Re: Fwd: 3 Good Reasons...

2006-05-29 Thread Steffen Schwigon
"Michael Mathews" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 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 i

Re: CGI on 6

2006-05-29 Thread Michael Mathews
On 28/05/06, Juerd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The exegeses are not updated to follow the current specifications. They're still useful, so they're kept around, but the syntax is out of date. Synopses are kept up to date. See http://dev.perl.org/perl6/doc/design/syn/S05.html Ah! I see. Thank you.

Re: $1,000 prize for Perl 6 Wiki written in Perl 6

2006-05-29 Thread Juerd
Amir E. Aharoni skribis 2006-05-28 22:54 (+0200): > It's funny - i was the first one who proposed the wiki idea and i > didn't think that it will go so far (1000$$$). If you ask me, this > wiki should be done ASAP in Media-Wiki. Reusing current Perl wikis > (Australian, whatever) is even better

Re: $1,000 prize for Perl 6 Wiki written in Perl 6

2006-05-29 Thread Juerd
Darren Duncan skribis 2006-05-28 14:37 (-0700): > For one thing, I'm assuming that a prize-qualifying solution won't be > able to link-in legacy Perl 5 modules using Pugs' "use perl5:Foo" > syntax; to do so would look bad if we are wanting to show off a Wiki > solution using the NEW technology.

Re: CPANTS is not a game.

2006-05-29 Thread Thomas Klausner
Hi! On Thu, May 25, 2006 at 09:51:06PM +0200, Philippe "BooK" Bruhat wrote: > Le mardi 23 mai 2006 ? 21:56, Thomas Klausner ?crivait: > > > > 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://cp

Re: CPANTS is not a game.

2006-05-29 Thread Thomas Klausner
Hi! On Fri, May 26, 2006 at 11:35:14PM +1000, Adam Kennedy wrote: > What the hell is the "run" thing in the latest run... is the run just > half-way through or something? that was a bug in the templates. resolved now. (FYI: 'run' stores when the data was analysed (using what version of cpants

Re: CGI on 6

2006-05-29 Thread Michael Mathews
Whack number two. I *think* I've implemented URI decoding, with Juerd's help. I don't know how my hackish code will manage with various flavours of UTF (especially wide characters) but I'll leave that until it proves to be a problem. This works with my install of pugs. I still have some TODOs, if

Parrot Bug Summary

2006-05-29 Thread Parrot Bug Summary
Parrot Bug Summary http://rt.perl.org/rt3/NoAuth/parrot/Overview.html Generated at Mon May 29 13:15:02 2006 GMT --- * Numbers * New Issues * Overview of Open Issues * Ticket Status By Version * Requestors with m

Relationship between pugs and parrot/language/perl6

2006-05-29 Thread Rob
I see that there's work being done on a perl6 implementation under languages in parrot. How is this effort related to the pugs project? Is the aim of this to provide an alternative implementation of perl6 to pugs? Is one of them the destined to be the canonical implementation, or is the

Re: Relationship between pugs and parrot/language/perl6

2006-05-29 Thread Ask Bjørn Hansen
On May 29, 2006, at 8:43 AM, Rob wrote: BTW, glad to see the emergence of this mailing list, but I noticed it not yet listed on the "Current mailinglists" page here: http:// dev.perl.org/perl6/lists/. Thanks, I've added it now. Generally that sort of thing is much better told to webmaster

question about using "cover -ignore" and "cover -ignore_re"

2006-05-29 Thread Scott Wang
Hi, I was running Devel::Cover to gather code coverage information for my ".pm" module files and I try to "cover -ignore" or "cover -ignore_re" to screen out coverage data for my test script ".pt" files and only display coverage data for my ".pm" modules. But, command does not prevent the data fo

Re: CGI on 6

2006-05-29 Thread Larry Wall
On Mon, May 29, 2006 at 09:14:43AM +0100, Michael Mathews wrote: : On 28/05/06, Juerd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: : >The exegeses are not updated to follow the current specifications. : >They're still useful, so they're kept around, but the syntax is out of : >date. : >Synopses are kept up to date.

Re: question about using "cover -ignore" and "cover -ignore_re"

2006-05-29 Thread Paul Johnson
On Mon, May 29, 2006 at 12:44:38PM -0700, Scott Wang wrote: > Hi, > > I was running Devel::Cover to gather code coverage > information for my ".pm" module files and I try to > "cover -ignore" or "cover -ignore_re" to screen out > coverage data for my test script ".pt" files and only > display cov

Coroutine reset functionality?

2006-05-29 Thread Klaas-Jan Stol
Hi, I couldn't find any functionality to reset a coroutine. Sometimes you want to reset a coroutine, so it starts at the beginning of the sub body, but there doesn't seem to be any method to do that. Am I overlooking something? Thanks, klaas-jan

Re: Info from Devel::Cover

2006-05-29 Thread Paul Johnson
On Thu, May 11, 2006 at 11:57:44AM +1000, Kirrily Robert wrote: > I've got a guy at work who wants to take coverage reports and bung > them in a database so he can track historical coverage data. As I > see it, he needs to somehow parse the stuff in cover_db/ but neither > he nor I understa

Re: Coroutine reset functionality?

