Re: I need help with .IO.d.Bool

2025-04-02 Thread Will Coleda
Try printing the Str before you do anything with it to see what happens. (Hint - the backslash character escapes characters in literal strings) On Wed, Apr 2, 2025 at 8:47 PM ToddAndMargo via perl6-users < perl6-us...@perl.org> wrote: > Hi All, > > Windows Server 2025 (souped up W11) > > raku -v

Re: Bug reporting etiquette question

2024-11-19 Thread Will Coleda
You should attach the code to the ticket - otherwise when the snippet times out, there's no record of the code. If it's in a git repo somewhere, that's also fine, include a link to the specific code. In general, the more golfed (shorter) the code is that shows the issue, the better. Regarding the

Re: Is chat down for good?

2024-11-19 Thread Will Coleda
Working fine here at the moment. On Fri, Nov 15, 2024 at 10:25 AM ToddAndMargo via perl6-users < perl6-us...@perl.org> wrote: > On 11/15/24 07:21, Elizabeth Mattijsen wrote: > > #raku as channel name works for me > > > >> On 15 Nov 2024, at 13:56, ToddAndMargo via perl6-users < > perl6-us...@perl

Re: Is there a Terminal::ANSIcolor for Windows?

2024-11-06 Thread Will Coleda
Works for me on windows 11 using the x64 Native Tools Command Prompt for VS 2019, git bash, powershell... raku -MTerminal::ANSIColor -e "say color('bold'), 'hello', color('reset')" Just prints a bold hello. I'm on raku 2024.07, OS Version 10.0.22631 N/A Build 22631, Terminal::ANSIColor:ver<0.9>:

Re: Raku is removed from Debian

2024-09-04 Thread Will Coleda
Dominique - I've registered my email on the mentor site as a placeholder, at least. I assume this is something that with a little help, anyone who compiles rakudo regularly would be able to get a new release packaged at least a few times a year. As someone who managed a macport aeons ago, any cha

Re: pm6 naming convention

2024-02-12 Thread Will Coleda
e: > >> > >>> Has .pl6 been renamed too? > > > > On 2/12/24 12:37, Will Coleda wrote: > > > Please see: https://docs.raku.org/language/filename-extensions > > > <https://docs.raku.org/language/filename-extensions> > > > > >

Re: pm6 naming convention

2024-02-12 Thread Will Coleda
Please see: https://docs.raku.org/language/filename-extensions On Mon, Feb 12, 2024 at 3:24 PM ToddAndMargo via perl6-users < perl6-us...@perl.org> wrote: > > >> On 12 Feb 2024, at 20:34, ToddAndMargo via perl6-users < > perl6-us...@perl.org> wrote: > >> > >> > On 6 Feb 2024, at 18:08, ToddA

Re: Help with %?RESOURCES variable

2023-04-20 Thread Will Coleda
On Mon, Apr 17, 2023 at 12:01 David Santiago wrote: > > I'm trying to use the variable %?RESOURCES without success. It doesn't > work even when i install it locally with zef > > I have the following: > > demanuel@archlinux test> cat resources/text.txt > This is my test file > demanuel@archlinux t

Re: Upcoming documentation meetings

2023-03-08 Thread Will Coleda
nes on raku/doc & raku/doc-website with quarterly goals to prioritize the tickets. Thanks to everyone making the docs work a success - if you'd like to volunteer, please stop by on IRC to chat, or reach out to me directly via email. We'll see where we are next month; On Sat, Feb 11

Re: New doc site

2023-02-28 Thread Will Coleda
Sorry, there is no GUI programming that's part of the core; the docs site is for the language spec and any core modules. On Tue, Feb 28, 2023 at 1:12 AM ToddAndMargo via perl6-users wrote: > > > > http://raku.docs.org > At first glance, this looks like a treasure trove. > > I did not see anything

Re: New doc site

2023-02-27 Thread Will Coleda
Embarrassing! Thanks for catching that, thankful she got it right in the weekly! On Mon, Feb 27, 2023 at 8:51 AM Marcel Timmerman wrote: > > On 27-02-2023 01:08, Will Coleda wrote: > > Since I know not everyone is on IRC: > > > > The updated raku.docs.org site is

New doc site

2023-02-26 Thread Will Coleda
Since I know not everyone is on IRC: The updated raku.docs.org site is now live! Big thanks to everyone who helped make this happen! If you find any issues please let me know at https://github.com/raku/doc/issues - content https://github.com/raku/doc-website/issues - site, search, styling, etc.

