Object to a numeric Object wll in some
cases convert the string to a number and add instead of
concatenating!), but + still works.
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can do that...
> > The P in Perl stands for Practical, not Pedantic.
>
> I consider well designed interfaces as practical not pedantic ;)
Of course, good design is extremely practical. Just not necessarily
objectively measurable. :)
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gative result, while Apple and Atari return a positive one.
I find it particularly interesting that not even all of the BASICs
from the same codebase (Microsoft's original Altair release) agree
with each other...
We now return you to your regularly scheduled Perl 6 mailing list,
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; if you're completely changing the meaning of an operator, the reader should
> have
> nearby indication of what is really going on.
Ah, so you want the types of typed vars to be apparent where those
vars are used. Well, there's an easy solution there: Hungarian
notation!
(ducks und
erl6, which has a real "try" instead. If the eval'ed code fails,
the eval itself just fails right along with it; so there's no need for
a split along the lines of $! vs [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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), and some chunks of p6 have been backported into
5.10 via "use features". So, is there a consensus recommendation on
the current best way to play around with something approximating the
current state of the design?
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> (on parrotblog), but I don't know if that's possible.
>
>
> (I tried to send this earlier, having attached files separately;
> apparently that wasn't accepted maybe because it's executable code?,
> so now a zipped version)
>
> kjs
>
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uot; is just
shorthand for "x + -y".
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On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 1:06 PM, TSa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > 1 + a(x)²!
Seems like a mathematician would be inclined to write that one as this instead:
1 + a²(x)!
But I'm not suggesting that you try to make (a**2)(x) work for
(a(x))**2 in Perl. :)
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nd leave the rest of us alone? :)
Oh, and I've always mentally filed -x as shorthand for (-1*x); of
course, that's an infinitely recursive definition unless -1 is its own
token rather than '-' applied to '1'. Maybe I should have adopted
dc(1)ese and spelled it _1.
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Is it just me, or is all this talk about precedence and functions vs
operators vs methods creating a niggling sensation in anyone else's
head? It feels like we're in the vicinity of another one of them Big
Simplifying Idea things. Unfortunately, I don't have the actual Big
Idea, so it could just
to be generalized to
non-integers, since there is nothing in the above formulae that
requires integral inputs. f mod 1 would then return the fractional
part of a number, for instance.
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...
If you have a rational number and need to turn it into an integer,
best be explicit about how you want the conversion done. I'd almost
be tempted to have no default coercion there, but that'd break too
much ported code.
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In general, is
[op] (p1,p2,p3,p4...)
expected to return the same result as
p1 op p2 op p3 op p4...
including precedence considerations?
That is, should
[**](2,3,4)
return 2^(3^4)=2^81, or (2^3)^4 = 4096?
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You anticipated me. So, is there a core method for
foldl/foldr/inject/reduce, or do you have to roll your own as in p5?
On 3/29/08, Larry Wall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 29, 2008 at 10:18:53PM -0400, Mark J. Reed wrote:
> : In general, is
> :
> :
seful, so I've never been swayed by arguments from "what is it good
for?"...
On 3/30/08, Darren Duncan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Mark J. Reed wrote:
> > You anticipated me. So, is there a core method for
> > foldl/foldr/inject/reduce, or do you have to roll y
, i.e., (2^(3^4))
>
> Etc.
>
> -
> Hugh Miller
> e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
> -Original Message-
> From: Darren Duncan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Sunday, March 30, 2008 2:00 AM
> To: p6l
> Subject: Re: Query re: duction and precedence.
On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 5:39 AM, Mark J. Reed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Perl5, all the builtin "functions" are really defiend as operators,
"defined", even. (However fiendishly.)
Anyway, "function" vs "operator" is mostly a difference in termin
all the builtin "functions" are really defiend as operators,
including "print" etc. But you can always call an operator as if it
were a function/method, and in most cases you will.
pugs> [1,2,3].max
3
pugs> min(1,2,3)
1
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I sit corrected. Guess that's one of the places pugs is out of date.
On 4/1/08, Patrick R. Michaud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 01, 2008 at 05:39:36AM -0400, Mark J. Reed wrote:
> > On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 1:44 AM, Xiao Yafeng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
&g
h X basically is with preserved
> order.
