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On a lark, I submitted a request to Google for membership in the Google Storage beta on the basis of doing something virtual filesystemish for Perl 6. The bastards gave me an account, so now I feel ...

Hi, 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 ...

Author: lwall Date: 2010-06-02 18:51:06 +0200 (Wed, 02 Jun 2010) New Revision: 31050 Modified: docs/Perl6/Spec/S03-operators.pod Log: [S03] refine hyper dwimminess to be more like APL, with modular ...

On behalf of the Rakudo development team, I'm pleased to announce the June 2010 development release of Rakudo Perl #30 "Kiev". Rakudo is an implementation of Perl 6 on the Parrot Virtual Machine (see ...

Author: masak Date: 2010-06-03 15:52:01 +0200 (Thu, 03 Jun 2010) New Revision: 31082 Modified: docs/Perl6/Spec/S32-setting-library/Str.pod Log: [S32/Str] rethinking of tab characters Also added a ...

Author: masak Date: 2010-06-02 12:10:22 +0200 (Wed, 02 Jun 2010) New Revision: 31043 Modified: docs/Perl6/Spec/S32-setting-library/Containers.pod Log: [S32/Containers] Buf does Stringy, too Modified: ...

See below for the S06 section I'm referring to. I'm wondering how we should be reading the description of user-defined operators. For example, "sub infix:<(c) " doesn't describe the precedence level ...

Author: lwall Date: 2010-06-18 01:49:13 +0200 (Fri, 18 Jun 2010) New Revision: 31337 Modified: docs/Perl6/Spec/S02-bits.pod Log: [S02] allow between radix and digits as suggested by ajs++ Modified: ...

Hi. I've been thinking more about reversible grammars. Specifically, I'm wondering if the following pseudo-code will be possible: ## Match a grammar here $match = Grammar.match($text) ## Need some ...

Author: lwall Date: 2010-06-02 19:30:34 +0200 (Wed, 02 Jun 2010) New Revision: 31051 Modified: docs/Perl6/Spec/S02-bits.pod Log: [S02] refine Blobs to simply be immutable Bufs, with similar generic ...

Author: lwall Date: 2010-06-02 20:19:54 +0200 (Wed, 02 Jun 2010) New Revision: 31054 Modified: docs/Perl6/Spec/S03-operators.pod Log: [S03] suggestions from dataweaver++ more refinements to the ...

The spec says, and NQP seems to implement (Rakudo, I think, picks up <integer from NQP as defined in HLL-s0.pir, is this right?) that a single underscore is ignored between any two digits in a ...

On behalf of the Parrot team, I'm proud to announce Parrot 2.5.0 "Cheops". Parrot (http://parrot.org/) is a virtual machine aimed at running all dynamic languages. Parrot 2.5.0 is available on ...

Author: colomon Date: 2010-06-29 20:49:47 +0200 (Tue, 29 Jun 2010) New Revision: 31505 Modified: docs/Perl6/Spec/S03-operators.pod Log: [Spec] Clarify when to return Nil from the series operator. ...

Author: moritz Date: 2010-06-28 22:59:28 +0200 (Mon, 28 Jun 2010) New Revision: 31490 Modified: docs/Perl6/Spec/S06-routines.pod Log: [S06] \| and | prefixes of parameters should be separately ...

Author: lwall Date: 2010-06-26 19:46:00 +0200 (Sat, 26 Jun 2010) New Revision: 31454 Modified: docs/Perl6/Spec/S03-operators.pod Log: [S03] change !% to %% to avoid metaconfusion Modified: ...

Author: lwall Date: 2010-06-24 22:54:50 +0200 (Thu, 24 Jun 2010) New Revision: 31442 Modified: docs/Perl6/Spec/S03-operators.pod Log: [S03] qualify misleading assertion re 1,2,3...$n when $n < 3 ...

This struck me as interesting... http://highscalability.com/blog/2010/6/18/paper-the-declarative-imperative-experiences-and-conjectures.html "The Declarative Imperative: Experiences and Conjectures ...

Author: Kodi Date: 2010-06-23 23:02:49 +0200 (Wed, 23 Jun 2010) New Revision: 31419 Modified: docs/Perl6/Spec/S03-operators.pod Log: [S03] Capitalo. Modified: docs/Perl6/Spec/S03-operators.pod ...

Author: masak Date: 2010-06-22 16:40:29 +0200 (Tue, 22 Jun 2010) New Revision: 31409 Modified: docs/Perl6/Spec/S29-functions.pod docs/Perl6/Spec/S32-setting-library/Basics.pod Log: [S29, S32] removed ...

Author: diakopter Date: 2010-06-22 03:17:22 +0200 (Tue, 22 Jun 2010) New Revision: 31405 Modified: docs/Perl6/Spec/S12-objects.pod Log: [S12] verbo Modified: docs/Perl6/Spec/S12-objects.pod ...

Author: diakopter Date: 2010-06-22 03:14:30 +0200 (Tue, 22 Jun 2010) New Revision: 31404 Modified: docs/Perl6/Spec/S12-objects.pod Log: [S12] sppelo Modified: docs/Perl6/Spec/S12-objects.pod ...

Author: lwall Date: 2010-06-19 20:10:57 +0200 (Sat, 19 Jun 2010) New Revision: 31377 Modified: docs/Perl6/Spec/S10-packages.pod Log: [S10] fix thinkos and bad writing Modified: ...

