon wrote:
> The Perl 6 Summarizer wrote:
> > The infinite thread
> >Pushing onto lazy lists continued to exercise the p6l crowd (or at
> >least, a subset of it). Larry said that if someone wanted to hack
> >surreal numbers
The Perl 6 Summarizer wrote:
The infinite thread
Pushing onto lazy lists continued to exercise the p6l crowd (or at
least, a subset of it). Larry said that if someone wanted to hack
surreal numbers into Perl 6.1 then that would be cool.
Care to explain what those are, O great math tea
Larry Wall wrote:
Sounds like you're confusing #3 with #4.
Larry
Could be. Does 3 mean at install time, you down load the latest of the
'supported' packages from the CPAN alike or is it more like versioned
snapshots? (Possibly yet to be decided?) It's the idea of a standard
library being open
On 7/21/04, Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon wrote:
>Amen. Please don't steal unnecessary metacharacters in qq()
>strings--although I still think we should keep it, @ causes a lot of
>problems.
That's why my suggestion would be to use a character that already has a
special meaning in double-quoted st
On 7/23/04, Luke Palmer wrote:
Not necessarily. Glop, on which I'm doing a presentation at OSCON
(have to plug it sometime ;-),
"Game Language on Perl, you say? Goodness, what's that??"
Sorry. Got tired of English.
=)
There's a lot of stuff like that. Way too much to include in a
distribution.
Larry Wall wrote:
The rand function may be a bad example, since it's by nature a
generator, and you should maybe have to work harder to get a single
value out of it. We haven't really said what <$fh> xx 100 should do,
for instance. I guess the real question is whether xx supplies a
list context t
The Perl 6 Summary for the week ending 2004-07-25
Monday morning, all's well, and Piers sits down at his desk to bash out
another in his ongoing series of Perl 6 Summaries.
I've just realised that I missed noting the second anniversary of my
writing these summaries. It came up a mo
Damian Conway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I can't say I'm keen on making {...} special in strings. I felt that the
> $(...) and @(...) were a much cleaner and more general solution. The
> prospect of backslashing every opening brace in every interpolated
> string is not one I relish.
Maybe we co
Larry Wall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Tue, Jul 20, 2004 at 11:00:39PM -0700, chromatic wrote:
> : On Tue, 2004-07-20 at 19:35, Luke Palmer wrote:
> :
> : > The New Way (tm) to do that would probably be sticking a role onto the
> : > array object with which you're dealing:
> : >
> : > m
I'd like to second the "wow". I've been lurking on the list for two years,
and I wanted to say how impressive this is. The promise of Parrot seems like
a fantasy, and here you are with most of Python running at better speed than
on it's own interpreter. It's gone from a fantasy to a defect list.
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