>
> Regards, TSa.
> --
>
> The Angel of Geometry and the Devil of Algebra fight for the soul
> of any mathematical being. -- Attributed to Hermann Weyl
>
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You have completely lost me, John. What the heck are you asking?
$obj.foo: calls public method "foo" on the object referenced by $obj.
$.foo shorthand for calling "foo" on self (in scalar context).
As I understand it, although I could be confused, these have
absolutely nothing to do with w
ocks?
CO> They control in what phase of compilation/runtime the code runs in.
I don't know, "phase" sounds too specific to me. Does the catching of
an exception really bring us into a new phase of execution? What
about the LAST time through a loop? etc.
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e a
closure and have traits, which aren't necessarily these particular
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"traits" is also problematic; it says what they are, but not really
> what they do. They're really "come froms" with predefined names that
> are automatically called at the appropriate time. So I think perhaps
> the best term for them might be something more like "event blocks",
> blocks that are called if and when a particular event happens. That's
> a more user-oriented definition.
>
> Larry
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escription, which fails to convey
anything about the semantics.
So maybe "event tags" and "event blocks", with the combination of the
two constituting an "event handler"?
Also: a CB reference? Really? (Y)our age is showing. :)
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On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 7:41 PM, Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On the other hand, that may be the answer right there: "when-blocks".
We have those already: given...when.
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> My suggestion:
>
> consequential blocks
...which would make other blocks inconsequential?
Nuh-uh.
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e it has. Perl 6 would be less confusing without this pragma.
Agreed. Being able to change the invocant name strikes me as one of
those things that sounds like a good idea at first but might not be
-like $[. Although of course much better since pragmas are lexically
scoped.
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On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 06:28:06PM +0200, TSa wrote:
> The original question was sort of about how to write a list
> that has .elems == 1 but "no" content.
Wouldn't that just be [[]] ?
Mark J. Reed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
quick and
> unobtrusive way to get the type of the value instead of "Any"? Can we
> use a "whatever" type?
>
> my * $x = 12.34;# my Num $x
> my * $y = "abc";# my Str $y
> const * $z = $foobar; # const Foo::Bar $z
>
>
> -David
>
>
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On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 2:32 PM, Jonathan Worthington
> my Dog $fifi .= new(); # works in Rakudo too ;-)
And even in Pugs! :) Doesn't help with literals, though, e.g.
my Float $approx_pi = 3.14;
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for scalars so far.
> Not for elements of an array or hash!
>
>
> Regards, TSa.
> --
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> The Angel of Geometry and the Devil of Algebra fight for the soul
> of any mathematical being. -- Attributed to Hermann Weyl
>
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I apologize for the vagueness; I was away from browser when I sent
that. Go to http://www.ecmascript.org for the nitty gritty on
ECMAScript 4th Edition, a.k.a. "JavaScript 2", which is what I was
talking about. White papers, specs, reference interpreter.
The link from the Firefox developers page
gt; system administrator [openafs,heimdal,too many hats] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> electrical and computer engineering, carnegie mellon university KF8NH
>
>
>
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ot;The unavoidable price of reliability is simplicity"
>-- C.A.R. Hoare
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AIUI, this is the difference:
given (@foo) {
# this code runs exactly once, topic is @foo
}
vs
for (@foo) {
# this code runs once per item in @foo, topic
# is @foo[0], then @foo[1], etc.
}
So eseentially,
given (@foo)
means the same as Perl5
for ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
, "state" (enables state vars), "switch" (enables
given/when).
> Or is that the CPAN module that basically rewrites the entire file?
No.
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The topic should always be $_ unless explicitly requested differently
via the arrow.
Now in the case of for, it might be nice if @_ bound to the entire
collection being iterated over (if any)...
akes multiple arguments and concatenates them,
and you can interpolate variables in strings, you don't need printf
most of the time:
print "The first character of the string is '", substr($str,0,1), "'\n";
...although it is arguably clearer in this case.
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f vests, and the
> term "flak" now means flying debris and shrapnel.
