Re: Natural Language and Perl 6

2010-08-02 Thread Aaron Sherman
On Sun, Aug 1, 2010 at 6:46 AM, Timothy S. Nelson wrote: >Hi. I'm wondering if any thought has been given to natural language > processing with Perl 6 grammars. > > Yes. ;) -- Aaron Sherman Email or GTalk: a...@ajs.com http://www.ajs.com/~ajs

[perl #76932] [BUG] Test.pm; lives_ok() not working with warn()

2010-08-02 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by Chris Fields # Please include the string: [perl #76932] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=76932 > Reported on IRC but was warnocked. cjfie...@pyrimidine:~/tests/perl6$ cat lives_ok.pl

Re: Natural Language and Perl 6

2010-08-02 Thread yary
This is getting more and more off topic, but if you want some lojban pasers, start at http://www.lojban.org/tiki/tiki-index.php?page=Dictionaries,+Glossers+and+parsers -y On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 3:58 PM, Carl Mäsak wrote: > Jason (>): >> No specific tool is best suited for natural language pro

Re: Breaking encapsulation by detaching a private-variable-accessing method from one object and calling it on another

2010-08-02 Thread Carl Mäsak
Carl (>>), Moritz (>): >> * If it isn't allowed, which of the two steps is disallowed? >> *Detaching* a method containing references to private accessor slots >> (thereby extending the syntactic restriction of "no private accessors >> outside of the class block"), or *attaching* an anonymous method

Re: Natural Language and Perl 6

2010-08-02 Thread Carl Mäsak
Jason (>): > No specific tool is best suited for natural language processing. There was > apparently a time in which everyone thought that a formal grammar could > clearly define any natural language, but I don't think anyone succeeded at > creating a complete formal grammar for any language other

Re: S26 broken link

2010-08-02 Thread Jon Lang
Moritz Lenz wrote: > Offer Kaye wrote: >> The link to the S26 Synopsis on http://perlcabal.org/syn/ points to >> http://perlcabal.org/syn/S26.html which is a broken link - would it be >> possible to fix this? > > I't not that easy, because we currently don't have tool to turn p6doc > into HTML. I c

Re: Smart match isn't on Bool

2010-08-02 Thread TSa (Thomas Sandlaß)
HaloO, On Monday, 2. August 2010 20:02:40 Mark J. Reed wrote: > On Sun, Aug 1, 2010 at 6:02 PM, Jonathan Worthington wrote: > > No, given-when is smart-matching. The RHS of a smart-match decides what > > happens. If you do True ~~ 1 then that's 1.ACCEPTS(True) which is going > > to do +True and

[perl #76792] tests available

2010-08-02 Thread kyleha
This is an automatically generated mail to inform you that tests are now available in t/spec/S05-metasyntax/repeat.t commit c3a2cd0aced0bcb0960d03aeca8152e316011bfc Author: moritz Date: Mon Aug 2 19:32:21 2010 + [t/spec] test for RT #76792, ** and \w interact badly in regexes

Re: Smart match isn't on Bool

2010-08-02 Thread Aaron Sherman
On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 2:02 PM, Mark J. Reed wrote: > On Sun, Aug 1, 2010 at 6:02 PM, Jonathan Worthington > wrote: >> No, given-when is smart-matching. The RHS of a smart-match decides what >> happens. If you do True ~~ 1 then that's 1.ACCEPTS(True) which is going to >> do +True and thus match.

Re: Smart match isn't on Bool

2010-08-02 Thread Mark J. Reed
On Sun, Aug 1, 2010 at 6:02 PM, Jonathan Worthington wrote: > No, given-when is smart-matching. The RHS of a smart-match decides what > happens. If you do True ~~ 1 then that's 1.ACCEPTS(True) which is going to > do +True and thus match. OK, but what about 0 ~~ True? That's what started this thr

Re: Perl 6 User Documentation

2010-08-02 Thread Moritz Lenz
Hi, Offer Kaye wrote: > Following the release of Rakudo Star I've been playing around with > learning Perl 6 and noticed a distinct lack of user-facing > documentation. After some IRC chats with pmichaud++ I thought it would > be a good idea if I got the ball rolling, assuming of course it > doesn

[perl #76930] space in prefix path

2010-08-02 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by Sven Heinicke # Please include the string: [perl #76930] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=76930 > I tried to configure rakudo-star-2010.07 in a directory with a space in it (@#$% Ubu

[perl #76926] Less than awesome error message for '$x ?? $y :: $z'

2010-08-02 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by Cosimo Streppone # Please include the string: [perl #76926] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=76926 > The old expression: $condition ?? $x :: $y is now: $condition ??

Re: cannot install perl6 compiler

2010-08-02 Thread Moritz Lenz
Grizzly(Francis Smit) wrote: > rakudo-star install to I seem to be unable to install to /usr/local etc it > seams to install to my user account > I'm running ubuntu linux 10.04 Lucid Lynx Did you try the --prefix option to Configure.pl Cheers, Moritz -- Moritz Lenz http://perlgeek.de/ | http:/

Re: S26 broken link

2010-08-02 Thread Moritz Lenz
Hi, Offer Kaye wrote: > The link to the S26 Synopsys on http://perlcabal.org/syn/ points to > http://perlcabal.org/syn/S26.html which is a broken link - would it be > possible to fix this? I't not that easy, because we currently don't have tool to turn p6doc into HTML. I can remove the link for n

Re: Breaking encapsulation by detaching a private-variable-accessing method from one object and calling it on another

2010-08-02 Thread Moritz Lenz
Carl Mäsak wrote: > * It is my feeling that such encapsulation-breakage shouldn't be > allowed. Do you agree, p6l? Time may proof me wrong, but I think it's not such a big issue. Note that encapsulation can be broken in many ways already, wither with MONKEY_TYPING or by using introspection techni

[perl #76928] [BUG] undefined value for a missing hash optional argument does not know its metaclass.

2010-08-02 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by Stephane Payrard # Please include the string: [perl #76928] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=76928 > > sub a( %h?) { say %h.HOW }; a(); Method 'HOW' not found for invocant of class 'Ha

[perl #69740] tests available

2010-08-02 Thread kyleha
This is an automatically generated mail to inform you that tests are now available in t/spec/S04-declarations/constant.t commit 0b93fd8ad7b19c5ca28b5456306327e4be20fb31 Author: bbkr Date: Mon Aug 2 11:24:01 2010 + [t/spec] tests for RT #69740 Defining several constants with parenthese

[perl #69548] tests available

2010-08-02 Thread kyleha
This is an automatically generated mail to inform you that tests are now available in at least one of these files: t/spec/S32-array/push.t, t/spec/S32-array/unshift.t commit d1d53c0423c9ed041a5ee7ad691bed61d655a494 Author: bbkr Date: Mon Aug 2 10:20:34 2010 + [t/spec] tests for RT #6

Re: Perl6 Modules - Documentation

2010-08-02 Thread Richard Hainsworth
On 07/30/2010 12:31 PM, Moritz Lenz wrote: Am 30.07.2010 09:24, schrieb Richard Hainsworth: Would it be possible to require that any module listed in the proto list s/require/suggest/ proto inclusion already requires a dependency file, No. It's perfectly fine to have none, if the module has no