Re: I need help with IO.e

On 2020-05-19 05:17, Peter Pentchev wrote: ...control structures, I mean. G'luck, Peter No problem, I appreciate all the help! :-) -T

Re: I need help with IO.e

On Tue, May 19, 2020 at 03:16:41PM +0300, Peter Pentchev wrote: > On Mon, May 18, 2020 at 10:58:26PM -0700, ToddAndMargo via perl6-users wrote: > > On 2020-05-18 17:14, Peter Pentchev wrote: > > > On Mon, May 18, 2020 at 04:53:31PM -0700, ToddAndMargo via perl6-users > > > wrote: > > > > In 2020-0

Re: I need help with IO.e

On Mon, May 18, 2020 at 10:58:26PM -0700, ToddAndMargo via perl6-users wrote: > On 2020-05-18 17:14, Peter Pentchev wrote: > > On Mon, May 18, 2020 at 04:53:31PM -0700, ToddAndMargo via perl6-users > > wrote: > > > In 2020-05-18 16:11, Peter Pentchev wrote: > > > > As an exercise for the reader: o

Re: I need help with IO.e

On Tue, May 19, 2020 at 03:44 Richard Hainsworth wrote: > The transcendental abundance of purple in Raku :) Ah, Richard, thanks for a trip down memory lane! In my youth I discovered the joys of science fiction a few years after that piece was published. -Tom

Re: I need help with IO.e

Peter, What a genius answer! The transcendental abundance of purple in Raku :) On 18/05/2020 22:26, Peter Pentchev wrote: It's the internal representation of the program you told Raku to parse and execute; the truth is that, just like in a sci-fi story about a machine that is supposed to answ

Re: I need help with IO.e

On 2020-05-18 22:58, ToddAndMargo via perl6-users wrote: On 2020-05-18 17:14, Peter Pentchev wrote: On Mon, May 18, 2020 at 04:53:31PM -0700, ToddAndMargo via perl6-users wrote: In 2020-05-18 16:11, Peter Pentchev wrote: As an exercise for the reader: once the above sinks in, what exactly will

Re: I need help with IO.e

On 2020-05-18 17:14, Peter Pentchev wrote: On Mon, May 18, 2020 at 04:53:31PM -0700, ToddAndMargo via perl6-users wrote: In 2020-05-18 16:11, Peter Pentchev wrote: As an exercise for the reader: once the above sinks in, what exactly will "say if 'h:/'.IO.d" do? It returns the the result of th

Re: I need help with IO.e

On Mon, May 18, 2020 at 04:53:31PM -0700, ToddAndMargo via perl6-users wrote: > In 2020-05-18 16:11, Peter Pentchev wrote: > > As an exercise for the reader: once the above sinks in, what exactly > > will "say if 'h:/'.IO.d" do? > > It returns the the result of the expression that > "if" evaluated

Re: I need help with IO.e

In 2020-05-18 16:11, Peter Pentchev wrote: As an exercise for the reader: once the above sinks in, what exactly will "say if 'h:/'.IO.d" do? It returns the the result of the expression that "if" evaluated. I do know all this. It is easier for me to read the other way.

Re: I need help with IO.e

On 2020-05-18 16:01, Tom Browder wrote: Since you don't like to listen to advice I give up. Tom! I listen to your advice ALL-THE-TIME. I was just interested in something else. And when I did not understand the result, your way or my way, I abandoned the effort, especially since I did not nee

Re: I need help with IO.e

On Mon, May 18, 2020 at 03:51:30PM -0700, ToddAndMargo via perl6-users wrote: > On 2020-05-18 15:44, Tom Browder wrote: > > On Mon, May 18, 2020 at 16:19 ToddAndMargo via perl6-users > > mailto:perl6-us...@perl.org>> wrote: > > > > On 2020-05-18 13:28, Tom Browder wrote: > > > > ... > > > >

Re: I need help with IO.e

On Mon, May 18, 2020 at 17:51 ToddAndMargo via perl6-users < perl6-us...@perl.org> wrote: > On 2020-05-18 15:44, Tom Browder wrote: > > On Mon, May 18, 2020 at 16:19 ToddAndMargo via perl6-users > > mailto:perl6-us...@perl.org>> wrote: > > > > On 2020-05-18 13:28, Tom Browder wrote: > > > > ..

