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Thank you Fernando!
(still on Rakudo 2020.10 here).
On Wed, May 5, 2021 at 10:24 AM Fernando Santagata <
nando.santag...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, May 5, 2021 at 6:00 PM William Michels via perl6-users <
> perl6-us...@perl.org> wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
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>
> Month.^enum_values
{apr => 4, aug => 8, dec => 12, feb => 2, jan => 1, jul => 7, jun => 6, mar
=> 3, may => 5, nov => 11, oct => 10, sep => 9}
> Month.^enum_value_list
(jan feb mar apr may jun jul aug sep oct nov dec)
>
> Month.^enum_keys
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Author: Stefan Seifert
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Migrating this question over from perl6-users :
Can someone explain why in the second and third REPL code lines below,
line 2 returns a List while line 3 returns a Seq? And is there a
general rule to remember which code returns which data structure?
1> my %hash-with-arrays = a => [1
Hello Mark,
I was thinking about submitting a talk on the P6 Object System, but I could
also change it to Grammars (or do both).
Cheers,
Laurent.
Le mar. 21 mai 2019 à 10:30, Marc Chantreux a écrit :
> hello perl6 people,
>
> we hope there will be some events around the French Per
it's not so difficult, really. you just gotta know the trick:
- cd into the repository you want, then run "git am".
- Use your mail client's "view source" function (ctrl-u in thunderbird
for example).
- copy the complete mail source including headers
- paste it into the terminal that's running git
Hello,
I have a wish for Perl 6. I would like if the open-funktion
opens only a file if it doesn't exist.
Of course, I can first test if the file exist.
if (-e $filename)
{ print "file already exists!"; }
else
{ open (FH, ">$filename") }
My suggestion is to have a character for t
Hello,
I have a wish for Perl6. I think it would be nice to have the possibility
for more than one modifier after a simple statement.
For example:
print $a+$b if $a if $b for 1..3;
Gerd Pokorra
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=head1 TITLE
Elements of @_ should be read-only by default
=head1 VERSION
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Date: 28 Sep 2000
Last Modified: 1 Oct 2000
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Number: 344
Ve
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=head1 TITLE
Common attribute system to allow user-defined, extensible attributes
=head1 VERSION
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Date: 28 Sep 2000
Last Modified: 1 Oct 2000
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=head1 TITLE
Heredoc contents
=head1 VERSION
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Version: 2
Status: Froze
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Immediate subroutines
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Version: 2
Status: Frozen
=head1 ABSTRA
e program. Can also be used for Perl poetry.
>
>=head1 CHANGES
My "vomment" -
There are easy enough ways to accomplish your apparent desires
that do not require more changes to this already tortured language.
Please use them.
This is just the sort of madness t
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=head1 TITLE
Better english names for -X
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Number: 290
Version: 3
Statu
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=head1 TITLE
Improve Perl Persistance
=head1 VERSION
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Number: 287
Version: 2
Status:
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=head1 TITLE
Keep dump capability.
=head1 VERSION
Maintainer: S. A. Janet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 30 Sep 2000
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Number: 358
Version: 1
Status: Developing
=head1 ABSTRACT
To
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=head1 TITLE
Simplifying split()
=head1 VERSION
Maintainer: Sean M. Burke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 30 Sep 2000
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Number: 361
Version: 1
Status: Developing
=head1 ABSTRACT
Per
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=head1 TITLE
Perl should use XML for documentation instead of POD
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Number: 357
Version: 1
Status: D
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Dominant Value Expressions
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Number: 356
Version: 2
St
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Enhanced Pack/Unpack
=head1 VERSION
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Status: Fr
desire to say:
$y = $x(0:$n-1,4); # or, depending on the choice of separator
$y = $x(0:$n-1;4); # see also RFC 169
Note that we need to keep l-value subs in perl6 to avoid related
types of syntactical clumsiness if C<$x()> can invoke a subroutine
(see below).
$x(0:$n-1:4) *= 2;
should
e from
B perl users [who do you expect as the majority on perl6 lists?
:-)]. The change would penalise existing perl users, but benefit new perl
users (and presumably people teaching perl).
However, I'm wrong on that. Hildo Biersma states
Now, I have been teaching perl for a number o
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=head1 TITLE
Method calls SHOULD suffer from ambiguity by default
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Number
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Dominant Value Expressions
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Version: 1
Status: Developing
=head1 ABST
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=head1 TITLE
Leave $[ alone.
