Resource Management ?

2001-02-14 Thread Elizabeth Mattijsen
. Or any other resource that is in limited availability. And of course, such a resource management system should degrade to a "everything is free" approach for simple one-liners and small scripts, like the current situation. Elizabeth Mattijsen P.S. Dan: I hope you don't m

Re: Default program

2004-04-01 Thread Elizabeth Mattijsen
At 00:05 -0800 4/1/04, Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon wrote: On the other hand, the current behavior may be somewhat entrenched, and might break our promise to assume that code is Perl 5 until we see a different indication. As an alternative, perhaps the -H command-line switch could be used to use a "he

Re: Perl 6 in non-English languages

2010-06-23 Thread Elizabeth Mattijsen
On Jun 23, 2010, at 12:34 AM, SundaraRaman R wrote: > This is an idea that originated in #perl6 during a discussion with slavik ( > http://irclog.perlgeek.de/perl6/2010-01-17#i_1907093). The goal is to allow > Perl 6 source code to be written in natural languages other than English. > The motivatio

Re: Class attribute introspection

2013-10-28 Thread Elizabeth Mattijsen
Maybe http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metaobject is a good start for reading up on what a MOP (Meta-Object Protocol) is. Liz === On 28 Oct 2013, at 14:17, Richard Hainsworth wrote: > Moritz, > > You are the everflowing font of knowledge. Thanks. > > However, I read the synopsis on ob

Re: state and = vs :=

2014-10-02 Thread Elizabeth Mattijsen
On 01 Oct 2014, at 07:48, Father Chrysostomos wrote: > Does ‘state’ govern ‘:=’ the way it governs ‘=’? In other words, just as > this: > >state $x = 1; > > only assigns to $x once (per closure), does the same apply to this? > >state $x := $y; > > I can’t find anything in the specs t

Re: S02 mistake re Blob?

2015-02-21 Thread Elizabeth Mattijsen
> On 21 Feb 2015, at 21:56, Darren Duncan wrote: > On 2015-02-21 2:45 AM, Moritz Lenz wrote: >> On 21.02.2015 08:51, Darren Duncan wrote: >>> I notice from looking at http://design.perl6.org/S02.html that Blob is >>> listed >>> both as being a role and as a type. See >>> http://design.perl6.or

Re: Synopses size and revision state

2015-05-15 Thread Elizabeth Mattijsen
> On 15 May 2015, at 16:05, Parrot Raiser <1parr...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Without doing too much work, can anyone offer an estimate of the > volume of the Perl 6 Synopses? I'm assuming that by now, they are > unlikely to undergo serious modification. > > I'm trying to estimate the cost of renderi

Re: [perl6/specs] 614b6f: doc with/without

2015-08-11 Thread Elizabeth Mattijsen
If this is about: These may be cascaded: with $s.index("a") { "Found a at $_" } orwith $s.index("b") { "Found b at $_" } orwith $s.index("c") { "Found c at $_" } else { "Didn't find a, b or c” } then the code is correct. What would be the point of searching for

Re: Backwards compatibility and release 1.0

2015-10-15 Thread Elizabeth Mattijsen
> On 15 Oct 2015, at 11:06, Tobias Leich wrote: > Am 15.10.2015 um 10:47 schrieb Smylers: >> Moritz Lenz writes: >> >>> On 10/13/2015 10:52 AM, Richard Hainsworth wrote: >>> Following on the :D not :D thread, something odd stuck out. On 10/13/2015 03:17 PM, Moritz Lenz wrote: >>

Re: Backwards compatibility and release 1.0

2015-10-15 Thread Elizabeth Mattijsen
> On 15 Oct 2015, at 12:57, Mark Overmeer wrote: > > * Elizabeth Mattijsen (l...@dijkmat.nl) [151015 10:43]: >> FWIW, I’m with FROGGS on this. >> use variables :D; > > In the first response to this message, Moritz spoke about > use invocant :D; > and use pa

Re: A practical benchmark shows speed challenges for Perl 6

2016-03-30 Thread Elizabeth Mattijsen
> On 30 Mar 2016, at 16:06, yary wrote: > > Cross-posting to the compiler group- > > On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 8:10 AM, Elizabeth Mattijsen wrote: >> If you know the line endings of the file, using >> IO::Handle.split($line-ending) (note the actual character

Re: Help mechanism in REPL?

