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  • Hats off to the designer of the gimel symbol - the associations with anarchy are probably right for perl6. But to be honest, a letter didnt quite inspire me. Since, I dont want to criticize without ...
    Richard HainsworthRichard Hainsworth
    Mar 23, 2009 at 6:51 pm
    Mar 31, 2009 at 5:29 pm
  • The following arose out of a discussion on #perl6. Junctions are new and different from anything I have encountered, but I cant get rid of the feeling that there needs to be some more flexibility in ...
    Richard HainsworthRichard Hainsworth
    Mar 27, 2009 at 10:37 am
    Mar 30, 2009 at 1:15 pm
  • The following (the n: is to mark the lines) are legal: 1: my @x = 1,2,3,4; ([+] @x).say; # output 10 2: my @x = 1|11,2,3,4; ([+] @a).perl.say; # output any(10,20) 3: my @x = 1|11,2,3,4; ([+] ...
    Richard HainsworthRichard Hainsworth
    Mar 15, 2009 at 6:19 pm
    Mar 18, 2009 at 4:09 pm
  • (OK, the subject sucked, but I tried :) From S14: You can, however, say $fido does Sentry; $fido does Tricks; $fido does TailChasing; $fido does Scratch; <snip Unlike the compile-time role ...
    OvidOvid
    Mar 8, 2009 at 3:24 pm
    Mar 12, 2009 at 11:36 pm
  • Currently the spec says: C<map returns a lazily evaluated list which is comprised of the return value of the expression, evaluated once for every one of the C<@values that are passed in. But both ...
    Moritz LenzMoritz Lenz
    Mar 8, 2009 at 8:36 pm
    Mar 25, 2009 at 11:41 pm
  • I like the "Camelia" it's colourful, fun - it even has an embedded, sideways reference to a "Camel". But IMHO there is a need for three logos: 1. Combined Parrot + Rakudo I like the suggestion of ...
    Nigel HamiltonNigel Hamilton
    Mar 25, 2009 at 7:21 am
    Mar 26, 2009 at 10:13 am
  • Author: lwall Date: 2009-03-04 20:20:59 +0100 (Wed, 04 Mar 2009) New Revision: 25685 Modified: docs/Perl6/Spec/S02-bits.pod docs/Perl6/Spec/S03-operators.pod docs/Perl6/Spec/S04-control.pod ...
    Pugs-commitsPugs-commits
    Mar 4, 2009 at 7:21 pm
    Mar 6, 2009 at 5:24 pm
  • Ugh. Let me float another problem, and a possible solution to both, that doesn't require persistent threading environments: $x = -1 | +1; if $x 0 { say $x } As I understand junctions right now, the ...
    Jon LangJon Lang
    Mar 31, 2009 at 3:58 pm
    Apr 3, 2009 at 11:30 am
  • Hi. I note that we have $?OS, $?VM, and $?DISTRO (and their $* counterparts). I'd like to recommend that we eliminate $?OS, and replace it with $?KERNEL (ie. Linux) and maybe $?ARCH (ie. i386). ...
    Timothy S. NelsonTimothy S. Nelson
    Mar 2, 2009 at 6:16 am
    Mar 2, 2009 at 3:55 pm
  • Included in my 'On junctions' message were some questions that have not been directly answered. I simplify and expand them here. Here I use === to mean 'is the same as'. (I am not sure which of == or ...
    Richard HainsworthRichard Hainsworth
    Mar 28, 2009 at 11:08 am
    Mar 31, 2009 at 4:21 am
  • Author: lwall Date: 2009-03-18 20:46:15 +0100 (Wed, 18 Mar 2009) New Revision: 25891 Modified: docs/Perl6/Spec/S02-bits.pod docs/Perl6/Spec/S06-routines.pod docs/Perl6/Spec/S09-data.pod ...
    Pugs-commitsPugs-commits
    Mar 18, 2009 at 7:46 pm
    Mar 20, 2009 at 1:51 pm
  • Author: masak Date: 2009-03-14 13:34:42 +0100 (Sat, 14 Mar 2009) New Revision: 25821 Modified: docs/Perl6/Spec/S12-objects.pod Log: specced syntactic 'where' sugar in param lists Modified: ...
    Pugs-commitsPugs-commits
    Mar 14, 2009 at 12:34 pm
    Mar 19, 2009 at 9:01 am
  • Author: finanalyst Date: 2009-03-08 09:43:16 +0100 (Sun, 08 Mar 2009) New Revision: 25745 Modified: docs/Perl6/Spec/S05-regex.pod Log: Added descriptions to standard rules, regrouped rules, added new ...
