Re: Return value of try

2010-11-15 Thread Ruud H.G. van Tol
On 2010-11-15 23:46, Aaron Sherman wrote: try { ?$!PIO.close() } $! ?? fail($!) !! Bool::True Probably try{} can be made to return a True when there was no exception? try { ... 1; } or fail( ... ); try { ...

Return value of try

2010-11-15 Thread Aaron Sherman
I was listening to the recent IO conversation on p6c, and decided to look at IO.pm in rakudo. I immediately saw a bit of code that worried me: try { ?$!PIO.close() } $! ?? fail($!) !! Bool::True Why is that so cumbersome? That seems like one of the most obvious

Proposed diff: accept parrot git URL from command-line

2010-11-15 Thread Aaron Sherman
The attached diff offers a possible way to deal with folks who are behind firewalls and must use the http or https URLs to clone parrot from. Testing done: provided alternate URL in an environment with no access to the git port, and download/build worked fine. diff --git a/Configure.pl b/Configure

Google Code-In brings fresh blood to the Perl and Parrot communities

2010-11-15 Thread Jonathan Leto
Howdy, I'm excited to announce that Parrot Foundation and The Perl Foundation have been accepted as organizations in Google Code-In 2010! http://leto.net/perl/2010/11/parrot-foundation-the-perl-foundation-google-code-in.html If you know of a mailing list that you think would find this relevant o