Hi,
I had been a perl 5.0 user in the past. Ever since perl 6.0 was announced,
I waited, like many, indefinitely. At last perl 6.0 has just started from
its starting block and is also in the race. I am happy about that.
Perl 5.0 was generally termed to be good at CGI scripting, system
administr
Hi Radhakrishnan,
If 'spreading wings over the information technology field' were to mean
anything other than what is fashionable today, then C still reigns.
And if anything, COBOL still is so important in big financial
institutions that COBOL programmers earn more than Java programmers - if
On Sun, Jun 14, 2020 at 10:56 Richard Hainsworth
wrote:
> Hi Radhakrishnan,
>
> If 'spreading wings over the information technology field' were to mean
> anything other than what is fashionable today, then C still reigns.
Richard, excellently said!
I would like to see that on our Raku.org site
Hi,
If you allow me to jump in.
I have used scores of programming languages. For me, raku (as it is now
called) is the language to go to if I need a serious textual analysis of
any kind.
The design aspect of the language that I rely on heavily is the Grammar
class, which so fundamentally augm
No particular "killer app" has emerged for Raku as
of yet, there's no task that's going to make you go
"Aha, this is a job for Raku!". But you know, it's
not as though the original perl was designed to be
the Web 1.0 server-side scripting language or the
saviour of the human genome project...
Tha
Radhakrishnan,
I would be considered a non-developer and more of a system admin/architect.
I’ve used Perl 4/5 since the 1990s with success. My opinion of Python is not
particularly high, except that it is ubiquitous (like Perl 5). Ruby was not
unpleasant. I’ve sampled a few others, but none
I'd like to contribute with m 1 cent.
Perhaps I read an interesting point mentioned by Richard:
"- Perl regular expressions (regexes) are copied (badly??) by every !!!
other language. But Raku takes them much further, and more flexibilty.
After getting used to Raku regexes, I tear my hair out when
On 2020-06-14 08:04, Radhakrishnan Venkataraman wrote:
Hi,
I had been a perl 5.0 user in the past. Ever since perl 6.0 was
announced, I waited, like many, indefinitely. At last perl 6.0 has just
started from its starting block and is also in the race. I am happy
about that.
Hi Radhakrishn
In part because of the recent discussion here, I decided to
play around with using Raku code embedded in a regexp.
I came up with a contrived example where I was going to
examine a product listing in a text block to see if the product
descriptions matched the product codes. The valid associations
https://docs.raku.org/language/regexes#Regex_interpolation gave me some
ideas
Try matching against / (^P\d+) \s+ %products{$0} /
This one also works, in a roundabout way
/ (^P\d+) \s+ {"%products{$0}"} /
-y
On Sun, Jun 14, 2020 at 4:44 PM Joseph Brenner wrote:
> In part because of the recen
Well, with the first one it rejects all of my lines, and with the
second one it passes all of them.
Just to be be clear, my idea is the second line is wrong, and it
should flag that one as a problem
On 6/14/20, yary wrote:
> https://docs.raku.org/language/regexes#Regex_interpolation gave m
I should have read the output!
This one gives the right answers but with lots of warnings
/ (^P\d+) \s+ $("%products{$0}") /
checking line: P123 Viridian Green Label Saying Magenta
Use of Nil in string context
in regex at regex-loop.p6 line 18
Use of Nil in string context
in regex at r
By the way, I've been finding code assertions are a fun way of
spying on what's going on with your regexps:
$_ = "Alpha beta gamma";
my @matches = m:g/(a) /;
# 5
# 10
# 13
# 16
There is potentially a place for Raku in education, as a language that
can evolve from simple expressions in the REPL to one-liners, basic
scripts and through to complete CS courses with the various
programming paradigms (procedural, O-O, functional) and into language
design with grammars.
The cha
Getting correct behavior is an improvement over my try like so, which
gets the same warning but fails all the lines:
/ (^P\d+) \s+ $(%products{$0}) /
On 6/14/20, yary wrote:
> I should have read the output!
>
> This one gives the right answers but with lots of warnings
> / (^P\d+) \s+ $("%pro
> Just to be be clear, my idea is the second line is wrong, and it
should flag that one as a problem
Oh, but if you go literally with the code I posted, *both* the first
and second lines have incorrect descriptions, and only the third line
("corn dogs") matches.
(That was a mistake when I wro
True, and I am well and truly baffled by my example where the 1st bad line
incorrectly is labelled good, the 2nd bad line is correctly labelled bad,
and the 3rd good like is correctly labelled good.
-y
On Sun, Jun 14, 2020 at 6:04 PM Joseph Brenner wrote:
> > Just to be be clear, my idea is th
Hi Radhakrishnan,
I think the question you are asking directly relates to your
experience as a programmer. If you have a lot of experience and a
"systems programming toolkit" under your belt (classic bash shell
scripting, sed, awk, and perl_5 ), what does Raku/Perl6 add? The short
answer is: quite
It doesn't have to be an assertion. Just a code block would do the same.
Best regards,
Vadim Belman
> On Jun 14, 2020, at 8:55 PM, Joseph Brenner wrote:
>
> $_ = "Alpha beta gamma";
> my @matches = m:g/(a) /;
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