Re: ECMA262Regex compiled regexes cannot be made case insensitive due to escapes

2023-02-12 Thread Will Coleda
Note: this list isn't the best place to reach the core developers, that's IRC (https://raku.org/community/) I don't have enough context to answer your question - do you have a snippet of Raku code that is problematic? On Sun, Feb 12, 2023 at 3:45 PM Francis Grizzly Smit wrote: > > Hi to the guys

Re: Upcoming documentation meetings

2023-02-11 Thread Will Coleda
2nd Saturday, which is the 11-th > > > > On 04/02/2023 23:13, Ralph Mellor wrote: > >> That's super short notice but if you mean EST, so 5pm UK time, > >> it would work for me. > >> > >> On Fri, Feb 3, 2023 at 7:07 PM Will Coleda wrote: > >

Re: Upcoming documentation meetings

2023-02-04 Thread Will Coleda
Yes, Eastern- but the time had already passed, sorry. On Sat, Feb 4, 2023 at 18:13 Ralph Mellor wrote: > That's super short notice but if you mean EST, so 5pm UK time, > it would work for me. > > On Fri, Feb 3, 2023 at 7:07 PM Will Coleda wrote: > > > > I can

Re: Upcoming documentation meetings

2023-02-04 Thread Will Coleda
Ok,we joined at noon eastern but only two of us were there. We'll see folks next week! On Fri, Feb 3, 2023 at 2:06 PM Will Coleda wrote: > > I can do a test tomorrow at noon if there's interest. > > On Fri, Feb 3, 2023 at 10:27 AM Parrot Raiser <1parr...@gmail.com>

Re: Upcoming documentation meetings

2023-02-03 Thread Will Coleda
I can do a test tomorrow at noon if there's interest. On Fri, Feb 3, 2023 at 10:27 AM Parrot Raiser <1parr...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I think I had problems finding the audio options on Jitsi, and wasted > a couple of meetings doing so. I'd suggest a "test" setup meeting, > where the whole agenda is

Re: Virtualmin and Webmin web hosting control panel are written in Perl 5

2022-08-03 Thread Will Coleda
Sorry this list is for users of the programming language Raku, which was formerly known as "Perl 6". For Perl support, I'd recommend starting at https://www.perl.org/ Best of luck. On Mon, Aug 1, 2022 at 4:16 AM Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming wrote: > > Subject: Virtualmin and Webmin web hosti

Re: What is `Γäó`?

2022-07-04 Thread Will Coleda
https://www.reddit.com/r/rakulang/comments/kko35z/short_blog_post_fixing_raku_unicode_display/ To enable unicode output in your cmd session, run: chcp 65001 On Fri, Jul 1, 2022 at 8:10 PM ToddAndMargo via perl6-users wrote: > > >> On Fri, Jul 1, 2022 at 7:34 PM ToddAndMargo via perl6-users > >>

raku/docs: Planning

2022-05-08 Thread Will Coleda
Mentioning on list since I know this has specifically come up in the past. If you are working on something for the documentation site, please let me know. I am trying to get a list of all the projects in flight right now. Please see https://github.com/Raku/doc/wiki for what's on my list right now

Re: Depreciated code????

2021-08-10 Thread Will Coleda
On Tue, Jul 27, 2021 at 4:38 PM ToddAndMargo via perl6-users wrote: > > On 7/27/21 12:21 PM, Elizabeth Mattijsen wrote: > > > So the deprecation logic is pointing at the wrong line. > > > > Where does this RunNoShellLib.pm6 live? It's must be something inside that. > > Nothing has changed inside

Re: A problem case for the site documentation search: the "^methods" method.

2021-03-09 Thread Will Coleda
Please open an issue for this at github.com/Raku/doc/issues On Tue, Mar 2, 2021 at 8:12 PM Joseph Brenner wrote: > > If you go to docs.raku.org and type "^methods" into the search > window, you get a drop down looking something like this: > > class > Method > Submethod > > met

Re: Newsgroups

2021-03-08 Thread Will Coleda
I'd rather spend our energy moving to a raku-named list than fixing things on the perl6 lists. On Sat, Mar 6, 2021 at 4:41 PM Ask Bjørn Hansen wrote: > > The nntp.perl.org NNTP server runs from the list archive. > > Distributing to other nntp servers runs via a few feeds which may not work > any

Re: surprise with start

2021-01-05 Thread Will Coleda
They are tested for compilation, not that they generate the desired results (though this is a wishlist item in the docs backlog) On Tue, Jan 5, 2021 at 9:59 AM Ralph Mellor wrote: > > Sounds to me like it's time to raise a doc issue. > > Also, does anyone know if doc examples are tested? > > No

Re: Raku Steering Council: nomination period ends Sept 6th at midnight UTC!

2020-09-09 Thread Will Coleda
Nominations are closed, but voting is now open through September 20th. Original announcement with notes about who is eligible to vote: https://github.com/Raku/Raku-Steering-Council/blob/main/announcements/20200720.md A ballot has been created that has instructions on voting: https://github.com/

Re: Access violation when creating class instance

2020-06-24 Thread Will Coleda
The download page requires an update. You can get 2020.05.1 here: https://rakudo.org/downloads/star/ On Wed, Jun 24, 2020 at 6:11 AM WFB wrote: > > Thanks JJ, > > I am using Rakudostar on Windows and 2020.01 is the current released version > so far. > I will try to reduce the code a bit more bu

Re: Is thre a way to do an "if" on "use lib"?