Re: I need help with IO.e

On 2020-05-18 15:44, Tom Browder wrote: On Mon, May 18, 2020 at 16:19 ToddAndMargo via perl6-users mailto:perl6-us...@perl.org>> wrote: On 2020-05-18 13:28, Tom Browder wrote: ... > Try: > > 'say so "test".IO.d' Todd, you didn't try what I suggested. Once again, look a th

Re: I need help with IO.e

On Mon, May 18, 2020 at 16:19 ToddAndMargo via perl6-users < perl6-us...@perl.org> wrote: > On 2020-05-18 13:28, Tom Browder wrote: ... > > Try: > > > > 'say so "test".IO.d' Todd, you didn't try what I suggested. Once again, look a the line above^^ There is no "if" there. -Tom

Re: I need help with IO.e

On 2020-05-18 15:38, Peter Pentchev wrote: On Mon, May 18, 2020 at 03:18:26PM -0700, ToddAndMargo via perl6-users wrote: On 2020-05-18 14:35, Peter Pentchev wrote: My point is that you put a bare "say" without telling it*what* to say, which does something quite specific in both Perl and Raku.

Re: I need help with IO.e

On Mon, May 18, 2020 at 03:18:26PM -0700, ToddAndMargo via perl6-users wrote: > On 2020-05-18 14:35, Peter Pentchev wrote: > > My point is that you put a bare "say" without telling it*what* to say, > > which does something quite specific in both Perl and Raku. That should, > > at least, explain th

Re: I need help with IO.e

On 2020-05-18 14:35, Peter Pentchev wrote: My point is that you put a bare "say" without telling it*what* to say, which does something quite specific in both Perl and Raku. That should, at least, explain the error-like message. G'luck, Peter What I was after was to see what impact I had coerc

Re: I need help with IO.e

On Mon, May 18, 2020 at 02:32:49PM -0700, ToddAndMargo via perl6-users wrote: > On 2020-05-18 14:22, Peter Pentchev wrote: > > Please note that in my example a couple of messages ago I did not write > > "say if 'h:/'.IO.d", I wrote "say 'yes' if 'h:/'.IO.d". The difference > > is very important and

Re: I need help with IO.e

On 2020-05-18 14:22, Peter Pentchev wrote: Please note that in my example a couple of messages ago I did not write "say if 'h:/'.IO.d", I wrote "say 'yes' if 'h:/'.IO.d". The difference is very important and leads directly to the error-like message you got. Hi Peter, I as interested in the .d

Re: I need help with IO.e

On Tue, May 19, 2020 at 12:22:55AM +0300, Peter Pentchev wrote: > On Mon, May 18, 2020 at 12:35:47PM -0700, ToddAndMargo via perl6-users wrote: > > On 2020-05-17 22:28, Paul Procacci wrote: > > > Don't 'say' anything.  Just let the optimizer spit out the QAST that you > > > are interested in lookin

Re: I need help with IO.e

On Mon, May 18, 2020 at 12:35:47PM -0700, ToddAndMargo via perl6-users wrote: > On 2020-05-17 22:28, Paul Procacci wrote: > > Don't 'say' anything.  Just let the optimizer spit out the QAST that you > > are interested in looking at. > > The following spits out a diff after optimization: > > > > #

Re: I need help with IO.e

On 2020-05-18 13:28, Tom Browder wrote: On Mon, May 18, 2020 at 14:36 ToddAndMargo via perl6-users mailto:perl6-us...@perl.org>> wrote: On 2020-05-17 22:28, Paul Procacci wrote: ... 'say if "test".IO.d',  and 'say "test".IO.d.Bool' Try: 'say so "test".IO.d' I have mo clue th

Re: I need help with IO.e

On Mon, May 18, 2020 at 14:36 ToddAndMargo via perl6-users < perl6-us...@perl.org> wrote: > On 2020-05-17 22:28, Paul Procacci wrote: ... > 'say if "test".IO.d', and > 'say "test".IO.d.Bool' Try: 'say so "test".IO.d'

Re: I need help with IO.e

On 2020-05-17 22:28, Paul Procacci wrote: Don't 'say' anything.  Just let the optimizer spit out the QAST that you are interested in looking at. The following spits out a diff after optimization: # diff -u <(perl6 --target=optimize -e '"test".IO.e') <(perl6 --target=optimize -e '"test".IO.e.Bo

Re: I need help with IO.e

Don't 'say' anything. Just let the optimizer spit out the QAST that you are interested in looking at. The following spits out a diff after optimization: # diff -u <(perl6 --target=optimize -e '"test".IO.e') <(perl6 --target=optimize -e '"test".IO.e.Bool') >> Huh. Not sure what I am looking at

Re: I need help with IO.e

On 2020-05-17 21:48, Paul Procacci wrote: You can check this yourself by looking at the QAST nodes after the static analyzer has had its fill: # diff -u <(perl6 --target=optimize -e '"test".IO.e') <(perl6 --target=optimize -e '"test".IO.e.Bool') Huh. Not sure what I am looking at $ diff -

