bug in REPL and REPL comment Was: Re: bug in REPL

2022-11-25 Thread rir
On Thu, Nov 24, 2022 at 08:55:05PM -0800, ToddAndMargo via perl6-users wrote: > Fedora 36 > rakudo-pkg-2022.7.0-03.x86_64 > > > > use NativeCall > > > $j =6; $k = CArray[uint8].new(0xFF xx $j ); print $j ~ "\n"; > Cannot find method 'qast' on object of type NQPMu > > > REPL does not like the $

Rakudo CoreDev Class

2022-11-25 Thread Vadim Belman
Since no other proposals were made I plan to hold the class on Saturday, Dec 3, 20:00UTC. Here is the link to Google Calendar entry with Jitsy Meet reference: https://calendar.google.com/calendar/event?action=TEMPLATE&tmeid=MGdpYWNpZGNmdHMxZHYzNnA5bGJhdG5qc2IgdnJ1cmcwMUBt&tmsrc=vrurg01%40gmail.co

What does this line mean?

2022-11-25 Thread ToddAndMargo via perl6-users
Hi All, I am confused! sub blob-from-pointer(Pointer:D \ptr, Int :$elems!, Blob:U :$type = Buf) is export { What is `Pointer:D \ptr`? Why the `\`? What is `:$elems!`? Why the `:`? Why the `!`? What is `Blob:U :$type = Buf` What does `Blob:U` mean? What does `:type` mean? Is `$type

Re: What does this line mean?

2022-11-25 Thread Bruce Gray
> On Nov 25, 2022, at 9:21 PM, ToddAndMargo via perl6-users > wrote: > Hi All, > I am confused! The documentation at https://github.com/salortiz/NativeHelpers-Blob would certainly benefit from example code! No examples in the t/ directory use the `blob-from-pointer` sub. The main doc for Nat