2020-06-07 Thread Will Coleda
the URL with literal !! in it didn't work for me, but this does: https://docs.raku.org/language/operators#infix_??_%21%21 On Sun, Jun 7, 2020 at 4:53 PM Peter Pentchev wrote: > > On Sun, Jun 07, 2020 at 12:32:09PM -0700, ToddAndMargo via perl6-users wrote: > > On 2020-06-07 02:32, Peter Pentchev

Re: I need a second pair of eyes

2020-05-27 Thread Will Coleda
Part of framing the question in the first place is reducing the problem code to as small a subset as possible that still exhibits the problem. Often, in the course of doing this "golfing", you'll uncover the problem yourself. On Wed, May 27, 2020 at 4:59 PM ToddAndMargo via perl6-users wrote: >

Re: the state of the build and install instructions

2020-05-14 Thread Will Coleda
to coordinate any changes. > > On 5/14/20, Will Coleda wrote: > > I think it's out of date, yes. > > > > Need a "make install" to install the binaries (by default to > > ./install). Previous versions of the build left a copy in ./perl6 but > > that ha

Re: the state of the build and install instructions

2020-05-14 Thread Will Coleda
I think it's out of date, yes. Need a "make install" to install the binaries (by default to ./install). Previous versions of the build left a copy in ./perl6 but that hasn't been the case for a while. Thanks for the ping, we'll open a ticket to get INSTALL.txt updated. On Thu, May 14, 2020 at 4:2

Re: vim-raku roadmap

2020-05-11 Thread Will Coleda
I think this got pulled into the Raku org so it didn't get lost - I don't think anyone is "in charge" at the moment. I'll review the existing PRs and apply them if possible. On Sat, May 9, 2020 at 12:53 PM Marc Chantreux wrote: > > hello rakuists, > > i want to work on raku-vim and saw that some

Re: Exactly what is type match?

2018-12-20 Thread Will Coleda
"Match objects are the result of a successful regex match, this does include any zero-width match. They store a reference to the original string (.orig), positional and named captures, the positions of the start and end of the match in the original string, and a payload referred to as AST (abstract

Re: Nesting pod6 formatting codes

2018-11-06 Thread Will Coleda
You can increase the # of <<'s : C<<$*PERL.compiler.version < v2018.09>> Or you can use unicode: C«$*PERL.compiler.version < v2018.09» On Tue, Nov 6, 2018 at 6:38 AM Fernando Santagata wrote: > > Hi, > > Here: > > https://docs.perl6.org/language/pod#Formatting_codes > > I read this: > >> Form

[perl #116595] [BUG] Nesting wrapping roles bind 'callsame' to the wrong recipient in Rakudo

2018-06-21 Thread Will Coleda via RT
On Wed, 30 Jan 2013 07:17:38 -0800, masak wrote: > rn: role F[$n] { method x { callsame; callsame until $.v % $n } > }; class S { has $.v is rw = 1; method x { ++$.v } }; my $s = S.new; for > ^3 { $s.x; say $s.v; $s = $s but F[$s.v] } > niecza v24-18-gaf64300: OUTPUT«2␤3␤5␤» > ..rakudo b3fc32:

[perl #116595] [BUG] Nesting wrapping roles bind 'callsame' to the wrong recipient in Rakudo

2018-06-21 Thread Will Coleda via RT
On Wed, 30 Jan 2013 07:17:38 -0800, masak wrote: > rn: role F[$n] { method x { callsame; callsame until $.v % $n } > }; class S { has $.v is rw = 1; method x { ++$.v } }; my $s = S.new; for > ^3 { $s.x; say $s.v; $s = $s but F[$s.v] } > niecza v24-18-gaf64300: OUTPUT«2␤3␤5␤» > ..rakudo b3fc32:

[perl #124998] [BUG] Type of $¢ is Any instead of Cursor

2018-06-21 Thread Will Coleda via RT
On Wed, 27 Jul 2016 12:29:11 -0700, coke wrote: > Here's the test: > > my $c; > ok 'abc' ~~ /.{ $c = $¢ }/, 'current match state'; > #?rakudo todo 'Type of $¢ is Any instead of Cursor - RT #124998' > is $c.WHAT, Cursor.WHAT,'got right type'; > > This might be a faulty test, however: >

[perl #124998] [BUG] Type of $¢ is Any instead of Cursor

2018-06-21 Thread Will Coleda via RT
On Wed, 27 Jul 2016 12:29:11 -0700, coke wrote: > Here's the test: > > my $c; > ok 'abc' ~~ /.{ $c = $¢ }/, 'current match state'; > #?rakudo todo 'Type of $¢ is Any instead of Cursor - RT #124998' > is $c.WHAT, Cursor.WHAT,'got right type'; > > This might be a faulty test, however: >

Re: a `pe4rl6 -c` error to fix

2018-06-20 Thread Will Coleda
It's a warning, not an error. On Tue, Jun 19, 2018 at 10:50 PM, Todd Chester wrote: > Dear Perl Developers, > > Would you please fix this `perl6 -c` checker error? > > $ perl6 -v > This is Rakudo version 2018.05 built on MoarVM version 2018.05 > implementing Perl 6.c. > > > The checkers passes th

[perl #132349] [REGRESSION] $*IN.getc not blocking on macOS

2017-10-23 Thread Will Coleda via RT
On Sun, 22 Oct 2017 12:25:07 -0700, b...@post.pl wrote: > There is no strace on macOS, I used dtruss (dtrace): > > $ dtruss -p 1827 > SYSCALL(args) = return > fstat64(0x0, 0x7FFF5B18B2F0, 0x1) = 0 0 > lseek(0x0, 0x0, 0x1) = 54132 0 > write(0x1, "Nil\n\0", 0x

