r31975 -[spec] small markup fixes

2010-08-13 Thread pugs-commits
Author: moritz Date: 2010-08-13 11:03:22 +0200 (Fri, 13 Aug 2010) New Revision: 31975 Modified: docs/Perl6/Spec/S03-operators.pod docs/Perl6/Spec/S05-regex.pod Log: [spec] small markup fixes Modified: docs/Perl6/Spec/S03-operators.pod

r31976 -[S06] make MAIN short switches a bit saner

2010-08-13 Thread pugs-commits
Author: moritz Date: 2010-08-13 11:32:37 +0200 (Fri, 13 Aug 2010) New Revision: 31976 Modified: docs/Perl6/Spec/S06-routines.pod Log: [S06] make MAIN short switches a bit saner The variable name of a parameter is purely an implementation detail of the subroutine, and shouldn't be a concern whi

Re: Buf.pm: FIFO and grammar

2010-08-13 Thread Jonathan Worthington
Nicholas Clark wrote: On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 03:38:31PM +0200, Carl Mäsak wrote: In fact, jnthn++ had a talk at YAPC::EU the other week where he showed how nested signatures can be used to make hierarchical matches. A proof-of-concept module could simply be some sugar around this already ex

Re: Buf.pm: FIFO and grammar

2010-08-13 Thread Aaron Sherman
On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 11:27 AM, Jonathan Worthington wrote: > >> > I saw a video camera in the room, but not sure when we'll be seeing the > footage from that. In the meantime, the slides are at: > > http://www.jnthn.net/papers/2010-yapc-eu-signatures.pdf > > Nice talk! One minor nit, and perhap

Re: Buf.pm: FIFO and grammar

2010-08-13 Thread Jon Murray
My understanding from synopses was that you get the Perl 5 behaviour if you omit the signature on your function declaration (though I unfortunately can't check as I don't have Rakudo installed): sub foo { @_[0] = 1 } my $a = 0; foo($a); say $a; # 0 Cheers... On Fri, 2010-08-13 at 12:06 -0400, Aa

Re: Buf.pm: FIFO and grammar

2010-08-13 Thread Aaron Sherman
On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 8:11 PM, Jon Murray wrote: > My understanding from synopses was that you get the Perl 5 behaviour if > you omit the signature on your function declaration (though I > unfortunately can't check as I don't have Rakudo installed): > > sub foo { @_[0] = 1 } > my $a = 0; > foo(

Re: Buf.pm: FIFO and grammar

2010-08-13 Thread Brandon S Allbery KF8NH
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 8/13/10 22:03 , Aaron Sherman wrote: > On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 8:11 PM, Jon Murray wrote: > >> My understanding from synopses was that you get the Perl 5 behaviour if >> you omit the signature on your function declaration (though I >> unfortunatel