Re: Parrot and Perl 6 Summary

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Re: Parrot and Perl 6 Summary

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Re: Parrot and Perl 6 Summary

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Re: Parrot and Perl 6 Summary

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Re: Parrot and Perl 6 Summary

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Re: Parrot and Perl 6 Summary

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Re: Parrot and Perl 6 Summary

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Re: Parrot and Perl 6 Summary

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Re: Parrot and Perl 6 Summary

[now CC-ing the list, d'oh!] On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 4:33 PM, Geoffrey Broadwell wrote: > On Mon, 2009-11-23 at 01:15 +0100, Lithos wrote: >> Today I posted my first attempt at summarizing Perl 6 and Parrot things at >> >>    http://lith-ology.blogspot.com/ >> >> Any comments and corrections welc

Re: Parrot and Perl 6 Summary

On Mon, 2009-11-23 at 01:15 +0100, Lithos wrote: > Today I posted my first attempt at summarizing Perl 6 and Parrot things at > >http://lith-ology.blogspot.com/ > > Any comments and corrections welcome! This is *very* valuable to us. Please keep it up! -'f

Parrot and Perl 6 Summary

Hello! Today I posted my first attempt at summarizing Perl 6 and Parrot things at http://lith-ology.blogspot.com/ Any comments and corrections welcome! Lithos

Re: Parrot and Perl 6 Summary

Lithos wrote: I posted my first attempt at summarizing Perl 6 and Parrot things at http://lith-ology.blogspot.com/ Any comments and corrections welcome! Looks good so far. If you intend to do that weekly, it should be a valuable service, like the summaries done years ago. I also learned

Parrot and Perl 6 Summary

Hello! I posted my first attempt at summarizing Perl 6 and Parrot things at http://lith-ology.blogspot.com/ Any comments and corrections welcome! Lithos

The Perl 6 summary for the month of May 2006

Perl 6 mailing list summary for the month of May 2006 Summary updates This post continues with the task of addressing the Perl 6 summary backlog. The following schedule is planned for the remaining updates: * 6 August: June * 13 August: July * 20 August: August to date

The Perl 6 summary for the month of April 2006

Perl 6 Compiler synopses Sean Sieger asked if synopses were publically available. Jonathan Scott Duff and Will Coleda responded with information on read-only access to the archives. first barest-bones Relation implementation committed

The Perl 6 summary for the month of 2006-03

The Perl 6 summary for the month of 2006-03 Summary updates It was pointed out that I was unclear about URLs. I will be using long (original) URLs for web editions and short URLs for mail editions. Compiler (perl6-compiler) make error on 9188 <http://xrl.us/o5xb> Beau

Perl 6 Summary: 2006-02-13 through 2006-02-28

(Proxying for Ann Barcomb, our new summarizer. :-)) The Perl 6 summary for the weeks of 2006-02-13 through 2006-02-28 Summary updates Starting with this update, Ann Barcomb will be writing the Perl 6 summaries. Her plan is to release new issues on Sundays, initially dealing with

Re: Perl 6 Summary for 2006-01-24 though 2006-02-07

On Tue, Feb 07, 2006 at 10:08:46PM -0500, Matt Fowles wrote: >PGE Binding > Audrey noticed a problem convincing PGE to alias a scalar. Patrick > explained that it was not yet implemented. Oops! I forgot to mention to the list(s) that I've since fixed PGE so that it is able to parse sc

Perl 6 Summary for 2006-01-24 though 2006-02-07

Perl 6 Summary for 2006-01-24 though 2006-02-07 All~ Welcome to another fortnight's summary. I would say more, but my throat really hurts. Perl 6 Language Pugs's Minimum GHC Darren Duncan proposed moving the minimum GHS requirement from 6.4.0 to 6.4.1. Ba

Perl 6 Summary for 2006-01-10 though 2006-01-24

From: Matt Fowles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2006 21:50:47 -0500 Perl 6 Summary for 2006-01-10 though 2006-01-24 Perl 6 Internals Clean Up After Yourself Bob Rogers provided a patch which makes " examples/pir/io.pir " clean up its te

Re: Perl 6 Summary for 2006-01-10 though 2006-01-24

Matt Fowles wrote: LuaNil Morphing Klaas-Jan Stol proffered a patch which changed LuaNil from a singleton and made it morph to other Lua types when asked. Warnock applies. Actually, François Perrad applied this patch, but I think he only sent a reply to me.

