[perl #127071] [BUG] Matching a regex in a scalar returns Bool instead of Match

2015-12-29 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by Brent Laabs # Please include the string: [perl #127071] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=127071 > A regression sometime since September (the last Star release) broke Lingua::Number (among

Re: release?

2015-12-29 Thread Tobias Leich
Hi, the first official Perl 6 (the language) release is not called 6.0.0, it is called 6.c. And this is what has been shipped with the Rakudo compiler release 2015.12. Cheers, Tobias Am 27.12.2015 um 20:33 schrieb webmind: Hiya, I'm a bit confused, there is a major release for Perl 6, but I k

Re: release?

2015-12-29 Thread Darren Duncan
On that note, are there going to be Perl 6 versions 6.x.y where {x,y} are integers? Will 6.0.0 be the first such one? -- Darren Duncan On 2015-12-29 12:51 AM, Tobias Leich wrote: Hi, the first official Perl 6 (the language) release is not called 6.0.0, it is called 6.c. And this is what has be

Re: release?

2015-12-29 Thread Kaare Rasmussen
Hi Darren On that note, are there going to be Perl 6 versions 6.x.y where {x,y} are integers? Will 6.0.0 be the first such one? -- Darren Duncan The next Perl 6 release will be called 6.d. Hopefully it will take a while before that happens. I hope there will be a lot of Rakudo releases in t

Re: release?

2015-12-29 Thread Steve Mynott
I think this depends on exactly what you mean by "release". As others have already said in this thread... 6.c is the current standard for perl and is defined by that branch for the test suite. The next standard will be called 6.d but it's probably some way off. 6.c will comprise of a number of

Re: release?

2015-12-29 Thread Alex Becker
As this is a frequent answer I encounter when having a look at Perl 6, maybe it's worth having a look at it's message: There will be no Perl 6. There will be no Perl 6 by definition, because Perl 6 is only a specification. You cannot program a specification. Let's call this statement "specimplexp

[perl #127062] [BUG] Useless use of "*" in expression ".price * .quantity" in sink context (2015.12 Regression from 2015.11)

2015-12-29 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by Andy Weidenbaum # Please include the string: [perl #127062] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=127062 > Golfed: m: my @a = -1, 2, -3; say [+] (.abs + .abs for @a) rakudo-moar 64a61a: OUTP

[perl6/specs] 369440: Added NC as lemma, NativeCall explanation

2015-12-29 Thread GitHub
Branch: refs/heads/master Home: https://github.com/perl6/specs Commit: 3694407060b6a9daaf8ad3601ddec3cb6459ae5b https://github.com/perl6/specs/commit/3694407060b6a9daaf8ad3601ddec3cb6459ae5b Author: Elizabeth Mattijsen Date: 2015-12-28 (Mon, 28 Dec 2015) Changed paths:

[perl #127064] Variable interpolation in regex very slow

2015-12-29 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by Jules Field # Please include the string: [perl #127064] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=127064 > Given my @lines = "some-text.txt".IO.lines; my $s = 'Jules'; (some-text.txt is about

[perl #127058] Rakudo JVM build install-core-dist.pl fails

2015-12-29 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by Leandro Hermida # Please include the string: [perl #127058] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=127058 > When building latest Rakudo on JVM using command "rakudobrew build jvm" I get the fol

[perl6/specs] 94357c: Typos, markup corrections, trailing whitespace

2015-12-29 Thread GitHub
Branch: refs/heads/master Home: https://github.com/perl6/specs Commit: 94357ccfebed86b1c223244e69d364d03b3a548b https://github.com/perl6/specs/commit/94357ccfebed86b1c223244e69d364d03b3a548b Author: Aleks-Daniel Jakimenko-Aleksejev Date: 2015-12-29 (Tue, 29 Dec 2015) Change

[perl #127069] [BUG] Simple loop dies

2015-12-29 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by Julian Snitow # Please include the string: [perl #127069] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=127069 > This is Rakudo version 2015.12-37-g16c5fc7 built on MoarVM version 2015.12 implementing

Re: [perl #127058] Rakudo JVM build install-core-dist.pl fails

2015-12-29 Thread Elizabeth Mattijsen
> On 28 Dec 2015, at 19:14, Leandro Hermida (via RT) > wrote: > > # New Ticket Created by Leandro Hermida > # Please include the string: [perl #127058] > # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. > # https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=127058 > > > > When

Re: [perl #127069] [BUG] Simple loop dies

2015-12-29 Thread Elizabeth Mattijsen
> On 29 Dec 2015, at 06:59, Julian Snitow (via RT) > wrote: > > # New Ticket Created by Julian Snitow > # Please include the string: [perl #127069] > # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. > # https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=127069 > > > > This is R

Re: release?

2015-12-29 Thread Patrick R. Michaud
On Tue, Dec 29, 2015 at 01:57:57AM -0800, Darren Duncan wrote: > On that note, are there going to be Perl 6 versions 6.x.y where {x,y} are > integers? Will 6.0.0 be the first such one? -- Darren Duncan This was the topic of my FOSDEM talk last year, and then again at YAPC::NA. "Perl 6" is a lang

Re: release?

2015-12-29 Thread Andy_Bach
On Tue, Dec 29, 2015 at 01:57:57AM -0800, Darren Duncan wrote: >> On that note, are there going to be Perl 6 versions 6.x.y where {x,y} are > > integers? Will 6.0.0 be the first such one? -- Darren Duncan On Tue, Dec 29, 2015 Patrick Michaud wrote: > "Perl 6" is a language, not an implementation

Re: release?

2015-12-29 Thread yary
I also was agreeing with Alex's critique of 6.c and then understanding Patrick's reply. "Semantic Versioning" and Perl 5's versioning scheme is so thoroughly ingrained in me now that 6.c looked like a pre-production release number, and I was waiting for 6.0.0. After reading the explanation, it now

Re: release?

2015-12-29 Thread Darren Duncan
Thanks for all the responses, and I agree with them. At the same time, I think I was misunderstood, so I will try and clarify my position now. 1. I fully understand the distinction between a version of the Perl 6 language spec, or of components thereof (such as of grammar, standard library,

Re: release?

2015-12-29 Thread simran
The understanding of what is going on has certainly become an order or magnitude harder. I personally feel that the way the naming has been done has failed on the "keep easy things easy" part. The C vs GCC example by someone was a good one... C being a specification, and GCC being the compiler wi

Re: [perl #127064] Variable interpolation in regex very slow

2015-12-29 Thread Timo Paulssen
On 12/29/2015 12:46 AM, Jules Field (via RT) wrote: > # New Ticket Created by Jules Field > # Please include the string: [perl #127064] > # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. > # https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=127064 > > > > Given >my @lines = "so

Re: release?

2015-12-29 Thread Darren Duncan
On 2015-12-29 1:58 PM, simran wrote: * ParrotVM seems to be pretty much dead? (this is not a trolling question, it appears from certain emails on this list in the past few days that this seems to be an opinion, i'm just taking it at face value...) On one hand I just interpreted this as ParrotVM