Re: Proposal for a new Temporal time-measurement paradigm

2010-04-22 Thread Jon Lang
Why do I find myself thinking of roles and classes here? IMHO, we should have a role that represents abstractly a moment in time. This role should, in and of itself, not be tied to any particular calendar; its purpose is so that one can write functions that make reference to instances in time wit

Re: Proposal for a new Temporal time-measurement paradigm

2010-04-22 Thread Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH
Minor nit: On Apr 21, 2010, at 04:57 , Richard Hainsworth wrote: If a calendar system, eg., Chinese, Muslim and Jewish, defines days in the same way, eg., starting at midnight and incorporating leap seconds, for a time-zone, then the naming of the days is done by The Jewish, Muslim, and Bah

Re: Proposal for a new Temporal time-measurement paradigm

2010-04-22 Thread Dave Rolsky
On Wed, 21 Apr 2010, Mark J. Reed wrote: I recommend not to open this up for 6.0.0 core. Calendar conversion is easy to do in a module, and the Date class has an absolute day count, which is really all you need everything for an intermediate representation. It wouldn't be hard to port Calendr

Re: Rakudo Perl 6 development release #28 ("Moscow")

2010-04-22 Thread Andrew Shitov
Moscow.pm also reminds that today (22 Apr) is the birthday of Lenin :-) > March 2010 development release of Rakudo Perl #28 "Moscow". -- Andrew Shitov __ a...@shitov.ru | http://shitov.ru

Rakudo Perl 6 development release #28 ("Moscow")

2010-04-22 Thread Moritz Lenz
On behalf of the Rakudo development team, I'm pleased to announce the March 2010 development release of Rakudo Perl #28 "Moscow". Rakudo is an implementation of Perl 6 on the Parrot Virtual Machine (see http://www.parrot.org). The tarball for the April 2010 release is available from http://github