$?OS change

2009-03-01 Thread Timothy S. Nelson
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). Thoughts? :) - | Na

r25652 - docs/Perl6/Spec

2009-03-01 Thread pugs-commits
Author: wayland Date: 2009-03-02 07:00:47 +0100 (Mon, 02 Mar 2009) New Revision: 25652 Modified: docs/Perl6/Spec/S28-special-names.pod Log: Should've looked first -- $*DISTRO is documented in S02 :) Modified: docs/Perl6/Spec/S28-special-names.pod ==

r25651 - docs/Perl6/Spec

2009-03-01 Thread pugs-commits
Author: wayland Date: 2009-03-02 06:51:23 +0100 (Mon, 02 Mar 2009) New Revision: 25651 Modified: docs/Perl6/Spec/S28-special-names.pod Log: S28: - Did more heading changes to make it "Special Names" instead of "Special Variables" - Added lots of spec cross-references - Added

r25650 - docs/Perl6/Spec

2009-03-01 Thread pugs-commits
Author: wayland Date: 2009-03-02 06:29:37 +0100 (Mon, 02 Mar 2009) New Revision: 25650 Added: docs/Perl6/Spec/S21-calling-foreign-code.pod Log: Wrote this a few days ago, but forgot to svn add. Added: docs/Perl6/Spec/S21-calling-foreign-code.pod =

Re: Google's Summer of Code 2009

2009-03-01 Thread jerry gay
On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 17:26, Hinrik Örn Sigurðsson wrote: > 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 interested > in mentoring students on Perl

Google's Summer of Code 2009

2009-03-01 Thread Hinrik Örn Sigurðsson
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 interested in mentoring students on Perl 6-related projects this year. I for one would like to apply (as a st

Re: r25541 - docs/Perl6/Spec

2009-03-01 Thread Timothy S. Nelson
On Fri, 27 Feb 2009, Henry Baragar wrote: I am starting to get overwhelmed by the number of special names and I am wondering why we need to have a flat naming space? For example, wouldn't it be easier to remember (and to introspect) the following? I vote in favour of the general idea, alth

Re: pod variables?

2009-03-01 Thread Timothy S. Nelson
On Fri, 27 Feb 2009, Darren Duncan wrote: Jon Lang wrote: Under the section about twigils in S02, "$=var" is described as a "pod variable". I'm not finding any other references to pod variables; what are tey, and how are they used? (In particular, I'm wondering if they're a fossil; if they ar

Re: Range and continuous intervals

2009-03-01 Thread Jon Lang
Thomas Sandlaß wrote: > The benefit of a dedicated Interval type comes from supporting set > operations (&), (|) etc. which are still unmentioned in S03. Have set operations been implemented in either Rakudo or Pugs? > BTW, > what does (1..^5).max return? I think it should be 4 because this > is

Re: Range and continuous intervals

2009-03-01 Thread TSa (Thomas Sandlaß)
On Friday, 27. February 2009 07:42:17 Darren Duncan wrote: > I was thinking that Perl 6 ought to have a generic interval type that is > conceptually like Range, in that it is defined using a pair of values of an > ordered type and includes all the values between those, but unlike Range > that type

Re: Masak's S29 list

2009-03-01 Thread Moritz Lenz
Timothy S. Nelson wrote: > Here's my comments on Carl Masak's S29 list. Note that some of the > things that say that they're "now in" something still need a lot of work. > > # Range objects have .from, .to, .min, .max and .minmax methods > > Now in S32/Containers.pod > > # .contains on

r25645 - docs/Perl6/Spec

2009-03-01 Thread pugs-commits
Author: lwall Date: 2009-03-01 09:48:35 +0100 (Sun, 01 Mar 2009) New Revision: 25645 Modified: docs/Perl6/Spec/S02-bits.pod docs/Perl6/Spec/S28-special-names.pod Log: doc tweaks. $?OSVER should be $?OS.ver or some such Modified: docs/Perl6/Spec/S02-bits.pod ===