>
> I think I used "flak" to refer to the situation of being bombarded by
> small bits of debris rather than the debris itself because it sounds a
> lot like "raise a flap", meaning an excited state of agitation. So I
> think British "flap" has become American "flack".
>
> --John
>
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ionality and infinitude are not the same thing;
in particular, there are an (uncountably) infinite number of
irrational numbers...
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is that it's fine for all hashes to support []-indexing. But
>> if
>> the order isn't important, then you probably wouldn't need to use [] in
>> the
>> first place (you'd use "for %h:v", etc.)... so maybe it should be limited.
>> Hm.
>
> That's my thought. That said, I'm wiling to consider the prospect
> that such a restriction is excessive and/or unnecessary.
>
>> P.S. Everywhere I said < and > I really meant .before and .after. =P
>
> :) OK.
>
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efined?
>
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IQap pagh yIHegh! (Succeed or die!)
But you could say something like: SuvwI' yIDa: yIHegh! bIlujchugh yIcheghQo'!
(Behave as a warrior: die! If you fail, do not return!)
However, I think we are now officially *way* off topic for Perl6...
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, maybe "Phoebe" or "PHoePe?" ;-)
>
>Ron
>
> Or "Phoenix"? Does this count as a resurrection from the ashes of
> Plumhead? ;-}
>
> -- Bob
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n Int, and
> Int does Num
> Rat does Num
But Int should do Rat, too...
> That way a compiler that only implements classes and roles (and no
> subset types) can get the hierarchy of numeric types right.
...assuming it's a hierarchy in the first place.
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al literals become approximations in binary...
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s, currency conversion,
brokerage stuff...
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means " += 1 ".
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ically "bob"++ is an error, but { my $x = "bob"; return
++$x; } yields "boc". :))
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equences within that source
code. "\ab" should mean U+00AB no matter whether the surrounding
source code is UTF-8, ISO-8859-1, Big-5, whatever; if the source
language wants to work differently, it's up to its parser to convert.
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ot encoding bytes
>> for a single codepoint.
>
> And that shall be the distinguished from:
>
> U+AB65: ꭥ
>
> by what?
>
>> Pm
>
> leo
>
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onfig' option to explicitly specify
> the location of parrot_config.
>
> % cat build/PARROT_REVISION
> 37414
>
> --
> Alex Kapranoff.
>
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s it looks.
> multi sub fib (0) desugars to (Any $ where 0),
Shouldn't that desugar to (Int $ where 0)? After all, 0.WHAT is Int...
Of course, then someone will expect multi sub fib (0|1) { return @_[0]
} to DTRT here...
>
> Cheers,
> Moritz
>
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Nm, installed libparrot was interfering.
On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 5:00 PM, Mark J. Reed wrote:
> I'm getting further but still failing to get Rakudo working (OS X
> 10.5.6, gcc 4.0.1), same parrot revision (r37414):
>
> ...
> c++ -o perl6_ops_switch.bundle perl6_ops_switch
While I wasn't really serious about it...
>
>
>
>
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Perl 6 is more than just the test suite. It's a language
specification, a reference parser, a test suite, and perhaps a
reference setting implementation. All of the things about the
language that are not tied to a particular implementation are part of
"Perl 6".
Rakudo is a particular implementat
#x27;ve been known
to use map for quickie in place mutations, and not necessarily in void
context:
my @prev = map { $_++ } @values;
I'm not arguing for the binding to default to rw - you can always use
"is rw" when needed. I just don't see any reason why the default
binding behavior of map and for should be different.
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As an aditional idea...
>
> multi infix:<⋃>(Set $a, Set $b) {...}
> multi infix:<⋂>(Set $a, Set $b) {...}
> ...as well as the rest of the set theory...
>
> daniel
>
>
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On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 10:27 AM, Moritz Lenz
wrote:
> Mark J. Reed wrote:
>> From a high-level perspective, the blackjack example seems perfect for
>> junctions. An Ace isn't a set of values - its one or the other at a
>> time. It seems to me if you can't make
On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 11:45 AM, Mark J. Reed wrote:
> Given two
> junctions $d and $p, just adding $d + $p gives you all the possible
> sums of the eigenstates. Given two sets D and P, is there an equally
> simple op to generate { d + p : d ∈ D, p ∈ } ?