2006-05-29 Thread Klaas-Jan Stol
I was thinking of just a method on the Coroutine PMC so you could do .sub some_global_coroutine .yield(1) .yield(2) .yield(3) .yield(4) .yield(5) .end .local pmc mycoro # create the coroutine mycoro = global 'some_global_coroutine' mycoro = clonoe mycoro .local pmc corresult # call it a fe

More - Re: question about using "cover -ignore" and "cover -ignore_re"

2006-05-29 Thread Scott Wang
Hi Paul, "-MDevel::Cover=+ignore,\\.pt$ ..." really helps! If I want to use Devel::Cover module in my code and not from commandline, say I would like to use "use Devel::Cover;" in code, what I should add after "use Devel::Cover" to make it works as "-MDevel::Cover=+ignore,\\.pt$ ...". Many thank

Re: CGI on 6

2006-05-29 Thread Michael Mathews
Whack three! I suddenly remember what it was like to learn Perl the first time again. Boy do I feel confused. It's starting to work though. Kinda like the first Perl CGI I wrote about seven years ago. Probably just as ugly too. Anyone want to join in here, please feel free! #!/usr/bin/pugs print

Re: More - Re: question about using "cover -ignore" and "cover -ignore_re"

2006-05-29 Thread Paul Johnson
On Mon, May 29, 2006 at 03:31:19PM -0700, Scott Wang wrote: > "-MDevel::Cover=+ignore,\\.pt$ ..." really helps! > > If I want to use Devel::Cover module in my code and > not from commandline, say I would like to use "use > Devel::Cover;" in code, what I should add after "use > Devel::Cover" to ma

Re: CGI on 6

2006-05-29 Thread Ovid
Michael, I assume this is just an attempt to learn Perl6 and not to write a serious CGI parser? Assuming it's the former and not the latter, I don't really have much to comment on, though there are a few things I would change. Cheers, Ovid -- If this message is a response to a question on a ma

Re: Relationship between pugs and parrot/language/perl6

2006-05-29 Thread Audrey Tang
在 2006/5/29 下午 11:43 時,Rob 寫到: I see that there's work being done on a perl6 implementation under languages in parrot. How is this effort related to the pugs project? Is the aim of this to provide an alternative implementation of perl6 to pugs? Is one of them the destined to be the ca

Re: CGI on 6

2006-05-29 Thread Michael Mathews
On 30/05/06, Ovid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I assume this is just an attempt to learn Perl6 and not to write a serious CGI parser? Assuming it's the former and not the latter, I don't really have much to comment on, though there are a few things I would change. How mysterious. Short of beggi

Re: CGI on 6

2006-05-29 Thread Ovid
- Original Message From: Michael Mathews <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On 30/05/06, Ovid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I assume this is just an attempt to learn Perl6 and not to write a serious > > CGI parser? > > Assuming it's the former and not the latter, I don't really have much to > > comme

Minimum modules for Production?

2006-05-29 Thread Ovid
Since it looks like we're really going to have Perl6 within a year or so, what are the "must have" modules folks will want before they can consider using Perl6 in production? Right off the bat, I see a need for the following: DBI (I hear Tim Bunce is looking at this) Template Toolkit (I've h

Re: Relationship between pugs and parrot/language/perl6

2006-05-29 Thread Chris Dolan
On May 29, 2006, at 6:34 PM, Audrey Tang wrote: Personally, I think a canonical acceptance test suite is more important than a canonical implementation, but if the Parrot/Perl6 official-perl6 plan works out, that's wonderful too. :-) That's so cool. :-) This positive attitude toward testi

Re: Minimum modules for Production?

2006-05-29 Thread Andy Lester
On May 29, 2006, at 7:53 PM, Ovid wrote: Since it looks like we're really going to have Perl6 within a year or so, what are the "must have" modules folks will want before they can consider using Perl6 in production? Right off the bat, I see a need for the following: DBI (I hear Tim Bun

Re: CGI on 6

2006-05-29 Thread Joel Hoffman
On Mon, May 29, 2006 at 05:28:53PM -0700, Ovid wrote: > > Now that I read what I wrote, I guess that might have sounded a bit > annoying for me to mention that I would change things but then not > mention what I would change. > > Much of the changes would be stylistic in nature, but not all (I'm >

Re: CGI on 6

2006-05-29 Thread Joel Hoffman
On Mon, May 29, 2006 at 05:28:53PM -0700, Ovid wrote: > > I also tried to do this: > > my ($n, $v) = $nv.split('=').map(decode($_)); > > That and a number of other variants all failed miserably with errors similar > to: > > Can't modify constant item: VStr ... > Ah, should have paid more

RE: P6U FAQ on PerlNet (was Re: $1,000 prize for Perl 6 Wiki written in Perl 6)

2006-05-29 Thread Conrad Schneiker
> From: Paul Fenwick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Sunday, May 28, 2006 7:28 PM [...] Sorry for the delay in responding. Spent much of the day fighting windoze insanity. If not for a certain other $commitment, I probably be shopping for a Mac about now. :-) > Conrad Schneiker wrote: > > > I

Re: CGI on 6

2006-05-29 Thread Michael Mathews
On Mon, May 29, 2006 at 05:28:53PM -0700, Ovid wrote: > I also tried to do this: > my ($n, $v) = $nv.split('=').map(decode($_)); > That and a number of other variants all failed miserably with errors similar to: > Can't modify constant item: VStr ... Many thanks to Joel and ovid, your sugge