RE: Latest $1,000 Wiki for Perl 6 proposal/offer.

2006-08-24 Thread Conrad Schneiker
> From: Andy Lester [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Aug 23, 2006, at 12:21 AM, Conrad Schneiker wrote: > > > Could I just pay someone at TPF $1,000 to set up a wiki *for* Perl > > 6 on > > perl.org? > > [...] > > > > Whatever wiki TPF chooses is fine with me. > > I'm working on a wiki right now.

Re: Latest $1,000 Wiki for Perl 6 proposal/offer.

2006-08-24 Thread Paul Fenwick
G'day Conrad / P6 users, Conrad Schneiker wrote: > Hopefully someone at The Perl Foundation (perl.org) will read and respond to > this. > > (Other comments and suggestions are certainly welcome, however.) [snip] I'm not suggesting that PerlNet ( http://perl.net.au/ ) become the One True P6 Wik

RE: Latest $1,000 Wiki for Perl 6 proposal/offer.

2006-08-24 Thread Conrad Schneiker
> From: Paul Fenwick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Conrad Schneiker wrote: > > Hopefully someone at The Perl Foundation (perl.org) will read and > respond to > > this. > > > > (Other comments and suggestions are certainly welcome, however.) > > [snip] > > I'm not suggesting that PerlNet ( http://pe

Re: Latest $1,000 Wiki for Perl 6 proposal/offer.

2006-08-24 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
Yes. (Or endorsement by @Larry.) My guess is that something like this is necessary to overcome the past reluctance of others to use *any* of the previously suggested, currently existing wikis. Right on. Currently the Parrot PDD's say that the docs that must be written in POD, even though XML (o

[perl #40231] [PATCH] t/compilers/pge/06-grammar.t written in PIR

2006-08-24 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by Nuno Carvalho # Please include the string: [perl #40231] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=40231 > Hi all, Inspired in the new t/compilers/pge/p6regex/01-regex.t written in PIR by Coke

Re: My first functional perl6 program

2006-08-24 Thread Mark J. Reed
I found your rant a bit long on vehemence and short on coherence, Luke, but if I understand you correctly, your complaint is that this is finite: @finite_list >>=><< @infinite_list while, according to S03, this is long: @short_list >>=><< @long_list e.g. q(a b) >>=><< (1,2,3,4) would return (a

Re: My first functional perl6 program

2006-08-24 Thread Mark J. Reed
On 8/24/06, Mark J. Reed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: e.g. q(a b) >>=><< (1,2,3,4) would return (a=>1, b=>2, undef=>3, undef=>4). or rather, it would if I'd typed qw(a b) as I intended. One other point: while I agree that we should shield the programmer as much as possible from having to care wh

Re: My first functional perl6 program

2006-08-24 Thread Luke Palmer
On 8/24/06, Mark J. Reed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I found your rant a bit long on vehemence and short on coherence, Luke, but if I understand you correctly, your complaint is that this is finite: @finite_list >>=><< @infinite_list while, according to S03, this is long: @short_list >>=><< @lo

IO::Socket, or any IO

2006-08-24 Thread Michael Snoyman
I was thinking of rewriting a little webserver program I wrote in Perl 5 using Pugs. I was wondering what the equivilent (if any) of IO::Socket is. I suppose I could use an external webserver and use CGI to get this working with IO, but my preference would be a pure Perl 6 approach. If you're wo

Re: Pugs bugs

2006-08-24 Thread Mark J. Reed
On 8/24/06, Larry Wall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The pugs idea of reality is that a bug doesn't exist unless there's a test failing for it. And the correct way to report a bug is to write a test for it and check it in. :) Fair enough. I'll work on decoding the test env. It's purposefully

Re: pugs: rw block parameters

2006-08-24 Thread Larry Wall
On Thu, Aug 24, 2006 at 03:11:10PM -0400, Mark J. Reed wrote: : On 8/24/06, Larry Wall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: : >On Wed, Aug 23, 2006 at 05:01:43PM -0400, Mark J. Reed wrote: : >: Sorry if this is a known question, but I didn't see it mentioned in the : >: recent archive or FAQ. : >: : >: for (

