Re: perl6-users or perl6-meta? A: perl6-users

2006-05-20 Thread Conrad Schneiker
Markus Laire wrote: 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

RE: perl6-users or perl6-meta? A: perl6-users

2006-05-20 Thread Conrad Schneiker
Markus Laire wrote: > 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 w

Re: packages vs. classes {long}

2006-05-20 Thread Chip Salzenberg
On Fri, May 19, 2006 at 05:05:02PM -0700, Larry Wall wrote: > So what's in a name? One could say that .meta is functioning more like a > name sigil than like a method, and the Real Name of the metaobject is > Foo::<^Bar> or some such, if it needs a name. Method, I like. Stealth sigil, I don't li

Perl 6 User FAQ (perl.perl6.users) -- Latest version now on web.

2006-05-20 Thread Conrad Schneiker
The Perl 6 User FAQ has been updated. The latest versions of this FAQ can now be found here: (http://www.AthenaLab.com/Perl_6_Users_FAQ.htm) (The URLs and TOC are now clickable, docs and other things reorganized a bit. Thanks to those who sent in suggestions and corrections.) One of the int

[perl #39171] Crash on Win32 for 6**(9999999)

2006-05-20 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by Bjoern Hoehrmann # Please include the string: [perl #39171] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # https://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=39171 > Hi, % pugs -e "6**(999)" crashes on Win32 (r10385 built with MSVC++ 7.1, GHC

Could we use part of Pugs doc tree as alternative to perl6-user-doc wiki?

2006-05-20 Thread Conrad Schneiker
Subject line changed to reflect conversation. (Was "RE: Where can I find a Perl 6 language reference?") > From: Amir E. Aharoni > > Is there a perl6-user-doc wiki? > > It might be a great way to write documentation. > > Free collaborative documentation for a free collaborative language - > what

Getting to hello world?

2006-05-20 Thread James Peregrino
Is any document yet that gets you to the point of running a perl6 'hello world'? -james

[perl #39173] Multi-Dispatch Incompatible with :flat Params

2006-05-20 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by chromatic # Please include the string: [perl #39173] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # https://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=39173 > The multi-dispatch signature checking code in src/mmd.c does not know anything about :fla

Re: Getting to hello world?

2006-05-20 Thread David Romano
Hi James, On 5/20/06, James Peregrino wrote: Is any document yet that gets you to the point of running a perl6 'hello world'? I believe it's as simple as "Hello world!".say. Look to http://svn.openfoundry.org/pugs/docs/ or http://svn.openfoundry.org/pugs/examples for more stuff. David

Re: Perl 6 User FAQ (perl.perl6.users) -- Latest version now on web.

2006-05-20 Thread Andreas J. Koenig
> On Sat, 20 May 2006 13:33:22 -0700, Conrad Schneiker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > said: > "Perl 5 is not going away. In fact, Perl 5.9 [will have] > many Perl 6 features you can start using -- see features.pm > for details." That should be "5.10". -- andreas