- Original Message
> From: jerry gay
> i don't understand the drive to have unique test identifiers. we don't
> have unique identifiers for every code statement, or every bit of
> documentation. why are tests so important/special/different that each
> warrants a unique id?
Actually,
On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 4:08 PM, jerry gay wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 12:37, Dave Whipp wrote:
>> I could also imagine writing code that reads from an Sqlite database, and
>> imposes that info onto the test. Whatever mechanism is used, I think we need
>> a language-defined mechanism to supp
Hello all,
As you probably know by now, I'm really fired up about making sure that
Parrot's string handling works well and supports a good range of
character sets and encodings. To this end, I sketched out PDD28 with
Allison and a cast of hundreds, and now I'm working on implementing it.
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$perl6
> $_ = 'abc'; m/(a)/ and say "matched $0"
Use of uninitialized value
match
In chromatic's latest "Perl 6 Design Minutes" post
(http://use.perl.org/~chromatic/journal/38334), he writes
"Missing a discussion on.trim and gilding the lily."
Nicholas:
* if I wanted PHP I know where to find it
So there's a lot of context missing there and I'm unsure of what t
On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 04:55:44AM -0800, Ovid wrote:
> In chromatic's latest "Perl 6 Design Minutes" post
> (http://use.perl.org/~chromatic/journal/38334), he writes
>
>"Missing a discussion on.trim and gilding the lily."
>
>Nicholas:
> * if I wanted PHP I know where to find it
- Original Message
> From: Nicholas Clark
> You can also write that as a single substitution, although it turns
> out the combined statement is slower than the separate ones. That
> might not matter to you, though.
>
> s/^\s+|\s+$//g;
>
>
> If there's one answ
On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 09:27:04AM -0800, Ovid wrote:
> You know, I rewrote .trim as:
>
> .sub 'trim' :method :multi(_)
> .local string s
> s = self
> s = 'trim_start'(s)
> s = 'trim_end'(s)
> .return(s)
> .end
>
> I thought about the performance issue but opted
On Saturday 24 January 2009 05:56:03 Nicholas Clark wrote:
> And if left alone I can ramble that much, is anyone surprised
> that chromatic can't manage to minute several people discussing it?
Amusingly, you were the one who didn't minute it; I wasn't on the call that
week.
-- c
On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 10:58:51AM -0800, chromatic wrote:
> On Saturday 24 January 2009 05:56:03 Nicholas Clark wrote:
>
> > And if left alone I can ramble that much, is anyone surprised
> > that chromatic can't manage to minute several people discussing it?
>
> Amusingly, you were the one who d
- Original Message
> From: Nicholas Clark
> I can't keep up with the typing even with my mouth shut. I definitely can't
> think, talk and type at the same time.
For what it's worth, I have trouble doing more than *one* of those at once.
In any event, it's nice to get a slightly better
Author: masak
Date: 2009-01-24 22:17:56 +0100 (Sat, 24 Jan 2009)
New Revision: 25017
Modified:
docs/Perl6/Spec/S29-functions.pod
Log:
[S29] documented .i method in Num
Modified: docs/Perl6/Spec/S29-functions.pod
===
--- docs/Perl
Ovid wrote:
Is there guidance on where to go from here or what the balance is between
convenience functions and the bare minimum?
Speaking for myself, I know that I would like Perl 6's value
transforming/mapping operators to be functions that don't mutate their
arguments, or have standard va
On Jan 23, 8:59 pm, jswit...@gmail.com (Jason Switzer) wrote:
> That sounds useful on the surface but often turns out to be more difficult
> to do than you might think. There are many cases where tests are performed
> from within loops. Something like S09.237 may or may not be in a loop, may
> be
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