Re: Unexpected expansion of string with xx

My mnemonic is "x (one thing) is for scalars, xx (many things) is for lists". Using that, there's seldom any confusion. The reason Perl 6 makes the distinction is that (unlike Perl 5) it *has to*. Perl 5 does context-based dispatch, whereas Perl 6 does argument-based dispatch. We greatly prefer th

Re: memory leak I think.

On 12/19/2013 10:32 PM, Patrick R. Michaud wrote: On Thu, Dec 19, 2013 at 11:27:32AM +0800, Richard Hainsworth wrote: I've been running a perl6 program that runs through a loop, dumps intermediate results and starts again with new initialisation values. [...] Looking at system resources, the pro

[perl6/specs] 238757: mention that we force sink context on some loops

Branch: refs/heads/master Home: https://github.com/perl6/specs Commit: 2387578626a1648966c2c35375cd1f7dc94287bc https://github.com/perl6/specs/commit/2387578626a1648966c2c35375cd1f7dc94287bc Author: Larry Wall Date: 2013-12-19 (Thu, 19 Dec 2013) Changed paths: M S07-lis