Re: [perl6/specs] 761178: remove some some duplicate words words

2010-09-07 Thread Jason Switzer
On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 11:29 AM, Moritz Lenz wrote: > Brandon S Allbery KF8NH wrote: > > On 9/7/10 08:17 , nore...@github.com wrote: > >> Commit: 7611788411e5aff5f3ae150e2da9929ee546d6d8 > >> > http://github.com/perl6/specs/commit/7611788411e5aff5f3ae150e2da9929ee546d6d8 > > > > It was nicer when

Re: Natural Language and Perl 6

2010-08-01 Thread Jason Switzer
On Sun, Aug 1, 2010 at 5:46 AM, Timothy S. Nelson wrote: >Hi. I'm wondering if any thought has been given to natural language > processing with Perl 6 grammars. > No specific tool is best suited for natural language processing. There was apparently a time in which everyone thought that a

Re: r31043 -[S32/Containers] Buf does Stringy, too

2010-06-02 Thread Jason Switzer
On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 5:10 AM, wrote: > Author: masak > Date: 2010-06-02 12:10:22 +0200 (Wed, 02 Jun 2010) > New Revision: 31043 > > Modified: > docs/Perl6/Spec/S32-setting-library/Containers.pod > Log: > [S32/Containers] Buf does Stringy, too > > -class Buf does Positional {...} > +cl

Re: Ideas for a "Object-Belongs-to-Thread" threading model (nntp: message 5 of 20)

2010-05-13 Thread Jason Switzer
On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 3:59 AM, wrote: > This should be a reply to Daniel Ruoso's post above, but I cannot persuade > my nntp reader > to reply to a post made before I subscribed here. Sorry > > And at the core of that, is the need for preemptive (kernel) threading and > shared memory. > > These

Re: expression of seconds (was Re: A new era for Temporal)

2010-04-09 Thread Jason Switzer
On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 3:06 PM, Jonathan Worthington wrote: > Though even clearer and same number of characters as whole_seconds is: > > $dt.seconds.round This makes more sense to me than the first example you listed because when dealing with time measurement, I rarely think of seconds that ar

Re: You never have privacy from your children in Perl 6

2010-03-26 Thread Jason Switzer
On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 7:16 AM, Carl Mäsak wrote: > You're using it wrong. You need to put 'trusts B;' in A in order for B to > > see A's privates. I hope it is obvious why this is the case. -- Darren > > Duncan > > Aye, my mistake. Apparently the syntax I used to try to get at the > private a

Re: Gripes about Pod6 (S26)

2010-02-12 Thread jason switzer
On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 10:12 PM, Timothy S. Nelson wrote: > There's a school of thought, common among printing/publishing types, that >> insists that underline was intended solely to replace italics when they >> couldn't be represented (i.e. no fonts, as with ASCII terminals and >> printers). Th

Re: Interactive Perl 6 shell

2009-12-28 Thread jason switzer
t.wordpress.com/2009/12/01/day-1-getting-rakudo/ Sorry about that empty reply. -Jason Switzer

S19 questions

2009-10-25 Thread jason switzer
I was reading over S19 and had a few questions. 1) The colon delimiter (":name") is specified but no options are declared to use it specifically. It's not clear why we would need this delimiter on top of the other more popular delimiters. Are the long form (double dash), meta syntax form (double p

Re: Rukudo-Star => Rakudo-lite?

2009-08-10 Thread jason switzer
Since I don't know anything about nuclear power plants, I think the BikeShed should be painted blue and called "Rakudo Whatever" or just "Rakudo". -Jason "s1n" Switzer

[Invitation] June Dallas.p6m Meeting @ Tue Jun 9 7pm – 10pm (perl6-language@perl.org)

2009-06-05 Thread jason switzer
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June Dallas.p6m Meeting

2009-06-04 Thread jason switzer
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Re: Module naming conventions

2009-06-01 Thread jason switzer
On Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 7:50 PM, Jon Lang wrote: > On Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 5:44 PM, Daniel Carrera > wrote: > > I think we might need to come up with some sort of standard naming > > convention to distinguish dependencies. Something that the *user* can > > recognize quickly when he browses CPAN. >

use v5 Support

2009-03-25 Thread jason switzer
I want to pose the same question for clarification that I asked #perl6: S01 says that perl5 code will be supported via "use v5". Can someone confirm that embedded perl5 code is still required of any valid implementation? If so, how will XS code be supported? Will the namespace between v5 code and

