Re: Can I use my Perl5 .pm modules in Perl6?

dha -- David H. Adler - - http://www.panix.com/~dha/ You're still hoping for a new, good Star Trek series??? You must be a Cubs fan. - Michael G. Schwern

Re: Proposed docs for C

On Wed, Sep 16, 2015 at 04:42:27PM -0400, Parrot Raiser wrote: > On 9/16/15, David H. Adler wrote: > > > So, how about this > > > > perl6 -e 'sub a {state @x; @x.push(++$)}; say a for 1..6;' > > > > [1] > > [1 2] > > &c > >

Proposed doc for while/until

Note: Proposing to put this *above* repeat/while / repeat/until. https://gist.github.com/dha/0a0736b9da74a8e61e49 dha -- David H. Adler - - http://www.panix.com/~dha/ A feature is often a bug with seniority.- Chip Salzenberg

Re: Proposed docs for C

the problem is the original > code is a bit overly-contrived (I'm thinking ;-). It shows better the > variation after each call, maybe. my 2.00e-02 dollars worth. So, how about this perl6 -e 'sub a {state @x; @x.push(++$)}; say a for 1..6;' [1] [1 2] [1 2 3] [1 2 3

Re: Proposed docs for C

#x27;1's extend, is less visually complicated and gets the point across more directly. [1 1 1 1] next [1 1 1 1 1 1] next [1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1] How strongly do people feel about this? dha -- David H. Adler - - http://www.panix.com/~dha/ Damn, if this doesn't win me "Pedant of the Y

Proposed docs for C

Maybe a bit long, but think it explains it in a way people will understand. Thoughts? https://gist.github.com/dha/8009c28d7bf2d1ca8875 dha -- David H. Adler - - http://www.panix.com/~dha/ I think the scale of relative badness is broken in this place. - Diablo

Suggestions on documentation for C and C

Well, the thing with C is more of a question... https://gist.github.com/dha/02f1f41b5f8937c0271e And for C some suggested documentation I'd like to get some extra eyes on before I commit. https://gist.github.com/dha/d8ab9b8cf852d358bfaf Thanks! dha -- David H. Adler - -

Re: What are Perl 6's killer advantages over Perl 5?

e any equivalent to Perl 5's perlrun document, which would detail the command line flags. Maybe I'll take a shot at something like that in the coming days. dha -- David H. Adler - - http://www.panix.com/~dha/ "Your point being..." - Homer Simpson

Re: What are Perl 6's killer advantages over Perl 5?

doing Perl 6, I get this question a lot. So, yes, some kind of document saying "these are reasons Perl 6 is actually useful" would be very helpful. dha -- David H. Adler - - http://www.panix.com/~dha/ When I went to open my suitcase I found a lock on it, which I never have. So I

Re: slurpy hash

On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 03:49:52PM -0400, Will Coleda wrote: > On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 3:36 PM, David H. Adler wrote: > > On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 03:14:28PM -0400, Will Coleda wrote: > >> On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 3:03 PM, David H. Adler wrote: > >> > Given the cod

Re: slurpy hash

On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 03:14:28PM -0400, Will Coleda wrote: > On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 3:03 PM, David H. Adler wrote: > > Given the code: > > > > ? ? ? ?use v6; > > > > ? ? ? ?sub speakhash (*%hash) { > > ? ? ? ? ? ?say "%hash{}"; > > ? ? ? ?

slurpy hash

ess, it strikes me as odd that Rakudo* seems to think that the subroutine should expect *0* arguments. So... clearly there's a problem here, but I'm not sure if it's with Rakudo* or with my thinking. :-) Any thoughts on this matter would be appreciated. many thanks, dha -- David

Re: [perl #39734] t/doc/pod.t fails on Mac OS 10.4.6/perl 5.8.8

On Thu, Jul 06, 2006 at 06:22:31AM -0700, jerry gay wrote: > On 7/5/06, via RT David H. Adler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >As bugs go, not a killer, but still... > > > >The problem tests are as follows: > > > >not ok 329 - POD test for /Users/dh

Re: Unintended consequences

On Mon, May 22, 2006 at 09:45:31PM -0500, Andy Lester wrote: > Here's an example of why I'm not real excited about CPANTS: > > http://community.livejournal.com/perl/120747.html You mean the fact that there's a perl community on LJ? :-) dha -- David H. Adler - &l

Re: Test me please: P/PE/PETDANCE/Test-Harness-2.57_06.tar.gz

On Sun, Apr 23, 2006 at 04:14:01PM -0400, David H. Adler wrote: > On Sun, Apr 23, 2006 at 01:02:00AM -0500, Andy Lester wrote: > > I'm approaching the end of this release cycle. I really want to get > > this released. > > Tests pass. One "not numeric" warn