=head1 VERSION
Maintainer: Fred Heutte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 29 September 2000
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Number: 355
Version: 1
Status: Developing
=head1 ABSTRACT
The
x27; || (c) == '\t' || (c) == '\n' || (c) =='\r' || (c) == '\f' \
+|| (c) == '\v')
+#define isPSXSPC(c)isSPACE(c)
#define isBLANK(c) ((c) == ' ' || (c) == '\t')
#define isDIGIT(c) ((c) >= '0&#
]{2,})> and replace it with C<- $1>, since injecting a
single space will break up the token. See the below links for more
details on the discussions of this.
=head1 REFERENCES
http://www.mail-archive.com/perl6-language%40perl.org/msg04649.html
http://www.mail-archive.com/perl6-language%40perl.org/msg04658.html
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Extensions to the perl debugger
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Version: 2
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my() syntax extensions and attribute declarations
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Number: 2
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=head1 TITLE
Additions to 'use strict' to fix syntactic ambiguities
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Subroutines : Pre- and post- handlers for subroutines
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Numb
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Provide a standard module to simplify the creation of source filters
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Builtins : Make use of hashref context for garrulous builtins
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every other character). There's more than just '' to make a string.
Although consensus so far is against the change, views were from B
perl users [who do you expect as the majority on perl6 lists? :-)]. The
change would penalise existing perl users, but benefit new perl users (and
== ' ' || (c) == '\t' || (c) == '\n' || (c) =='\r' || (c) == '\f' \
+|| (c) == '\v')
+#define isPSXSPC(c)isSPACE(c)
#define isBLANK(c) ((c) == ' ' || (c) == '\t')
#define isDIGIT(c) ((c) >= '
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with takes a context
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=head1 ABSTRACT
"cal
e possible by directly accessing the immediate symbol
table of the calling context.
=item caller->eval and the hastily destructing return
Also, if we adopt
http://www.mail-archive.com/perl6-internals@perl.org/msg01442.html>
a hastily destructing C
(or even if we don't, but easier if
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=head1 TITLE
Add C and C funtions to core distribution
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=head1 TITLE
C
=head1 VERSION
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=head1 ABSTRACT
A pragma to modify the
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Method calls SHOULD suffer from ambiguity by default
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Number
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Allow grouping of -X file tests and add C builtin
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320
Status: Developing
=
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Subroutines : Pre- and post- handlers for subroutines
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Numb
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Provide a standard module to simplify the creation of source filters
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Builtins : Make use of hashref context for garrulous builtins
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ion: 3
Status: Retracted
=head1 NOTE ON RETRACTION
The thread:
http://www.mail-archive.com/perl6-language@perl.org/index.html#04190
points out some serious problems that the proposal did
not address. As I do not have time to find/invent good solutions, I
am forced to withdraw the pr
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Objects: C pragma
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=head1 TITLE
Compilation: Remove requirement for final true value in require-d and do-ed files
=head1 VERSION
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Date: 7 Aug 2000
Last Modified: 25 Sep 2000
Mailing Lis
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=head1 TITLE
Remove -X
=head1 VERSION
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Status: Developing
=head1 ABSTRACT
File tests (-r/
storm #0026
Make CGI programming easier. Make as first class as
@ARGV and %ENV for CLI progging.
Perl6 should be *easier* to write CGI programs than Perl5. One way to
accomplish this is to add a C<-cgi> option to Perl, so that all of the
mechanical setup is done automatically.
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Improve Perl Persistance
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=head1 ABSTRACT
to exist. That is, the I/O internals for Perl6 would
be necessarily smarter than general subs, but only because they need to be.
=head1 REFERENCES
RFC 22: Control flow: Builtin switch statement
RFC 123: Builtin: lazy
perl6storm
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=head1 TITLE
Change C<$SIG{__WARN__}> and C<$SIG{__DIE__}> to magic subs
=head1 VERSION
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S
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=head1 TITLE
C in array context should return a histogram
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=head1 TITLE
Open-ended slices
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=head1 ABSTRACT
The dr
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=head1 TITLE
Tweak POD's CEE
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=head1 ABSTRACT
CEE is
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Additions to 'use strict' to fix syntactic ambiguities
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Version: 1
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=head1 TITLE
Eliminate unquoted barewords from Perl entirely
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Status: Devel
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=head1 TITLE
Perl should not abort when a required file yields a false value
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=head1 TITLE
crypt() default salt
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Add 'tristate' pragma to allow undef to take on NULL semantics
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Versio
is was basically universally acknowledged as the Wrong Way to
implement the idea. For more details, see the mail thread starting here:
http://www.mail-archive.com/perl6-language%40perl.org/msg04272.html
The alternative approach of a C pragma was determined to
be much more suitable and Perlish.
ithout causing
potentially really hairy problems with precedence. In particular check
out:
http://www.mail-archive.com/perl6-language%40perl.org/msg04058.html
Which is actually a reply to Schwern's post, but that appears to be
gone from the mail archives forever...
