Re: perl6's new name?

2019-08-13 Thread David Christensen
On 8/11/19 11:14 PM, Eliza wrote: Hello perl6 world, I saw the perl6 github issue, just was confused will perl6 change its name? https://github.com/perl6/problem-solving/issues/81 I don't know whether to take this is troll bait or a real issue. Lots of people seem to be responding; so i

Re: Why so slow

2019-04-28 Thread David Christensen
On 4/27/19 10:40 PM, David Christensen wrote: I suggested that he install the official package: https://rakudo.org/files The Rakudo site is degraded: "Currently, rakudo.org is being served from a back-up server that doesn't have the download files." I had previo

Re: Why so slow

2019-04-28 Thread David Christensen
On 4/28/19 12:07 AM, Timo Paulssen wrote: I'm writing a program called moarperf, which is a local web app written in Cro that doesn't touch the network outside of loopback. It just has to build its JavaScript blobs once by downloading like a brazillion libraries from npm. That should be usefu

Re: Why so slow

2019-04-28 Thread David Christensen
On 21/04/2019 05:58, ToddAndMargo via perl6-users wrote: Hi All, One liners are fast, but my own programs are very slow to start. I download https://github.com/perl6/gtk-simple/blob/master/examples/05-bars.pl6 To check it out and it also takes ten second to start. >> What gives? Many thanks

Re: Why so slow

2019-04-27 Thread David Christensen
On 4/20/19 8:58 PM, ToddAndMargo via perl6-users wrote: Hi All, One liners are fast, but my own programs are very slow to start. I download https://github.com/perl6/gtk-simple/blob/master/examples/05-bars.pl6 To check it out and it also takes ten second to start. What gives? Many thanks, -T

Re: macOS Mojave 10.14.4, Rakudo Star 2019.03.1, zef install Ddt -> Failed to change the working directory...

2019-04-07 Thread David Christensen
6 квіт. 2019 р. о 22:28 David Christensen пише: perl6-users: I have: macOS Mojave Version 10.14.4 MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, 2015) Today, I downloaded and installed: https://rakudo.org/latest/star/macos into my normal user account per the built-in instructions

macOS Mojave 10.14.4, Rakudo Star 2019.03.1, zef install Ddt -> Failed to change the working directory...

2019-04-06 Thread David Christensen
perl6-users: I have: macOS Mojave Version 10.14.4 MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, 2015) Today, I downloaded and installed: https://rakudo.org/latest/star/macos into my normal user account per the built-in instructions (including setting PATH). Perl 6 seems to work: 201

S04 -- closure traits clarification

2005-04-29 Thread David Christensen
t; ones, or to all traits? 4) Which of the closure traits are supported as "will" predicates on variables? Not all of the closure traits make sense on the variable-level -- this information will be useful when trying to parse the "will" predicates. Thanks, David Christensen

junction adverb: :except

2005-04-18 Thread David Christensen
Hypothetical here: If we want to calculate a set of values for a junction which map nicely to a range with a few outliers, would it be possibly to have a qualifier :except which allows us to make exceptions to our given range? I.e., (Ignore for the moment the inefficiency of the choice of this

junctions as indicies

2005-04-18 Thread David Christensen
I'm looking in S09, and reading about junctions. It seems to me that if we have a junction $j which we use to index into an array or a hash, it should DWIM and return a junction of the corresponding values. @ar=[1..10]; %hash=(a=>1,b=>4,c=>7); $j=1|2|3; $k="a"|"c"; $u = @ar[$j]; # 2|3|4 $

Re: Hyper-slices?

2005-04-17 Thread David Christensen
I definitely like the hyper stuff how it is; maybe the answer is to just define an infix:<[[]]> operator which returns the crosswise slice of a nested list of lists. In any case it could be shunted aside to some package and certainly does not need to be in core. David my @transposed = @matrix>

patch for t/operators/hyper.t

2005-04-17 Thread David Christensen
Enclosed is a patch for t/operators/hyper.t to test for some corner cases with list extension. Let me know if the unicode ">>" are coming through correctly; I am not seeing them as such in my email. Thanks, David Christensen --

Hyper-slices?

2005-04-17 Thread David Christensen
till getting up to speed with a lot of the P6 specific issues). Again, apologies if this is a closed domain/already has some other method of retrieving the same information. Thanks, David Christensen

Hyper operator corner case?

2005-04-12 Thread David Christensen
cted: (1..5) >>+<< ($a-$b) # list context for the expression? Promotes like what? (1..5) >>+<< +($a-$b) # forced scalar context -- promotes like documented. (1..5) >>+<< (1) # promotes like what? Thoughts? David Christensen

Re: Namespaces again

2004-09-28 Thread David Christensen
his now; that comes later", "this is Larry's problem", or just "STFU: RTFM" -- I'm just trying to gain a more complete understanding. Regards, David - David Christensen Founder and CTO Yin Yan Software On Sep 28, 2004, at 5:37 PM, Chip Salzenberg wrote: According