Re: [perl #125784] Negative overflow in Str.index $startpos

Fixed with 14939e39d24541cc29fd12, tests added with e29df31, closable > On 11 Aug 2015, at 02:47, Alex Jakimenko (via RT) > wrote: > > # New Ticket Created by Alex Jakimenko > # Please include the string: [perl #125784] > # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue.

Re: [perl #125784] Negative overflow in Str.index $startpos

Fixed with 14939e39d24541cc29fd12, tests added with e29df31, closable > On 11 Aug 2015, at 02:47, Alex Jakimenko (via RT) > wrote: > > # New Ticket Created by Alex Jakimenko > # Please include the string: [perl #125784] > # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue.

What are Perl 6's killer advantages over Perl 5?

I have seen several lists of new Perl 6 features (versus Perl 5) but they all seem to be lists that intermix features with varying degrees of value to "ordinary" Perl 5 users. If one wants to sell long-time Perl 5 users (already using the latest Perl 5, Moose, etc.) on the value of Perl 6, what sh

.perl method: any plans for allowing output format changes?

I don't see any way to change the output format of the .perl method without a home-grown filter of some kind. Providing some way to duplicate the output of Data::Dumper would be handy for someone converting Perl 5 to Perl 6. Maybe we need a Perl 6 version of Data::Dumper. Best, -Tom

[perl #125791] Ranges can be modified through .bounds in Rakudo; supposed to be immutable

# New Ticket Created by Sam S. # Please include the string: [perl #125791] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=125791 > Ranges are supposed to be immutable value types, and they do work that way w.r.t object identi

Re: [perl #125791] Ranges can be modified through .bounds in Rakudo; supposed to be immutable

Fixed with 7814349, tests added with d649801, can be closed > On 11 Aug 2015, at 18:26, Sam S. (via RT) > wrote: > > # New Ticket Created by Sam S. > # Please include the string: [perl #125791] > # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. > # https://rt.perl.org/Ti

Re: [perl #125771] Rakudo on OS X 10.6.8

Ok, works now after upgrading to perl 5, version 16, subversion 0 (v5.16.0) built for darwin-2level Still having plenty of warnings : clang: warning: argument unused during compilation: ** But all seems working Test Summary Report --- t/spec/S17-supply/watch_path.t (Wstat:

Re: [perl6/specs] 614b6f: doc with/without

Is there an error in the cascade? Shouldn't the indices be 'a', 'b', 'c'; not 'a','a','a' ? On 08/10/2015 11:26 PM, yary wrote: "with", "without" look awesome. -y On Sat, Aug 8, 2015 at 2:38 PM, GitHub > wrote: Branch: refs/heads/master Home: https://g

[perl6/specs] b02fdf: fix minor typos

Branch: refs/heads/master Home: https://github.com/perl6/specs Commit: b02fdfafca4555c3b86bdabc27f4518829e825b8 https://github.com/perl6/specs/commit/b02fdfafca4555c3b86bdabc27f4518829e825b8 Author: Steve Mynott Date: 2015-08-11 (Tue, 11 Aug 2015) Changed paths: M S14-r

[perl6/specs] 4b6a1f: Kebab-case IO::Notification.watch_path

Branch: refs/heads/master Home: https://github.com/perl6/specs Commit: 4b6a1fc316c999c07f95754dc1a7ebd166a917f9 https://github.com/perl6/specs/commit/4b6a1fc316c999c07f95754dc1a7ebd166a917f9 Author: Elizabeth Mattijsen Date: 2015-08-11 (Tue, 11 Aug 2015) Changed paths:

[perl #125408] [BUG] CArray[num64] numiness optimised away

This has come back again on Linux too with This is perl6 version 2015.07.1-88-gaf75bd7 built on MoarVM version 2015.07-8-gb8fdeae

Re: [perl6/specs] 614b6f: doc with/without

If this is about: These may be cascaded: with $s.index("a") { "Found a at $_" } orwith $s.index("b") { "Found b at $_" } orwith $s.index("c") { "Found c at $_" } else { "Didn't find a, b or c” } then the code is correct. What would be the point of searching for

[perl6/specs] 982eda: Prevent some confusion re a b c

Branch: refs/heads/master Home: https://github.com/perl6/specs Commit: 982edab7a3714452afc126d478c83e5dc71377e5 https://github.com/perl6/specs/commit/982edab7a3714452afc126d478c83e5dc71377e5 Author: Elizabeth Mattijsen Date: 2015-08-12 (Wed, 12 Aug 2015) Changed paths:

[perl6/specs] e155c0: Speculate about Supply.throttle($elems,$seconds)

Branch: refs/heads/master Home: https://github.com/perl6/specs Commit: e155c08e014b72d4013daab29dec69b18df48368 https://github.com/perl6/specs/commit/e155c08e014b72d4013daab29dec69b18df48368 Author: Elizabeth Mattijsen Date: 2015-08-11 (Tue, 11 Aug 2015) Changed paths:

Re: What are Perl 6's killer advantages over Perl 5?

Built-in facilities for the language to parse, transform and extend itself (std grammar, macros). Prospect of multiple back-ends (compile to dotnet or LLVM targets like Javascript). Feel like you're living in the future (Perl6 has been in the future for so long now). On 11 August 2015 at 21:42, To

Re: What are Perl 6's killer advantages over Perl 5?

On Tue, Aug 11, 2015 at 07:12:00AM -0500, Tom Browder wrote: > I have seen several lists of new Perl 6 features (versus Perl 5) but they > all seem to be lists that intermix features with varying degrees of value > to "ordinary" Perl 5 users. If one wants to sell long-time Perl 5 users > (already