2016.5,6 Rakudo Starring

2016-02-09 Thread Elizabeth Mattijsen
A new Perl 6 Weekly can be found at https://p6weekly.wordpress.com/2016/02/08/2016-56-rakudo-starring/ Liz

Re: It's time to use "use 6.c"

2016-02-09 Thread Peter Pentchev
On Sat, Feb 06, 2016 at 08:20:14PM -0500, yary wrote: > Thanks all... I expect hiccups... just venting to help (future coders > and current self)... while we're on this topic > > a) lwp-download.pl doesn't have a "use 6". Since Windows ignores the > shebang, it invokes perl5 which is registered to

Re: It's time to use "use 6.c"

2016-02-09 Thread Brandon Allbery
On Tue, Feb 9, 2016 at 5:38 AM, Peter Pentchev wrote: > For the record, just to clear up some possible confusion, "use 6.c" > doesn't work in source files; you need "use v6.c". > Clarifying: yary seems to have been confused by the fact that META6.json (only) needs to use version numbers without

[perl #127498] perl6-j gets error "Could not find or load main class perl6" when run via PATH

2016-02-09 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by Rob Hoelz # Please include the string: [perl #127498] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=127498 > For example: $ perl Configure.pl --prefix=/tmp/jvm --gen-nqp=master --backends=jvm

[perl #127500] X::Numeric::Overflow is not thrown on OS X (big exponents)

2016-02-09 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by Alex Jakimenko # Please include the string: [perl #127500] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=127500 > The problem is that 2**4553535345364535345634543534 returns 1 on OS X. Code: my $big-e