Re: Moving the p5 standard library to p6

2005-03-25 Thread Larry Wall
On Sat, Mar 26, 2005 at 12:05:06PM +1100, Andrew Savige wrote: : I noticed the Pugs folks have started porting File::Spec and : other modules to Pugs, which leads me to ask this question. : I've also taken a look at Rod Adams S29. : : There a quite a few p5 standard libraries with crusty old user

Moving the p5 standard library to p6

2005-03-25 Thread Andrew Savige
I noticed the Pugs folks have started porting File::Spec and other modules to Pugs, which leads me to ask this question. I've also taken a look at Rod Adams S29. There a quite a few p5 standard libraries with crusty old user interfaces that many folks dislike. Two that people often seem to complai

Re: PPI and the Perl 5 to Perl 6 converter?

2005-03-25 Thread Larry Wall
On Fri, Mar 25, 2005 at 10:27:53PM +1100, Adam Kennedy wrote: : Also, I saw another mention recently (possibly on TPF request for : donations) about the Perl 5 to Perl 6 converter, and it being 40% : completed? ... Larry? Well, by one reckoning it's 0% done. At the moment I'm just working on a

PPI and the Perl 5 to Perl 6 converter?

2005-03-25 Thread Adam Kennedy
I thought I'd just drop in a quick note to people to let you know that PPI 0.903 was just release, which fixs the last significant performance bug. PPI is now completely leak-free and implicitly-DESTROY's correctly. Anyone who wanted to have a short at doing any kind of mass-processing of Perl