Re: I need help with IO.e

You can check this yourself by looking at the QAST nodes after the static analyzer has had its fill: # diff -u <(perl6 --target=optimize -e '"test".IO.e') <(perl6 --target=optimize -e '"test".IO.e.Bool') On Mon, May 18, 2020 at 12:25 AM ToddAndMargo via perl6-users < perl6-us...@perl.org> wrote:

Re: I need help with IO.e

On 2020-05-17 21:19, ToddAndMargo via perl6-users wrote: On 2020-05-17 20:28, Paul Procacci wrote: So tack a .Bool at the end. You are coercing a bool to a bool by doing so and hopefully the optimizer is smart enough for people who like to be redundant. ;) Hi Paul, Especially when I can ne

Re: I need help with IO.e

On 2020-05-17 20:28, Paul Procacci wrote: So tack a .Bool at the end. You are coercing a bool to a bool by doing so and hopefully the optimizer is smart enough for people who like to be redundant. ;) Hi Paul, Especially when I can never remember when IO.someletter will return a full True or

Re: I need help with IO.e

So tack a .Bool at the end. You are coercing a bool to a bool by doing so and hopefully the optimizer is smart enough for people who like to be redundant. ;) On Sun, May 17, 2020 at 6:10 PM ToddAndMargo via perl6-users < perl6-us...@perl.org> wrote: > On 2020-05-17 14:43, ToddAndMargo via perl6-

Re: I need help with IO.e

On 2020-05-17 14:43, ToddAndMargo via perl6-users wrote: Although    "say 'yes' if 'h:/'.IO.d" is obscure to me and    "say 'h:/'.IO.d.Bool" is very easy for me to understand. Hi Peter, I think it would help if you knew how my mind worked. `if` to me is a Boolean function. If this exp

Re: I need help with IO.e

On 2020-05-17 13:04, Peter Pentchev wrote: On Sun, May 17, 2020 at 12:12:51PM -0700, ToddAndMargo via perl6-users wrote: On 2020-05-17 03:36, Peter Pentchev wrote: On Sun, May 17, 2020 at 03:01:34AM -0700, ToddAndMargo via perl6-users wrote: On 2020-05-17 02:30, Peter Pentchev wrote: You said

Re: I need help with IO.e

On Sun, May 17, 2020 at 12:12:51PM -0700, ToddAndMargo via perl6-users wrote: > On 2020-05-17 03:36, Peter Pentchev wrote: > > On Sun, May 17, 2020 at 03:01:34AM -0700, ToddAndMargo via perl6-users > > wrote: > > > On 2020-05-17 02:30, Peter Pentchev wrote: > > > > You said that you would tack Boo

Re: I need help with IO.e

On 2020-05-17 03:50, Elizabeth Mattijsen wrote: [11:50:21]you don.t need the .Bool, .e already returns a Bool [11:53:07] sometimes IO.someletter returns True of Fail, not False. Tacking .Bool on the end, means I don't have to remember which ones [11:57:23] True or Fail. Typo [11:58:2

Re: I need help with IO.e

On 2020-05-17 03:36, Peter Pentchev wrote: On Sun, May 17, 2020 at 03:01:34AM -0700, ToddAndMargo via perl6-users wrote: On 2020-05-17 02:30, Peter Pentchev wrote: You said that you would tack Bool at the end in "if" statements, too. Hi Peter, No wonder. I do not remember saying that, but I

Re: I need help with IO.e

[11:50:21] you don.t need the .Bool, .e already returns a Bool [11:53:07]sometimes IO.someletter returns True of Fail, not False. Tacking .Bool on the end, means I don't have to remember which ones [11:57:23]True or Fail. Typo [11:58:21] A Failure is always false [12:03

Re: I need help with IO.e

On Sun, May 17, 2020 at 03:01:34AM -0700, ToddAndMargo via perl6-users wrote: > On 2020-05-17 02:30, Peter Pentchev wrote: > > You said that you would tack Bool at the end in "if" statements, too. > > Hi Peter, > > No wonder. I do not remember saying that, but I could > have. My `if` statements

Re: I need help with IO.e

On 2020-05-17 02:30, Peter Pentchev wrote: You said that you would tack Bool at the end in "if" statements, too. Hi Peter, No wonder. I do not remember saying that, but I could have. My `if` statements look like: if not "%Options".IO.d.Bool { say "Creating %Options"; mkdir(

