Re: subtype declarations

2005-05-02 Thread Steven Philip Schubiger
On 2 May, Luke Palmer wrote: : S12 says: : : subtype Str_not2b of Str where /^[isnt|arent|amnot|aint]$/; : : My brain parses this as: : : subtype Str_not2b[Str where /.../]; : : Or: : : subtype Str_not2b[Str] where /.../; : : Neither of which really reflect how it is really pars

Re: [pugs]weird thing with say ++$

2005-04-25 Thread Steven Philip Schubiger
On 25 Apr, Juerd wrote: : I don't know how it's called on other levels, but we're still calling : that list|slurpy|plural context. "array context" looks too much like : "Array context", which is something else. I confess, it's likely a bad habit, to coin it "array context" on p6l, although it ref

Re: [pugs]weird thing with say ++$

2005-04-25 Thread Steven Philip Schubiger
On 21 Apr, fayland wrote: : It has been published at perl6.language, but have no reply. That was to be expected, as it's no language-design specific issue, and therefore, unsuitable for p6l. : In perl v5.8.6 built for MSWin32-x86-multi-thread: : : my $i = 1; : print $i++, ++$i; # 1 3 : my $i =

Re: [pugs]weird thing with say ++$

2005-04-24 Thread Steven Philip Schubiger
On 21 Apr, fayland wrote: : It has been published at perl6.language, but have no reply. That was to be expected, as it's no language-design specific issue, and therefore, unsuitable for p6l. : In perl v5.8.6 built for MSWin32-x86-multi-thread: : : my $i = 1; : print $i++, ++$i; # 1 3 : my $i =

[PATCH] Re: apo/A06.pod: spelling error(s)?

2005-04-20 Thread Steven Philip Schubiger
On 20 Apr, Luke Palmer wrote: : Steven Philip Schubiger writes: :> In :> macro circumfix:(*...*) () is parsed(/.*?/ { "" } :> :> is the second enclosing part of the "parsed" parentheses omitted :> by intention? If not, I'd volunteer to provide a pa

apo/A06.pod: spelling error(s)?

2005-04-20 Thread Steven Philip Schubiger
In macro circumfix:(*...*) () is parsed(/.*?/ { "" } is the second enclosing part of the "parsed" parentheses omitted by intention? If not, I'd volunteer to provide a patch. Steven

[PATCH] apo/A06.pod: spelling error(s)

2005-04-17 Thread Steven Philip Schubiger
A spelling mistake and a word, that supposedly has been forgotten. Steven --- apo/A06.pod Sun Apr 17 14:34:16 2005 +++ apo/A06.pod Sun Apr 17 14:42:37 2005 @@ -2021,7 +2021,7 @@ All blocks are considered closures in Perl 6, even the blocks that declare modules or classes (pres

Re: [pugs] Quoting constructs

2005-04-15 Thread Steven Philip Schubiger
On 16 Apr, Roie Marianer wrote: : By the way, something tells me perl6-compiler isn't the best place for this : discussion. Is there a secret group of people that discusses cornercases for : perl6, and if so could someone tell me on what list they live? You most likely want perl6-language, where

[PATCH] Minor spelling & punctuation errors

2005-04-15 Thread Steven Philip Schubiger
I've corrected a few spelling and punctuation errors; since I'm not done yet, I'd like to know, whether I should continue, or if the general consensus is, that it's mostly needless nitpicking. Punctuation has only been corrected, if punctuation was already partly present; if totally absent, I di

Re: [perl #34994] [TODO] make useful parts of Parrot config available at runtime

2005-04-15 Thread Steven Philip Schubiger
On 15 Apr, Leopold Toetsch wrote: : That stuff is all in Perl code under the config dir, e.g: : : $ find config -type f | xargs grep -w intsize This clarifies some of my unapproved assumptions, although src has some files containing these keywords too. : I think we should have: : :INTVAL_t