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0	[perl6/specs] 3a3148: Offset :target

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May 31, 2016 at 3:06 pm
May 31, 2016 at 3:06 pm

0	[perl6/specs] 9a8149: Match historical message style with that of auto-g...

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May 31, 2016 at 2:45 pm
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0	[perl6/specs] fd990b: Use less of an eye-bleed color and better position...

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May 30, 2016 at 6:26 pm
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0	[perl6/specs] 04b3cc: Work around the issue of multiple sites using perl...

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May 23, 2016 at 8:31 pm
May 23, 2016 at 8:31 pm

0	[perl6/specs] d9fab8: Revert "Add outdatedness note to second stylesheet...

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May 23, 2016 at 8:22 pm
May 23, 2016 at 8:22 pm

0	[perl6/specs] 337e77: Add outdatedness note to second stylesheet used by...

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May 23, 2016 at 8:16 pm
May 23, 2016 at 8:16 pm

0	[perl6/specs] 479182: Add note that specs may be outdated on each page (...

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May 23, 2016 at 8:13 pm
May 23, 2016 at 8:13 pm

3	Re: can a method name contain a funny character?

I was thinking about what exactly are valid identifiers in Perl6/rakudo's implementation. The docs <http://docs.perl6.org/language/syntax#Identifiers say: An identifier is a primitive name, and must ...

Yary
May 20, 2016 at 1:39 pm
May 21, 2016 at 5:20 pm

2	Unwanted failure and FAILGOAL

I have the following in a grammar rule TOP { ^ <statement + $ }; rule statement { <id '=' <endvalue incorrect") } } }; rule endvalue { <keyword '(' ~ ')' <pairlist } The grammar parses a correct ...

Richard Hainsworth
May 11, 2016 at 5:45 am
May 11, 2016 at 8:18 am

0	[perl6/specs] 5ce9ca: Fix a site search function

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May 3, 2016 at 5:01 pm
May 3, 2016 at 5:01 pm

0	[perl6/specs] e094a6: Bring META format closer to reality

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May 2, 2016 at 11:06 am
May 2, 2016 at 11:06 am

0	[perl6/specs] 7bc794: [S07] change .push example (which doesn't follow o...

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Apr 26, 2016 at 5:04 am
Apr 26, 2016 at 5:04 am

0	Announce: Rakudo Star Release 2016.04

# Announce: Rakudo Star Release 2016.04 ## A useful and usable production distribution of Perl 6 On behalf of the Rakudo and Perl 6 development teams, I'm honored to announce the April 2016 release ...

Steve Mynott
Apr 25, 2016 at 11:42 pm
Apr 25, 2016 at 11:42 pm

0	[perl6/specs] 73f566: [S11] Typo fix

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Apr 21, 2016 at 9:38 am
Apr 21, 2016 at 9:38 am

0	Announce: [SixFix] A weekly dose of Perl 6 delivered to your inbox

SixFix is a weekly email with something new to learn about Perl 6. But there's a catch! Each email includes a coding challenge and a question about Perl 6 you must answer to receive your next ...

Nigel Hamilton
Apr 19, 2016 at 5:37 am
Apr 19, 2016 at 5:37 am

2	Re: A practical benchmark shows speed challenges for Perl 6

Cross-posting to the compiler group- This reminds me of a pet peeve I had with p5: Inability to easily change the default buffer size for reading & writing. I'm the lone Perl expert at $work and at ...

Yary
Mar 30, 2016 at 2:07 pm
Mar 30, 2016 at 8:11 pm

0	[perl6/specs] d00c44: notional karma

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Mar 24, 2016 at 2:32 pm
Mar 24, 2016 at 2:32 pm

0	[perl6/specs] bd4686: unmanaged size. jnthn++

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Mar 24, 2016 at 2:16 pm
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0	[perl6/specs] fe8f07: spec Channel.fail and Channel.closed

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Mar 3, 2016 at 4:43 am
Mar 3, 2016 at 4:43 am

0	[perl6/specs] e441a2: Pass 2 at react/supply blocks, clarify some gramma...

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Feb 27, 2016 at 12:33 am
Feb 27, 2016 at 12:33 am

0	[perl6/specs] 33eaff: Update Supply introduction and method docs for ser...

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Feb 26, 2016 at 5:38 am
Feb 26, 2016 at 5:38 am

1	Perl 6 mentions on Wikipedia

Dear fellow revellers in the dawning Golden Age of Perl 6, I just had a colleague contact me, to express their surprise that Perl 6 does not rate a mention in ...

Damian Conway
Feb 25, 2016 at 9:27 pm
Feb 25, 2016 at 9:53 pm

1	Blogging on Perl6 anonymous proto/multi

Back in June of last year some discussion about multi-subs got me thinking and posting about anonymous proto/multi routines here. It's been bubbling in the back of my mind since then, and as my ...

Yary
Feb 14, 2016 at 7:36 pm
Feb 14, 2016 at 11:44 pm

0	Announce: Mac OS X Installer for release 2016.01

Thanks to Steve Mynott a Mac OS X installer is now available. This installer has the ".dmg" file extension and is available from http://rakudo.org/downloads/star/.

Tobias Leich
Feb 12, 2016 at 12:28 pm
Feb 12, 2016 at 12:28 pm

2	Re: It's time to use "use 6.c"

Thanks all... I expect hiccups... just venting to help (future coders and current self)... while we're on this topic a) lwp-download.pl doesn't have a "use 6". Since Windows ignores the shebang, it ...

