perl6 vs ruby

2020-02-28 Thread Kristopher
Hello, This is Kristopher from Japan. We have ruby language, which I have been using on work for years. Now I take a rough watch on perl6 language. Can you tell me what are the main difference between perl6 and ruby? Is perl6 good at BIO? Thank you.

Re: problems with 2020.01

2020-02-28 Thread ToddAndMargo via perl6-users
On 2020-02-28 20:40, Parrot Raiser wrote: > Done > > 2020.01 does not warn or uninstall other installations > https://github.com/rakudo/star/issues/151 > If you install each version in its own directory and use a symbolic link to point to the most current one, that is not a problem. Roll

Re: problems with 2020.01

2020-02-28 Thread ToddAndMargo via perl6-users
On 2020-02-28 13:01, JJ Merelo wrote: That would be probably a good candidate for raising it as a Rakudo Star issue at https://github.com/rakudo/star/issues Definitely, at least the documentation and much better the installation process should check for prior versions and ask them to be uninstal

Re: qqx with quotes

2020-02-28 Thread ToddAndMargo via perl6-users
Left some stuff out. my $PathIAm = $?FILE; ( my $IAm = $PathIAm ) ~~ s| .* "/" ||; my Str $BatFile = $PathIAm ~ ".bat"; $BatFile ~~ s:global| '\\' |/|; my Str $OS = $*KERNEL.name; if not $OS eq "win32" { say "Sorry, $IAm only work in Windows."; exit; } ( $IAm = $PathIAm ) ~~ s| .* '\\' |

Re: qqx with quotes

2020-02-28 Thread ToddAndMargo via perl6-users
I have a work around! I am taking advantage of the Windows build in programming language from hell (batch): my $PathIAm = $?FILE; ( my $IAm = $PathIAm ) ~~ s| .* "/" ||; my $FileName = "@*ARGS[0]"; my Str $CmdStr = Q[@echo off] ~ "\n" ~

Re: qqx with quotes

2020-02-28 Thread ToddAndMargo via perl6-users
On 2020-02-27 11:05, Andy Bach wrote: This did work my $file = 'hi mom' $file ~~ s:g/\s+/*/; my $res = qqx(dir $file); say $res; Just updated to 2020.01 Still getting this: C:\NtUtil>dir Test* Volume in drive C has no label. Volume Serial Number is 8A79-8401 Directory of C:\NtUtil 02/2

Re: problems with 2020.01

2020-02-28 Thread JJ Merelo
That would be probably a good candidate for raising it as a Rakudo Star issue at https://github.com/rakudo/star/issues Definitely, at least the documentation and much better the installation process should check for prior versions and ask them to be uninstalled. El vie., 28 feb. 2020 a las 21:59,

problems with 2020.01

2020-02-28 Thread ToddAndMargo via perl6-users
Hi All, I just installed rakudo-star-2020.01-01-win-x86_64-(JIT).msi Found out the hard way if you do not uninstall the prior version, the current version will not uninstall it for you. -T raku -v Unhandled exception: Missing or wrong version of dependency 'C:\rakudo\bin\..\sh are\nqp\lib\

Re: qqx with quotes

2020-02-28 Thread ToddAndMargo via perl6-users
> On 2020-02-27 15:38, Andy Bach wrote: >> Win10 with a new raku install. *From:* Todd Chester via perl6-users *Sent:* Friday, February 28, 2020 4:57 AM *To:* perl6-us...@perl.org *Subject:* Re: qqx with quotes would you do a perl6 -v for me? On 2020-02-28 10:27, Andy Bach wrote: rak

Re: qqx with quotes

2020-02-28 Thread Andy Bach
rakudo 2020.01 built on moar 2020.01.1 implementing perl 6.d From: Todd Chester via perl6-users Sent: Friday, February 28, 2020 4:57 AM To: perl6-us...@perl.org Subject: Re: qqx with quotes On 2020-02-27 15:38, Andy Bach wrote: > Win10 with a new raku install.

Re: qqx with quotes

2020-02-28 Thread Todd Chester via perl6-users
On 2020-02-27 15:38, Andy Bach wrote: Win10 with a new raku install. would you do a perl6 -v for me?