Dropped a P there - shoul
be. Isn't it just syntactic sugar for the RHS?
Logically, you might want it to mean something like ∃$x: $x ==
any(-1,+1) && $a <= $x && $x <= $b, but I don't think it does.
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implementors' lives harder, what's
> wrong with trying to find a way to get Jonathan's example to work the
> way people expect it to?
>
> I don't understand this aversion to everything remotely hinting of
> eigenstates/eigenthreads/threshing/whatever.
>
> --
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urate amount of cleverness in the
support of that feature.
Basically, I want the specified behavior to make sense as much as possible,
and for it to be easy to explain the places where it doesn't seem to make
sense. Even if it means we don't get that behavior in 6.0.0.
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ckout -r" . $required . " " . "
>> > https://svn.parrot.org/parrot/trunk parrot");
>> >
>> > Regards,
>> > Sam
>>
>> Out of curiosity, what error messages are you getting?
>>
>> BTW, this command looks right to me, passing a list to system() instead
>> of a string avoids shell escaping issues.
>>
>> --
>> Will "Coke" Coleda
>>
>
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>
According to the 5.0.0 standard, section 4.8:
"Unicode character names contain only uppercase Latin letters A
through Z, digits, space, and hyphen-minus."
So it seems the notes in parentheses are not considered part of the char name.
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is
field 1 ("", in this case). The field whose value is "LINE
FEED (LF)" is the Unicode_1_Name field, wihch for control characters
supplies the ISO 6429 name.
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gt;
> Helmut Wollmersdorfer
>
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t assignments of arbitrary negative numbers to graphemes.
If you're doing arithmetic with the code points or scalar values of
characters, then the specific numbers would seem to matter. I'm
looking for the use case where the fact that it's an integer matters
but the specific value doesn't.
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said, that *normally* shouldn't be necessary outside encoding and
decoding, where you need to do things bytewise anyway; just trying to
cover all the bases...)
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gt;
> Even if there is no language change, at least it'd be good to ensure
> that "0...@foo.elems" doesn't appear in the documentation. Instead,
> whoever writes the docs should use @foo.keys and @foo.kv. Those are
> *very* clear, and they do the right thing.
>
> Daniel.
>
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> Well, you really made me realize that I'm looking for things that make
> me impressed, and probably I don't get impressed that easy nowadays ;)
Well, maybe you should relax your expectations. People who haven't
been following P6 development for the last near-decade may be
impressed by stuff tha
sion.
>
>
>> I do think captures are inherently impressive, but not easy to explain...
>
> Got a link?
>
> Daniel.
>
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def fact(n):
return reduce(lambda x,y: x*y, range(1,n+1))
While Ruby calls it "inject".
def fact(n)
(1..n).inject { |x,y| x*y }
end
Perl 6 has a lot of functional features. IMO the nice thing about its
version of reduce is the way it's incorporated into the syntax as a
metaoperator.
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of a built-in range constructor.
On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 2:21 PM, Mark J. Reed wrote:
>
> In Haskell it may be called fold (well, foldl and foldr), but the concept
> has has a variety of names. Two of the more common ones are "reduce" and
> "inject"; I believe Per
quot;compress" (no example cited) as
additional names.
In Perl6, I assume [...] automatically folds left on left-associative
operators and right on right-associative ones?
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You can write a sub to return the next step:
sub bondigi { state $n=1; return (, xx $n,
xx $n++); }
but I think an idiomatic Perl 6 solution would have a proper lazy
Iterator. How do we write one of those?
ht up, although with the addition
> of Unicode operators Perl 6 could now go ahead.)
Perhaps Perl 6 should not aspire to the expressiveness of APL. :) As
nice as it is that you can write Conway's Life in a one-liner(*), I
think that a little verbosity now and then is a good thing for
legibility.
So how is this:
> Any infix operator (except for non-associating operators) can be surrounded
> by square brackets in term position to create a list operator
> that reduces using that operation:
reconciled with this:
> Any ordinary infix operator may be enclosed in square brackets with the sam
+ inside and the list as argument...
The operator '[+]', which you get by applying the meta-operator
'[...]' to the infix binary operator '+', is a prefix list operator.