Re: clarifying the spec for 'ref'

2006-08-24 Thread Mark J. Reed
On 8/24/06, Luke Palmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Well, actually Array would be a subtype of Array::Const, not t'other way round. Why? That makes no sense to me. An Array isn't a variety of constant Array; a constant Array is a variety of Array... Anyway, while smart matching with ~~ would

Re: My first functional perl6 program

2006-08-24 Thread Larry Wall
On Thu, Aug 24, 2006 at 12:09:44AM -0600, Luke Palmer wrote: : The way i would define hyper would be to stop after the shortest list : (also with zip). I know there are reasons not to do that, however, it : is easy to say: : :(@a, 0 xx *) >>+<< @b : : or : :@a >>+<< @[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: pugs: rw block parameters

2006-08-24 Thread Mark J. Reed
On 8/24/06, Audrey Tang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Mark, can you add a test to t/statements/for.t? A commit bit is on its way to your inbox. :-) Happily, as soon as I receive it. Upon further investigation I see that the problem is not rw parameters per se, but the ability to pass individual

Fwd: CPAN Upload: P/PE/PETDANCE/ack-1.26.tar.gz

2006-08-24 Thread Andy Lester
All sorts of new file handling hoohah! Begin forwarded message: From: PAUSE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: August 24, 2006 8:34:48 PM CDT To: "Andy Lester" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: CPAN Upload: P/PE/PETDANCE/ack-1.26.tar.gz Reply-To: cpan-testers@perl.org The uploaded file ack-1.26.tar.gz

Re: pugs: rw block parameters

2006-08-24 Thread Audrey Tang
在 2006/8/25 上午 4:37 時,Larry Wall 寫到: On Thu, Aug 24, 2006 at 03:11:10PM -0400, Mark J. Reed wrote: : On 8/24/06, Larry Wall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: : >On Wed, Aug 23, 2006 at 05:01:43PM -0400, Mark J. Reed wrote: : >: Sorry if this is a known question, but I didn't see it mentioned in the

Pugs bugs

2006-08-24 Thread Mark J. Reed
Is there a repository of current known bugs with pugs, like there is with Parrot? I'm just starting and don't want to point out things that are already known. I just built Pugs fresh from SVN on four different platforms (Win32, Solaris, OS X Panther, and OS X Tiger) and noticed these things cons

Re: pugs: rw block parameters

2006-08-24 Thread Larry Wall
On Wed, Aug 23, 2006 at 05:01:43PM -0400, Mark J. Reed wrote: : Sorry if this is a known question, but I didn't see it mentioned in the : recent archive or FAQ. : : for ($a, $b) { $_ = ... } : : gives me a "Can't modify constant item: VRef ". Which is correct as the default. : Making it explici

Re: Pugs bugs

2006-08-24 Thread Larry Wall
On Thu, Aug 24, 2006 at 02:29:04PM -0400, Mark J. Reed wrote: : Is there a repository of current known bugs with pugs, like there is : with Parrot? I'm just starting and don't want to point out things : that are already known. The pugs idea of reality is that a bug doesn't exist unless there's a

Re: pugs: rw block parameters

2006-08-24 Thread Mark J. Reed
On 8/24/06, Larry Wall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wed, Aug 23, 2006 at 05:01:43PM -0400, Mark J. Reed wrote: : Sorry if this is a known question, but I didn't see it mentioned in the : recent archive or FAQ. : : for ($a, $b) { $_ = ... } : : gives me a "Can't modify constant item: VRef ". Whi

Re: clarifying the spec for 'ref'

2006-08-24 Thread Luke Palmer
On 8/24/06, Mark J. Reed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 8/24/06, Luke Palmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well, actually Array would be a subtype of Array::Const, not t'other > way round. Why? That makes no sense to me. An Array isn't a variety of constant Array; a constant Array is a variety