[svn:perl6-synopsis] r14480 - doc/trunk/design/syn

2008-01-03 Thread larry
Author: larry Date: Thu Jan 3 19:42:19 2008 New Revision: 14480 Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S09.pod Log: Typo from Smylers++ More clarification of assignment semantics in terms of underlying binding Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S09.pod ==

Re: Sequential bias in S04 (and Perl6 in general)

2008-01-03 Thread Joe Gottman
Dave Whipp wrote: I was reading Synopsis 4 with regards to multi core programming. It seems to be infused with a bias towards non-parallel models of computation. Concurrently appears to be an add-on feature -- whereas we should have a mindset that explicit sequential constraints are the add-on

Re: [svn:perl6-synopsis] r14479 - doc/trunk/design/syn

2008-01-03 Thread Smylers
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Modified: >doc/trunk/design/syn/S09.pod > > Log: > Clarification of autovivification semantics in terms of protoobjects > > -my $obj = [EMAIL PROTECTED]; # $obj is a Capture object - see S02 > +my $cap = [EMAIL PROTECTED]; # $obj is a Capture object - see

Re: Multiline comments in Perl6

2008-01-03 Thread Larry Wall
On Thu, Jan 03, 2008 at 08:55:24PM +0200, Gabor Szabo wrote: : On Jan 3, 2008 6:36 PM, Larry Wall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: : > On Wed, Jan 02, 2008 at 11:28:54AM -0800, Jonathan Lang wrote: : > : Paul Hodges wrote: : > : > http://perl6.org/doc/design/syn/S02.html still says: : > : > "Intra-line

[svn:perl6-synopsis] r14479 - doc/trunk/design/syn

2008-01-03 Thread larry
Author: larry Date: Thu Jan 3 16:15:39 2008 New Revision: 14479 Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S09.pod Log: Clarification of autovivification semantics in terms of protoobjects Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S09.pod ===

Re: Multiline comments in Perl6

2008-01-03 Thread Paul Hodges
--- Jonathan Lang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Paul Hodges wrote: > > http://perl6.org/doc/design/syn/S02.html still says: > > "Intra-line comments will not be supported in standard Perl" > > This is wrong, since S02 also defines intra-line comments, under > "Whitespace and Comments". It calls

Re: $obj.can("bark"); # or can it?

2008-01-03 Thread Gianni Ceccarelli
On 2008-01-03 Ovid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Perl 5 couldn't really solve this and programmers just had to "know" > that all methods were implicitly variadic. I seem to recall that > Larry had an idea about how to specify a signature (I could be > misremembering and I can't find the response).

operator minmax

2008-01-03 Thread herbert breunung
just a small question, what speak against this construct: $min, $max = @a.minmax;

Re: Multiline comments in Perl6

2008-01-03 Thread Gabor Szabo
On Jan 3, 2008 6:36 PM, Larry Wall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Jan 02, 2008 at 11:28:54AM -0800, Jonathan Lang wrote: > : Paul Hodges wrote: > : > http://perl6.org/doc/design/syn/S02.html still says: > : > "Intra-line comments will not be supported in standard Perl" > Note that the docum

$obj.can("bark"); # or can it?

2008-01-03 Thread Ovid
I don't know if this was considered a non-issue when I last raised it, but in this synopsis: http://dev.perl.org/perl6/doc/design/syn/S12.html I see that the behavior of .can() metamethod hasn't been updated. My concern is that someone calls $object.can('bark') and they expect to pass an integ

Re: Sequential bias in S04 (and Perl6 in general)

2008-01-03 Thread Dave Whipp
Moritz Lenz wrote: You can achieve that with the "hyper" list-op (see S02). Also note that an optimizer is free to automatically add the "hyper" list op if it can prove that the executed block has no side effects. Yes, there are some places where things are better than others, which is why I

Re: Multiline comments in Perl6

2008-01-03 Thread Larry Wall
On Wed, Jan 02, 2008 at 11:28:54AM -0800, Jonathan Lang wrote: : Paul Hodges wrote: : > http://perl6.org/doc/design/syn/S02.html still says: : > "Intra-line comments will not be supported in standard Perl" : : This is wrong, since S02 also defines intra-line comments, under : "Whitespace and Comm

Re: Sequential bias in S04 (and Perl6 in general)

2008-01-03 Thread Darren Duncan
At 5:22 PM -0800 1/2/08, Dave Whipp wrote: I was reading Synopsis 4 with regards to multi core programming. It seems to be infused with a bias towards non-parallel models of computation. Concurrently appears to be an add-on feature -- whereas we should have a mindset that explicit sequential co

Re: Sequential bias in S04 (and Perl6 in general)

2008-01-03 Thread Moritz Lenz
Dave Whipp wrote: > I was reading Synopsis 4 with regards to multi core programming. It > seems to be infused with a bias towards non-parallel models of > computation. Concurrently appears to be an add-on feature -- whereas we > should have a mindset that explicit sequential constraints are the