Perl 6 Summary for 2006-01-10 though 2006-01-24

Perl 6 Summary for 2006-01-10 though 2006-01-24 All~ Welcome to another fortnight's summary. This summary marks a return to a Tuesday schedule for summaries. Hopefully this will help me get summaries to you on time. Oddly appropriate that I just started reading Don Qu

Perl 6 Summary for 2006-01-02 though 2006-01-09

Perl 6 Summary for 2006-01-02 though 2006-01-09 All~ Welcome to another Perl 6 Summary. On a complete tangent, if you are playing World of Warcraft and see a troll hunter named Krynna, she rocks. She royally saved me. Be nice to her. Perl 6 Compiler PIL Containers and Roles

Perl 6 Summary for 2005-12-05 through 2005-12-12

Perl 6 Summary for 2005-12-05 through 2005-12-12 All~ Welcome to another Perl 6 summary. This week, like last, Parrot has produced the highest volume of emails. Fine by me, Parrot tends to be easiest to summarize. This summary is brought to you by Snow (the latest soft toy in

Re: Perl 6 Summary for 2005-11-14 through 2005-11-21

On Nov 23, 2005, at 3:06, chromatic wrote: On Wed, 2005-11-23 at 01:39 +0100, Leopold Toetsch wrote: But my argument was: whenever you start introspecting a call frame, by almost whatever means, this will keep the call frame alive[1] (see Continuation or Closure). That is: timely destruction

Re: Perl 6 Summary for 2005-11-14 through 2005-11-21

On Wed, 2005-11-23 at 01:39 +0100, Leopold Toetsch wrote: > But my argument was: whenever you > start introspecting a call frame, by almost whatever means, this will > keep the call frame alive[1] (see Continuation or Closure). That is: > timely destruction doesn't work for example... Destruct

Re: Perl 6 Summary for 2005-11-14 through 2005-11-21

On Nov 22, 2005, at 1:40, Matt Fowles wrote: Call Frame Access Chip began to pontificate about how one should access call frames. Chip suggested using a PMC, but Leo thought that would be too slow. No, not really. It'll be slower, yes. But my argument was: whenever you start int

Perl 6 Summary for 2005-11-14 through 2005-11-21

Perl 6 Summary for 2005-11-14 through 2005-11-21 All~ Welcome to another Perl 6 Summary. The attentive among you may notice that this one is on time. I am not sure how that happened, but we will try and keep it up. On a complete side note, I think there should be a Perl guild

Re: Perl 6 Summary for 2005-10-10 through 2005-10-24

"Matt Fowles" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: =head3 Obsolete Win32 Exports Michael Walter found and removed some obsolete Win32 Exports. Jonathan Worthington applied the patch. Weren't we planning on auto generating these? The Plan is to mark functions that are to be exported with something that

Perl 6 Summary for 2005-10-10 through 2005-10-24

=head1 Perl 6 Summary for 2005-10-10 through 2005-10-18 All~ Welcome to another Perl 6 Summary. Sadly, this week's summary is not brought to you by cookies as I already finished them. Sadder still, it is also brought to you a week late. On the plus side, Mike Doughty's "Haug

Re: Perl 6 Summary for 2005-09-26 through 2005-10-02

On Oct 5, 2005, at 1:17, Matt Fowles wrote: Here Doc in PIR Will Coleda revived a thread from February about PIR here doc syntax. Looks like the syntax is ok. Jonathan Worthington has already implemented here doc syntax. Data::Escape::String Dislikes Unicode Will noticed

Perl 6 Summary for 2005-09-26 through 2005-10-02

Perl 6 Summary for 2005-09-26 through 2005-10-02 All~ Welcome to another summary, this time a day late because I was in Philly for Serenity. If you haven't seen Serenity yet you should stop reading this summary and go see it. The summary will be here when you get back.

