Perl > perl6-language > July 2007

<intro Hi Mongers, Part one of this story, which I released last week on this list, was really provoking people to rethink the way work work now (not!) The challenge was made by Damian, to design a ...

=begin INTRO Mongers, I must say, I am a bit disappointed that the discussions about the future of documentation in Perl has died. Or was everyone fully occupied by YAPC::NA? I spent last week with ...

(I'm just studying the intricacies of Perl 6, so please correct me if i say something stupid or if this has already been discussed before.) I was looking for the Perl 6 equivalent of "aaa" =~ ...

Hello, I'm a beginner of the PERL language and I have troubles in understanding a PERL program these days. Actually I've been confused for a long time.I hope you can look into this program and point ...

Funny - how did it make sense to me the first time around? :) This prompted me to re-read the parts about Subpattern captures and Aliasing in S05, and i've got to say that it's *extreme* TMTOWTDI. ...

On behalf of the Parrot team, I'm proud to announce Parrot 0.4.14 "Now, with Seat Belts!." Parrot (http://parrotcode.org/) is a virtual machine aimed at running all dynamic languages. Parrot 0.4.14 ...

Author: larry Date: Tue Jul 10 18:45:08 2007 New Revision: 14430 Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S09.pod Log: Some thinking about how .keys and .shape work on user-defined dimensions Modified: ...

Author: larry Date: Tue Jul 10 18:20:25 2007 New Revision: 14429 Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S05.pod Log: Clarify that all quantifier modifiers now attach directly to the ** Modified: ...

Author: larry Date: Tue Jul 10 17:39:45 2007 New Revision: 14428 Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S05.pod Log: The ** form is now syntactically independent of the following token. This allows us to ...

Author: larry Date: Mon Jul 9 09:29:45 2007 New Revision: 14427 Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S05.pod Log: Clarify syntax and semantics of double quotes in patterns. Modified: ...