    Pugs-commitsPugs-commits
    Mar 8, 2009 at 8:43 am
    Mar 9, 2009 at 8:37 pm
  • I have a question and a request. In http://perlcabal.org/syn/S06.html#Named_subroutines it says: The general syntax for named subroutines is any of: my RETTYPE sub NAME ( PARAMS ) TRAITS {...} # ...
    Darren DuncanDarren Duncan
    Mar 19, 2009 at 9:18 pm
    Mar 22, 2009 at 3:27 pm
  • Author: wayland Date: 2009-03-05 06:58:38 +0100 (Thu, 05 Mar 2009) New Revision: 25698 Modified: docs/Perl6/Spec/S32-setting-library/Any.pod docs/Perl6/Spec/S32-setting-library/Scalar.pod Log: - ...
    Pugs-commitsPugs-commits
    Mar 5, 2009 at 5:58 am
    Mar 6, 2009 at 7:27 pm
  • Author: lwall Date: 2009-03-12 22:30:47 +0100 (Thu, 12 Mar 2009) New Revision: 25807 Modified: docs/Perl6/Spec/S03-operators.pod Log: Clarify value syntax inconsistency noticed by pmichaud++ ...
    Pugs-commitsPugs-commits
    Mar 13, 2009 at 2:57 am
    Mar 14, 2009 at 9:30 pm
  • To quote Jonathan Worthington: do not want(). We had a discussion on #perl6 tonight about how to implement want(), and basically came to no conclusion. Then I came up with the idea that any lazy ...
    Moritz LenzMoritz Lenz
    Mar 31, 2009 at 9:05 pm
    Mar 31, 2009 at 10:35 pm
  • I wonder if there is place for a "decision operator". (search terms: FPGA, evolvable hardware, Xilinx, PLB, LUT, NESW) dop:| 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B C D E F ----+-------------------------------- 0 0 ...
    Ruud H.G. van TolRuud H.G. van Tol
    Mar 24, 2009 at 11:12 pm
    Mar 25, 2009 at 9:28 pm
  • Hello friends! s1n and I decided that we would start Dallas.p6m as we are close to each other geographically speaking. We are meeting tomorrow (Thursday, March 19, 7:00PM) at a coffee shop with free ...
    fREW SchmidtfREW Schmidt
    Mar 18, 2009 at 10:26 pm
    Mar 20, 2009 at 9:24 am
  • I've done some more fiddling based on Carl Masak's updated list. I guess the way I decide things like this is: - If it's a method on a role/object, then it lives in S32 - If it's not a method, then ...
    Timothy S. NelsonTimothy S. Nelson
    Mar 6, 2009 at 2:55 am
    Mar 9, 2009 at 9:46 pm
  • Google has announced this year's Summer of Code[1]. The Perl Foundation accepted one project (mentored by Moritz) related to Perl 6 last year[2]. I was wondering if there are any developers ...
    Hinrik Örn SigurðssonHinrik Örn Sigurðsson
    Mar 2, 2009 at 1:26 am
    Mar 2, 2009 at 10:16 am
  • Rakudo gives some strange results when sorting a list of mixed strings and numbers, which leads me to look for some clarification on infix:<cmp (which S03:2866 says that sort uses by default). Here's ...
    Patrick R. MichaudPatrick R. Michaud
    Mar 27, 2009 at 4:50 am
    Mar 27, 2009 at 7:38 pm
  • Having a problem with the following role in Perl 5: package PIPs::ResultSource::Role::HasTags; use Moose::Role; requires 'do_setup'; after 'do_setup' = sub { ... }; So far this has worked really ...
    OvidOvid
    Mar 16, 2009 at 5:30 pm
    Mar 16, 2009 at 8:25 pm
  • Author: lwall Date: 2009-03-09 23:46:07 +0100 (Mon, 09 Mar 2009) New Revision: 25775 Modified: docs/Perl6/Spec/S05-regex.pod Log: more result object demotion Modified: docs/Perl6/Spec/S05-regex.pod ...
    Pugs-commitsPugs-commits
    Mar 9, 2009 at 10:46 pm
    Mar 10, 2009 at 4:27 pm
  • Hello, looking into Perl 6 syntax I noticed that there are meta- and hyperoperators to perform among others the classical functional map and fold operations. However, if I understood this correctly, ...
    Thomas ChustThomas Chust
    Mar 1, 2009 at 11:37 pm
    Mar 2, 2009 at 3:47 pm
  • Since afaict this is not specced, I'll hand that over to p6l. Eric Hodges (via RT) wrote: Actually I think it would DWIM more in the general case if Match.keys (and .kv, .pairs, .values etc) would ...