Perl 6 Summary for 2005-09-12 through 2005-09-19

Perl 6 Summary for 2005-09-12 through 2005-09-19 All~ Welcome to another Perl 6 Summary, this time brought to you with a shorter pause (::grumble:: $WORK ::grumble::) and assisted by cookies. Perl 6 Compilers Circular Preludes for Fun and Confusion Yuval Kogman posted a

Re: Perl 6 Summary for 2005-08-15 through 2005-08-22

On Mon, Aug 22, 2005 at 09:43:41PM -0400, Matt Fowles wrote: > >Java on Parrot > Tim Bunce asked some preliminary questions about Java on Parrot. I > provide preliminary answers, and Nattfodd and Autrijus posted links to > related work. The important question of what it should be c

Re: Perl 6 Summary for 2005-08-15 through 2005-08-22

On 23 Aug 2005, at 10:20, Leopold Toetsch wrote: On Aug 23, 2005, at 3:43, Matt Fowles wrote: Java on Parrot I vote for "Jot". That's already occupied by another language http://en.wikipedia.org/ wiki/Iota_and_Jot. as is Java Parrot http://petstockroom.com/get_item_2jj_birdca

Re: Perl 6 Summary for 2005-08-15 through 2005-08-22

On Aug 23, 2005, at 3:43, Matt Fowles wrote: Perl 6 Summary for 2005-08-15 through 2005-08-22 Java on Parrot I vote for "Jot". That's already occupied by another language http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iota_and_Jot. Perl 6 Language Type Infere

Perl 6 Summary for 2005-08-15 through 2005-08-22

Perl 6 Summary for 2005-08-15 through 2005-08-22 All~ Welcome to another monday summary, which hopefully provides some evidence that mondays can get better. It always feels like writing summaries is an uphill battle, perhaps I should switch to writing about Perl 6 Language

Perl 6 Summary for 2005-08-02 through 2005-08-10

Perl 6 Summary for 2005-08-02 through 2005-08-10 All~ Welcome to another summary, brought to you by chinese food. The attentive among you will notice that this summary is a day late, because I did not feel like doing it yesterday. If only I could do that at work... Perl 6

Re: Perl 6 Summary for 2005-08-02 through 2005-08-10

On Wed, Aug 10, 2005 at 11:47:54PM -0400, Matt Fowles wrote: > Perl 6 Compilers >Pugs Argument Processing > Vadim Konovalov submitted a patch to pugs affecting @*ARGS processing. > Maybe it got applied, maybe not, Warnock applies. > In Pugs land, "Warnock" of

Re: Perl 6 Summary for 2005-07-19 through 2005-07-26

On Jul 26, 2005, at 9:21 PM, Matt Fowles wrote: \u escape issues Will Coleda opened a ticket for some unicode escape issues. Leo asked for a test case. Actually, this was a close of a fairly old ticket that predated the big string merge. Apologies f

Perl 6 Summary for 2005-07-19 through 2005-07-26

Perl 6 Summary for 2005-07-19 through 2005-07-26 All~ Welcome to another Perl 6 Summary brought to you by microwaved chinese food and air conditioning. I love the modern era. Without further ado, I bring you Perl 6 Compilers Grégoire Péan announed the release of PxPerl

Re: more .method (was: Perl 6 Summary for 2005-07-05 through 2005-07-12)

On Thu, Jul 14, 2005 at 12:14:57PM -0600, John Williams wrote: : Actually I took his question to be: : : If I explicitly name my invocant in the method signature, does that give : the compiler enough assurance that I'm not going to use .method to mean : $?SELF.method, and it will allow me to safel

more .method (was: Perl 6 Summary for 2005-07-05 through 2005-07-12)

On Wed, 13 Jul 2005, Juerd wrote: > Dave Whipp skribis 2005-07-13 8:44 (-0700): > > > Within a method or submethod, C<.method> only works when C<$_ =:= > > > $?SELF>. > > >C<.method> is perfectly legal on *any* topic anywhere that $?SELF > > >doesn't exist. > > Just to be clear, this includes an

Re: Perl 6 Summary for 2005-07-05 through 2005-07-12

Dave Whipp skribis 2005-07-13 8:44 (-0700): > > Within a method or submethod, C<.method> only works when C<$_ =:= > > $?SELF>. > >C<.method> is perfectly legal on *any* topic anywhere that $?SELF > >doesn't exist. > Just to be clear, this includes any method/submethod with an explicitly > named

Re: Perl 6 Summary for 2005-07-05 through 2005-07-12

Damian Conway wrote: Important qualification: Within a method or submethod, C<.method> only works when C<$_ =:= > $?SELF>. C<.method> is perfectly legal on *any* topic anywhere that $?SELF doesn't exist. Just to be clear, this includes any method/submethod with an explicitly named invo

