Re: How to read a particular environmental variable?

2020-04-07 Thread Gerard ONeill
It’s still a hash — the * twigil tweaks it’s scope, but it is still a % — so %*ENV works (windows) On Tue, Apr 7, 2020 at 6:48 PM ToddAndMargo via perl6-users < perl6-us...@perl.org> wrote: > Hi All, > > $ raku -e 'say %*ENV;' > > Gives me ALL of them. Is there a way to just ask for > a particu

Re: OAuth2?

2020-03-22 Thread Gerard ONeill
Just looked at the stackoverflow post — there are 3 updates with respect to needing to reauthenticate. Basically, you use the ‘AUTH XOATH base64 oathtoken’ command, after the EHLO command. the weird part seems to be the ehlo command is repeated twice — before STARTTLS, and after. g On Sun, Mar

Re: bitwise NOT

2020-01-14 Thread Gerard ONeill
A negative number (-A5) is the twos compliment of the positive number. A ones compliment is all the bits flipped. A twos compliment is a ones compliment plus one. So a ones compliment of (A5) is (-A5 - 1), which is -A6. So presumably, the twos compliment operator is (-). And I suppose for consi

Re: Definitions: compiler vs interpreter [was: Rationale for a VM + compiler approach instead of an interpreter?]

2014-12-10 Thread Gerard ONeill
ys works with the original human-readable source. > > Yes, surely that’s it. We all consider Python a compiler, after all. > > :-) > > Go on, tweak your definition to pin it down. :-) > > > * Gerard ONeill [2014-12-08 15:10]: > > How about an interpreter

Re: Definitions: compiler vs interpreter [was: Rationale for a VM + compiler approach instead of an interpreter?]

2014-12-08 Thread Gerard ONeill
How about an interpreter interprets input directly into action (even if there is some optimization going on), while a compiler converts instructions from one set to another set to be interpreted later. Which would make perl both at the perl source level, and an interpreter at the bytecode level.