    Moritz LenzMoritz Lenz
    Mar 29, 2009 at 7:10 pm
    Mar 29, 2009 at 11:23 pm
  • Hi all. I've been thinking about stringification, forms, and things like that. As exegesis 7 points out, sprintf, pack, and the forms language all essentially take data and specifies how to turn it ...
    Timothy S. NelsonTimothy S. Nelson
    Mar 28, 2009 at 6:47 am
    Mar 28, 2009 at 4:10 pm
  • I want to pose the same question for clarification that I asked #perl6: S01 says that perl5 code will be supported via "use v5". Can someone confirm that embedded perl5 code is still required of any ...
    Jason switzerJason switzer
    Mar 26, 2009 at 4:11 am
    Mar 26, 2009 at 11:58 am
  • Author: lwall Date: 2009-03-19 01:43:53 +0100 (Thu, 19 Mar 2009) New Revision: 25902 Modified: docs/Perl6/Spec/S05-regex.pod Log: [S05] define .caps and .chunks methods on match objects Modified: ...
    Pugs-commitsPugs-commits
    Mar 19, 2009 at 12:44 am
    Mar 23, 2009 at 8:32 pm
  • I have a quick question about the Str type, described in Synopsis 2: Str Perl string (finite sequence of Unicode characters) Specifically, and partly in the interest in future-proofing, is there ...
    Darren DuncanDarren Duncan
    Mar 13, 2009 at 12:28 am
    Mar 13, 2009 at 1:37 am
  • In the spectest suite (specifically in: t/spec/S32-array/kv.t), the last several tests seem to be testing for named arguments to kv: # check the non-invocant form with named arguments my @array = <a ...
    Cory SpencerCory Spencer
    Mar 12, 2009 at 10:45 pm
    Mar 12, 2009 at 11:01 pm
  • Hi all. I've been hanging around on #perl6, and have heard a fairly regular complaint in the last few days. 3 or 4 people have turned up wanting to work on Rakudo, and not always been able to get the ...
    Timothy S. NelsonTimothy S. Nelson
    Mar 4, 2009 at 11:57 pm
    Mar 4, 2009 at 11:59 pm
  • Author: wayland Date: 2009-03-31 07:07:01 +0200 (Tue, 31 Mar 2009) New Revision: 26034 Modified: docs/Perl6/Spec/S32-setting-library/IO.pod Log: S32/IO: Based on some suggestions of bacek++ and ...
    Pugs-commitsPugs-commits
    Mar 31, 2009 at 5:07 am
    Mar 31, 2009 at 5:07 am
  • Author: wayland Date: 2009-03-31 06:29:09 +0200 (Tue, 31 Mar 2009) New Revision: 26033 Modified: docs/Perl6/Spec/S32-setting-library/IO.pod Log: S32/IO: Added a .new() method to IO::Socket::Unix ...
    Pugs-commitsPugs-commits
    Mar 31, 2009 at 4:29 am
    Mar 31, 2009 at 4:29 am
  • Author: wayland Date: 2009-03-31 06:22:47 +0200 (Tue, 31 Mar 2009) New Revision: 26032 Modified: docs/Perl6/Spec/S32-setting-library/IO.pod Log: S32/IO: Made calls to .new() a bit more consistent ...
    Pugs-commitsPugs-commits
    Mar 31, 2009 at 4:22 am
    Mar 31, 2009 at 4:22 am
  • Author: wayland Date: 2009-03-31 02:48:54 +0200 (Tue, 31 Mar 2009) New Revision: 26031 Modified: docs/Perl6/Spec/S32-setting-library/IO.pod Log: S32/IO: Expanded IO::Socket, mostly at the expense of ...
    Pugs-commitsPugs-commits
    Mar 31, 2009 at 12:49 am
    Mar 31, 2009 at 12:49 am
  • Author: wayland Date: 2009-03-31 02:30:46 +0200 (Tue, 31 Mar 2009) New Revision: 26030 Modified: docs/Perl6/Spec/S32-setting-library/IO.pod Log: S32/IO: - Merged IO::Listening into IO::Socket - Made ...
    Pugs-commitsPugs-commits
    Mar 31, 2009 at 12:30 am
    Mar 31, 2009 at 12:30 am
  • Author: wayland Date: 2009-03-30 15:01:45 +0200 (Mon, 30 Mar 2009) New Revision: 26025 Modified: docs/Perl6/Spec/S32-setting-library/IO.pod Log: S32/IO.pod: Changed "TCP" to "INET" Modified: ...