[perl #132349] [REGRESSION] $*IN.getc not blocking on macOS

2017-10-23 Thread Will Coleda via RT
On Sun, 22 Oct 2017 12:25:07 -0700, b...@post.pl wrote: > There is no strace on macOS, I used dtruss (dtrace): > > $ dtruss -p 1827 > SYSCALL(args) = return > fstat64(0x0, 0x7FFF5B18B2F0, 0x1) = 0 0 > lseek(0x0, 0x0, 0x1) = 54132 0 > write(0x1, "Nil\n\0", 0x

[perl #132108] [REGRESSION] Test output should not be buffered even for non-TTYs (prove -j 8 …)

2017-09-16 Thread Will Coleda via RT
See https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=108390 which was mentioned here: https://irclog.perlgeek.de/perl6/2017-09-13#i_15159739 -- Will "Coke" Coleda

[perl #132108] [REGRESSION] Test output should not be buffered even for non-TTYs (prove -j 8 …)

2017-09-16 Thread Will Coleda via RT
See https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=108390 which was mentioned here: https://irclog.perlgeek.de/perl6/2017-09-13#i_15159739 -- Will "Coke" Coleda

[perl #129878] [BUG][UNI] Stringifying a List adds in spaces between each item

2017-09-06 Thread Will Coleda via RT
On Fri, 14 Oct 2016 11:06:54 -0700, c...@cpan.org wrote: > Cf > > say ("\c[REGIONAL INDICATOR SYMBOL LETTER G]" x 2).chars #=> 2 > > vs > > say ([~] "\c[REGIONAL INDICATOR SYMBOL LETTER G]" xx 2).chars #=> 1 > With a recent rakudo, these now both output 1 > say ("\c[REGIONAL INDICATOR

[perl #129878] [BUG][UNI] Stringifying a List adds in spaces between each item

2017-09-06 Thread Will Coleda via RT
On Fri, 14 Oct 2016 11:06:54 -0700, c...@cpan.org wrote: > Cf > > say ("\c[REGIONAL INDICATOR SYMBOL LETTER G]" x 2).chars #=> 2 > > vs > > say ([~] "\c[REGIONAL INDICATOR SYMBOL LETTER G]" xx 2).chars #=> 1 > With a recent rakudo, these now both output 1 > say ("\c[REGIONAL INDICATOR

[perl #131997] New Rakudo Star Bug

2017-09-01 Thread Will Coleda via RT
On Wed, 30 Aug 2017 09:15:53 -0700, stephen.john@gmail.com wrote: > This is Rakudo version 2017.04.3 built on MoarVM version 2017.04-53- > g66c6dda > implementing Perl 6.c. > > As mentioned on IRC #perl6 today 16:50. > Apologies if this is down to newbie error - please do let me know if > (& w

[perl #131997] New Rakudo Star Bug

2017-09-01 Thread Will Coleda via RT
On Wed, 30 Aug 2017 09:15:53 -0700, stephen.john@gmail.com wrote: > This is Rakudo version 2017.04.3 built on MoarVM version 2017.04-53- > g66c6dda > implementing Perl 6.c. > > As mentioned on IRC #perl6 today 16:50. > Apologies if this is down to newbie error - please do let me know if > (& w

[perl #131973] [RFC] Backtracking modifiers on individual atoms fail to override a regex-global `:ratchet` modifier.

2017-08-28 Thread Will Coleda via RT
On Sun, 27 Aug 2017 10:03:52 -0700, sml...@gmail.com wrote: > Based on S05, these test-cases should all pass: > > is "ab" ~~ / [ab | a ] b /, "ab", 'normal backtracking'; > is "ab" ~~ / [ab | a ]: b /, Nil, 'locally disabled backtracking'; > is "ab" ~~ / :r [ab | a ] b /, Nil, 'glob

[perl #131973] [RFC] Backtracking modifiers on individual atoms fail to override a regex-global `:ratchet` modifier.

2017-08-28 Thread Will Coleda via RT
On Sun, 27 Aug 2017 10:03:52 -0700, sml...@gmail.com wrote: > Based on S05, these test-cases should all pass: > > is "ab" ~~ / [ab | a ] b /, "ab", 'normal backtracking'; > is "ab" ~~ / [ab | a ]: b /, Nil, 'locally disabled backtracking'; > is "ab" ~~ / :r [ab | a ] b /, Nil, 'glob

Re: flatmap considered harmful?

