[perl #126797] [BUG] rakudo / mingw / gmake test - all nativecall tests fail because of bad $*VM.config

2016-03-11 Thread Tobias Leich via RT
Closing as resolved.

Re: books on p6?

2016-03-11 Thread Fields, Christopher J
Of course! the base URL has posts :P http://www.learningperl6.com/ Knew I saw it somewhere... Chris On Mar 11, 2016, at 8:28 AM, Fields, Christopher J mailto:cjfie...@illinois.edu>> wrote: The below link indicates an update in Dec. 2015. I also recall seeing something after the Christmas re

Re: books on p6?

2016-03-11 Thread Fields, Christopher J
The below link indicates an update in Dec. 2015. I also recall seeing something after the Christmas release, maybe from brian d foy, which indicated this is still being worked on. http://www.learningperl6.com/book/ Chris > On Mar 11, 2016, at 7:56 AM, Will Coleda wrote: > > ISTR that link h

[perl #125140] [FEATURE-REQUEST] NativeCall: Provide a mechanism to invoke function pointers

2016-03-11 Thread Tobias Leich via RT
Patches and test: https://github.com/MoarVM/MoarVM/commit/ada3752a81 https://github.com/rakudo/rakudo/commit/a8f407cccd Resolving ticket as fixed.

Re: books on p6?

2016-03-11 Thread Will Coleda
ISTR that link has been around for ages. I don't think they're actually working on that book anymore. On Thu, Mar 10, 2016 at 5:06 PM, Steve Mynott wrote: > See http://www.learningperl6.com/about/ > > Although this is still vapourware and the current best resources are > linked from the perl6.org

Re: Very small feature suggestion

2016-03-11 Thread Will Coleda
If you are running a 2 month old version, then yes, probably easiest to wait for 2016.03 If you like, you can always build HEAD from source or use rakudobrew to stay run the latest, unreleased code. Cheers. On Thu, Mar 10, 2016 at 7:03 PM, Parrot Raiser <1parr...@gmail.com> wrote: > Can I easily

[perl #126797] [BUG] rakudo / mingw / gmake test - all nativecall tests fail because of bad $*VM.config

2016-03-11 Thread Tobias Leich via RT
Hi, can you please check if it is still broken? The patch in https://github.com/rakudo/rakudo/commit/505dc4fa should fix it.

Re: importing code

2016-03-11 Thread Siavash
To specify the name indirectly: my $m = 'some-module'; require ::($m); On 2016-03-11 11:17:44 IRST, mt1957 wrote: > Op 10-03-16 om 20:14 schreef yary: >> There's "require" to load a module at runtime >> >> http://docs.perl6.org/syntax/require >> >> The $*REPO object controls how to search for mo