    Pugs-commitsPugs-commits
    Mar 30, 2009 at 1:02 pm
    Mar 30, 2009 at 1:02 pm
  • Author: pmichaud Date: 2009-03-27 20:45:51 +0100 (Fri, 27 Mar 2009) New Revision: 26016 Modified: docs/Perl6/Spec/S05-regex.pod Log: [S05]: Correct typo "by use if" == "by use of" Modified: ...
    Pugs-commitsPugs-commits
    Mar 27, 2009 at 7:46 pm
    Mar 27, 2009 at 7:46 pm
  • It started by yours truly asking impertinent questions on #perl6... <http://irclog.perlgeek.de/perl6/2009-03-26#i_1018345 ...and ended with a general feeling that the way metacharacters and ...
    Carl MäsakCarl Mäsak
    Mar 26, 2009 at 2:41 pm
    Mar 26, 2009 at 2:41 pm
  • Just read nearly 100 emails on Re: Logo Considerations, a whole lot in reverse order and repeated! Is this the result of a perl6 implementation of a listserver using junctions? But I agree with ...
    Richard HainsworthRichard Hainsworth
    Mar 26, 2009 at 2:36 pm
    Mar 26, 2009 at 2:36 pm
  • Author: ruoso Date: 2009-03-25 18:49:05 +0100 (Wed, 25 Mar 2009) New Revision: 25999 Modified: docs/Perl6/Spec/S11-modules.pod Log: [spec/S11] :DEFAULT is default in "is export" Modified: ...
    Pugs-commitsPugs-commits
    Mar 25, 2009 at 5:49 pm
    Mar 25, 2009 at 5:49 pm
  • re the logo: http://www.norfolkbirding.com/Pearl-Bordered-Fritillary.jpg
    William HerreraWilliam Herrera
    Mar 25, 2009 at 3:24 am
    Mar 25, 2009 at 3:24 am
  • --------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------- ----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK---- Version 3.12 GCS d+++ s+: a- ...
    Timothy S. NelsonTimothy S. Nelson
    Mar 24, 2009 at 11:45 pm
    Mar 24, 2009 at 11:45 pm
  • Author: lwall Date: 2009-03-23 02:27:32 +0100 (Mon, 23 Mar 2009) New Revision: 25970 Modified: docs/Perl6/Spec/S05-regex.pod Log: clarifications to .caps and .chunks requested by moritz++ Modified: ...
    Pugs-commitsPugs-commits
    Mar 23, 2009 at 8:14 pm
    Mar 23, 2009 at 8:14 pm
  • Author: lwall Date: 2009-03-23 01:41:38 +0100 (Mon, 23 Mar 2009) New Revision: 25969 Modified: docs/Perl6/Spec/S02-bits.pod Log: clarify (we hope) how the top-level lexical, package, and dynamic ...
    Pugs-commitsPugs-commits
    Mar 23, 2009 at 7:28 pm
    Mar 23, 2009 at 7:28 pm
  • Author: moritz Date: 2009-03-22 21:58:27 +0100 (Sun, 22 Mar 2009) New Revision: 25966 Modified: docs/Perl6/Spec/S14-roles-and-parametric-types.pod Log: [S14] use named arguments to .new() in an ...
    Pugs-commitsPugs-commits
    Mar 23, 2009 at 6:45 pm
    Mar 23, 2009 at 6:45 pm
  • Author: masak Date: 2009-03-21 12:50:43 +0100 (Sat, 21 Mar 2009) New Revision: 25960 Modified: docs/Perl6/Spec/S32-setting-library/Containers.pod Log: Merge branch 'typo' Modified: ...
    Pugs-commitsPugs-commits
    Mar 21, 2009 at 11:50 am
    Mar 21, 2009 at 11:50 am
  • On behalf of the Rakudo development team, I'm pleased to announce the March 2009 development release of Rakudo Perl #15 "Oslo". Rakudo is an implementation of Perl 6 on the Parrot Virtual Machine ...
    Patrick R. MichaudPatrick R. Michaud
    Mar 20, 2009 at 5:16 pm
    Mar 20, 2009 at 5:16 pm
  • Author: lwall Date: 2009-03-20 00:05:55 +0100 (Fri, 20 Mar 2009) New Revision: 25933 Modified: docs/Perl6/Spec/S06-routines.pod Log: make as trait consistent with as/of in S02 Modified: ...
    Pugs-commitsPugs-commits
    Mar 19, 2009 at 11:06 pm
    Mar 19, 2009 at 11:06 pm
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