This week's summary

2003-12-10 Thread The Perl 6 Summarizer
The Perl 6 summary for the week ending 20031207 Another week, another late summary. Luckily it's been a quiet week so I should get this written faster than usual. As is traditional, we start with perl6-internals Parrot build system tinkering Andy Dougherty and other discussed ext

Re: This week's summary

2003-12-10 Thread Leopold Toetsch
The Perl 6 Summarizer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > PMC Compiler 2nd edition > ... Melvin wondered if the time had come to replace the > existing ops2c and pmc2c with the newer versions. Leo thought that > pmc2c2 was definitely stable enough, but wasn't too sure about ops2

Re: This week's summary

2003-12-10 Thread Mark J. Reed
On 2003-12-10 at 15:05:09, The Perl 6 Summarizer wrote: > Oh yes, if you've not been following, "^op" (ie, the vector operators) > has become " >>op<< " which is, if nothing else, a right swine to write > in a POD C<> escape. Eh, >>op<< is just a hack for people who can't type C<»op«>

Iterating through two arrays at once

2003-12-10 Thread Joe Gottman
In Perl 6, how will it be possible to iterate through two arrays at the same time? According to Apocalypse 4, the syntax is for @a; @b -> $a; $b { According to the book "Perl 6 Essentials" the syntax is for zip(@a, @b) -> $a, $b { Which of these is right? (of course, this being Perl

Re: Iterating through two arrays at once

2003-12-10 Thread Larry Wall
On Wed, Dec 10, 2003 at 11:44:15PM -0500, Joe Gottman wrote: :In Perl 6, how will it be possible to iterate through two arrays at the : same time? According to Apocalypse 4, the syntax is : for @a; @b -> $a; $b { : : According to the book "Perl 6 Essentials" the syntax is : for zip(