Re: I need help with IO.e

On Sun, May 17, 2020 at 02:18:30AM -0700, ToddAndMargo via perl6-users wrote: > On 2020-05-17 01:23, Peter Pentchev wrote: > > On Sat, May 16, 2020 at 06:57:53PM -0700, ToddAndMargo via perl6-users > > wrote: > > > On 2020-05-16 17:44, Peter Pentchev wrote: > > > > On Sat, May 16, 2020 at 03:19:05

Re: I need help with IO.e

On 2020-05-17 01:23, Peter Pentchev wrote: On Sat, May 16, 2020 at 06:57:53PM -0700, ToddAndMargo via perl6-users wrote: On 2020-05-16 17:44, Peter Pentchev wrote: On Sat, May 16, 2020 at 03:19:05PM -0700, ToddAndMargo via perl6-users wrote: On 2020-05-16 06:38, Peter Pentchev wrote: $ raku *

Re: I need help with IO.e

On Sat, May 16, 2020 at 06:57:53PM -0700, ToddAndMargo via perl6-users wrote: > On 2020-05-16 17:44, Peter Pentchev wrote: > > On Sat, May 16, 2020 at 03:19:05PM -0700, ToddAndMargo via perl6-users > > wrote: > > > On 2020-05-16 06:38, Peter Pentchev wrote: > > > > > $ raku *-e* "your one-liner sc

Re: I need help with IO.e

On 2020-05-16 17:44, Peter Pentchev wrote: On Sat, May 16, 2020 at 03:19:05PM -0700, ToddAndMargo via perl6-users wrote: On 2020-05-16 06:38, Peter Pentchev wrote: $ raku *-e* "your one-liner script here" And also you might want to put some quotes around the paths to let Raku know that those a

Re: I need help with IO.e

On Sat, May 16, 2020 at 03:19:05PM -0700, ToddAndMargo via perl6-users wrote: > On 2020-05-16 06:38, Peter Pentchev wrote: > > > $ raku *-e* "your one-liner script here" > > And also you might want to put some quotes around the paths to let Raku > > know that those are strings and not some identifi

Re: I need help with IO.e

On 2020-05-16 06:38, Peter Pentchev wrote: $ raku *-e* "your one-liner script here" And also you might want to put some quotes around the paths to let Raku know that those are strings and not some identifiers or something. G'luck, Peter Hi Peter, This is what goofed me up: $ alias p5 alias

Re: I need help with IO.e

On 2020-05-16 05:34, Kevin Pye wrote: The documentation for .d states: Returns |True| if the invocant is a path that exists and is a directory. The method will |fail|  with |X::IO::DoesNotExist| if the path points to a non-existent filesystem entity. (and

Re: I need help with IO.e

> Le sam. 16 mai 2020 à 12:16, ToddAndMargo via perl6-users > mailto:perl6-us...@perl.org>> a écrit : > > On 2020-05-15 22:30, ToddAndMargo via perl6-users wrote: > > Hi All,. > > > > Windows 7, sp1, x64 > > > > >raku -v > > This is Rakudo version 2020.01 built o

Re: I need help with IO.e

On Sat, May 16, 2020 at 01:29:12PM +0200, Laurent Rosenfeld via perl6-users wrote: > Hi, > > it should be: > > $ raku *-e* "your one-liner script here" And also you might want to put some quotes around the paths to let Raku know that those are strings and not some identifiers or something. G'l

Re: I need help with IO.e

There are three possibilities for the.d test -- the file exists and is a directory, the files exists and is not a directory, and the file does not exist. The test needs to distinguish between these three cases. The documentation for .d states: Returns True if the invocant is a path that exists an

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Hi, it should be: $ raku *-e* "your one-liner script here" Best regards, Laurent. Le sam. 16 mai 2020 à 12:16, ToddAndMargo via perl6-users < perl6-us...@perl.org> a écrit : > On 2020-05-15 22:30, ToddAndMargo via perl6-users wrote: > > Hi All,. > > > > Windows 7, sp1, x64 > > > > >raku -v >

Re: I need help with IO.e

On 2020-05-15 22:30, ToddAndMargo via perl6-users wrote: Hi All,. Windows 7, sp1, x64 >raku -v This is Rakudo version 2020.01 built on MoarVM version 2020.01.1 implementing Perl 6.d. I am trying to get perl to tell me if a drive letter exists This is from Git's df command: >df -kPT H:\ Fi

I need help with IO.e

Hi All,. Windows 7, sp1, x64 >raku -v This is Rakudo version 2020.01 built on MoarVM version 2020.01.1 implementing Perl 6.d. I am trying to get perl to tell me if a drive letter exists This is from Git's df command: >df -kPT H:\ Filesystem Type 1024-blocks Used Available Capacity Mount