Re: Perl 6 Summary for 2005-07-05 through 2005-07-12

Matt Fowles summarized: Method Call on Invocant Now " ./method "is gone, and " .method " only works when " $_ =:= $?SELF ". Important qualification: Within a method or submethod, C<.method> only works when C<$_ =:= $?SELF>. C<.method> is perfectly lega

Perl 6 Summary for 2005-07-05 through 2005-07-12

Perl 6 Summary for 2005-07-05 through 2005-07-12 All~ Welcome to another summary from the frog house. A house so green it can be seen from outerspace (according to google earth). Perl 6 Compiler Building Pugs Workaround Sam Vilain posted a useful work around to the error

Re: Perl 6 Summary for 2005-06-21 through 2005-06-28

Patrick~ On 6/29/05, Patrick R. Michaud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Jun 28, 2005 at 08:11:24PM -0400, Matt Fowles wrote: > >Parrot Loses with Fedora Core 4 > > Patrick reported that Fedora Core 4 and Parrot don't get along well. Leo > > suggested a possible solution. No respon

Re: Perl 6 Summary for 2005-06-21 through 2005-06-28

On Tue, Jun 28, 2005 at 08:11:24PM -0400, Matt Fowles wrote: >Parrot Loses with Fedora Core 4 > Patrick reported that Fedora Core 4 and Parrot don't get along well. Leo > suggested a possible solution. No response from Patrick. An update: Patrick submitted a patch based on Leo's sug

Perl 6 Summary for 2005-06-21 through 2005-06-28

Perl 6 Summary for 2005-06-21 through 2005-06-28 All~ Long time no see... err, write... uh, read... um... this. Yeah, long time no this. As Piers hinted, two weeks ago I moved. Moving sucks. For those of you who care, I am still in Cambridge, for those of you who care more, I

Re: Perl 6 Summary... p6rules

On Wed, Jun 01, 2005 at 01:07:50PM -0400, Dino Morelli wrote: > > Problem: in 35971 there were two .patch files. Looks like > subrules_t.patch for the new t/p6rules/subrules.t didn't get in there. Woops, I forgot to do the "svn add". (Yes, I know, I need to make better use of manicheck.pl. I'll

Re: Perl 6 Summary... p6rules

On Wed, 1 Jun 2005, Patrick R. Michaud wrote: >On Tue, May 31, 2005 at 11:58:12PM -0400, Dino Morelli wrote: >> >> This and my other two patches to p6rules tests (RT #35950, 35971, 35994) >> have not yet been applied. > >Applied, "thanks" x 3. > Thank you! Problem: in 35971 there were two .patch

Re: Perl 6 Summary... p6rules

On Tue, May 31, 2005 at 11:58:12PM -0400, Dino Morelli wrote: > > This and my other two patches to p6rules tests (RT #35950, 35971, 35994) > have not yet been applied. Applied, "thanks" x 3. Pm

Re: Perl 6 Summary... p6rules

On Tue, 31 May 2005, Patrick R. Michaud wrote: >On Tue, May 31, 2005 at 11:58:12PM -0400, Dino Morelli wrote: >> >> This and my other two patches to p6rules tests (RT #35950, 35971, 35994) >> have not yet been applied. > >My apologies for taking so long to apply these patches; I've been >out of to

Re: Perl 6 Summary for 2005-05-24 through 2005-05-31

Matt Fowles wrote: Parrot thr_windows.h with MinGW François Perrad provided a patch fixing two compilation problems in thr_windows.h. Warnock applies. Actually the patch is applied. Thanks for your summary. leo

Re: Perl 6 Summary... p6rules

On Tue, May 31, 2005 at 11:58:12PM -0400, Dino Morelli wrote: > Thank you for the summary, Matt > > I have a correction, though: > > > subrules tests > >Dino Morelli provided a patch adding tests for subrules to PGE. Warnock > >applies. > > > > > > This and my o

Re: Perl 6 Summary... p6rules

Thank you for the summary, Matt I have a correction, though: > subrules tests >Dino Morelli provided a patch adding tests for subrules to PGE. Warnock >applies. > > This and my other two patches to p6rules tests (RT #35950, 35971, 35994) have not yet been applie

Perl 6 Summary for 2005-05-24 through 2005-05-31

Perl 6 Summary for 2005-05-24 through 2005-05-31 All~ Welcome to another Perl 6 summary, brought to you by Aliya's new friends, Masha Nannifer and Philippe, and my own secret running joke. Without further ado, I bring you Perl 6 Compiler. Perl 6 Compiler method cha

