Re: Cobra & Ioke Programming Languages

2009-09-16 Thread Matthew Walton
On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 4:41 AM, yary wrote: > Perl is being actively developed for the Parrot VM. LLVM is another > interesting option and if someone or some group would like to take it > on, it would be a welcome alternate implementation. > > What parts in particular of Cobra and ioke look usefu

Re: Cobra & Ioke Programming Languages

2009-09-16 Thread yary
This is an interesting subpage under Cobra- http://cobra-language.com/docs/quality/ it actually bears a little on recent discussions about self-documenting code. I'm a Perl6 beginner so I'm making comments with expectation that others will correct where I'm wrong * Doc Strings Perl6's vision of "

Re: Cobra & Ioke Programming Languages

2009-09-16 Thread yary
Perl is being actively developed for the Parrot VM. LLVM is another interesting option and if someone or some group would like to take it on, it would be a welcome alternate implementation. What parts in particular of Cobra and ioke look useful to you? Looking at Cobra's intro slide- * Cobra is a

Cobra & Ioke Programming Languages

2009-09-16 Thread Juan Madrigal
Just wanted to get some thoughts on the following languages and if any features from them can be implemented in Perl6: Cobra http://cobra-language.com/docs/papers-etc/Cobra-Socal-Piggies-2008-02-Slides.pdf http://cobra-language.com/docs/why/ Ioke http://ioke.org/wiki/index.php/Guide Also any

Re: How can i contribute for perl 6 ?

2009-09-16 Thread Timothy S. Nelson
On Wed, 16 Sep 2009, Geoffrey Broadwell wrote: On Wed, 2009-09-16 at 19:49 +1000, Timothy S. Nelson wrote: +1. I have a set of 7 bookmarks that load in tabs that I call my "Perl 6" bookmarks. I load this group of tabs into a separate web browser window when I'm doing Perl 6 stuff. That link

Re: Duration of a flip-flop's flippy thing

2009-09-16 Thread yary
Sounds like a spectest is in order to prevent that case from happening, didn't see one in http://perlcabal.org/syn/S03.html (not that that's the definitive place to look for tests, but that's why I'm posting instead of DIY) >However, I can well > imagine an implementation botching the cloning of t

Re: Duration of a flip-flop's flippy thing

2009-09-16 Thread Larry Wall
On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 03:28:47PM -0400, Minimiscience wrote: > I have a Perl 6 function currently written in the form: > > sub func($x) { > for @data -> $datum { > if condition($datum, $x) ff * { ># Do various things > } > } > # Do various other things >

POD classes -- a suggestion

2009-09-16 Thread Aaron Sherman
I'd really like to be able to assign a class to POD documentation. Here's an example of why: class Widget is Bauble #= A widget is a kind of bauble that can do stuff { has $.things; #= a collection of other stuff #==XXX{ This variable needs to be replaced for political reasons }

Re: S26 - The Next Generation

2009-09-16 Thread Aaron Sherman
I'm jumping in on an old conversation because I only just had time to catch up last night. I have a few questions that I think are probably still pertinent. On Sun, Aug 16, 2009 at 4:26 PM, Damian Conway wrote: > > Executive summary: > > * Pod is now just a set of specialized forms of Perl 6

Duration of a flip-flop's flippy thing

2009-09-16 Thread Minimiscience
I have a Perl 6 function currently written in the form: sub func($x) { for @data -> $datum { if condition($datum, $x) ff * { # Do various things } } # Do various other things } I want the "various things" code to be run for the first element in C<@data

Perl 6 Set::Relation port desired (was Re: How can i contribute for perl 6 ?)

2009-09-16 Thread Darren Duncan
Moritz Lenz wrote [on perl6-language]: On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 09:30:13AM +0530, Saravanan Thiyagarajan wrote: Would like to be a volunteer in working for perl-6. Can some one help me to get into right direction ? I've written about various options on perlmonks [1], but I think the best thing

Re: How can i contribute for perl 6 ?

2009-09-16 Thread Geoffrey Broadwell
On Wed, 2009-09-16 at 19:49 +1000, Timothy S. Nelson wrote: > +1. I have a set of 7 bookmarks that load in tabs that I call my "Perl 6" > bookmarks. I load this group of tabs into a separate web browser window when > I'm doing Perl 6 stuff. That link is one of the 7 links. Perhaps your other

Re: Capture as data

2009-09-16 Thread Daniel Ruoso
Em Ter, 2009-09-15 às 19:33 -0400, Aaron Sherman escreveu: > I tried this out, and I'm not 100% certain why I got what I did (#20 > release): > Code: > my $x = \(-> { say "Perl 6" }); say $x(); > Output: > Perl 6 > 1 > First off, why can I invoke a capture when it contains a lambda? Shouldn't I

Re: Capture as data

2009-09-16 Thread Aaron Sherman
On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 8:18 PM, yary wrote: > Pretty sure you get the 1 as the return value of "say" (same as in > perl5, print & say return 1 if they were able to output the entire > string, or 0 if there was an error eg. printing to a closed > filehandle). Yeah, I should have been clearer. I

Re: [perl #53104] [BUG] dyld: lazy symbol binding failed: Symbol not found: _parrot_i386_cmpxchg (icu?)

