Re: Rakudo Star - a useful, usable, "early adopter" distribution of Perl 6

2010-07-29 Thread Gabor Szabo
Congratulations and thank you! I have started to collect the links to the press coverage of the release: http://www.perlfoundation.org/perl6/index.cgi?rakudo_star_press Please help me collect all the important links! Gabor

Re: Perl 6 in non-English languages

2010-07-03 Thread Gabor Szabo
On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 1:34 AM, SundaraRaman R wrote: > Hi, > > This is an idea that originated in #perl6 during a discussion with slavik ( > http://irclog.perlgeek.de/perl6/2010-01-17#i_1907093). The goal is to allow > Perl 6 source code to be written in natural languages other than English. > T

Re: Rukudo-Star => Rakudo-lite?

2009-08-10 Thread Gabor Szabo
On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 2:02 AM, Patrick R. Michaud wrote: > On Sun, Aug 09, 2009 at 04:35:42PM -0600, David Green wrote: >> On 2009-Aug-9, at 3:57 pm, Tim Bunce wrote: >>> Perhaps it's worth asking what we might call the release after that >>> one. >>> "Rakudo not-quite-so-lite"? >> >> Rakudo ** (

Re: [Padre-dev] Padre Perl6 Outline view

2009-04-27 Thread Gabor Szabo
On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 12:14 AM, Ahmad Zawawi wrote: > Hi people, > > I just finished Perl6 Outline view which i promised Gabor 3 or 4 > months ago :) So you can now see Perl 6 > packages/modules/grammars/roles in parent nodes and under them you can > see methods/submethods/subroutines/rules/toke

Re: Oslo Perl 6 Hackathon Notes

2009-04-13 Thread Gabor Szabo
Hi, On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 11:56 PM, Patrick R. Michaud wrote: > As some of you are aware, this week is the Nordic Perl Workshop [1], > and in the days immediately following the workshop we will have > the Oslo Perl 6 Hackathon [2].  During the first day of the hackathon > Gabor S

Perl 6 pod processor in Perl 5

2009-02-11 Thread Gabor Szabo
As an experiment to check how we could reuse CPAN to distribute Perl 6 packages I uploaded Perl6::Conf The code itself is not interesting, my main interest is the "distribution". One of the issues I encountered is the display on the two search engines: http://search.cpan.org/dist/Perl6-Conf/ http

Padre 0.22, Padre::Plugin::Parrot and Padre::Plugin::Perl6 released!

2008-12-24 Thread Gabor Szabo
Hi, as this is relevant to you as well, let me send this announcement here too. Yesterday we have released v0.22 of Padre the Perl IDE written in Perl 5. http://padre.perlide.org/ There are many changes as usual but the two important ones for the Parrot/Perl 6 developers are related mostly to tw

Re: Perl 6 fundraising and related topics.

2008-02-23 Thread Gabor Szabo
00 USD once a year. How hard would it be to enable (Paypal?) recurring monthly payments to TPF? How hard would it be to allow people to target their money to a specific project/person? TPF can then still focus on raising money from corporations. Gabor -- Gabor Szabo http://www.szabgab.com/

Re: Multiline comments in Perl6

2008-01-03 Thread Gabor Szabo
On Jan 3, 2008 6:36 PM, Larry Wall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Jan 02, 2008 at 11:28:54AM -0800, Jonathan Lang wrote: > : Paul Hodges wrote: > : > http://perl6.org/doc/design/syn/S02.html still says: > : > "Intra-line comments will not be supported in standard Perl" > Note that the docum

Re: Official Perl 6 and Parrot wikis

2007-12-29 Thread Gabor Szabo
On Dec 29, 2007 4:56 PM, Mark J. Reed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > .cgi? Is that really a CGI-based implementation? Because that seems > a little, I don't know, backward-looking. Maybe it's just me, but it > seems like it will just feed the all-too-common perception that Perl > is for CGI script

Re: Is Perl 6 too late?

2007-05-14 Thread Gabor Szabo
On 5/14/07, John Macdonald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Removing the sigil on a function call (it used to always be written &sub(args...)) did, I think, lead to the difficulty in perl5 where it became difficult to add new keyword operators to the language - because they could conflict with subrout

Re: What criteria mark the closure of perl6 specification

2007-02-27 Thread Gabor Szabo
On 2/26/07, Geoffrey Broadwell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hmmm. Let's see if there is a way I can help to get what I want Assuming that the answer to my question in the other thread is "packed arrays aren't implemented anywhere yet", are any implementations close enough that I can trade te

Re: UNIX commands: chmod

2006-03-26 Thread Gabor Szabo
On 3/26/06, Mark Overmeer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > LIST = chmod MODE, LIST > > My feeling is that this function design is a bit of a mistake. Usually, > one perl function maps on one operating-system function, but in this case > it doesn't: it simulated the common chmod(1) user command. [..

Re: UNIX commands: chmod

2006-03-25 Thread Gabor Szabo
On 3/25/06, Nicholas Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Mar 25, 2006 at 12:58:30PM +0200, Gabor Szabo wrote: > > 4) "filename".chmod(MODE) should also work and I guess > > .chmod(MODE) should also work on those 3 files > > That seems to be implyi

UNIX commands: chmod

2006-03-25 Thread Gabor Szabo
Hmm, I don't really know how to do this but Gaal told me to write up some proposal here. So we had chmod in Perl5, I would like to make sure it works in Perl6 as well with slight modifications. LIST = chmod MODE, LIST 1) In list context it would return the names of the files successfully ch