Perl > perl6-language > March 2011

[This might be better suited to p6c if it turns out that this is a bug, but I'll assume it's not to start...] So, last night sorear said, "I might write the loop as for 2 .. $lim X 2 .. $lim - $a, $b ...

It occurs to me, both from my own experience in writing code as well as seeing some production code by others, that spell-checking may be useful in programming languages. To be specific, often ...

[In response to a comment on perl6-compiler, in the thread "[perl #85746] spec/S29-context/sleep.t is way too relax"] This is a more general problem: the distinction between prefix ops and functions ...

On #perl6, we're trying to figure out who it was that made a fairly large investigation into the naming of parameters of the functions and methods in S28/S32 a couple of years ago. We seem to recall ...

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On behalf of the Parrot team, I'm proud to announce Parrot 3.2.0, also known as "Nanday Parakeet". Parrot (http://parrot.org/) is a virtual machine aimed at running all dynamic languages. Parrot ...

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Hi all, I just downloaded and compiled rakudo/parrot, as in: ~/src/perl6/perl6-cache-memcached$ perl6 -v This is Rakudo Perl 6, version 2011.02-43-gbfdd78d built on parrot 3.1.0 ...

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