Perl > perl6-language > March 2006

Hmm, I don't really know how to do this but Gaal told me to write up some proposal here. So we had chmod in Perl5, I would like to make sure it works in Perl6 as well with slight modifications. LIST ...

Perl6 could introduce (lexical, nestable) comment scope. Has that been discussed before? Maybe like: #<<#EOC # a comment line # another comment line <code #EOC Or like: #{# # first comment line # ...

I think Perl 6 could use a wiki for several things: 1. creating a place where people can easily find user annotations of the synopses etc 2. scratch pad areas for people to write musings, criticism, ...

Hi, my $x = 5; { temp $x; # is $x 5 or undef? } # $x is definately 10 I think it should be 5 inside, because it makes it easy to write things like: my $x = 5; { temp $x++; # $x is 6 } # $x is 5 again ...

Kudos to all the Perl 6 mailing list. What's the difference between multi sub infix:<.. ( Int $min, Int $max ) { ... } and multi method infix:<.. ( Int $min, Int $max ) { ... } ? And in the case ...

Author: autrijus Date: Fri Mar 31 04:07:40 2006 New Revision: 8504 Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S06.pod Log: * S06: Updated built-in classes: - bring in "uint" from S09 (boxes to Int) - new "Buf" ...

Hi, In light of the Perl 6 community's increasing interest in API level design, I'd like people to share old war stories about things they had to do once, but had to jump through hoops to pull off. ...

on the #catalyst channel today we had lots of pains debugging where a die will go to eventually, within a cascade of eval { }s and what not. In Perl 6 one thing that could ease this is to be able to ...

S06/Splicing finishes with: A quasiquote is not a block (even if the delimiters are curlies), so any declaration of a variable is taken to be part of the block surrounding the macro call location. ...

We were discussing some confusing macro behaviours, when we came upon this curious thing. This code is really simple in p5, as it doesn't really have separate compilation, but in p6, the modules can ...

Author: autrijus Date: Fri Mar 31 07:02:49 2006 New Revision: 8511 Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S06.pod Log: * S06: note that all native types autobox to their uppercased counterparts. Nicholas++ ...

HaloO, S03 does explicitly disallow auto-reversed ranges. And I'm not sure if the upto operator has a downto cousin where ^-4 == (-1, -2, -3, -4) returns a list that is suitable for indexing an array ...

Author: pmichaud Date: Fri Mar 31 12:29:42 2006 New Revision: 8519 Modified: doc/trunk/plans/milestones.pod Log: Updated milestones document with some of the latest happenings related to PGE. ...

[April 1st, 2006, 00:00 GMT+9] Larry Wall and Audrey Tang jointly announced that Parrot, Pugs, and all language-related projects be dysintegrated to Bugs. Bugs have ruled this planet for half a ...

Author: larry Date: Fri Mar 31 07:36:42 2006 New Revision: 8512 Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S02.pod doc/trunk/design/syn/S06.pod doc/trunk/design/syn/S09.pod Log: Fix dates, typo. Modified: ...

Author: autrijus Date: Fri Mar 31 04:10:36 2006 New Revision: 8505 Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S09.pod Log: * excise the "ref" from S09 Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S09.pod ...

Author: autrijus Date: Fri Mar 31 03:21:59 2006 New Revision: 8503 Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S02.pod Log: * upon further discussion, in the interest of optimizability, Code/Block is now ...

Author: autrijus Date: Fri Mar 31 03:16:08 2006 New Revision: 8502 Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S02.pod Log: * S02: Explicit division of immutable/mutable/native types. * S02: "Int"'s bigint ...

Author: autrijus Date: Fri Mar 31 03:13:46 2006 New Revision: 8501 Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S06.pod Log: * <TimToady I don't believe in a Ref type... (\3 now just means \(3), constructing an ...

Author: larry Date: Mon Mar 27 19:28:57 2006 New Revision: 8457 Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S12.pod Log: s/undef/undefine/ Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S12.pod ...

Author: larry Date: Mon Mar 27 15:45:03 2006 New Revision: 8454 Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S04.pod Log: Changed temp (and let) to not default to undefine() any more. Modified: ...

Author: larry Date: Mon Mar 27 15:40:15 2006 New Revision: 8453 Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S10.pod doc/trunk/design/syn/S12.pod doc/trunk/design/syn/S13.pod Log: Finally checking in the ...

Author: larry Date: Mon Mar 27 14:57:02 2006 New Revision: 8451 Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S06.pod Log: Added def of prototypes from audreyt++ (with clarification of scoping). Modified: ...

Author: larry Date: Mon Mar 27 04:37:45 2006 New Revision: 8438 Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S06.pod Log: s/::/!!/ Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S06.pod ...

Author: larry Date: Fri Mar 17 15:41:25 2006 New Revision: 8336 Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S11.pod Log: Fixes from Damian Clarification of default Perl package name Clarification of when we need ...

Author: pmichaud Date: Fri Mar 17 08:05:47 2006 New Revision: 8328 Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S12.pod Log: Typo fix: "In Perl 6 gives you a choice." - "Perl 6 gives you a choice." Modified: ...

Author: luqui Date: Sun Mar 12 22:29:06 2006 New Revision: 8168 Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S02.pod Log: Fixed a typo, thanks Douglas Hunter. Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S02.pod ...

This patch fixes a minor typo in S02. -- Douglas Hunter

Author: autrijus Date: Sun Mar 12 05:16:44 2006 New Revision: 8123 Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S06.pod Log: * S06: Patch from bsb++ to make macros hygienic by default, with TimToady++'s idea for ...

Author: autrijus Date: Sun Mar 12 05:15:15 2006 New Revision: 8122 Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S12.pod Log: * S12: private methods are no longer .:meth, but !meth. Modified: ...

Author: larry Date: Sat Mar 11 08:53:07 2006 New Revision: 8104 Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S06.pod Log: Damian tweaks, and unresolved issue on piping something to itself. Modified: ...