[perl #119401] [BUG] < $< $> > yields a one-element list, not a two-element list in Rakudo

2013-08-21 Thread Carl Mäsak
# New Ticket Created by "Carl Mäsak" # Please include the string: [perl #119401] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # https://rt.perl.org:443/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=119401 > r: .say for < $< $> > # rakudobug ? rakudo e84dda: OUTPUT«$<$>␤» Yeah. I wou

[perl6/specs] 6d7794: [S12] fix wrong assumptions about type object stri...

2013-08-21 Thread GitHub
Branch: refs/heads/master Home: https://github.com/perl6/specs Commit: 6d7794498b906cae4bea35aa10ba81831004d48d https://github.com/perl6/specs/commit/6d7794498b906cae4bea35aa10ba81831004d48d Author: Moritz Lenz Date: 2013-08-19 (Mon, 19 Aug 2013) Changed paths: M S12-ob

Re: Commensurability as Key

2013-08-21 Thread Brandon Allbery
On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 11:19 PM, Doug McNutt wrote: > I confess. I'm here because I hoped perl 6 would do vector operations > after reading an early small book. I don't think anyone has said that it won't/can't. Perl 6 indeed returns a scalar... but that scalar may be a container of some kind,

[perl6/specs] fac7a1: can't mix 'my Dog $x' with 'my $x of Dog'

2013-08-21 Thread GitHub
Branch: refs/heads/master Home: https://github.com/perl6/specs Commit: fac7a1ae9b6407749ef236d4f9510ef5d6ab8163 https://github.com/perl6/specs/commit/fac7a1ae9b6407749ef236d4f9510ef5d6ab8163 Author: Larry Wall Date: 2013-08-20 (Tue, 20 Aug 2013) Changed paths: M S02-bit

Change Propagation

2013-08-21 Thread James Bowery
Backing off from the esoterica, is Per6 lazy machinery going to include a feature like the one I suggested for MooseX here: http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=1050219

Re: Commensurability as Key

2013-08-21 Thread James Bowery
The terms "function" and "relation" as used in programming languages have meanings carved out of the pure concepts by the, sometimes, judicious application of Ockham's Chainsaw Massacre in order to "get things done". I am speaking of the pure concepts. Procedures are sequences of statements. Sta

Re: Commensurability as Key

2013-08-21 Thread Doug McNutt
At 20:27 -0700 8/20/13, Jonathan Lang wrote: Off list accidentally I think. >Could you try to put commensurability into layman's terms? Preferably with a >focus on some of its less obvious advantages. > >On Aug 20, 2013, at 8:19 PM, Doug McNutt wrote: > >> At 11:41 -0400 8/20/13, yary wrote: >