Author: lwall Date: 2010-06-19 20:04:32 +0200 (Sat, 19 Jun 2010) New Revision: 31376 Modified: docs/Perl6/Spec/S10-packages.pod Log: [S10] define how CANDO works with respect to lexically-scoped ...

Author: lwall Date: 2010-06-19 04:55:36 +0200 (Sat, 19 Jun 2010) New Revision: 31373 Modified: docs/Perl6/Spec/S03-operators.pod Log: [S03] explain more about the relationship of hypers with lazy ...

Author: lwall Date: 2010-06-19 04:24:36 +0200 (Sat, 19 Jun 2010) New Revision: 31372 Modified: docs/Perl6/Spec/S06-routines.pod Log: [S06] spec processing of rw vs de-containerized return values ...

Author: moritz Date: 2010-06-18 11:34:10 +0200 (Fri, 18 Jun 2010) New Revision: 31355 Modified: docs/Perl6/Spec/S06-routines.pod Log: [S06] order of candidates returned from .cando Modified: ...

Author: lwall Date: 2010-06-15 23:05:57 +0200 (Tue, 15 Jun 2010) New Revision: 31271 Modified: docs/Perl6/Spec/S03-operators.pod Log: [S03] typos spotted by masak++ Modified: ...

Author: lwall Date: 2010-06-15 22:35:27 +0200 (Tue, 15 Jun 2010) New Revision: 31270 Modified: docs/Perl6/Spec/S03-operators.pod Log: [S03] guarantee a monotonic function when single characters are ...

Author: lwall Date: 2010-06-11 19:00:19 +0200 (Fri, 11 Jun 2010) New Revision: 31195 Modified: docs/Perl6/Spec/S05-regex.pod Log: [S05] mention TOP, and explain how parsing is initiated and how it ...

Author: colomon Date: 2010-06-11 17:10:23 +0200 (Fri, 11 Jun 2010) New Revision: 31193 Modified: docs/Perl6/Spec/S32-setting-library/Numeric.pod Log: [spec] Document Numeric.Real, Numeric.Int, ...

Author: moritz Date: 2010-06-11 09:53:58 +0200 (Fri, 11 Jun 2010) New Revision: 31190 Modified: docs/Perl6/Spec/S06-routines.pod Log: [S06] more elaborate $*OUT/$*ERR selection for USAGE printing ...

Author: moritz Date: 2010-06-11 08:11:20 +0200 (Fri, 11 Jun 2010) New Revision: 31189 Modified: docs/Perl6/Spec/S06-routines.pod Log: [S06] print default usage messag to standard output, by petition ...

Author: moritz Date: 2010-06-07 22:01:26 +0200 (Mon, 07 Jun 2010) New Revision: 31166 Modified: docs/Perl6/Spec/S32-setting-library/Basics.pod Log: [S32] fix a grammero Modified: ...

Author: colomon Date: 2010-06-07 14:09:36 +0200 (Mon, 07 Jun 2010) New Revision: 31159 Modified: docs/Perl6/Spec/S03-operators.pod Log: [spec] Change div and mod to be operators on integer types. ...

Author: lwall Date: 2010-06-05 21:02:35 +0200 (Sat, 05 Jun 2010) New Revision: 31128 Modified: docs/Perl6/Spec/S05-regex.pod Log: [S05] posit that cursor lists may be returned to a regex with ...

Author: allbery_b Date: 2010-06-05 04:52:12 +0200 (Sat, 05 Jun 2010) New Revision: 31118 Modified: docs/Perl6/Spec/S05-regex.pod Log: [S05] typo Modified: docs/Perl6/Spec/S05-regex.pod ...

Author: lwall Date: 2010-06-05 02:28:09 +0200 (Sat, 05 Jun 2010) New Revision: 31117 Modified: docs/Perl6/Spec/S05-regex.pod Log: [S05] some clarifications suggested by sorear++ Modified: ...

Author: wayland Date: 2010-06-05 01:33:27 +0200 (Sat, 05 Jun 2010) New Revision: 31116 Modified: docs/Perl6/Spec/S32-setting-library/Rules.pod Log: Made some changes based on S05 -- they may even be ...

Author: masak Date: 2010-06-03 15:35:39 +0200 (Thu, 03 Jun 2010) New Revision: 31081 Modified: docs/Perl6/Spec/S32-setting-library/Str.pod Log: [S32/Str] proposed Str.indent Following an idea bounced ...

Author: lwall Date: 2010-06-02 20:02:31 +0200 (Wed, 02 Jun 2010) New Revision: 31053 Modified: docs/Perl6/Spec/S03-operators.pod Log: [S03] copy-o spotted by Smylers++ Modified: ...

Author: lwall Date: 2010-06-02 19:54:21 +0200 (Wed, 02 Jun 2010) New Revision: 31052 Modified: docs/Perl6/Spec/S02-bits.pod Log: [S02] add native blob types Modified: docs/Perl6/Spec/S02-bits.pod ...

Author: masak Date: 2010-06-02 12:11:42 +0200 (Wed, 02 Jun 2010) New Revision: 31045 Modified: docs/Perl6/Spec/S32-setting-library/Containers.pod Log: [S32/Containers] oh, and let's bump the version, ...

Author: masak Date: 2010-06-02 12:10:26 +0200 (Wed, 02 Jun 2010) New Revision: 31044 Modified: docs/Perl6/Spec/S32-setting-library/Containers.pod Log: [S32/Containers] Buf.new parameter no longer ...