Re: Temporal seems a bit wibbly-wobbly

2010-02-23 Thread Nicholas Clark
On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 10:02:02AM +0300, Richard Hainsworth wrote: > - Time Zone, which can differ from GMT by halves of an hour. quarter hours in at least one place (Nepal) This doesn't affect your reasoning. Also, time zone abbreviations are ambiguous. PST can be Pacific Standard Time, Pakist

Building Rakudo under Windows 7 / 32bit

2010-02-23 Thread Claus Nagel
Hi, I'm trying to build rakudo under Windows 7 / 32bit ( Strawberry Version 5.10.1.0, released 21 Oct 2009) and get the error D:\Src\rakudo\parrot_install\bin\parrot.exe src\gen\perl6.pbc --target=pir \ src\gen\core.pm > src\gen\core.pir mingw32-make: *** [perl6.pbc] Error -107374181

Re: Temporal seems a bit wibbly-wobbly

2010-02-23 Thread Mark J. Reed
On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 6:50 PM, Daniel Ruoso wrote: > So why have the duration TAI-based? > > Simply because TAI is supposedly immutable as a scale, so it's predictable. > Gregorian time is not immutable and timezone definitions are not anyhow > predictable. OK, this seems to be a point of confu

[perl #73034] Variables in closures are shared too eagerly

2010-02-23 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by Moritz Lenz # Please include the string: [perl #73034] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=73034 > >From t/spec/S06-signature/sub-ref.t: { my $mkinc = sub { my $x = 0; return sub { $x

Re: Building Rakudo under Windows 7 / 32bit

2010-02-23 Thread Bruce Gray
On Feb 23, 2010, at 7:45 AM, Claus Nagel wrote: I'm trying to build rakudo under Windows 7 / 32bit ( Strawberry --snip-- The error code 1073741819 was mentioned early last year on #perl6 and on this list appearing on vista/32 and darwin/32. Info for readers playing catch-up (like me): Error

r29809 - docs/Perl6/Spec

2010-02-23 Thread pugs-commits
Author: lwall Date: 2010-02-23 19:32:48 +0100 (Tue, 23 Feb 2010) New Revision: 29809 Modified: docs/Perl6/Spec/S02-bits.pod Log: [S02] make Instant completely opaque as suggested by ruoso++. Instants are now considered a more type basic than epochs, which are just particular named instants. Al

Re: Building Rakudo under Windows 7 / 32bit

2010-02-23 Thread Claus Nagel
Thank, I try that. Can't wait to play around with perl6 - the quickened pace just seems staggering since I read my first synopsis years ago... - clausi - On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 18:37, Bruce Gray wrote: > > On Feb 23, 2010, at 7:45 AM, Claus Nagel wrote: >> >> I'm trying to build rakudo under W

r29810 - docs/Perl6/Spec

2010-02-23 Thread pugs-commits
Author: tene Date: 2010-02-23 22:05:30 +0100 (Tue, 23 Feb 2010) New Revision: 29810 Modified: docs/Perl6/Spec/S02-bits.pod Log: [S02] Small prose fixes. No functional changes. Modified: docs/Perl6/Spec/S02-bits.pod === --- docs/

Re: Temporal seems a bit wibbly-wobbly

2010-02-23 Thread Timothy S. Nelson
On Tue, 23 Feb 2010, Nicholas Clark wrote: On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 10:02:02AM +0300, Richard Hainsworth wrote: - Time Zone, which can differ from GMT by halves of an hour. quarter hours in at least one place (Nepal) This doesn't affect your reasoning. Also, time zone abbreviations are ambig

r29811 - docs/Perl6/Spec

2010-02-23 Thread pugs-commits
Author: masak Date: 2010-02-24 00:14:59 +0100 (Wed, 24 Feb 2010) New Revision: 29811 Modified: docs/Perl6/Spec/S12-objects.pod Log: [S12] found/fixed a case of a missing comma between adverbs Modified: docs/Perl6/Spec/S12-objects.pod