Re: Perl 6 Summary for 2005-06-21 through 2005-06-28

2005-06-29 Thread Patrick R. Michaud
On Tue, Jun 28, 2005 at 08:11:24PM -0400, Matt Fowles wrote: >Parrot Loses with Fedora Core 4 > Patrick reported that Fedora Core 4 and Parrot don't get along well. Leo > suggested a possible solution. No response from Patrick. An update: Patrick submitted a patch based on Leo's sug

Type variables vs type literals

2005-06-29 Thread Autrijus Tang
Currently, does this: sub foo (::T $x, ::T $y) { } and this: sub foo (T $x, T $y) { } Means the same thing, namely a) if the package T is defined in scope, use that as the type constraint for $x and $y b) otherwise, set ::T to be the most immediate common supertype o

Mr. Clean vs. Perl 6

2005-06-29 Thread Yuval Kogman
To me Mr. Clean has always been a symbol of facism. It's this big strong guy who enforces cleanliness using chemicals. How mean is that? Whatever. Perl 6 is all about getting along with others. There is one aspect of perl 6 that doesn't get along - people who want to write strongly typed perl 6,