2017-07-27 Thread Will Coleda
I agree, that seems like pointless editorializing. If you can open a ticket at perl6/doc/issues on github, I'll remove that sentence this evening. (or someone can beat me to it.) On Thu, Jul 27, 2017 at 2:39 PM, Sean McAfee wrote: > While browsing the Perl 6 docs recently, here: > > https://docs

[perl #131781] :?smth should construct a truthy pair (say (:?foo))

2017-07-24 Thread Will Coleda via RT
On Sat, 22 Jul 2017 09:12:31 -0700, c...@zoffix.com wrote: > On Sat, 22 Jul 2017 07:53:26 -0700, alex.jakime...@gmail.com wrote: > > This should work: > > > > Code: > > say (:?foo); > > > > Result: > > ===SORRY!=== Error while compiling -e > > Bogus statement > > at -e:1 > > --> say (:⏏?foo); >

[perl #131781] :?smth should construct a truthy pair (say (:?foo))

2017-07-24 Thread Will Coleda via RT
On Sat, 22 Jul 2017 09:12:31 -0700, c...@zoffix.com wrote: > On Sat, 22 Jul 2017 07:53:26 -0700, alex.jakime...@gmail.com wrote: > > This should work: > > > > Code: > > say (:?foo); > > > > Result: > > ===SORRY!=== Error while compiling -e > > Bogus statement > > at -e:1 > > --> say (:⏏?foo); >

[perl #131704] Can't use unknown trait 'is export' in a regex declaration

2017-07-05 Thread Will Coleda via RT
On Tue, 04 Jul 2017 22:27:14 -0700, lloyd.fo...@gmail.com wrote: > perl6 -e 'constant $foo is export = /foo/;' > > &is-export seems to be being called on the regex rather than the variable?? Please include: perl6 version; the result of the command, and the expected result. Thanks. -- Will "Cok

[perl #131704] Can't use unknown trait 'is export' in a regex declaration

2017-07-05 Thread Will Coleda via RT
On Tue, 04 Jul 2017 22:27:14 -0700, lloyd.fo...@gmail.com wrote: > perl6 -e 'constant $foo is export = /foo/;' > > &is-export seems to be being called on the regex rather than the variable?? Please include: perl6 version; the result of the command, and the expected result. Thanks. -- Will "Cok

[perl #131708] [BUILD]. Rakudo Star build instructions incomplete

2017-07-05 Thread Will Coleda via RT
On Wed, 05 Jul 2017 09:16:44 -0700, tbrowder wrote: > Given this invocation for a new installation of rakudo: > > perl Configure.pl --backend=moar --gen-moar --prefix=/some/dir > > /some/dir needs to exist and belong to the user attempting the > installation. That usually forces the user to b

[perl #131708] [BUILD]. Rakudo Star build instructions incomplete

2017-07-05 Thread Will Coleda via RT
On Wed, 05 Jul 2017 09:16:44 -0700, tbrowder wrote: > Given this invocation for a new installation of rakudo: > > perl Configure.pl --backend=moar --gen-moar --prefix=/some/dir > > /some/dir needs to exist and belong to the user attempting the > installation. That usually forces the user to b

[perl #131709] [BUILD] rakudo installation page dooesn't tell where to report star bugs

2017-07-05 Thread Will Coleda via RT
This queue is for rakudo perl6 compiler bugs. This ticket probably belongs in the github rakudo/star queue. Regards. -- Will "Coke" Coleda

[perl #131709] [BUILD] rakudo installation page dooesn't tell where to report star bugs

2017-07-05 Thread Will Coleda via RT
This queue is for rakudo perl6 compiler bugs. This ticket probably belongs in the github rakudo/star queue. Regards. -- Will "Coke" Coleda

[perl #125656] [CONC] Creating too many Proc::Async objects fills the file descriptor table, which causes libuv to abort()

2017-06-19 Thread Will Coleda via RT
On Mon, 20 Jul 2015 20:09:39 -0700, r...@hoelz.ro wrote: > See the attached script. Still dying with version 2017.06-13-g6b634a369 built on MoarVM version 2017.06-2-gcc27eebf -- Will "Coke" Coleda

[perl #125656] [CONC] Creating too many Proc::Async objects fills the file descriptor table, which causes libuv to abort()

2017-06-19 Thread Will Coleda via RT
On Mon, 20 Jul 2015 20:09:39 -0700, r...@hoelz.ro wrote: > See the attached script. Still dying with version 2017.06-13-g6b634a369 built on MoarVM version 2017.06-2-gcc27eebf -- Will "Coke" Coleda

Re: contains question

2017-06-12 Thread Will Coleda
On Mon, Jun 12, 2017 at 4:07 PM, Elizabeth Mattijsen wrote: >> On 12 Jun 2017, at 22:04, Will Coleda wrote: >> On Mon, Jun 12, 2017 at 5:17 AM, Francesco Rivetti wrote: >>> if you can: >>> >>> $s ~~ "foo" >>> $s ~~ /foo/ >>&g

Re: contains question

2017-06-12 Thread Will Coleda
On Mon, Jun 12, 2017 at 5:17 AM, Francesco Rivetti wrote: > if you can: > > $s ~~ "foo" > $s ~~ /foo/ > > then wouldn't be good to have also: > > $s.contains("foo"); > $s.contains(/foo/); The latter is currently available as: > "foobar".match(/'foo'/); 「foo」 > IOW, overload .contains() with St

[perl #131492] Camelia produces different error message from commandline

2017-06-08 Thread Will Coleda via RT
On Wed, 07 Jun 2017 11:46:03 -0700, ben-goldb...@hotmail.com wrote: > On Monday, June 05, 2017 5:05 PM, Will Coleda via RT wrote: > > On Fri, 02 Jun 2017 23:29:40 -0700, ben-goldb...@hotmail.com wrote: > > > On #perl6 IRC, I typed this: > > > > >

