Re: Perl 6 fundraising and related topics.

2008-02-21 Thread Joshua Gatcomb
fic purposes of this thread, going the TPF route may not be the most efficient way to accomplish that goal. Cheers, Joshua Gatcomb a.k.a. Limbic~Region

Re: Perl 6 fundraising and related topics.

2008-02-21 Thread Joshua Gatcomb
On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 4:23 PM, chromatic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thursday 21 February 2008 06:25:42 Joshua Gatcomb wrote: > > > I could take a month's sabbatical from my day job for $5000 without losing > insurance coverage or other benefits. That's sli

Re: Perl 6 fundraising and related topics.

2008-02-21 Thread Joshua Gatcomb
elp. I don't get the tax write off but I know where my money is going. In closing, what we don't need is something to fight over. Hopefully you will find the sweet spot - I sure hope you do. Cheers, Joshua Gatcomb a.k.a. Limbic~Region

Re: Using Rules Today

2006-07-05 Thread Joshua Gatcomb
uated as it is parsed while some require additional homegrown code to parse the resulting parse tree (data structure). I have not had a chance to look at Flavio's links yet. Since no one who actually knows rules seemed to be inspired to write an example for me - I will *eventually* figure it out on my own and post back to the list as an FYI. Paul Seamons Cheers, Joshua Gatcomb a.k.a. Limbic~Region

Using Rules Today

2006-07-03 Thread Joshua Gatcomb
run in Perl 5 today without needing Pugs or Parrot. Cheers, Joshua Gatcomb a.k.a. Limbic~Region

Re: Do junctions support determining interesections of lists

2006-04-04 Thread Joshua Gatcomb
On 4/4/06, Larry Wall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 04, 2006 at 09:16:23AM -0400, Joshua Gatcomb wrote: > Junctions are not intended for that use. We have Sets for that now. Ok. So this will work out of the box if you use the right tool. Cool. The cabal alrea

Do junctions support determining interesections of lists

2006-04-04 Thread Joshua Gatcomb
, etc without creating your own infix operator? Cheers, Joshua Gatcomb a.k.a. Limbic~Region

Ponie Inquiry

2005-11-21 Thread Joshua Gatcomb
repository to the public http://use.perl.org/~nicholas/journal/24649 but is anyone else working on the project? With the excitement of Perl6, Parrot, and Pugs I wonder if Ponie is being neglected. Inquiring minds want to know. Cheers, Joshua Gatcomb a.k.a. Limbic~Region

Re: Perl 6 fears

2005-10-25 Thread Joshua Gatcomb
l experience they are prevalent. -- > H.Merijn Brand Amsterdam Perl Mongers (http://amsterdam.pm.org/) > Cheers, Joshua Gatcomb a.k.a. Limbic~Region

Re: Perl 6 fears

2005-10-24 Thread Joshua Gatcomb
On 10/24/05, Joshua Gatcomb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 10/24/05, Juerd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > >Feel free to add your own, or fears you heard about! > > This really isn't a fear as much as it is a complaint. It has to do with

Re: Perl 6 fears

2005-10-24 Thread Joshua Gatcomb
of date. We don't have a single source where people can go for relatively "up to the minute" facts concerning the project. Juerd Cheers, Joshua Gatcomb a.k.a. Limbic~Region

Re: zip: stop when and where?

2005-10-04 Thread Joshua Gatcomb
al parameter that would specify behavior -min (zip to the smallest list) -undef (insert undefs as needed) -error (blow up if the lists are not equal in size) etc Juerd > Just my 2 cents from the peanut gallery. Cheers, Joshua Gatcomb a.k.a. L~R

Re: Sort of "do it once" feature request...

2005-09-21 Thread Joshua Gatcomb
this in long tight running loops and found that the ways to achieve it (as shown above) are worse then leaving the op in. Michele > Cheers, Joshua Gatcomb a.k.a. Limbic~Region

Re: scalar dereferencing.

2005-06-17 Thread Joshua Gatcomb
On 6/17/05, Larry Wall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Jun 17, 2005 at 03:56:50AM +0800, Autrijus Tang wrote: > : > : my $x = 3; > : my $y = \$x; > : say $y + 10; > : $y++; > : say $y; > : say $x; > : > I suspect people will find that counterintuitive. A more consiste

Re: State of Design Documents

2005-06-14 Thread Joshua Gatcomb
which is determined by previous read In p5, you need to keep track of your offset and skip that number of bytes each time. It would be nice if p6 could somehow make that easier. Again, my focus is on the design docs and not on pack/unpack. I just used it as a discussion point since it is what I was working on at the time. Joshua Gatcomb a.k.a. L~R

Re: State of Design Documents

2005-06-14 Thread Joshua Gatcomb
lue i.e. $string.packed, comment about the 'packed' warnings/strictures pragma, and stick it the "right" place. The patch to S09 has me stumped. Is there any other reference material I can use to put together solid frameworks that are closely representative to what @larry might produce? > Pm > Cheers, Joshua Gatcomb a.k.a. L~R

