Re: Tweaking junctions

2010-10-26 Thread Todd Olson
On 2010-Oct-25, at 15:14, Damian Conway wrote: > Yes, Ted Z. pointed out to me that, as the name of this construct, > "every" has ambiguity and synonym issues. Other possibilities are: > >select(@values) < one(3..7) >those(@values) < one(3..7) >whichever(@values) < one(3..7) >ite

Re: threads? - better metaphors

2010-10-13 Thread Todd Olson
e organizing meme http://9p.cat-v.org/faq The 'Spin' verification tool and it's history are *very* interesting also http://swtch.com/spin/ Note that many of the people doing 'go' were the ones that did Plan9 Regards, Todd Olson PS I'd really like to have the

Re: Contribution to perl 6 - week 9 Hash.pick

2010-07-15 Thread Todd Olson
etter approach would be to add to Perl6 a function named 'mid' so that the above could be written my $middle = mid($r, $l) What is the procedure for proposing this in to Perl6? Regards, Todd Olson

Re: Contribution to perl 6 - week 9 Hash.pick

2010-07-15 Thread Todd Olson
At 12:35 +0200 2010-07-15, Moritz Lenz wrote: If it ever were the case that $r + $l could produce an overflow Then we really have other problems. Remember that $r and $l are array indexes. If your machine has enough memory to hold an array and a hash of the same size in memory, but can't stor

Re: Contribution to perl 6 - week 9 Hash.pick

2010-07-15 Thread Todd Olson
=> 8 ) Regards, Todd Olson

failure with unspace after use

2010-07-12 Thread Todd Olson
Hi - - - - #!/path/to/perl6 use v6\ ; - - - - fails with - - - - ===SORRY!=== Confused at line 2, near "use v6\\ ;\n" - - - - in Rakudo Perl 6, version 2010.06-225-gbb6df24 Is this expected behavior? Regards, Todd Olson

Learning to Grok Rakudo Perl6/Grammar.pm (was: unexpected failure with trailing white space in use)

2010-07-12 Thread Todd Olson
akudo could show the steps it takes in applying the grammar. Is that possible at this time? Regards, Todd Olson

Re: unexpected failure with trailing white space in use

2010-07-11 Thread Todd Olson
This occurred with $ perl6 -v This is Rakudo Perl 6, version 2010.06-219-g7579f7a Copyright 2008-2010, The Perl Foundation > - - - - > ===SORRY!=== > Confused at line 2, near "use v6 ;\n" > - - - - Regards, Todd Olson Delete & Prev | Delete & Next

unexpected failure with trailing white space in use

2010-07-11 Thread Todd Olson
Hi I was surprise that this program (note the space between the v6 and the ;) - - - - #!/path/to/perl6 use v6 ; - - - - failed with this output - - - - ===SORRY!=== Confused at line 2, near "use v6 ;\n" - - - - Is this expected behavior? Regards, Todd Olson

Re: Comments on S32/Numeric#Complex

2009-12-17 Thread Todd Olson
if we really want Perl6 to automatically convert 4/8 to 1/2 and 51/68 to 3/4 internally So if you mean that we should have access to the implementation details to see if we have 4/8 rather than 1/2, then I'm with you. Regards, Todd Olson

Re: Comments on S32/Numeric#Complex

2009-12-17 Thread Todd Olson
ot; with a unicode synonym "É"" be too obtuse? Anything wrong with ".angle"? In physics and electrical engineering we often speak of the "phase" Regards, Todd Olson

Re: Comments on S32/Numeric#Complex

2009-12-17 Thread Todd Olson
with numbers where the range of $angle is something other than -¼ ..^ ¼, either because you want the branch cut somewhere else ( 0 ..^ 2¼ ) or you are on some other sheet ( ¼ ..^ 3¼ ) Does the above proposal stand in the way of this sort of work? Regards, Todd Olson

Re: Humorous but serious article

2008-08-07 Thread Todd Olson
Hi >See my latest creation at <http://www.dlugosz.com/Perl6/web/APL.html> A "modern" decendent of APL is J http://www.jsoftware.com/ http://www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/FrontPage Regards, Todd Olson

Re: [perl #47902] [PATCH] Confine calls to Perl 5 %Config to init::defaults

2007-11-28 Thread Todd Olson
th out messing with the base Perl 5 install. I find this to be a useful way of organizing experiments and changes. Does Parrot's Config architecture provide this capability? Regards, Todd Olson

Re: Licenses and library code

2003-12-23 Thread Todd Olson
SCO's recent behaviour with regards to Linux the cron job is unfortunately probably not overkill rather it is probably part of the prudent minimum. Regards, Todd Olson

Re: newline as statement terminator

2003-02-06 Thread Todd Olson
At 01:57 +0100 2003/02/04, Stéphane Payrard wrote: >In the tradition of Perl concision, I would like newline to be a >statement terminator everywhere it can: that is when > a) the parser expects an operator > _and_ b) we are not in the middle of a parenthesised expression. > IMO this would