[perl #131492] Camelia produces different error message from commandline

2017-06-08 Thread Will Coleda via RT
On Wed, 07 Jun 2017 11:46:03 -0700, ben-goldb...@hotmail.com wrote: > On Monday, June 05, 2017 5:05 PM, Will Coleda via RT wrote: > > On Fri, 02 Jun 2017 23:29:40 -0700, ben-goldb...@hotmail.com wrote: > > > On #perl6 IRC, I typed this: > > > > >

Re: [perl #131481] [BUG] No perl6-debug

2017-06-08 Thread Will Coleda
TBD there indicates that the documentation is yet to be done. On Thu, Jun 8, 2017 at 4:38 AM, Richard Hainsworth wrote: > Thanks for feedback. A follow up: > > >> >> Yes, use `no precompilation` pragma. >> >> > So I would have in the topmost program: > > use v6.c; > no precompilation; > > In the

Re: [perl #131481] [BUG] No perl6-debug

2017-06-08 Thread Will Coleda via RT
TBD there indicates that the documentation is yet to be done. On Thu, Jun 8, 2017 at 4:38 AM, Richard Hainsworth wrote: > Thanks for feedback. A follow up: > > >> >> Yes, use `no precompilation` pragma. >> >> > So I would have in the topmost program: > > use v6.c; > no precompilation; > > In the

[perl #131492] Camelia produces different error message from commandline

2017-06-05 Thread Will Coleda via RT
On Fri, 02 Jun 2017 23:29:40 -0700, ben-goldb...@hotmail.com wrote: > On #perl6 IRC, I typed this: > > m: my \foo = Callable but role :: { }; > <+camelia> rakudo-moar ef9872: OUTPUT: «X::Method::NotFound exception > produced no message␤ in block at line 1␤␤» > > If, at my command prompt, I ty

[perl #131492] Camelia produces different error message from commandline

2017-06-05 Thread Will Coleda via RT
On Fri, 02 Jun 2017 23:29:40 -0700, ben-goldb...@hotmail.com wrote: > On #perl6 IRC, I typed this: > > m: my \foo = Callable but role :: { }; > <+camelia> rakudo-moar ef9872: OUTPUT: «X::Method::NotFound exception > produced no message␤ in block at line 1␤␤» > > If, at my command prompt, I ty

[perl #131505] [@LARRY] Special case allomorph coercion everywhere

2017-06-05 Thread Will Coleda via RT
On Sat, 03 Jun 2017 21:20:49 -0700, c...@zoffix.com wrote: > (found in discussion in > https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=131493 ) > > > We have some special casing for coercion of allomorphs in some > instances, which > is done so there'd be some way to force one of the two types to fall

[perl #131505] [@LARRY] Special case allomorph coercion everywhere

2017-06-05 Thread Will Coleda via RT
On Sat, 03 Jun 2017 21:20:49 -0700, c...@zoffix.com wrote: > (found in discussion in > https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=131493 ) > > > We have some special casing for coercion of allomorphs in some > instances, which > is done so there'd be some way to force one of the two types to fall

[perl #131385] NQP converts large integers to floats when it shouldn't/doesn't need to

2017-05-29 Thread Will Coleda via RT
Moved ticket to https://github.com/perl6/nqp/issues/363 in the NQP issues queue. -- Will "Coke" Coleda

[perl #131385] NQP converts large integers to floats when it shouldn't/doesn't need to

2017-05-29 Thread Will Coleda via RT
Moved ticket to https://github.com/perl6/nqp/issues/363 in the NQP issues queue. -- Will "Coke" Coleda

Re: Task::Star and Panda

2017-05-26 Thread Will Coleda
On Thu, May 25, 2017 at 5:12 AM, Gabor Szabo wrote: > On Thu, May 25, 2017 at 11:59 AM, Richard Hainsworth > wrote: > >> However, for someone new to the Perl6 world, there needs to be some form of >> recommendation about useful "first" modules. > > Agree, but would go further: > > Someone new to

Re: Task::Star and Panda

2017-05-26 Thread Will Coleda
On Wed, May 24, 2017 at 12:27 AM, ToddAndMargo wrote: > On 05/23/2017 07:44 PM, Richard Hainsworth wrote: >> >> The issue is not poor quality software! >> >> The problem is community management. > > > You have a point. I think the lack of interest is > because they have decided to use zef ins

Re: Task::Star and Panda

2017-05-23 Thread Will Coleda
On Tue, May 23, 2017 at 3:24 AM, ToddAndMargo wrote: > On 05/23/2017 12:05 AM, Richard Hainsworth wrote: >> >> I was upgrading perl6 and following the standard instructions, only to >> find Task::Star is no longer in the Ecosystem. >> >> Surely if this is not an error, the change should be notifie

Re: How to limit the list of imported functions?