So that much makes sense. But I still think the two different
meanings of square brackets in operators are going to confuse people.
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ially related: why doesn't simple &+ or &<+> work for what we're
currently spelling &[+] (and which is more specifically spelled
&infix:<+>)?
On 5/28/09, Larry Wall wrote:
> On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 09:43:58AM -0400, Mark J. Reed wrote:
> : So that much
ecessarily binary, but while prefixes tend to be
slurpy, I was thinking one could also declare a prefix op with a
finite arity. And does [...] only reduce if what's inside is an
operator? How do you do a reduce using a plain old binary subroutine?
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ght-alt + [ and ].
Mac (standard US keyboard): option + \ for «, same key shifted for »
Linux: Lots of variables: X input manager, modifier keymap, etc. But
digraphs work in vim: control-K < < and control-K > >
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; | Name: Tim Nelson | Because the Creator is, |
>> | E-mail: wayl...@wayland.id.au | I am |
>> -
>>
>> BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK
>> Version 3.12
>> GCS d+++ s+: a- C++$ U+++$ P+++$ L+++ E- W+ N+ w--- V- PE(+) Y+>++
>> PGP->+++ R(+) !tv b++ DI D G+ e++> h! y-
>> -END GEEK CODE BLOCK-
>>
>
>
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ator behind Perl's design. So while it should be
considered, it's not a knockout punch to say "but logic doesn't work
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sing you saw + used to get the length of an array, and that's
where you got that it's equivalent to P5 scalar().
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/09, Aristotle Pagaltzis wrote:
> * Moritz Lenz [2009-07-10 00:25]:
>> stat($str, :e) # let multi dispatch handle it for us
>
> This gets my vote.
>
> --
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0.
On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 3:16 PM, yary wrote:
> +1 on using ln() instead of log()
>
> Also, systems I know of that implement both log() and ln() default
> ln() with base e, as perl6 does, log() uses base 10.
>
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> EITHER sense of the word. I don't want to replace one bit of namespace
> clutter with another one. All you web guys can use the Apache::log
> method, or whatever.)
>
> =Austin
>
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My reply to the message Aaron sent directly to me by mistake...
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From: Mark J. Reed
Date: Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 7:23 PM
Subject: Re: Re-thinking file test operations
To: Aaron Sherman
You replied just to me, you know.
> In re-thinking it, we don
On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 5:03 AM, Moritz Lenz wrote:
> Presumably you want here-docs, which can be indented in Perl 6:
>
> perl 6 code
> perl 6 code
> $script.say(Q:to);
> output code
> output code
> END
>
> The leading whitespace will be pruned from the string.
All
at are aware of whether they're being used as singular or plural.
>
> --
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ime components. Offhand, the only
mandatory delimiter I can think of is the "W" used with week-based
dates to distinguish them from month-based ones.
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Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2009 07:36:52 -0400
Subject: Re: Rukudo-Star => Rakudo-lite?
To: Gabor Szabo
That has the same problem as lots of other themes - it puts a hard
limit on the number of releases b
Given the Japanese behind the name Rakudo, "rakudone" looks like a
question: "Rakudo, right?" Beats "rakuod", though.
On 8/10/09, James Fuller wrote:
> how about
>
> 'raku'
>
> then the final version could be called
>
> 'rakudone'
>
> Jim Fuller
>
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lly
interchangeable. :)
I still like the double-bracket idea. I don't much mind the extra
character; 5 characters total still beats the 7 of HTML/XML.
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etter.
Nope. Have to use the drive letter. But / is understood as a synonym
for \ by the Windows API.
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ich does a
search/replace on the current working directory; the bash equivalent
"cd ${PWD/old/new}" which is not quite as handy. $*CWD could make
that simple, too.
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as chdir() has. What am I missing?
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> chdir is a familar function with predictable behaviour.
> $*CWD, as a variable that "magically" changes to something other than
> what it was set to, is unfamiliar and unpredictable.
>
> Now there's nothing wrong with introducing new, unfamiliar
> functionality, if it provides a discernible benefit, but that doesn't
> seem to be the case here.
>
> --
> Carlin
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