Re: routine arrow syntax and return/of types

2009-03-20 Thread Darren Duncan
Jon Lang wrote: And AFAIK the token --> is used in exactly one place in perl 6: within signature syntax, to mark the transition from the parameter signature to the "return type" signature. As with Darren, I don't see why this would be a big problem. The biggest stumbling block that I can think

Rakudo Perl development release #15 ("Oslo")

2009-03-20 Thread Patrick R. Michaud
On behalf of the Rakudo development team, I'm pleased to announce the March 2009 development release of Rakudo Perl #15 "Oslo". Rakudo is an implementation of Perl 6 on the Parrot Virtual Machine [1]. The tarball for the March 2009 release is available from http://www.pmichaud.com/perl6/rakudo

Re: r25891 - in docs/Perl6/Spec: . S32-setting-library

2009-03-20 Thread Jonathan Worthington
Daniel Ruoso wrote: Em Sex, 2009-03-20 às 14:08 +0100, Jonathan Worthington escreveu: It's probably a minor issue, but part of me wants Junction to be OK too for explaining stuff. Telling people the default parameter type is Any, to accept anything they can write Object and to accept just ju

Re: r25891 - in docs/Perl6/Spec: . S32-setting-library

2009-03-20 Thread Daniel Ruoso
Em Sex, 2009-03-20 às 14:08 +0100, Jonathan Worthington escreveu: > It's probably a minor issue, but part of me wants Junction to be OK too > for explaining stuff. Telling people the default parameter type is Any, > to accept anything they can write Object and to accept just junctions > you writ

Re: r25891 - in docs/Perl6/Spec: . S32-setting-library

2009-03-20 Thread Jonathan Worthington
Daniel Ruoso wrote: Em Qua, 2009-03-18 às 18:50 -0700, Larry Wall escreveu: On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 06:32:18PM -0700, Jon Lang wrote: : > +method !eigenstates (Junction $j: --> List) : : Shouldn't that be lowercase-j junction? Maybe, though there might be a Junction role involved for su

Re: r25891 - in docs/Perl6/Spec: . S32-setting-library

2009-03-20 Thread Daniel Ruoso
Em Qua, 2009-03-18 às 18:50 -0700, Larry Wall escreveu: > On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 06:32:18PM -0700, Jon Lang wrote: > : > +method !eigenstates (Junction $j: --> List) > : > : Shouldn't that be lowercase-j junction? > Maybe, though there might be a Junction role involved for subtype > matches l

Re: Dallas.p6m

2009-03-20 Thread Timothy S. Nelson
On Thu, 19 Mar 2009, Andy Lester wrote: I think it would be better to call it Dallas.pm and just talk about Perl 6 in the meeting announcements. The key is that we don't want people to think they must choose one or the other. Technologically, Perl 5 and Perl 6 are very different, but cultura

Re: Dallas.p6m

2009-03-20 Thread Andy Lester
On Mar 18, 2009, at 5:26 PM, fREW Schmidt wrote: s1n and I decided that we would start Dallas.p6m as we are close to each other geographically speaking. We are meeting tomorrow (Thursday, March 19, 7:00PM) at a coffee shop with free wifi. The address is 985 W Bethany Dr Allen, TX 75013.