2017-04-07 Thread Will Coleda
Please check the docs at https://docs.perl6.org/language/modules#Exporting_and_Selective_Importing On Fri, Apr 7, 2017 at 10:21 AM, Gabor Szabo wrote: > In perl 5 we can limit which functions are imported by listing them > after the name of the module: > > use Module ('foo', 'bar'); > > When I tr

Re: Bug report for Crypt::Bcrypt - cannot install

2017-03-28 Thread Will Coleda
wrote: > Thanks for the quick reply. > > That looks like a similar issue, but as I can see Crypt::Bcrypt does > not depend on 'if'. > It has this bug on its own :) > > Gabor > > > On Tue, Mar 28, 2017 at 9:45 PM, Will Coleda wrote: >> Looks like you alr

Re: Bug report for Crypt::Bcrypt - cannot install

2017-03-28 Thread Will Coleda
Looks like you already found the dependency that is failing: https://github.com/FROGGS/p6-if/issues/2 The original module doesn't have a bug queue, and I don't think we have a community solution to authors that don't have bugqueues. (except to kindly ask them to enable them) On Tue, Mar 28, 201

Re: Using Rakudo Start on OSX using the .dmg

2017-03-25 Thread Will Coleda
These notes are already available in the README.txt file that is in the .dmg Regards. On Sat, Mar 25, 2017 at 4:54 AM, Gabor Szabo wrote: > Hi, > > I just tried to use the .dmg version of Rakudo Star. > I might not be the typical Mac user as I spent quite some time trying to > figure > out what

Re: Perl 6 docs

2017-03-25 Thread Will Coleda
Please open an issue at https://github.com/perl6/doc/issues so it gets tracked, thanks! On Sat, Mar 25, 2017 at 8:36 AM, Gabor Szabo wrote: > When I search for %INC at https://docs.perl6.org/ it offers "%INC (Perl 5)" > but when I search for the more common @INC > > Luckily the former leads to

Re: my command line notes:

2017-03-14 Thread Will Coleda
FYI https://docs.perl6.org/language/functions#index-entry-MAIN On Tue, Mar 14, 2017 at 3:58 PM, ToddAndMargo wrote: > Hi All, > > I wrote myself a little demonstration program on > reading elements from the command line. I thought > it might be useful to others (DuckDuckGo is a bust > on Perl 6

Re: Perl 5 list assignment idiom

2017-03-13 Thread Will Coleda
Works the same in Perl 6, and you can avoid the parens. Using helper subs that return one or two item lists, here's some sample code: $ perl6 > sub one-thing { return ("hi",) } sub one-thing () { #`(Sub|140454852043936) ... } > 1 == my $script = one-thing True > $script (hi) > sub two-things { r

Re: How to defined reversed word in a perl6 grammar ?

2017-03-09 Thread Will Coleda
Recommended to use ".fc" instead of ".uc" when trying to do manual case-insenstive matches. (helps out with unicode edge cases) On Thu, Mar 9, 2017 at 1:48 PM, Theo van den Heuvel wrote: > however in such a simple case we could just write > > token idf { $=[ \w+ ] .uc eq 'WHERE' }> } > > > cheer

Re: How do I call system functions?

2017-03-08 Thread Will Coleda
Perl 6 uses "NativeCall" to call out to native library functions. I would start with https://docs.perl6.org/language/nativecall and come back with specific questions. On Wed, Mar 8, 2017 at 5:51 AM, ToddAndMargo wrote: > Hi All, > > In Linux, how do I call system functions from Perl 6? > > int

Re: Install Drive on Windows

2017-03-07 Thread Will Coleda
Rakudo isn't relocatable (yet)- you cannot move it to a different install directory and have it still work, so when doing a build for the installer, C: is the only reasonable default. Please watch https://github.com/rakudo/star/issues/10 (which specifically mentions parrot, which rakudo no longer

Re: Is there a list out there of all the \n characters?

2017-03-06 Thread Will Coleda
Can you clarify the request here, I'm not sure what you mean. On Mon, Mar 6, 2017 at 5:14 AM, ToddAndMargo wrote: > Hi All, > > Is there a list of all the \n pairs out there somewhere? > > Many thanks, > -T -- Will "Coke" Coleda

Re: pod question

2017-03-01 Thread Will Coleda
Not true, '=for' is part of POD6. See below. If you're getting errors, it's helpful to reduce the example to a reasonably small bit of code that duplicates the same error; either you'll realize the issue as you remove unrelated bits of code, or you'll end up with an example that epitomizes the pro

Re: debugging and HookGrammar

2017-02-28 Thread Will Coleda
FYI, rakudobrew is not recommend for users. You could try "rakudobrew rehash", though I'm not sure if that will help in this case. On Tue, Feb 28, 2017 at 7:55 AM, Theo van den Heuvel wrote: > hi everyone, > > last week I used rakudobrew to update my Perl6 installation on Ubuntu. > > This is R

[perl #130603] Test (module) fails while all tests return ok

2017-01-20 Thread Will Coleda via RT
On Fri, 20 Jan 2017 06:09:00 -0800, mt1...@gmail.com wrote: > Hi, > > Since using Log::Async in MongoDB I get problems while testing. All > tests run ok but at the end the Test returns failure > > > ... > > ok 6 - Testing explain and performance using hint > > 2017-01-20 13:04:40.783616 [I] 1

[perl #130590] HyperWhatever does not work with reduction metaop ([+] **)

2017-01-20 Thread Will Coleda via RT
On Thu, 19 Jan 2017 18:10:27 -0800, alex.jakime...@gmail.com wrote: > I guess it is supposed to work? Why? -- Will "Coke" Coleda

Re: panda's port?

