Re: Trying to use Perl5 modules

In a message dated Mon, 11 Sep 2006, Richard Hainsworth writes: I am trying to find out how to use (in perl6) perl5 modules that contain subroutines. Imports from Perl 5 modules don't currently work. You can workaround this using .can, see below. use perl5:Time::gmtime; my $gm = gmtime(); p

Trying to use Perl5 modules

I am trying to find out how to use (in perl6) perl5 modules that contain subroutines. Here are two scripts from standard modules. Both work in perl5, but I cant find a way to use them using pugs (I am using the Debian package with version 6.2.10-4build1 on GNU/Linux/Ubuntu) use strict; use

Reduced assignment operator?

Consider these cases: [=] $x, $y, $z; [+=] $a, $b, $c; S03 is currently inconsistent. It first says these are not supported: The final metaoperator in Perl 6 is the reduction operator. Any infix operator (except for non-associating operators and assignment operators) can be surrounded

Inf appears to be unspec'ed

The formal definition of "Inf" appears to be missing from the spec documents. Since I'm not exactly sure how Perl 6 treats "Inf", I'll leave submitting this patch to someone else. Once the spec is added, a smart link to it should be added from: t/builtins/math/infinity.t Mark

Re: the CGI.pm in Perl 6

In a message dated Sat, 9 Sep 2006, Mark Stosberg writes: I do share your sentiment that CGI.pm shouldn't be a clone of how P5 works. I'd like the HTML building methods to stay out, which wasn't even one of the differences you cared about yourself. I agree with the sentiment, but as a practical

[svn ci] apps/p3

Hi parroteers, I've checked in my recent work to create a parrot-based slides presentation program. See also: - apps/p3/README - apps/p3/p3p.html - http://use.perl.org/~leo/journal/ - UTSL Any improvements for slides or httpd2.pir (and HTTP classes) are of course very welcome, leo

Re: the CGI.pm in Perl 6

In a message dated Sat, 9 Sep 2006, Mark Stosberg writes: I do share your sentiment that CGI.pm shouldn't be a clone of how P5 works. I'd like the HTML building methods to stay out, which wasn't even one of the differences you cared about yourself. I agree with the sentiment, but as a practical

Weekly Perl 6 mailing list summary for 2-9 September, 2006

Language multi method dispatching of optional arguments Mark Stosberg wanted the specifications to address what should happen in MMD when optional arguments are present (S12). He patched `mmd-draft.txt` and sent the text to the newsgroup. Luke Palmer offer