[perl #124664] Failing tests in S06-other/main-usage.t: use of '--switch "arg1 arg2"' on command line

2015-05-23 Thread Christian Bartolomaeus via RT
This ticket is about failing tests (fudged 'todo') in S06-other/main-usage.t which are about using command line switches without '=': $ perl6 -e 'sub MAIN(:$xin) { say $xin }' --xin "foo bar" Usage: -e '...' [--xin=] According to S06 this should be valid and should be equivalent to $ perl6 -e

[perl #124513] Failing tests for combination of unary hyper '>>' with constant string subscripts

2015-05-23 Thread Christian Bartolomaeus via RT
This ticket is about skipped tests in S03-metaops/hyper.t and S12-methods/parallel-dispatch.t which combine the unary hyper operator '>>' with constant string subscripts for a Hash or Pair. The following evaluation shows the problem: $ perl6 -e 'say (a => 2, a => 3)>>.' Cannot find method 'post

Regex vs Grammar

2015-05-23 Thread H.Merijn Brand
Liz told me to post here In my work to post Text::CSV_XS from perl5 to perl6, am am close to feature complete now, but the performance is not what I hoped for: seconds to parse 1 lines of CSV perl5 Text::CSV::Easy_XS 0.016 Text::CSV::Easy_PP 0.017 Text::CSV_XS w/ bindc 0.034 Text::C

[perl6/specs] 4932a7: Correct signature, cognominal++

2015-05-23 Thread GitHub
Branch: refs/heads/master Home: https://github.com/perl6/specs Commit: 4932a71206131f76c7064295bc70ef785260adeb https://github.com/perl6/specs/commit/4932a71206131f76c7064295bc70ef785260adeb Author: Moritz Lenz Date: 2015-05-22 (Fri, 22 May 2015) Changed paths: M S32-se