Re: Looking for help updating Perl 6 and Parrot part of Perl Myths talk

2009-09-14 Thread Damian Conway
Darren Duncan wrote: > So another proposal I have is to add to the slideshow mentions of the > Enlightened and Modern Perl movements and where one can go to read more, > this being supplemental to PBP. With that suggestion I'd whole-heartedly concur. > My own opinion is that the modern best way

Re: Looking for help updating Perl 6 and Parrot part of Perl Myths talk

2009-09-14 Thread Darren Duncan
Damian Conway wrote: Darren Duncan wrote: pg 36 - About the "Perl Best Practices" book, you should be clear to mention that what is considered best practices has evolved significantly since that book came out, so teams can't simply agree on "We'll just follow PBP guidelines" and call it a day,

Re: Looking for help updating Perl 6 and Parrot part of Perl Myths talk

2009-09-14 Thread Damian Conway
Darren Duncan wrote: >  pg 36 - About the "Perl Best Practices" book, you should be clear to > mention that what is considered best practices has evolved significantly > since that book came out, so teams can't simply agree on "We'll just follow > PBP guidelines" and call it a day, but should stud

Re: Looking for help updating Perl 6 and Parrot part of Perl Myths talk

2009-09-14 Thread Darren Duncan
Tim Bunce wrote: You can find my current draft at http://files.me.com/tim.bunce/65oikg (2.3MB PDF) I'd be grateful for feedback on any of the slides, but I'm especially interested in updates for: First off, the slideshow looks very good in general, and I'll look forward to using it myself af

Re: Looking for help updating Perl 6 and Parrot part of Perl Myths talk

2009-09-14 Thread Moritz Lenz
Carl Mäsak wrote: > Tim (>): >> Anything else I should add, change or remove? I'm especially interested >> in verifyable metrics showing effort, progress, or use. Ideally graphical. >> Any interesting nuggets that fit with the theme will be most welcome. > > Moritz++ and I were talking about makin

Re: Looking for help updating Perl 6 and Parrot part of Perl Myths talk

2009-09-14 Thread Tim Bunce
On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 05:49:41PM +0400, Richard Hainsworth wrote: > For the slides on Rakudo, I would suggest adding the modules that are > associated with proto as measure of code written in perl6. There is a list > of 27 projects. proto in itself is an interesting installer. I wasn't aware o

Re: Looking for help updating Perl 6 and Parrot part of Perl Myths talk

2009-09-14 Thread Raphael Descamps
A few other interesting metrics could be for example: * Work done on the Specification (Synopses): svn log docs/Perl6/Spec/ * TimToady hacking ;) svn log src/perl6/ svn log src/perl6/STD.pm * Work done on the Official Testsuite: svn log t/spec/ * Work done on the Testsuite: svn log t/ (It's int

Re: Iterate X times

2009-09-14 Thread Christian Sturm
Moritz Lenz wrote: No. for ^5 { say "hi" } I don't define any variable to be incremented, and it's not really that many keystrokes. I knew about the upto operator, but somehow it didn't come to my mind. Thanks for your help! Greetings, Christian

Re: Looking for help updating Perl 6 and Parrot part of Perl Myths talk

2009-09-14 Thread Moritz Lenz
On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 12:15:05PM +0100, Tim Bunce wrote: > page 73 - Perl 6 implementations > I've added Mildew, with links, to the SMOP line > anything I should add / change / remove? > What's the status of KindaPerl6? I think it's stalled or

Re: Iterate X times

2009-09-14 Thread Christian Sturm
Jan Ingvoldstad wrote: Here's one using the upto operator: > *SNIP* Thanks!

Re: Looking for help updating Perl 6 and Parrot part of Perl Myths talk

2009-09-14 Thread Richard Hainsworth
For the slides on Rakudo, I would suggest adding the modules that are associated with proto as measure of code written in perl6. There is a list of 27 projects. proto in itself is an interesting installer. Also, the number of tests written for perl6 is substantial (18,000 vs 1,400 for Ruby - y

Re: Looking for help updating Perl 6 and Parrot part of Perl Myths talk

2009-09-14 Thread Carl Mäsak
Tim (>): > I'd be grateful for feedback on any of the slides, but I'm especially > interested in updates for: > >    page 73 - Perl 6 implementations >                I've added Mildew, with links, to the SMOP line >                anything I should add / change / remove? >                What's th

Parrot Bug Summary

2009-09-14 Thread Parrot Bug Summary
Parrot Bug Summary http://rt.perl.org/rt3/NoAuth/parrot/Overview.html Generated at Mon Sep 14 13:00:00 2009 GMT --- * Numbers * New Issues * Overview of Open Issues * Ticket Status By Version * Requestors with m

Re: Iterate X times

2009-09-14 Thread Moritz Lenz
Christian Sturm wrote: > do you know a short and easy way to iterate a block X times? Aye ;-) > I know, one could use while, for, ... but there are some reasons, > why they don't fit. > > All these versions are long. I really like Perl, because you can > do thing with shorter code. In all these

[perl #69122] Parrot r41204 causes a Rakudo spectest to abort

2009-09-14 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by Moritz Lenz # Please include the string: [perl #69122] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=69122 > Starting with parrot r41204 (mikeh++ for bisecting) an introspection test from rakudo abo

Looking for help updating Perl 6 and Parrot part of Perl Myths talk

2009-09-14 Thread Tim Bunce
I'm working on an update to my "Perl - Baseless Myths and Startling Realities" talk. (Which I'll be giving in Dublin, Moscow and Pisa in the few weeks!) I got great help on the Perl 5 portion of the talk when I asked via my blog http://blog.timbunce.org/2009/08/13/help-me-update-my-perl-myths-talk

r28238 - docs/Perl6/Spec

2009-09-14 Thread pugs-commits
Author: carlin Date: 2009-09-14 10:09:17 +0200 (Mon, 14 Sep 2009) New Revision: 28238 Modified: docs/Perl6/Spec/S05-regex.pod Log: [S05] Small grammatical fix Modified: docs/Perl6/Spec/S05-regex.pod === --- docs/Perl6/Spec/S05-reg