This week's Perl 6 Summary

The Perl 6 Summary for the week ending 2005-05-24 Note to self: It's generally not a good idea to go installing Tiger on the day you return from holiday. It's especially not a good idea to fail to check that it didn't completely and utterly radish your Postfix con

Perl 6 Summary for 2005-05-03 through 2005-05-17

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Re: Perl 6 Summary for 2004-04-26 through 2005-05-03

Matt Fowles schrieb: imc http server Markus Amslser wanted to write a tiny webserver in imc. This led to the discovery of that the binary to ascii transcoding is absent. Leo suggested several possible solutions. Actually Markus Amsler did write a working tiny w

Re: Perl 6 Summary for 2004-04-26 through 2005-05-03

On Tue, 3 May 2005, Matt Fowles wrote: Perl 6 Summary for 2004-04-26 through 2005-05-03 ^^ ^^ Wow! Michele -- Why should I read the fucking manual? I know how to fuck! In fact the problem is that the fucking manual only gives you

Perl 6 Summary for 2004-04-26 through 2005-05-03

Perl 6 Summary for 2004-04-26 through 2005-05-03 All~ Welcome to another weeks summary. This week I shall endeavor not to accidentally delete my summary or destroy the world. So here we go with p6c. Perl 6 Compilers implicit $_ on for loops Kiran Kumar found a bug in

Re: Perl 6 Summary for 2005-04-12 through 2005-04-19

On Tue, 19 Apr 2005, Matt Fowles wrote: Python on Parrot ^^ Kevin Tew wondered what the state of pyrate was. Sam Ruby provided a general explanation. (I'm not on all of the lists, so this may have come out before and I j

Perl 6 Summary for 2005-04-12 through 2005-04-19

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Re: Perl 6 Summary for 2005-03-22 through 2005-04-05

Matt Fowles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >PMC constants > Leo added support for .const things to imc. Unfortunately, the GC eats > them so you can't use it. I forgot to mention that PMC constants are properly marked now. So they are usuable for all PMC types that provide an appropriate

Perl 6 Summary for 2005-03-22 through 2005-04-05

Perl 6 Language ceil and floor Ingo Blechschmidt wondered if ceil and floor would be in the core. Warnock applies... Although Unicode operators would let me define circumfix \lfloor \rfloor (although I only know how to make those symbols in tex...). Hmmm... using tex to right P

Perl 6 Summary for 2005-03-07 through 2005-03-22 (resend)

Below is a resend of the most recent summary, it bounced when being sent to the perl6-announce list. Apologies to those who receive it twice, but I am told that the second read through provides interesting insights into subtle foreshadowing... Perl 6 Summary for 2005-03-07 through 2005-03-22

Re: Perl 6 Summary for 2005-03-07 through 2005-03-22

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: pugs too lazy Miroslav Silovic noticed that closing a file handle in pugs did not force all the thunks associated with the file. While this was a bug in pugs, it led to conversation about whether = should be lazy or eager. Larry thinks that it will be safer to

Perl 6 Summary for 2005-03-07 through 2005-03-22

Perl 6 Summary for 2005-03-07 through 2005-03-22 All~ Welcome to yet another fortnights summary. I believe this is the highest volume I have ever seen the three lists at simultaneously. Hopefully they will keep it up, because good work is being done. To aid in the epic

Re: Perl 6 Summary for 2005-02-22 though 2005-03-07

On Mon, Mar 07, 2005 at 10:43:23PM -0500, Matt Fowles wrote: > Off list development > In more related news, It has been pointed out to me that development > goes on off list on places like IRC. I briefly contemplated, quitting my > job and tracking such things full time, but then I de

Re: Perl 6 Summary for 2005-02-22 though 2005-03-07

Matt Fowles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Perl 6 Summary for 2005-02-22 though 2005-03-07 >Strings support [ ... ] > String content in assemblers now require a charset prefix. Not quite. The charset prefix is of course optional. W/o prefix the string is assumed hav

Perl 6 Summary for 2005-02-22 though 2005-03-07

Perl 6 Summary for 2005-02-22 though 2005-03-07 All~ Welcome to yet another fortnight summary. Once again brought to you by chocolate chips. This does have the distinction of being the first summary written on a mac. So if I break into random swear words, just bear with me