2016-09-10 Thread Elizabeth Mattijsen
FWIW, the .WHY is a method just like any other. What would need to be changed, is the behaviour of Mu.WHY (around line 60 in Mu.pm). > On 10 Sep 2016, at 16:41, Brad Gilbert wrote: > > There was some talk in the past about having `.WHY` look up the > descriptions in the POD6 doc ( so that we d

Re: Is this a bug?

2016-09-18 Thread Elizabeth Mattijsen
I think you want: .say for reverse lines; not sure what you are trying to achieve otherwise, but: say { } producing something like -> ;; $_? is raw { #`(Block|170303864) … } feels entirely correct to me. :-) Liz > On 18 Sep 2016, at 21:52, Parrot Raiser <1parr...@gmail.com> wrote

Re: Is this a bug?

2016-09-18 Thread Elizabeth Mattijsen
is" exercise. > > What is this -> ;; $_? is raw { #`(Block|170303864) … } output? > > On 9/18/16, Brent Laabs wrote: >> Remember you can call a block with parentheses: >> >>> say { 11 + 31 }; >> -> ;; $_? is raw { #`(Block|140268472711224) ... } &g

[perl6/specs] c5aa24: Remove obsolete file

2019-11-16 Thread Elizabeth Mattijsen
Branch: refs/heads/master Home: https://github.com/perl6/specs Commit: c5aa24071599a46240ba09cd9c91a37749799d7e https://github.com/perl6/specs/commit/c5aa24071599a46240ba09cd9c91a37749799d7e Author: Elizabeth Mattijsen Date: 2019-11-16 (Sat, 16 Nov 2019) Changed paths

[perl6/specs] 180b53: Revert "Move the design documents into the Raku era"

2019-11-16 Thread Elizabeth Mattijsen
Branch: refs/heads/master Home: https://github.com/perl6/specs Commit: 180b534bd6f012e7576384326f2e915162c496be https://github.com/perl6/specs/commit/180b534bd6f012e7576384326f2e915162c496be Author: Elizabeth Mattijsen Date: 2019-11-16 (Sat, 16 Nov 2019) Changed paths

[perl6/specs] 3d62b9: Move the design documents into the Raku era

2019-11-16 Thread Elizabeth Mattijsen
Branch: refs/heads/design-into-raku Home: https://github.com/perl6/specs Commit: 3d62b9ea86f586612d5df9ea9460a12239b6ccf2 https://github.com/perl6/specs/commit/3d62b9ea86f586612d5df9ea9460a12239b6ccf2 Author: Elizabeth Mattijsen Date: 2019-11-16 (Sat, 16 Nov 2019) Changed

[perl6/specs] 6390a5: Move the design documents into the Raku era

2019-11-16 Thread Elizabeth Mattijsen
Branch: refs/heads/master Home: https://github.com/perl6/specs Commit: 6390a500201b5c26512940b0920cd6e9e5111abf https://github.com/perl6/specs/commit/6390a500201b5c26512940b0920cd6e9e5111abf Author: Elizabeth Mattijsen Date: 2019-11-16 (Sat, 16 Nov 2019) Changed paths

[Raku/old-design-docs]

2020-02-05 Thread Elizabeth Mattijsen
Branch: refs/heads/design-into-raku Home: https://github.com/Raku/old-design-docs

Re: [Raku/old-design-docs] 1c4e60: Remove Larry's email address.

2025-06-08 Thread Elizabeth Mattijsen
No, as far as we know, Larry's fine! Just not that active anymore, effectively retired. And known to not be very responsive to emails. So it felt like a good idea to make sure that a. he won't be bothered by unnecessary emails, and b. that people with questions will add an issue to the repo o