Re: Allowing '-' in identifiers: what's the motivation?

2008-08-19 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
* Peter Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-08-13 19:20]: > If we allow operator symbols in identifiers then the world > will divide into those people who look at Perl 6 programs > only through syntax-highlighting editors and don't know what > all the fuss is about naming a variable $e*trade since it i

Parrot 0.7.0 "Severe Macaw"

2008-08-19 Thread Bob Rogers
On behalf of the Parrot team, I'm proud to announce Parrot 0.7.0 "Severe Macaw." Parrot (http://parrotcode.org/) is a virtual machine aimed at running all dynamic languages. Parrot 0.7.0 is available via CPAN (soon), or follow the download instructions at http://parrotcode.org/source.html. For t

[svn:perl6-synopsis] r14575 - doc/trunk/design/syn

2008-08-19 Thread larry
Author: larry Date: Tue Aug 19 12:03:51 2008 New Revision: 14575 Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S02.pod Log: P5ism noted by moritz++ Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S02.pod == --- doc/trunk/design/syn/S02.pod(

Re: arrayref/hashref in spectest suite

2008-08-19 Thread Moritz Lenz
Patrick R. Michaud wrote: > There are quite a few tests in the spectest suite that > make mention of "arrayref" and "hashref", and that expect > things to work like references do in Perl 5. I'd like to > get some confirmation/clarification on them. > > Here's one example: > > my $foo = [ 42