Perl 6 Summary for 2005-02-08 through 2005-02-22

Perl 6 Summary for 2005-02-08 through 2005-02-22 All~ Welcome to yet another fortnight summary. Lately p6l has been out stripping p6i in volume. While this used to be the norm, lately it has become a rare occurrence. Strange... Anyway, this summary would be brought to you buy

Re: Perl 6 Summary for 2005-01-31 through 2004-02-8

On Thu, Feb 10, 2005 at 12:32:21PM +0100, Miroslav Silovic wrote: : [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: : : >>i think so but i can't read larry's mind (nor would i want to! :) : >> : >>XP = extreme programming : >>DBC = design by contract (or even designed by conway :) : >>MP = ?? : > : > : >Modu

Re: Perl 6 Summary for 2005-01-31 through 2004-02-8

On Thu, 10 Feb 2005, Miroslav Silovic wrote: Modular Programming David I think it's Metaprogramming. :) The only thing that sprung to my mind was "MetaPost"... Michele -- No one can ever predict all of the possible error conditions, of course; as soon as we write idiot-proof code, along comes a bet

Re: Perl 6 Summary for 2005-01-31 through 2004-02-8

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i think so but i can't read larry's mind (nor would i want to! :) XP = extreme programming DBC = design by contract (or even designed by conway :) MP = ?? Modular Programming David I think it's Metaprogramming. :) Miro

Re: = vs <== [was: Perl 6 Summary for 2005-01-31 through 2004-02-8]

Aaron Sherman wrote: So hold on to your socks... what about: @x @y; This reminds me of AWK's string concatenation behaviour: print "this " $1 " that " $2 This was nice feature at the time, but caused problems down the track when they wanted to add functions to the language in a subsequen

Re: Perl 6 Summary for 2005-01-31 through 2004-02-8

Uri Guttman wrote: [...] i think so but i can't read larry's mind (nor would i want to! :) XP = extreme programming DBC = design by contract (or even designed by conway :) MP = ?? Modular Programming David

Re: Perl 6 Summary for 2005-01-31 through 2004-02-8

John Macdonald wrote: The basic problem is that a junction does not work well with boolean operations, because the answer is usually "sometimes yes and sometimes no" and until you resolve which of those is the one you want, you have to proceed with both conditions. Well, just patch the boolean oper

Re: Perl 6 Summary for 2005-01-31 through 2004-02-8

> "MD" == Michele Dondi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: MD> On Wed, 9 Feb 2005, Larry Wall wrote: >> roadblocks thrown in their way. That's true not only for LP, but >> also for FP, MP, XP, AOP, DBC, and hopefully several other varieties MD> ^^ ^^^ MD> ^

Re: Perl 6 Summary for 2005-01-31 through 2004-02-8

On Wed, 9 Feb 2005, Larry Wall wrote: roadblocks thrown in their way. That's true not only for LP, but also for FP, MP, XP, AOP, DBC, and hopefully several other varieties ^^ ^^^ ^^ ^^^ 1. 2. Ehmmm... sorry for the ignorance, but... 1. Fu

Re: Perl 6 Summary for 2005-01-31 through 2004-02-8

On Wed, Feb 09, 2005 at 11:57:17AM -0800, Ovid wrote: > --- Matt Fowles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >Logic Programming in Perl 6 > > Ovid asked what logic programming in perl 6 would look like. No > > answer > > yet, but I suppose I can pick the low hanging fruit: as a > > limiting

Re: Perl 6 Summary for 2005-01-31 through 2004-02-8

On Wed, Feb 09, 2005 at 11:57:17AM -0800, Ovid wrote: : --- Matt Fowles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: : : >Logic Programming in Perl 6 : > Ovid asked what logic programming in perl 6 would look like. No : > answer : > yet, but I suppose I can pick the low hanging fruit: as a : > limiting

Re: Perl 6 Summary for 2005-01-31 through 2004-02-8

--- Matt Fowles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Logic Programming in Perl 6 > Ovid asked what logic programming in perl 6 would look like. No > answer > yet, but I suppose I can pick the low hanging fruit: as a > limiting case > you could always back out the entire perl 6 grammar and i

Re: = vs <== [was: Perl 6 Summary for 2005-01-31 through 2004-02-8]

