Re: Language status

2009-12-10 Thread Moritz Lenz
Hi, On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 12:56:46AM -0700, Sean Hunt wrote: > I'm looking forward to Perl 6, and I'm looking into the spec right now, > since that to me is the important bit of a language (I know, I'm > bizarre). I see at http://feather.perl6.nl/syn/ that a lot of the > language spec is s

r29313 - in docs/Perl6/Spec: . S32-setting-library

2009-12-10 Thread pugs-commits
Author: lwall Date: 2009-12-11 00:37:21 +0100 (Fri, 11 Dec 2009) New Revision: 29313 Modified: docs/Perl6/Spec/S16-io.pod docs/Perl6/Spec/S32-setting-library/IO.pod Log: [IO] long promised destruction of p{} Modified: docs/Perl6/Spec/S16-io.pod =

Re: r29307 - docs/Perl6/Spec

2009-12-10 Thread Darren Duncan
pugs-comm...@feather.perl6.nl wrote: Author: jnthn Date: 2009-12-10 18:09:51 +0100 (Thu, 10 Dec 2009) New Revision: 29307 Modified: docs/Perl6/Spec/S14-roles-and-parametric-types.pod Log: [spec] Kill the same type = attribute composition OK rule; now it's just always a conflict. Modified: d

r29308 - docs/Perl6/Spec

2009-12-10 Thread pugs-commits
Author: pmichaud Date: 2009-12-10 19:36:02 +0100 (Thu, 10 Dec 2009) New Revision: 29308 Modified: docs/Perl6/Spec/S11-modules.pod Log: [S11]: 'import' is syntactic sugar for .EXPORTALL, not .import_alias . Modified: docs/Perl6/Spec/S11-modules.pod

Re: p6 Q: How do I metaprogram this?

2009-12-10 Thread Austin Hastings
This is a p6 question, not an NQP question - I'm citing the NQP only because it's my current example. So mentioning p6 features not currently in NQP is totally appropriate. What I mean by converting code into data is simply that a run-time version of metaprogramming will generally translate the

r29307 - docs/Perl6/Spec

2009-12-10 Thread pugs-commits
Author: jnthn Date: 2009-12-10 18:09:51 +0100 (Thu, 10 Dec 2009) New Revision: 29307 Modified: docs/Perl6/Spec/S14-roles-and-parametric-types.pod Log: [spec] Kill the same type = attribute composition OK rule; now it's just always a conflict. Modified: docs/Perl6/Spec/S14-roles-and-parametric

Re: Language status

2009-12-10 Thread yary
> I'm looking forward to Perl 6, and I'm looking into the spec right > now, since that to me is the important bit of a language (I know, > I'm bizarre). Not at all bizarre, P6 language spec development is the most important bit going on in the language right now. Well, that plus all the interestin

Language status

2009-12-10 Thread Sean Hunt
Hey, Perl 6 devs! I'm looking forward to Perl 6, and I'm looking into the spec right now, since that to me is the important bit of a language (I know, I'm bizarre). I see at http://feather.perl6.nl/syn/ that a lot of the language spec is still under development, and some bits still aren't wri