Yary
Feb 7, 2016 at 1:20 am
Feb 9, 2016 at 2:51 pm

5	It's time to use "use v6.c"

this morning I installed the 2016.01 R*. Now I'm at the NYC perl6 study group, and a helpful neighbor asked me to start up p6doc. It gave me an error about EVAL being dangerous, and after opening a ...

Yary
Feb 6, 2016 at 7:30 pm
Feb 7, 2016 at 11:02 pm

0	[perl6/specs] b10af0: point out ".ast" is an alternative to ".made".

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Feb 6, 2016 at 7:52 am
Feb 6, 2016 at 7:52 am

0	[perl6/specs] 983eaa: Fix example of "perl" META key

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Feb 4, 2016 at 5:50 pm
Feb 4, 2016 at 5:50 pm

1	Announce: Rakudo Star Release 2016.01

# Announce: Rakudo Star Release 2016.01 ## A useful and usable production distribution of Perl 6 On behalf of the Rakudo and Perl 6 development teams, I'm happy to announce the January 2016 release ...

Tobias Leich
Feb 3, 2016 at 9:05 pm
Feb 4, 2016 at 9:52 pm

4	Are proposals for new language methods considered?

I would like to propose some new Str and IO::Path methods if such would be considered. Best regards, -Tom

Tom Browder
Jan 31, 2016 at 1:28 pm
Jan 31, 2016 at 11:23 pm

14	Rationale for $!

Hello, What is the purpose of having $! in Perl 6? The global variables in Perl 5 are a constant headache, prompting us to need to local()ize variables like $@, $!, and $? to avoid unforeseen ...

Felipe Gasper
Jan 27, 2016 at 6:17 am
Jan 28, 2016 at 9:25 pm

0	[perl6/specs] db4354: update perl version example to use 6.c type vers

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Jan 23, 2016 at 2:39 pm
Jan 23, 2016 at 2:39 pm

0	[perl6/specs] cbb897: remove leading v in version example

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Jan 23, 2016 at 2:28 pm
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0	[perl6/specs] ca0a0b: delete file accidentally checked

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Jan 23, 2016 at 2:16 pm
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0	[perl6/specs] 771304: c

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Jan 23, 2016 at 2:00 pm
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0	[perl6/specs] 73ff49: META doesn't need an entire glossary to itself

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Jan 17, 2016 at 8:36 pm
Jan 17, 2016 at 8:36 pm

0	[perl6/specs] 216855: [S04] Add missing parenthesis in zip() example

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Jan 17, 2016 at 9:41 am
Jan 17, 2016 at 9:41 am

0	[perl6/specs] 71d0c0: [S32::Containers] Change duplicate =item of `pairs...

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Jan 2, 2016 at 4:49 pm
Jan 2, 2016 at 4:49 pm

0	[perl6/specs] 73ea63: S99: Correct heading level

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Jan 1, 2016 at 2:47 pm
Jan 1, 2016 at 2:47 pm

0	[perl6/specs] fd1245: Speculatively make versions agree on a format

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Dec 31, 2015 at 6:23 pm
Dec 31, 2015 at 6:23 pm

0	[perl6/specs] 60cf34: Stringy versions shouldn't be /^v/, jdv79++

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Dec 31, 2015 at 5:21 pm
Dec 31, 2015 at 5:21 pm

0	[perl6/specs] 7a0988: Make an allowance for future META6 versioning

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Dec 31, 2015 at 5:10 pm
Dec 31, 2015 at 5:10 pm

0	[perl6/specs] 325f7b: fix syntax in the advent calendar entry

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Dec 30, 2015 at 1:28 pm
Dec 30, 2015 at 1:28 pm

0	[perl6/specs] 6c54ce: fix title of S08

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Dec 30, 2015 at 6:50 am
Dec 30, 2015 at 6:50 am

0	[perl6/specs] 94357c: Typos, markup corrections, trailing whitespace

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Dec 29, 2015 at 5:40 am
Dec 29, 2015 at 5:40 am

0	[perl6/specs] 369440: Added NC as lemma, NativeCall explanation

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Dec 28, 2015 at 4:47 pm
Dec 28, 2015 at 4:47 pm

0	Mathematical language definition

I just stumbled across this http://www.fields.utoronto.ca/programs/scientific/15-16/semantic/ effort: Semantic Representation of Mathematical Knowledge Workshop. I may be way outside my areas of ...

Parrot Raiser
Dec 28, 2015 at 4:33 pm
Dec 28, 2015 at 4:33 pm

1	Announce: Rakudo Perl 6 compiler, Development Release #94 (“коледа”)

On behalf of the Rakudo development team, I’m proud to announce the Christmas release (December 2015) of Rakudo Perl 6 #94 “коледа”. Rakudo is an implementation of Perl 6 on the Moar Virtual ...

Will Coleda
Dec 25, 2015 at 10:10 pm
Dec 26, 2015 at 8:47 pm

0	Type constraint for named parameters, and questions about 6.c backwards compat

Hello Perl 6 users and developers! I asked this in #perl6, but I wasn't getting a response there, so I figured I would try here. In the following code: If I try to pass a non-Str to C.new, I will get ...

Rob Hoelz
Dec 21, 2015 at 6:42 pm
Dec 21, 2015 at 6:42 pm

0	[perl6/specs] 1903a5: Bring parameter semantics in line with reality.

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Dec 18, 2015 at 4:54 pm
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