On behalf of the Rakudo development team, I'm pleased to announce the
March 2010 development release of Rakudo Perl #28 "Moscow".
Rakudo is an implementation of Perl 6 on the Parrot Virtual Machine
(see http://www.parrot.org). The tarball for the April 2010 release
is available from http://github
Moscow.pm also reminds that today (22 Apr) is the birthday of Lenin :-)
> March 2010 development release of Rakudo Perl #28 "Moscow".
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Andrew Shitov
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On Wed, 21 Apr 2010, Mark J. Reed wrote:
I recommend not to open this up for 6.0.0 core. Calendar conversion
is easy to do in a module, and the Date class has an absolute day
count, which is really all you need everything for an intermediate
representation. It wouldn't be hard to port Calendr
Minor nit:
On Apr 21, 2010, at 04:57 , Richard Hainsworth wrote:
If a calendar system, eg., Chinese, Muslim and Jewish, defines days
in the same way, eg., starting at midnight and incorporating leap
seconds, for a time-zone, then the naming of the days is done by
The Jewish, Muslim, and Bah
Why do I find myself thinking of roles and classes here?
IMHO, we should have a role that represents abstractly a moment in
time. This role should, in and of itself, not be tied to any
particular calendar; its purpose is so that one can write functions
that make reference to instances in time wit
