Re: Mutil Method Questions

2006-06-26 Thread Steffen Schwigon
Thomas Wittek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Steffen Schwigon schrieb: >> At least the many keywords seem to be necessary to map the complexity >> of different paradigms possible in Perl6. Multimethods are not just >> overloading as in C++. Second, the different keywords declare >> different behavio

Re: Using Perl in QA departments

2006-06-26 Thread Leon Brocard
On 6/17/06, Gabor Szabo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: http://www.szabgab.com/perl_in_test_automation.html This is really neat. You might want to add a link to Test::Expect too, which makes it almost to easy to test terminal-based programs. Thanks again! Leon

Re: Mutil Method Questions

2006-06-26 Thread Thomas Wittek
Steffen Schwigon: > Thomas Wittek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> Maybe I just phenomenally misunderstood multi subs, but unless I >> did, I can't see why we want to have subs when we can have multi >> subs that can do the same and even more. > > I understand your point and I confess I'm not sure. > > At

Re: Mutil Method Questions

2006-06-26 Thread Steffen Schwigon
Thomas Wittek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > So it looks like we can hide several multis with one sub: > [ example ] Maybe the type system in Pugs is not yet in such a final state to experiment with it in all that details. I can construct other examples or "reverse engineer" the neighbor discussion

Parrot Bug Summary

2006-06-26 Thread Parrot Bug Summary
Parrot Bug Summary http://rt.perl.org/rt3/NoAuth/parrot/Overview.html Generated at Mon Jun 26 13:15:01 2006 GMT --- * Numbers * New Issues * Overview of Open Issues * Ticket Status By Version * Requestors with m

Re: Parrot Bug Summary

2006-06-26 Thread Watson Ladd
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Can we format this a bit better? On Jun 26, 2006, at 9:15 AM, Parrot Bug Summary wrote: Parrot Bug Summary http://rt.perl.org/rt3/NoAuth/parrot/Overview.html Generated at Mon Jun 26 13:15:01 2006 GMT

Parrot Platform API

2006-06-26 Thread Vishal Soni
Hi Chip, I have been looking at the Parrot code for last couple of weeks. While going through the code there were a few things that striked me. There are quite a few places where #ifdef constructs were used to define platform specific code (#ifdef WIN32). I was thinking would it make sense to de

Re: Parrot Bug Summary

2006-06-26 Thread Adriano Ferreira
On 6/26/06, Watson Ladd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Can we format this a bit better? It is nicely formatted if you see with fixed-width fonts. And the link http://rt.perl.org/rt3/NoAuth/parrot/Overview.html takes to the HTML page from which this ASCII report was extracted.

Re: Parrot Platform API

2006-06-26 Thread Nicholas Clark
On Mon, Jun 26, 2006 at 12:08:52PM -0500, Vishal Soni wrote: > Hi Chip, > Let me know what your thoughts are. I would not mind writing up a draft PDD > or doing some proof of concept work. Chip's currently at YAPC::NA, and he's not yet presented his talk, so I'm guessing it might be a little whil

[svn:perl6-synopsis] r9718 - doc/trunk/design/syn

2006-06-26 Thread audreyt
Author: audreyt Date: Mon Jun 26 14:27:49 2006 New Revision: 9718 Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S06.pod Log: * S06: This is invalid syntax: for @list sub { ... } because statement control only admins pointy or bare blocks. Since pointies and anonymous subs are actually very dissimil