Re: eval

2006-05-25 Thread David Romano
Hi Michael, On 5/24/06, Michael Mathews <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Oh "try"! I like that! But is CATCH implemented in pugs? Anyone care to give a working example of try/CATCH? I don't think CATCH is implemented in pugs yet: #!/usr/local/bin/pugs catcher; sub catcher { say "here"; try {

Perl 6 Wiki -- 2 more possibilities, & further discussion.

2006-05-25 Thread Conrad Schneiker
(Responding to 3 notes on 2 mail lists here; Changed subject line.) Juerd wrote: > Feather, the semi-public, semi-private, Perl 6 development server, is > available to host a Perl 6 wiki. > > The hostname www.perl6.nl is deliberately kept available for something > like that. Does that mean you a

Re: Perl 6 Wiki -- 2 more possibilities, & further discussion.

2006-05-25 Thread Michael Mathews
The (oh so very cool) idea of implementing the perl 6 wiki IN perl 6 (eventually) is a powerful argument. I also concede that control issues mean we don't want the official wiki to be on wikipedia. Kwiki is already a perl-based wiki, but I have no experience using it. We don't have to put perl 6 u

Re: [perl #39056] [BUG] vtable override doesn't work in sub-subclasses

2006-05-25 Thread Leopold Toetsch
Am Mittwoch, 3. Mai 2006 00:30 schrieb Patrick R.Michaud (via RT): > Vtable overrides don't appear to work in a once-removed subclass > (i.e., a subclass of a subclass).  It's easiest to explain with > code: Fixed now in r12797. Thanks for the test. leo

Re: Perl 6 Wiki -- 2 more possibilities, & further discussion.

2006-05-25 Thread Juerd
Please, for proper threading, don't reply to multiple messages at once. Conrad Schneiker skribis 2006-05-25 1:46 (-0700): > Juerd wrote: > > Feather, the semi-public, semi-private, Perl 6 development server, is > > available to host a Perl 6 wiki. > > The hostname www.perl6.nl is deliberately ke

perldoc or pod parser in Perl6

2006-05-25 Thread Gabor Szabo
sligthly related to the Perl6 wiki issue, is there a perldoc command or a podparser implemented in Perl6 already ? Gabor

Re[2]: perl 6 hosting?

2006-05-25 Thread Andrew Shitov
GS> The hard part is to make sure they won't write code to exploit other sites or GS> create hug load on your machine... Any idea of how to avoid endless loops? :-) Restricting execution time? -- ___ Andrew, [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: Logic Programming for Perl6 (Was Re: 3 Good Reasons... (typo alert!))

2006-05-25 Thread Larry Wall
This topic may be better suited to perl6-language, unless you consider its denizens to already be self-selected against logic programming. :) Larry

Instructions to build parrot using mingw

2006-05-25 Thread Joshua Gatcomb
All: It has been 1.5 years since I have built parrot and a lot has changed. Today I decided to dust off some old projects but I am having trouble getting it to build. Previously, I used Cygwin. I have mingw, msys, and ActiveState Perl Unfortunately, I do not have permission to create files in C

[svn:perl6-synopsis] r9307 - doc/trunk/design/syn

2006-05-25 Thread larry
Author: larry Date: Thu May 25 11:21:16 2006 New Revision: 9307 Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S06.pod Log: Clarifying the distinction between the "of" and "where" return types. Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S06.pod ===

Re: Logic Programming for Perl6 (Was Re: 3 Good Reasons... (typo alert!))

2006-05-25 Thread Ovid
- Original Message From: David Romano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > duplicate results and this is almost always wrong. (See > > http://use.perl.org/~Ovid/journal/28378 > > for an SQL example of this problem). > I re-read your journal entry and comments (I had read it back when you > first had

Fw: Logic Programming for Perl6 (Was Re: 3 Good Reasons... (typo alert!))

2006-05-25 Thread Ovid
Larry pointed out that this topic is better suited for perl6-language instead of perl6-users, so I'm forwarding this along. Feel free to exercise your "delete" key. Cheers, Ovid -- If this message is a response to a question on a mailing list, please send follow up questions to the list. W

Re: CPANTS is not a game.

2006-05-25 Thread Ovid
- Original Message > From: David Golden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > formatted. E.g. I believe this is sufficient to get the Kwalitee point: > > # t/pod_coverage.t > __END__ > use Test::Pod::Coverage; What? You think that's bad? Here are three lines from Acme::Code::Police: $trick_that_n

Re: 3 Good Reasons...

2006-05-25 Thread Steffen Schwigon
"Michael Mathews" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > So my question to the list is, in simple terms even an IT manager > could grasp, explain what problems Perl 5 has that Perl 6 fixes, > such that they would want to undergo the pain of ever switching. >From a Perl point of view: there should be no pai

Re: CPANTS is not a game.

2006-05-25 Thread Philippe "BooK" Bruhat
Le mardi 23 mai 2006 à 21:56, Thomas Klausner écrivait: > > And no, I won't take the fun out of CPANTS. Then why did you filter out the Acme modules from the prereq lists? Mmm? For example, see http://cpants.perl.org/dist/Bot-MetaSyntactic and http://cpants.perl.org/dist/Acme-MetaSyntactic-Re

PBC meta info

2006-05-25 Thread Leopold Toetsch
While reading pdd23 and thinking of implementation strategies for .begin_eh / .end_eh the following ideas jumped onto my branes: - .begin_eh / .end_eh is by far not the only metainfo we want / need in PBC files - we already have debug info (line numbers / file info => PC relation) - we need mo

Fwd: 3 Good Reasons...

2006-05-25 Thread Michael Mathews
Hi Steffen, I'm glad you made that point. If I understand your statement, it's a common "gain" cited by Perl 6 (actually Parrot) advocates: you can mix languages. But a point I was trying to make was that while this is fun for us developers, managers hate it, with very good reason. Having one cru

Re: Instructions to build parrot using mingw

2006-05-25 Thread Jurosz Michal
Hello, do not use msys. Try mingw32-make from cmd.exe. http://wiki.kn.vutbr.cz/mj/index.cgi?Build%20Parrot%20with%20MinGW can probably help too. Michal Jurosz Joshua Gatcomb wrote: > All: > It has been 1.5 years since I have built parrot and a lot has changed. > Today I decided to dust off som

Re: Fw: Logic Programming for Perl6 (Was Re: 3 Good Reasons... (typo alert!))

2006-05-25 Thread Jonathan Lang
Hmm... How about this: Treat each knowledge base as an object, with at least two methods: .fact() takes the argument list and constructs a prolog-like fact or rule out of it, which then gets added to the knowledge base. .query() takes the argument list, constructs a prolog-like query out of it,

Re: [svn:perl6-synopsis] r9307 - doc/trunk/design/syn

2006-05-25 Thread Sam Vilain
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >+In either case this sets the C property of the container to C. >+Subroutines have a variant of the C property, C, that >+sets the C property instead. The C property specifies >+a constraint to be checked upon calling C that, unlike the C >+property, is not advertized as

Re: Logic Programming for Perl6 (Was Re: 3 Good Reasons... (typo alert!))

2006-05-25 Thread A. Pagaltzis
* Ovid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-05-25 20:45]: > The first hurdle would be the syntax. The programmer just > looking at the code would need to know when one section of code > represents a snippet of logic programming. Is the following a > function call or a Prolog fact? > > loves( 'foo', 'bar'