Re: Perl 6 User FAQ (perl.perl6.user) -- Version: 2006-05-17

2006-05-18 Thread Ask Bjørn Hansen
On May 17, 2006, at 10:25 PM, Conrad Schneiker wrote: Think of this newsgroup as the prototype for the future comp.lang.perl6.misc newsgroup. When traffic warrants it, we'll apply for official Usenet "big 8" comp.* status. Hi Conrad, It's not a newsgroup. It's a mailing list available via N

Re: perl6-users mailing list

2006-05-18 Thread James Keenan
On May 17, 2006, at 2:15 AM, Ask Bjørn Hansen wrote: Hi everyone, We setup a perl6-users mailing list. It'll be our first list for perl6 "users" (as opposed to implementors). Of course I hope the implementors will join too and help the users. :-) Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] to subscribe.

:immediate behaviour

2006-05-18 Thread Klaas-Jan Stol
hi, if I understand correctly, the :immediate pragma makes the sub which has this pragma run immediately after parsing (well, at least before running the program) Suppose I have this code: .sub loadstuff :immediate # load stuff .end .sub main dostuff( ) end .

Perl 6 Users FAQ (perl.perl6.users) -- Version: 2006-05-18 (s/newsgroup/mailing list/)

2006-05-18 Thread Conrad Schneiker
(Thanks to Ask Bjørn Hansen for pointing out error.) = Perl 6 Users FAQ (perl.perl6.users) == Version: 2006-05-18 (s/newsgroup/mailing list) TABLE OF CONTENTS * Latest Perl 6 developments (including FAQ changes) * About perl.perl6.users (and this FAQ) * About Perl 6

perl6-users or perl6-meta?

2006-05-18 Thread Markus Laire
perl6-meta was reactivated[1] few weeks ago. Now that perl6-users has been created[2], what about perl6-meta? Will perl6-meta be used anymore or not? I'll guess perl6-users will be used instead of perl6-meta, but I'm just asking for confirmation so that I'll know which lists to follow. [1] http:

Re: :immediate behaviour

2006-05-18 Thread Leopold Toetsch
On May 18, 2006, at 13:01, Klaas-Jan Stol wrote: Then, running this code will start running the loadstuff( ) again (because main doesn't have the :main pragma, and loadstuff() is at the top of the file). My concern is, is this the desired effect? I dunno, what the desired effect is. But it

[svn:perl6-synopsis] r9298 - doc/trunk/design/syn

2006-05-18 Thread pmichaud
Author: pmichaud Date: Thu May 18 10:24:58 2006 New Revision: 9298 Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S02.pod Log: typo: change B to C Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S02.pod == --- doc/trunk/design/syn/S02.pod(o

Where can I find a Perl 6 langauge reference?

2006-05-18 Thread Thomas Wittek
Where should I start, when I want to get myself a picture of the current Perl 6 language features and syntax? Where is the best place to take a look at, when I want to start experimenting with Perl 6 and pugs? Would you recommend reading the synopses[1]? Or should I take a look at pugs-doc? Or is

Re: Where can I find a Perl 6 langauge reference?

2006-05-18 Thread A. Pagaltzis
Hallo Thomas :-), * Thomas Wittek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-05-18 20:30]: > Would you recommend reading the synopses[1]? > Or should I take a look at pugs-doc? the synopses are the canonical design documentation of the Perl 6 language, to my understanding. Pugs-doc would probably be a good place

Re: Classes moving into namespaces; parrot reserved namespace

2006-05-18 Thread Chip Salzenberg
{ copied to P6L for the "use case" question below } On Wed, May 17, 2006 at 12:18:27PM -0400, Will Coleda wrote: > My concern is that, in an effort to work around this restriction, > each language will end up implementing a workaround to hide the > __parrot* namespaces: these workarounds will

packages vs. classes

2006-05-18 Thread Chip Salzenberg
On Thu, May 18, 2006 at 02:52:53PM -0700, Chip Salzenberg wrote: > { copied to P6L for the "use case" question below } Well, that message wasn't, but this one is... What's the relationship in perl6 between namespaces and classes? For example, given: package Foo { sub bar {...} } class Corge {

Re: Where can I find a Perl 6 langauge reference?

2006-05-18 Thread Michael Mathews
Like Thomas, I'm interested in having a go, in my case I'd like to install something I can play with. The link is appreciated but what I was hoping for was a simple set of instructions for just installing Perl6 (maybe I missed it--sorry) . Does such a thing exist? Regards, Michael Mathews On 1

Re: Where can I find a Perl 6 langauge reference?

2006-05-18 Thread David Romano
On 5/18/06, Michael Mathews <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Like Thomas, I'm interested in having a go, in my case I'd like to install something I can play with. The link is appreciated but what I was hoping for was a simple set of instructions for just installing Perl6 (maybe I missed it--sorry) . D

[perl #39164] [PATCH] Cygwin: build with spaces in build_dir

2006-05-18 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by Greg Bacon # Please include the string: [perl #39164] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # https://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=39164 > The attached patch allows parrot to build on Cygwin when build_dir contains spaces. How

Re: Where can I find a Perl 6 langauge reference?

2006-05-18 Thread Michael Mathews
As it happens I am running OS X, and may try to install everything this weekend. Haskell, eh? That should be interesting. If no one can provide a step-by-step for doing this whole process (erm, pleeease?) I'll try to write one up myself. Let you know. --m On 18/05/06, David Romano <[EMAIL PROTE

Re: Where can I find a Perl 6 langauge reference?

2006-05-18 Thread Chris Yocum
Hi Mr. Mathews, PXPerl (http://pxperl.com/) has a version of Perl6 compiled into the build. That should get you started. Regards, Chris On 5/18/06, Michael Mathews <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Like Thomas, I'm interested in having a go, in my case I'd like to install something I can play wit

Re: Where can I find a Perl 6 langauge reference?

2006-05-18 Thread Nicholas Perez
I didn't know about the pugs docs, that's really helpful. I would say the synopses are awesome. It is like reading one of those Programmers Notes ORA books but even more to the point. The only problem I see, is that the corner cases aren't explained very well, and that is very apparent when you wa

[svn:perl6-synopsis] r9299 - doc/trunk/design/syn

2006-05-18 Thread larry
Author: larry Date: Thu May 18 16:23:46 2006 New Revision: 9299 Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S03.pod Log: Clarification on xx operator semantics. Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S03.pod == --- doc/trunk/design/syn/S

Pheme, Custom Classes, and Multi-Dispatch

2006-05-18 Thread chromatic
Perhaps I don't understand how :multi works (and I would love to see more documentation and will even write tests, as I don't think the existing ones cover all of the cases). I added a custom Cons class to Pheme, as that's what a Lisp/Scheme needs. This means that I also need some more logic f