2009-09-16 Thread Stéphane Payrard
the report is not relevant anymore. you can close the ticket. Thx On 9/16/09, James Keenan via RT wrote: > On Sun Apr 20 08:58:20 2008, cognominal wrote: >> When testing, got that error message. >> Probably linked to icu and the version used. >> I have 3.4.1 and 3.8.1 around.. I am not sure I cur

Re: [perl #41500] [TODO] config - lib directory needs to be set appropriately for 32/64 bit archs

2009-09-16 Thread Timothy S. Nelson
On Tue, 15 Sep 2009, James Keenan via RT wrote: On Sun Jul 19 12:07:24 2009, jk...@verizon.net wrote: It appears that this ticket effectively stalled two years ago for lack of testers on 64-bit platforms. However I believe that recently we have had a big increase in the amount of testing goin

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

2009-09-16 Thread Raphael Descamps
Am Mittwoch, den 16.09.2009, 10:30 +0200 schrieb François Perrad: > 2009/9/16 Carl Mäsak : > > Tim (>), Raphael (>>): > >>> Some XML related stuff: > >>> > >>> XML parser: > >>> http://github.com/fperrad/xml/ > No Perl6. > Only Parrot & PCT. Yes, I know. But your XML grammar is Perl 6 syntax anyw

Workaround for role stubs (Re: Looking for help updating Perl 6 and Parrot part of Perl Myths talk)

2009-09-16 Thread Moritz Lenz
Timothy S. Nelson wrote: > On Wed, 16 Sep 2009, Carl Mäsak wrote: > >> Tim (>), Raphael (>>): Some XML related stuff: XML parser: http://github.com/fperrad/xml/ Tree manipulation: http://github.com/wayland/Tree/tree/master >>> >>> Thanks. Any reason they're not k

Re: How can i contribute for perl 6 ?

2009-09-16 Thread Saravanan Thiyagarajan
Thanks everyone for sharing the link. After a serious of chat in IRC found this links usefull http://www.perlfoundation.org/perl6/index.cgi?roadmap_to_helping_with_development ~ twitter.com/perlsaran On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 10:23 PM, Patrick R. Michaud wrote: > On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 11:16:56A

Re: [perl #69160] Twin exceptions cause assertion failure and/or unrequested error message

2009-09-16 Thread Moritz Lenz
Thanks for the ticket, it's a very good catch and analysis. I have some small comments on it: Bruce Gray (via RT) wrote: > # New Ticket Created by Bruce Gray > # Please include the string: [perl #69160] > # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. > # http://rt.perl.o

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

2009-09-16 Thread Timothy S. Nelson
On Wed, 16 Sep 2009, Carl Mäsak wrote: Tim (>), Raphael (>>): Some XML related stuff: XML parser: http://github.com/fperrad/xml/ Tree manipulation: http://github.com/wayland/Tree/tree/master Thanks. Any reason they're not known to proto? The latter I wasn't really aware of. It's now added

Re: How can i contribute for perl 6 ?

2009-09-16 Thread Timothy S. Nelson
On Tue, 15 Sep 2009, Saravanan T wrote: Thanks Tim for the link, I tried IRC channel felt like not to disturb from their serious discussion with a newbie question. Feel free. There are a few people in the serious discussions who will ignore questions not directly targetted at them, but a l

Re: How can i contribute for perl 6 ?

2009-09-16 Thread Timothy S. Nelson
On Tue, 15 Sep 2009, Patrick R. Michaud wrote: On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 10:02:02PM +1000, Timothy S. Nelson wrote: On Tue, 15 Sep 2009, Saravanan Thiyagarajan wrote: Would like to be a volunteer in working for perl-6. Can some one help me to get into right direction ? Sure. The best

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

2009-09-16 Thread François Perrad
2009/9/16 Carl Mäsak : > Tim (>), Raphael (>>): >>> Some XML related stuff: >>> >>> XML parser: >>> http://github.com/fperrad/xml/ No Perl6. Only Parrot & PCT. François Perrad >>> >>> Tree manipulation: >>> http://github.com/wayland/Tree/tree/master >> >> Thanks. Any reason they're not known to p

[perl #69160] Twin exceptions cause assertion failure and/or unrequested error message

2009-09-16 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by Bruce Gray # Please include the string: [perl #69160] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=69160 > Consider these two classes, both faulty in the same way: class B0rk { say $.a };

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

2009-09-16 Thread Nathan Gray
On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 12:15:05PM +0100, Tim Bunce wrote: > You can find my current draft at http://files.me.com/tim.bunce/65oikg (2.3MB > PDF) page 73 - Haskell should be spelled with two Ls -kolibrie

Re: How can i contribute for perl 6 ?

2009-09-16 Thread Saravanan T
Thanks Tim for the link, I tried IRC channel felt like not to disturb from their serious discussion with a newbie question. My skillset is 5+ yrs of exp in perl,unix with a computerscience engineering background Worked in various domains like banking domain(Standard chartered - Gui tool in Tk/perl

[perl #69152] perl6 binary sucks up all available memory

2009-09-16 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by Torsten Blix # Please include the string: [perl #69152] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=69152 > Rakudo git version a9ff309e63f1df4f271847757f7f014902d26858 1) create a new test file

Re: How can i contribute for perl 6 ?

2009-09-16 Thread Moritz Lenz
On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 09:30:13AM +0530, Saravanan Thiyagarajan wrote: > Would like to be a volunteer in working for perl-6. > Can some one help me to get into right direction ? I've written about various options on perlmonks [1], but I think the best thing you can do right now is to pick a simpl

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

2009-09-16 Thread Carl Mäsak
Tim (>), Raphael (>>): >> Some XML related stuff: >> >> XML parser: >> http://github.com/fperrad/xml/ >> >> Tree manipulation: >> http://github.com/wayland/Tree/tree/master > > Thanks. Any reason they're not known to proto? The latter I wasn't really aware of. It's now added to the list, and wayla