=head1 DESCRIPTION
In a pe
set of
commands interactively. The Perl6 parser (and possibly the language)
should contain hooks to allow full interactive environments to be
written.
=head1 DESCRIPTION
Perl does not have an interactive mode. It has C, but
that is not the same. An interactive mode is useful not only for a
de
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Subroutines : Pre- and post- handlers for subroutines
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% of the current functionality of
XS. Although it does not need to be built over XS, doing so makes
C more robust, helps towards backwards compatability, and
provides an easy "out" if a project grows to exceed C
capabilities.
In perl6, something like XS should still exist, but just as a fou
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Perl should not abort when a required file yields a false value
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St
getpwnam
getpwuid
getservbyname
getservbyport
getservent
gmtime
localtime
stat
Some changes to this list may be necessitated by other changes to Perl6.
=head4 Standardized keys
The standardized keys for these functions would be:
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=head1 TITLE
crypt() default salt
=head1 VERSION
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Version: 3
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=head1 TITLE
Make constants look like variables
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Version: 3
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Eliminate dump() function
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=head1 ABSTRACT
Get
=head1 ABSTRACT
References will be allowed as hash keys. Blessed references can
additionally provide their own hash functions and equality tests.
=head1 NOTE
This RFC is probably premature. It needs a lot of firming up, and I
wonder if it would be better targeted to the perl6-language-internals
group.
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=head1 TITLE
Replace C built-in with C function
=head1 VERSION
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Number: 230
Version:
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=head1 TITLE
Builtins : Make use of hashref context for garrulous builtins
=head1 VERSION
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Date: 19 Sep 2000
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on 3
Added CHANGES.
=head2 Version 3, 20 September
Frozen after some discussions on the mailing list. People seem to like
the idea, but worry about the prototypes. Other RFC will deal with that.
=head2 Version 2, 28 Aug 2000
Add Status indicator.
=head1 REFERENCES
RFC 26: Named operators versus functions
Tom Christiansen in <12231.967154045@chthon> (perl6-internals, Aug 24, 2000).
-o > command line switch identical
to that used in C compilers to produce a linkable object file.
=head1 DESCRIPTION
Two command line switches, -o and -oh, are added to perl6's invocation syntax.
Perl invoked with the -o switch does not run its program, but rather
pukes out an "obj
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=head1 TITLE
Builtin: reduce
=head1 VERSION
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-def chains).
v3: Added example and attempted to improve the explanation.
=head1 DESCRIPTION
Perl6 should distinguish between uses and assignments to variables,
and warn only when a variable is used without being assigned, or
assigned to without being used. In perl5 the complete program
$x
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Builtin: reduce
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Date: 10 August 2000
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Provide a standard module to simplify the creation of source filters
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Date: 20 September 2000
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Number: 264
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Add null() keyword and fundamental data type
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Number: 263
Version: 1
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Index Attribute
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Maintainer: David Nicol <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 19 Sep 2000
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=head1 ABSTRACT
An attr
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=head1 TITLE
Pattern matching on perl values
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=head1 ABST
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All perl generated errors should have a unique identifier
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use-def chains).
=head1 DESCRIPTION
Perl6 should distinguish between uses and assignments to variables,
and warn only when a variable is used without being assigned, or
assigned to without being used. In perl5 the complete program
$x = 3
complains, but
$x = 3; $x = 3
does not, nor does
my
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Fix iteration of nested hashes
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Date: 18 Sep 2000
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Number: 255
Version: 2
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=head1 TITLE
Builtin: reduce
=head1 VERSION
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Date: 10 Aug 2000
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Number: 76
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Status: Frozen
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Subroutines: Replace C with a generic C function
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Date: 6 Aug 2000
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Number: 21
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Builtins : Make use of hashref context for garrulous builtins
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Versi
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Distinguish packed binary data from printable strings
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Version: 1
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UNIVERSAL::import()
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=head1 ABSTRACT
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Fix iteration of nested hashes
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=head1 A
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Replace C built-in with pragmatically-induced C function
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any converted program that uses chop().
Implementation in perl6 is very straightforward: don't implement
chop().
=head1 REFERENCES
RFC 58: C changes.
perlfunc manpage for discussion of chomp() and chop()
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Replace => (stringifying comma) with => (pair constructor)
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on issue (and so
lies solely in the domain of perl6-internals) or whether any
programmer-visible changes may be necessary to allow this
(justifying posting to perl6-language).
=head1 NOTES ON FREEZE
This RFC drew very little discussion. It simply proposes a fix to
the core, allowing a couple of ex
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Compilation: Remove requirement for final true value in require-d and do-ed files
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Date: 7 Aug 2000
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Operators: Polymorphic comparisons
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Date: 7 Aug 2000
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