Re: Logo considerations

2009-03-24 Thread jason switzer
On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 3:10 PM, James Fuller wrote: > Is there any sponsorship money to spend on a very good graphic > designer to create something based on a small list of requirements as > to what meaning it should convey ? > I would agree; have a professional do it and we'll probably get bett

Re: r25490 - docs/Perl6/Spec

2009-02-23 Thread jason switzer
On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 9:47 PM, wrote: > Added: docs/Perl6/Spec/S28-special-variables.pod > === > +=head2 Named variables (see S02): > +$?OS # operating system compiled for > +$*OS # operating system runn

Re: RFD: Built-in testing

2009-01-23 Thread jason switzer
On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 6:39 PM, Dave Whipp wrote: > A spec-test is (or should be) different from an ad-hoc test. I want to be > able to say "test S09.237 passes on pugs but not on Rakudo" (perhaps with a > nicer name). Unique identifiers allow comparisons of specific tests across > multiple imp

Re: RFD: Built-in testing

2009-01-22 Thread jason switzer
On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 4:51 PM, jerry gay wrote: > $x == $y >:ok({ .true ?? 'message' !! 'failure message' }) >:diag( 'tap comment', :some_tap_property) I just want to stress again that I would like to see no focus on just tap emitters. While I realize this is just an example, adverbs

Re: RFD: Built-in testing

2009-01-20 Thread jason switzer
On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 1:08 PM, Moritz Lenz wrote: > So Larry and Patrick developed the idea of creating an > adverb on the test operator instead: > >$x == 1e5 :ok('the :ok makes this is a test'); > > This is an adverb on the infix:<==> operator, and might > desugar to something like this:

Re: design of the Prelude (was Re: Rakudo leaving the Parrot nest)

2009-01-15 Thread jason switzer
On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 8:59 PM, Jon Lang wrote: > OK, then. If I'm understanding this correctly, the problem being > raised has to do with deciding which language features to treat as > primitives and which ones to bootstrap from those primitives. The > difficulty is that different compilers p

Re: [PATCH] Add .trim method

2009-01-12 Thread jason switzer
On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 6:26 PM, Ovid wrote: > - Original Message > > > From: jason switzer > > > If we wanted language dependent version, use :leading, :trailing, and > :both. > > That will require each implementation properly handle the language > >

Re: Not a bug?

2009-01-12 Thread jason switzer
On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 3:54 PM, Larry Wall wrote: > On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 01:19:12PM -0800, Jon Lang wrote: > : As well, isn't there a way to escape a character that would otherwise > : be interpolated? If the intent were as you suppose, the original > : could be rewritten as: > : > : $ per

Re: [PATCH] Add .trim method

2009-01-12 Thread jason switzer
On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 9:07 AM, jesse wrote: > > 'left' and 'right' are probably not the right names for functions which > trim leading and/or trailing space, since their meanings get somewhat > ambiguous if a language renders right-to-left instead of left-to-right > or vice-versa > I'm in favo

Re: r24737 - docs/Perl6/Spec

2009-01-02 Thread jason switzer
On Fri, Jan 2, 2009 at 8:12 PM, Geoffrey Broadwell wrote: > On Fri, 2009-01-02 at 12:27 -0800, jerry gay wrote: > > oh, yes, whoops! i responded to someone else in #pugs earlier, and > > forgot to address the item here. C replaces p5's > > C (that's the latest idea from damian, although it seems n

Re: Working with files wish list

2008-12-15 Thread jason switzer
On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 6:59 PM, Leon Timmermans wrote: > On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 6:42 PM, jason switzer wrote: > > It's lazy and kinda cheating, but for small simple tasks, it gets the job > > done. I'm not up to speed with the IO spec, but a sort of auto-slurp > &

Re: Working with files wish list

2008-12-15 Thread jason switzer
On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 10:43 AM, Richard Hainsworth wrote: > a) I am fed up with writing something like > > open(FP, ">${fname}_out.txt") or die "Cant open ${fname}_out.txt for > writing\n"; > > The complex definition of the filename is only to show that it has to be > restated identically twice.

Re: Split with negative limits, and other weirdnesses

2008-09-27 Thread jason switzer
It makes sense to me to go with option 1; you get what you ask for. It also makes sense to make to not use magical implied numbers, such as negatives, to accomplish things that either ranges or whatever star can accomplish. Just my 2 cents. -Jason "s1n" Switzer On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 4:27 AM, M