Re: Natural Language and Perl 6

2010-08-02 Thread Aaron Sherman
On Sun, Aug 1, 2010 at 6:46 AM, Timothy S. Nelson wrote: >Hi. I'm wondering if any thought has been given to natural language > processing with Perl 6 grammars. > > Yes. ;) -- Aaron Sherman Email or GTalk: a...@ajs.com http://www.ajs.com/~ajs

Re: Natural Language and Perl 6

2010-08-02 Thread yary
This is getting more and more off topic, but if you want some lojban pasers, start at http://www.lojban.org/tiki/tiki-index.php?page=Dictionaries,+Glossers+and+parsers -y On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 3:58 PM, Carl Mäsak wrote: > Jason (>): >> No specific tool is best suited for natural language pro

Re: Breaking encapsulation by detaching a private-variable-accessing method from one object and calling it on another

2010-08-02 Thread Carl Mäsak
Carl (>>), Moritz (>): >> * If it isn't allowed, which of the two steps is disallowed? >> *Detaching* a method containing references to private accessor slots >> (thereby extending the syntactic restriction of "no private accessors >> outside of the class block"), or *attaching* an anonymous method

Re: Natural Language and Perl 6

2010-08-02 Thread Carl Mäsak
Jason (>): > No specific tool is best suited for natural language processing. There was > apparently a time in which everyone thought that a formal grammar could > clearly define any natural language, but I don't think anyone succeeded at > creating a complete formal grammar for any language other

Re: S26 broken link

2010-08-02 Thread Jon Lang
Moritz Lenz wrote: > Offer Kaye wrote: >> The link to the S26 Synopsis on http://perlcabal.org/syn/ points to >> http://perlcabal.org/syn/S26.html which is a broken link - would it be >> possible to fix this? > > I't not that easy, because we currently don't have tool to turn p6doc > into HTML. I c

Re: Smart match isn't on Bool

2010-08-02 Thread TSa (Thomas Sandlaß)
HaloO, On Monday, 2. August 2010 20:02:40 Mark J. Reed wrote: > On Sun, Aug 1, 2010 at 6:02 PM, Jonathan Worthington wrote: > > No, given-when is smart-matching. The RHS of a smart-match decides what > > happens. If you do True ~~ 1 then that's 1.ACCEPTS(True) which is going > > to do +True and

Re: Smart match isn't on Bool

2010-08-02 Thread Aaron Sherman
On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 2:02 PM, Mark J. Reed wrote: > On Sun, Aug 1, 2010 at 6:02 PM, Jonathan Worthington > wrote: >> No, given-when is smart-matching. The RHS of a smart-match decides what >> happens. If you do True ~~ 1 then that's 1.ACCEPTS(True) which is going to >> do +True and thus match.

Re: Smart match isn't on Bool

2010-08-02 Thread Mark J. Reed
On Sun, Aug 1, 2010 at 6:02 PM, Jonathan Worthington wrote: > No, given-when is smart-matching. The RHS of a smart-match decides what > happens. If you do True ~~ 1 then that's 1.ACCEPTS(True) which is going to > do +True and thus match. OK, but what about 0 ~~ True? That's what started this thr

Re: Perl 6 User Documentation

2010-08-02 Thread Moritz Lenz
Hi, Offer Kaye wrote: > Following the release of Rakudo Star I've been playing around with > learning Perl 6 and noticed a distinct lack of user-facing > documentation. After some IRC chats with pmichaud++ I thought it would > be a good idea if I got the ball rolling, assuming of course it > doesn

Re: S26 broken link

2010-08-02 Thread Moritz Lenz
Hi, Offer Kaye wrote: > The link to the S26 Synopsys on http://perlcabal.org/syn/ points to > http://perlcabal.org/syn/S26.html which is a broken link - would it be > possible to fix this? I't not that easy, because we currently don't have tool to turn p6doc into HTML. I can remove the link for n

Re: Breaking encapsulation by detaching a private-variable-accessing method from one object and calling it on another

2010-08-02 Thread Moritz Lenz
Carl Mäsak wrote: > * It is my feeling that such encapsulation-breakage shouldn't be > allowed. Do you agree, p6l? Time may proof me wrong, but I think it's not such a big issue. Note that encapsulation can be broken in many ways already, wither with MONKEY_TYPING or by using introspection techni