2017-01-17 Thread Will Coleda
Note that you can also set the environment variable GIT_PROTOCOL to https or ssh to use those protocols on their various ports, respectively. (Useful when behind a corporate firewall and http proxy) $ GIT_PROTOCOL=https panda install JSON::Fast On Fri, Jan 13, 2017 at 8:25 PM, ToddAndMargo wr

Re: [perl #130542] AutoReply: \c[BELL] returns the U+0007 control code not U+1F514 BELL

2017-01-17 Thread Will Coleda
On Sat, Jan 14, 2017 at 6:40 AM, Joachim Durchholz wrote: > Am 14.01.2017 um 11:29 schrieb Samantha McVey: >> >> See here for the commit that added some Alias Names to JVM: >> https://github.com/perl6/nqp/commit/0c249e7236a63325e6440df55a762a4378e6e63a >> >> Hopefully I have explained this well en

Re: [perl #130562] Mixed longest (ltm) and lexical alternation makes wrong match - "42" ~~ / [ "0" || "42" ] | "4" /

2017-01-17 Thread Will Coleda
If you'd like to turn this into a doc-u-bug, that's fine; please open a ticket at https://github.com/perl6/doc/issues On Mon, Jan 16, 2017 at 11:37 AM, Parrot Raiser <1parr...@gmail.com> wrote: > Any time there's a bug report based on a serious misunderstanding of > language behaviour by someone

[perl #130419] |, ^, and & character class set operators aren't parseable

2016-12-30 Thread Will Coleda via RT
On Fri, 30 Dec 2016 13:36:03 -0800, jn...@jnthn.net wrote: > On Tue, 27 Dec 2016 14:32:45 -0800, comdog wrote: > > These are documented in https://docs.perl6.org/language/regexes but > > are > > not marked as "not implemented" or something similar. > > I doubt they'll be implemented particularly s

[perl #130294] [SEGV] native 2d array example SEGV's

2016-12-20 Thread Will Coleda via RT
Attaching gistfile to ticket -- Will "Coke" Coleda use v6; my $size = 3001; my int @mat[$size; $size]; init-array(0, $size - 1, $size * $size); say 'done'; sub init-array($r, $c, $val) { @mat[$r; $c] = $val; if $c - 1 >= 0 { # left init-array($r, $c - 1, $val - 1); } elsif $r + 1 <

[perl #130377] [BUG] write on closed socket not failing as it should

2016-12-20 Thread Will Coleda via RT
On Mon, 19 Dec 2016 14:38:09 -0800, bradl...@dal.ca wrote: > This is Rakudo version 2016.11 built on MoarVM version 2016.11 > implementing Perl 6.c. > > Here is a program that demonstrates the problem. > > use v6; > > my $s = IO::Socket::INET.new(:host('irc.freenode.net'), :port(6667)); > $s.pri

[perl #130253] [NYI] Coercion type in variable declarations

2016-12-06 Thread Will Coleda via RT
On Sat, 03 Dec 2016 11:31:59 -0800, pe...@mscha.org wrote: > Coercion type works quite nicely in signatures, e.g. > > sub foo(Int(Cool) $f) { > say $f.WHAT; > } > foo "42";# (Int) > > but it doesn't work yet in variable declarations, e.g. > > my Int(Cool) $x; $x

[perl #130231] [LTA] Nil.chrs complains about the use of Nil in numeric context, but isn't it a string context? (Nil.chrs)

2016-12-02 Thread Will Coleda via RT
On Thu, 01 Dec 2016 15:11:31 -0800, alex.jakime...@gmail.com wrote: > Code: > Nil.chrs > > Result: > Use of Nil in numeric context > in block at -e line 1 > > > At the same time: > > Code: > Nil.ords > > Result: > Use of Nil in string context > in block at -e line 1 > > > I think that

Re: [PATCH] multiple heredoc beginning in the same line

2016-12-01 Thread Will Coleda
This will be much more likely to be applied if you provide a pull request to the repo at https://github.com/perl6/doc On Wed, Nov 30, 2016 at 10:31 AM, wrote: > This is to document the fact that, as in POSIX shell, you can use > multiple HEREDOC strings in the same line. > > --- > doc/Language/

[perl #130216] Does Perl 6 support POSIX character classes?

2016-11-29 Thread Will Coleda via RT
On Tue, 29 Nov 2016 12:33:21 -0800, comdog wrote: > On https://docs.perl6.org/language/regexes , it says "POSIX character > classes", then lists the names of the POSIX character classes. When I > try these, they don't seem to respect the locale (see > http://stackoverflow.com/q/40863736/2766176). >

[perl #129296] [REGRESSION] Splitting non-binary handles no longer works (run(:out, "ls").out.split: 0.chr)

2016-11-18 Thread Will Coleda via RT
On Sun, 18 Sep 2016 03:14:30 -0700, elizabeth wrote: > Fixed by reverting 1a03efe4e3b61a07b7df5 in 363a3a899f2cb342d1ca5 . Can we close the case? -- Will "Coke" Coleda

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