Re: Naming debate- what's the location for it?

2018-02-16 Thread vijayvithal jahagirdar
Marketing is not only about branding. It is also about finding Evangelists. Perl's traditional base was in - Web Development, - Text Processing, - Bio-Informatics and - As a general glue language among the sys admin and EDA community. How many of these sectors are moving away or have

Re: A proposal for Perl's branding - let's free all the butterflies

2018-02-16 Thread Nigel Hamilton
> Here is a suggestion for Perl's branding: >> >> http://nigelhamilton.com/perl-branding-proposal.html >> > > I like your proposal. > > :-) > But its details would need fleshing out more, particularly at the end, > where it says this: > > Perl $new_runtime_name_for_perl5_goes_here (tm) > Perl $n

Re: A proposal for Perl's branding - let's free all the butterflies

2018-02-16 Thread Darren Duncan
On 2018-02-16 11:15 AM, Nigel Hamilton wrote: Here is a suggestion for Perl's branding: http://nigelhamilton.com/perl-branding-proposal.html I like your proposal. But its details would need fleshing out more, particularly at the end, where it says this: Perl $new_runtime_name_for_perl5_goe

Re: Naming debate- what's the location for it?

2018-02-16 Thread Darren Duncan
If we assume the use of NQP is part of the project's identity, then yes that makes sense. Historically that wasn't the case, eg the earlier Rakudo were written to Parrot PIR directly, and there's the possibility this could change again, though I see that as unlikely. Not a bad idea. -- Darren

A proposal for Perl's branding - let's free all the butterflies

2018-02-16 Thread Nigel Hamilton
Here is a suggestion for Perl's branding: http://nigelhamilton.com/perl-branding-proposal.html

[perl #132874] writing to utf16 handle gives write_fhb error

2018-02-16 Thread Zoffix Znet via RT
On Fri, 16 Feb 2018 00:56:27 -0800, comdog wrote: > This little program: > > my $fh = open 'test.txt', :w, :enc('utf16'); > put "filehandle is using {$fh.encoding}"; > $fh.put: 'Some text'; > > Gives this error: > > filehandle is using utf16 > write_fhb requires a native arra

[perl #132874] writing to utf16 handle gives write_fhb error

2018-02-16 Thread Zoffix Znet via RT
On Fri, 16 Feb 2018 00:56:27 -0800, comdog wrote: > This little program: > > my $fh = open 'test.txt', :w, :enc('utf16'); > put "filehandle is using {$fh.encoding}"; > $fh.put: 'Some text'; > > Gives this error: > > filehandle is using utf16 > write_fhb requires a native arra

[perl #130020] [RFC][@LARRY] Create a set of conventions to minimize impact internal changes to user's code

2018-02-16 Thread Aleks-Daniel Jakimenko-Aleksejev via RT
On 2018-02-16 09:01:57, c...@zoffix.com wrote: > On Fri, 16 Feb 2018 05:52:09 -0800, elizabeth wrote: > > I propose we change all onlies in the core to multis after the release > > and see how this breaks things / makes things slower. > > +1. Let's try. Yeah, sounds good. +1

[perl #130020] [RFC][@LARRY] Create a set of conventions to minimize impact internal changes to user's code

2018-02-16 Thread Zoffix Znet via RT
On Fri, 16 Feb 2018 05:52:09 -0800, elizabeth wrote: > I propose we change all onlies in the core to multis after the release > and see how this breaks things / makes things slower. +1. Let's try.

[perl #130020] [RFC][@LARRY] Create a set of conventions to minimize impact internal changes to user's code

2018-02-16 Thread Zoffix Znet via RT
On Fri, 16 Feb 2018 05:52:09 -0800, elizabeth wrote: > I propose we change all onlies in the core to multis after the release > and see how this breaks things / makes things slower. +1. Let's try.

Re: [perl #130020] [RFC][@LARRY] Create a set of conventions to minimize impact internal changes to user's code

2018-02-16 Thread Elizabeth Mattijsen via RT
I propose we change all onlies in the core to multis after the release and see how this breaks things / makes things slower. > On 16 Feb 2018, at 14:17, Zoffix Znet via RT > wrote: > > Spotted another case where there's impact: whether or not a routine is a > multi can have large impact on us

Re: [perl #130020] [RFC][@LARRY] Create a set of conventions to minimize impact internal changes to user's code

2018-02-16 Thread Elizabeth Mattijsen
I propose we change all onlies in the core to multis after the release and see how this breaks things / makes things slower. > On 16 Feb 2018, at 14:17, Zoffix Znet via RT > wrote: > > Spotted another case where there's impact: whether or not a routine is a > multi can have large impact on us

[perl #130020] [RFC][@LARRY] Create a set of conventions to minimize impact internal changes to user's code

2018-02-16 Thread Zoffix Znet via RT
Spotted another case where there's impact: whether or not a routine is a multi can have large impact on user's code. For example here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/48819031/where-did-my-perl-6-operator-go-after-i-defined-a-more-specific-multi/48827522 As part of conventions, we'd need to

[perl #130020] [RFC][@LARRY] Create a set of conventions to minimize impact internal changes to user's code

2018-02-16 Thread Zoffix Znet via RT
Spotted another case where there's impact: whether or not a routine is a multi can have large impact on user's code. For example here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/48819031/where-did-my-perl-6-operator-go-after-i-defined-a-more-specific-multi/48827522 As part of conventions, we'd need to

Re: Naming debate- what's the location for it?

2018-02-16 Thread Lloyd Fournier
I'm about to publish some blog posts with using Perl 6 to demonstrate some cryptographic primitives. I was thinking about calling it "rakudo" to at least intrigue people and make them google it. Couldn't we call the language rakudo and the implementation nqp-rakudo? (ie a rakudo implementation in

[perl #132874] writing to utf16 handle gives write_fhb error

2018-02-16 Thread brian d foy
# New Ticket Created by "brian d foy" # Please include the string: [perl #132874] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=132874 > This little program: my $fh = open 'test.txt', :w, :enc('utf16'); put "filehand