On Wed, 2005-02-09 at 06:04, Rod Adams wrote: > Larry Wall wrote: > >Yes, you can certainly intermix them as long as you keep your > >precedence straight with parentheses. Though I suppose we could go > >as far as to say that = is only scalar assignment, and you have to > >use <== or ==> for list

Re: = vs <== [was: Perl 6 Summary for 2005-01-31 through 2004-02-8]

Larry Wall wrote: On Wed, Feb 09, 2005 at 10:04:48AM +0100, Michele Dondi wrote: : On Tue, 8 Feb 2005, Matt Fowles wrote: : : > pipe dreams : > Juerd wondered if he could mix = and ==> in a sane way. The answer : > appears to be no. Once you bring in ==> you should stick with it. : : Huh?!?

Re: = vs <== [was: Perl 6 Summary for 2005-01-31 through 2004-02-8]

On Wed, 9 Feb 2005, Larry Wall wrote: Yes, you can certainly intermix them as long as you keep your precedence straight with parentheses. Though I suppose we could go as far as to say that = is only scalar assignment, and you have to use <== or ==> for list assignment. That would be...interesting

= vs <== [was: Perl 6 Summary for 2005-01-31 through 2004-02-8]

On Wed, Feb 09, 2005 at 10:04:48AM +0100, Michele Dondi wrote: : On Tue, 8 Feb 2005, Matt Fowles wrote: : : > pipe dreams : > Juerd wondered if he could mix = and ==> in a sane way. The answer : > appears to be no. Once you bring in ==> you should stick with it. : : Huh?!? It doesn't seem to

Re: Perl 6 Summary for 2005-01-31 through 2004-02-8

Michele Dondi wrote: On Tue, 8 Feb 2005, Matt Fowles wrote: pipe dreams Juerd wondered if he could mix = and ==> in a sane way. The answer appears to be no. Once you bring in ==> you should stick with it. Huh?!? It doesn't seem to me that the answer is 'no'. In fact C<< ==> >> is supposed

Re: Perl 6 Summary for 2005-01-31 through 2004-02-8

On Tue, 8 Feb 2005, Matt Fowles wrote: pipe dreams Juerd wondered if he could mix = and ==> in a sane way. The answer appears to be no. Once you bring in ==> you should stick with it. Huh?!? It doesn't seem to me that the answer is 'no'. In fact C<< ==> >> is supposed to be yet another ope

Perl 6 Summary for 2005-01-31 through 2004-02-8

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Perl 6 Summary for 2005-01-18 through 2005-01-31 All~ Welcome to another double feature summary. Sadly, this one was delayed because of an argument that I was/am having with my connection. Fortunately, a generous neighbor has allowed me to use his connection for the time being

Re: Perl 6 How Do I? (Was: Perl 6 Summary for 2005-01-11 through 2005-01-18)

Austin Hastings writes: > Luke Palmer wrote: > > >Austin Hasting writes: > > > > > >>How do I concisely code a loop that reads in lines of a file, then > >>calls mysub() on each letter in each line? > >>Or each xml tag on the line? > >> > >> > > > >And I guess the answer is the same as in Perl

Re: Perl 6 How Do I? (Was: Perl 6 Summary for 2005-01-11 through 2005-01-18)

Luke Palmer wrote: Austin Hasting writes: How do I concisely code a loop that reads in lines of a file, then calls mysub() on each letter in each line? Or each xml tag on the line? And I guess the answer is the same as in Perl 5. I don't understand what the problem is with Perl 5's approac

Re: Perl 6 How Do I? (Was: Perl 6 Summary for 2005-01-11 through 2005-01-18)

On Tue, Jan 18, 2005 at 10:43:00PM -0700, Luke Palmer wrote: > Oh, I thought I replied, but now that I look over the question I guess I > didn't. The question was: > > Austin Hasting writes: > > How do I concisely code a loop that reads in lines of a file, then > > calls mysub() on each letter in

Re: Perl 6 How Do I? (Was: Perl 6 Summary for 2005-01-11 through 2005-01-18)

Matt Fowles writes: > Perl 6 Language >idiomatic Perl 6 > StÃphane Payrard expressed a desire for more Perl 6 sample code. Luke > Palmer issued the following, possibly foolish, response: "post some > \"how do I\"s to the list, and I'll reply with code". Austin Hastings > posed

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Re: Perl 6 Summary for 2004-12-20 through 2005-01-03

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