RE: Big update to the Perl 6 Workplace Wiki

> From: Mark Overmeer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > During YAPC::EU, we lauched our plans for CPAN6, which is targeted > to replace CPAN. It is needed because we can not maintain all > new related languages in one name-space. > > Is it possible to list our website (cpan6.org) together with > Parro

Re: multi method dispatching of optional arguments (further refined)

Luke Palmer wrote: > I don't follow your examples. What is the logic behind them? > > On 9/3/06, Mark Stosberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Examples: >>Arguments (<1 2>) to signatures 1. (@a?) and 2. (@a) calls 2 > > For example, I would expect this one to be ambiguous, because the 1. > (@a

[svn:perl6-synopsis] r11725 - doc/trunk/design/syn

Author: audreyt Date: Sun Sep 3 10:04:00 2006 New Revision: 11725 Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S03.pod Log: * S03: Clarify that this: my Dog ($x, $y) really means the same as: my (Dog $x, Dog $y) Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S03.pod ==

Unpacking tree node parameters

> sub traverse ( BinTree $top ( $left, $right ) ) { ... } L has two infelicities I wanted to fix with a patch. The first is that this style of unpacking is "really" syntactically a Signature, but most the examples in this section abbreviate out the optional colon. (The above is more formally spe

Weekly Perl 6 mailing list summary for August 27 - September 2, 2006

This week on the Perl 6 mailing lists "I once saw an overfilled waterbed that was almost as tall as I am. I would have called it PHP, but it didn't explode and throw cold water all over the house." -- chromatic Language clarifying the spec for 'ref'

Some extra reference types

Hi, As discussed at YAPC::Europe, here's my suggestions for two new core PMCs to handle: * References to a particular element in an aggregate type * References to a register The second of these needs an opcode to create it, which I have proposed a name for. The first of them I'd *like* to

Re: multi method dispatching of optional arguments (further refined)

On Sunday 03 September 2006 14:25, Mark Stosberg wrote: > Luke Palmer wrote: > > On 9/3/06, Mark Stosberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Note that the variant /with/ the parameter can be considered an exact > >> match, but but the variant /without/ it cannot be considered an exact > >> match. Excu

cperl-mode.el: twigils and opers

This has been driving me mad, and an hour of hacking at cperl-mode.el has only convinced me that I don't know elisp well enough to solve the problem Variables with twigils whose name matches something else are getting recognized incorrectly. For example, $.x is getting interpreted as $.