Re: State of Design Documents

2005-06-10 Thread Joshua Gatcomb
On 6/10/05, Joshua Gatcomb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hmmm. Thanks. I guess I will have to go back over the questions I > have asked and see if any decisions were rendered not relfected in > docs and be a pioneer. Ok, are there any guidelines for what should and should not be

Re: State of Design Documents

2005-06-10 Thread Joshua Gatcomb
that patches had been requested with a volunteer to act as the approving authority. Hmmm. Thanks. I guess I will have to go back over the questions I have asked and see if any decisions were rendered not relfected in docs and be a pioneer. > > Pm > Cheers, Joshua Gatcomb a.k.a. L~R

State of Design Documents

2005-06-10 Thread Joshua Gatcomb
ite access to be limited to @larry initially. The community posts patches where the bulk of the work is done and @larry makes any necessary modifications and commits. If even that work load proves to be too much, perhaps common mortals get granted commit access on a case-by-case basis. Cheers, Joshua Gatcomb a.k.a. Gat (240) 568-5675

Revisiting .chars (and friends) in list context

2005-06-02 Thread Joshua Gatcomb
t know anything about unicode and leaving the hard choices for doing the "right thing" up to you all. Whatever the "right thing" is, will there be a way to do what my code snippet showed? Cheers, Joshua Gatcomb a.k.a. L~R

Argument Type Checking

2005-05-19 Thread Joshua Gatcomb
utoconvert but forget it ever happened, and 1 would be an outright failure. Ok - so could someone set me straight? What should that code snippet do? Would it do anything different if Int had been int? Cheers, Joshua Gatcomb a.k.a. L~R

Question on "is chomped"

2005-05-12 Thread Joshua Gatcomb
dea of having mutator and non-mutator versions of chomp (and other functions) have been kicked around the list. Any definitive word yet? Cheers, Joshua Gatcomb a.k.a. L~R

Binding to a sub's return value

2005-05-10 Thread Joshua Gatcomb
value can change. sub some_rourtine { state $foo = 42; return $foo++; } My apologies if this has been previously discussed or is documented somewhere. I am still playing catch up. Ok, ok - it's true - I am looking for a little instant gratification. Cheers, Joshua Gatcomb a.k.a. L~R

Re: Coroutine Question

2005-05-04 Thread Joshua Gatcomb
On 5/4/05, Luke Palmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 5/4/05, Joshua Gatcomb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Ok - this isn't what I was expecting at all. That doesn't make it a > > bad thing. Given something that looks a lot more like a typical > >

Re: Coroutine Question

2005-05-04 Thread Joshua Gatcomb
On 5/4/05, Luke Palmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 5/4/05, Joshua Gatcomb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > So without asking for S17 in its entirety to be written, is it > > possible to get a synopsis of how p6 will do coroutines? I ask > > because after re

Coroutine Question

2005-05-04 Thread Joshua Gatcomb
a coroutine", it is clear there is more than one way to dictate behavior. http://www.sidhe.org/~dan/blog/archives/000178.html Cheers, Joshua Gatcomb a.k.a. L~R

Re: Malfunction Junction, what's your function?

2005-04-28 Thread Joshua Gatcomb
from where I am sitting - you all are the ones that have done the hard work. Having answered the questions enough times in p5 circles though, it would be nice to have a real simple easy answer for p6. Cheers, Joshua Gatcomb a.k.a. L~R

Malfunction Junction, what's your function?

2005-04-27 Thread Joshua Gatcomb
to find out what, if anything, is the proper way to do what I want. The worst that could happen is that I find out there isn't a way to get a what matched from an any() eq any() comparison. Cheers, Joshua Gatcomb a.k.a. L~R

Formal Parameters To While Block

2005-04-26 Thread Joshua Gatcomb
> @array { ... } is what I think it might be modeling it after the for loop, but the closest thing I see for while is: while =$*IN -> $line {...} I am happy to write tests to get the appropriate functionality in Pugs, but I am not sure what is appropriate??? Cheers, Joshua Gatc

Formal Parameters To While Block

2005-04-26 Thread Joshua Gatcomb
> @array { ... } is what I think it might be modeling it after the for loop, but the closest thing I see in while is: while =$*IN -> $line {...} I am happy to write tests to get the appropriate functionality in Pugs, but I am not sure what is appropriate??? Cheers, Joshua Gatcomb a.k.a. L~R

Re: Perl 6 Summary for 2004-10-01 through 2004-10-17

2004-10-19 Thread Joshua Gatcomb
--- Matt Fowles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Joshua Gatcomb accidentally introduced a dependency > on > Config::IniFiles. Since it is implemented in pure > perl he offered to > add it to the repository. Warnock applies. > > http://xrl.us/div3 In the note offeri