Re: r29768 - docs/Perl6/Spec

2010-02-19 Thread Damian Conway
>>> +    rhyme((1,2),3,:mice)   # rhyme has 2 arguments >> >> Should that say 3 arguments? I believe so. >> (If not, please can somebody clarify what >> the 2 arguments are.) > > (1,2) and 3.  Named arguments ("mice" in this case) are handled separately. That interpretation is not consistent wi

Re: Temporal seems a bit wibbly-wobbly

2010-02-19 Thread Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH
(re subject: does it go `Ding!' when there's Stuff?) On Feb 20, 2010, at 00:30 , Larry Wall wrote: but an astronomer? But no, many millions of computers have to accommodate to the convenience of a very few people. And most computers still don't know how to do even that accommodation, sinc

Re: Temporal seems a bit wibbly-wobbly

2010-02-19 Thread Larry Wall
2000 would have been a lovely epoch if only the astronomers had kept their grubby hands off of civil time. But no, we still have to put up with leap seconds in civil time, for no good reason that I can discern. We should adjust civil time once a century or so, I think. After all, civil time is of

r29787 - docs/Perl6/Spec

2010-02-19 Thread pugs-commits
Author: lwall Date: 2010-02-20 06:02:01 +0100 (Sat, 20 Feb 2010) New Revision: 29787 Modified: docs/Perl6/Spec/S03-operators.pod Log: [S03] upon further reflection, we can make eternaleye++'s conjecture work right. Modified: docs/Perl6/Spec/S03-operators.pod ==

r29786 - docs/Perl6/Spec

2010-02-19 Thread pugs-commits
Author: lwall Date: 2010-02-20 05:48:40 +0100 (Sat, 20 Feb 2010) New Revision: 29786 Modified: docs/Perl6/Spec/S03-operators.pod Log: [S03] delete bogus dup code spotted by eternaleye++ Modified: docs/Perl6/Spec/S03-operators.pod ===

r29784 - docs/Perl6/Spec

2010-02-19 Thread pugs-commits
Author: lwall Date: 2010-02-20 03:49:29 +0100 (Sat, 20 Feb 2010) New Revision: 29784 Modified: docs/Perl6/Spec/S03-operators.pod Log: [S03] document how an "impossible" limit can terminate a series Modified: docs/Perl6/Spec/S03-operators.pod ===

r29783 - docs/Perl6/Spec

2010-02-19 Thread pugs-commits
Author: vamped Date: 2010-02-20 00:33:02 +0100 (Sat, 20 Feb 2010) New Revision: 29783 Modified: docs/Perl6/Spec/S03-operators.pod Log: minor typo fix Modified: docs/Perl6/Spec/S03-operators.pod === --- docs/Perl6/Spec/S03-operator

r29782 - docs/Perl6/Spec

2010-02-19 Thread pugs-commits
Author: lwall Date: 2010-02-19 23:45:09 +0100 (Fri, 19 Feb 2010) New Revision: 29782 Modified: docs/Perl6/Spec/S02-bits.pod docs/Perl6/Spec/S09-data.pod Log: [S02,S09] default variables to Any, must declare Mu explicitly to hold junctions (this is to reduce pressure to duplicate == and such

Temporal seems a bit wibbly-wobbly

2010-02-19 Thread Mark J. Reed
S02 says that if pressed, an Instant will numify into a count of atomic seconds since "the TAI epoch" - but what is the TAI epoch? TAI is normally expressed in the same terms as civil time - year, month, date, hour, minute, second, fraction of second, according to the Gregorian calendar, or else a

Announcing Rakudo Perl 6 Development release #26 ("Amsterdam")

2010-02-19 Thread Martin Berends
On behalf of the Rakudo development team, I'm pleased to announce the February 2010 development release of Rakudo Perl #26 "Amsterdam". Rakudo is an implementation of Perl 6 on the Parrot Virtual Machine (see http://www.parrot.org). The tarball for the February 2010 release is available from http:

r29780 - docs/Perl6/Spec

2010-02-19 Thread pugs-commits
Author: duff Date: 2010-02-19 15:40:16 +0100 (Fri, 19 Feb 2010) New Revision: 29780 Modified: docs/Perl6/Spec/S03-operators.pod Log: [S03] minor typos Modified: docs/Perl6/Spec/S03-operators.pod === --- docs/Perl6/Spec/S03-operato

Re: r29778 - in docs/Perl6/Spec: . S32-setting-library

2010-02-19 Thread Smylers
pugs-comm...@feather.perl6.nl writes: > Author: lwall > New Revision: 29778 > Modified: docs/Perl6/Spec/S03-operators.pod > === > +Any means of specifying a function will do, as long as you arrange > +return it as a list value rather

Re: r29778 - in docs/Perl6/Spec: . S32-setting-library

2010-02-19 Thread Smylers
pugs-comm...@feather.perl6.nl writes: > Author: lwall > New Revision: 29778 > > Modified: docs/Perl6/Spec/S03-operators.pod > === > +As a list infix operator, C<...> takes a left on both its left and > +right and evaluates them as la

Re: r29768 - docs/Perl6/Spec

2010-02-19 Thread Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH
On Feb 17, 2010, at 17:18 , Smylers wrote: pugs-comm...@feather.perl6.nl writes: Author: lwall +++ docs/Perl6/Spec/S02-bits.pod2010-02-17 19:15:34 UTC (rev 29768) +rhyme((1,2),3,:mice) # rhyme has 2 arguments Should that say 3 arguments? (If not, please can somebody clarify w