Re: Test me please: P/PE/PETDANCE/Test-Harness-2.57_06.tar.gz

ine entry at t/lib/Test/More.pm line 670 dha -- David H. Adler - <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - http://www.panix.com/~dha/ Nothing makes me appreciate Perl more than malloc. - Andy Lester

Re: Test::Harness now tells you which TODOs passed unexpectedly

. Files=18, Tests=569, 21 wallclock secs ( 5.84 cusr + 3.22 csys = 9.06 CPU) -- David H. Adler - <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - http://www.panix.com/~dha/ "Dir-ty deeds...DONE TO SHEEP!" Heh heh...AC/DC, eat yer heart out. - Mary Roth

Re: prove users: Please test P/PE/PETDANCE/Test-Harness-2.57_04.tar.gz

OS X 10.4.6/perl 5.8.7 dha -- David H. Adler - <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - http://www.panix.com/~dha/ Alaska is a large cold place with approximately six residents who would inbreed if they found each other more attractive. - Scott Adams

Re: What the heck is... wrong with Parrot development?

thers. :-) In any case, I agree that this is not a matter that warrents extensive discussion. Speculation isn't terribly useful here. dha -- David H. Adler - <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - http://www.panix.com/~dha/ Just Install Perl. - Chris Nandor

Re: Testing What Was Printed

inted is correct"); A question: is there any reason that you made this an OO module but still show calls to the methods as functions rather than methods on the object? I.e. why C rather than C<$capture->verify_number_lines> ? This would also remove the need to explicitly export those f

Re: Where is Devel::Cover installed?

her systems, I'm sure) stuff sometimes gets installed under architecture specific directories like that. As mentioned elsehwere, perldoc -l is your friend. dha -- David H. Adler - <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - http://www.panix.com/~dha/ ... nononono. And to use nonononono just to negate that

Re: Test::DoubleQuotedEntities

and as an aside I released a new Acme::Test::Buffy, with slightly > improved documentation and spelling too - but no one cares about that) Says who? dha -- David H. Adler - <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - http://www.panix.com/~dha/ What kind of marathon crack binge would cause you believe this? - Mark Rogaski

Re: Release 0.0.11 status

On Fri, Sep 19, 2003 at 09:22:05PM -0700, Steve Fink wrote: > > Anything I'm missing? I feel obliged to suggest putting HQ9PLUS into the languages directory. :-) dha -- David H. Adler - <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - http://www.panix.com/~dha/ "It must be difficult being such a v

Re: We *need* this op! :-)

nd extended version - hq9+42 dha -- David H. Adler - <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - http://www.panix.com/~dha/ however, if people don't like Perl, they don't have to use it. they can stay at the office solving their problems while the Perl Mongers go out and drink. ;)- brian d foy in c.l.p.misc

Re: We *need* this op! :-)

On Fri, Aug 08, 2003 at 12:33:03PM +0100, Nicholas Clark wrote: > On Fri, Aug 08, 2003 at 02:20:46AM -0400, David H. Adler wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 07, 2003 at 12:57:11PM -0400, Gordon Henriksen wrote: > > > This is really a language feature; you should add it to the hq9+ &g

hq9+ update

Thanks to schwern, a couple of glitches in my interpreter have (I think) been fixed. updated version now replacing old version at http://www.thetasigma.com/parrot/hq9p.pasm dha -- David H. Adler - <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - http://www.panix.com/~dha/ "Perl Porters, Inc. today announced

I scare me.

I'm sure it needs a few tweaks, but I've managed to write a hq9+ interpreter in pasm. [insert deity here] help us all. :-) Any thoughts on this? http://www.thetasigma.com/parrot/ dha -- David H. Adler - <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - http://www.panix.com/~dha/ "It's all eggs

Re: $foo.Foun (was Re: Properties and stricture)

On Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 01:37:23AM -0500, Me wrote: > > > Larry's MMV on that ;-) > > Man I really need to get up to speed with these > acronyms. I know YMMV, is MMV a distant > cousin perhaps? Same idea, except it's Larry's Milage in question, rather

Re: Things have paused... really?

>Hmm, I think of Python as more Babbit than Mahler. Perl is ... John Cage? > > Would that mean that perl 6 corresponds to 4'33"? (If I have the composers > right...) You do, but surely it's been longer than that since we've heard anything... :-) dha -- David H.

Re: Take it outside, please

off perl6-*. Take it to clpm or your local NY.pm meeting. In the latter case, please only do so if schwern is in town and we can shove you and him into a different room... dha, 1/2 :-) -- David H. Adler - <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - http://www.panix.com/~dha/ You get the idea that if Apple won a

Re: RFC 195 (v1) Retire chop().

if overused. I admit to being a bit sentimental about chop, but I can't think of any exciting reasons to keep it. The parity reasoning, however strikes me as a bad idea/precedent. dha -- David H. Adler - <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - http://www.panix.com/~dha/ Just Install Perl. - Chris Nandor