Re: perl6

2015-10-20 Thread Brock Wilcox
(My apologies if these are redundant observations for this mailing list community) Also note for anyone who wonders "what's up with this Perl6 thing?" that, despite the name, "Perl6" is a VERY different programming language than Perl5. Perl6 is not Perl5 with some impro

Re: perl6

2015-10-20 Thread Shlomi Fish
Hi Wah Peng, On Tue, 20 Oct 2015 11:30:20 +0800 Wah Peng wrote: > Hello members, > > Do you know if perl6 the first version will get released this Xmas day? > I believe that the plan is that the first “stable” version of a Perl 6 implementation will be released by Christmas thi

perl6

2015-10-19 Thread Wah Peng
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Re: Perl6

2009-09-01 Thread Shlomi Fish
On Wednesday 02 September 2009 02:46:01 Steve Bertrand wrote: > All, > > Can those who have experience comment with their opinions? Perhaps this > isn't a newb question, but hopefully many have heard about Perl6 [1]. > > Which changes do you like? What changes don

Re: Perl6

2009-09-01 Thread Steve Bertrand
Telemachus wrote: > I've been following Perl6 via these links. You may find some good reading > at one or another of these: > > http://szabgab.com/perl6_tricks_and_treats.html > http://perlgeek.de/blog-en/perl-5-to-6/ > http://perlgeek.de/blog-en/perl-6/ > > You c

Re: Perl6

2009-09-01 Thread Telemachus
I've been following Perl6 via these links. You may find some good reading at one or another of these: http://szabgab.com/perl6_tricks_and_treats.html http://perlgeek.de/blog-en/perl-5-to-6/ http://perlgeek.de/blog-en/perl-6/ You can also find some interesting projects on Github that are

Re: Perl6

2009-09-01 Thread Steve Bertrand
Uri Guttman wrote: > this list is not the > place to discuss this. Ok. Steve smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: Perl6

2009-09-01 Thread Uri Guttman
>>>>> "SB" == Steve Bertrand writes: SB> All, Can those who have experience comment with their opinions? SB> Perhaps this isn't a newb question, but hopefully many have heard SB> about Perl6 [1]. it isn't a newbie question at all. there is plent

Perl6

2009-09-01 Thread Steve Bertrand
All, Can those who have experience comment with their opinions? Perhaps this isn't a newb question, but hopefully many have heard about Perl6 [1]. Which changes do you like? What changes don't you like? Are any of you developing programs that are strictly Perl6? Would it be worth att

Re: perl6::form simple reporting

2007-02-20 Thread Daniel Kasak
Ken Foskey wrote: > I have a script that takes an sql and formats into a report, simple > stuff. > > I have a product that when it changes I want a sub heading. I have > coded this. > > if( $prior_product ne $sql_product ) { > print form... > $prior_product = $sql_product; > } > > Is there

perl6::form simple reporting

2007-02-13 Thread Ken Foskey
I have a script that takes an sql and formats into a report, simple stuff. I have a product that when it changes I want a sub heading. I have coded this. if( $prior_product ne $sql_product ) { print form... $prior_product = $sql_product; } Is there a better way to code this sort of rep

RE: perl6

2002-04-05 Thread Chas Owens
On Fri, 2002-04-05 at 11:17, Nikola Janceski wrote: > uh... '->' is used as a dereferencer also, but I also dereference my code as > so.. > > $value = $$ref2hash{'key'}; > @slice = @$ref2array[0 .. 2]; > > I really need to find the time to read the Articles but between work and > taxes > >

RE: perl6

2002-04-05 Thread Nikola Janceski
om: Chas Owens [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, April 05, 2002 10:55 AM > To: Timothy Johnson > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: perl6 > > > On Thu, 2002-04-04 at 10:39, Timothy Johnson wrote: > > > > At the risk of beating a dead and bloated horse, I hav

RE: perl6

2002-04-05 Thread Chas Owens
On Thu, 2002-04-04 at 10:39, Timothy Johnson wrote: > > At the risk of beating a dead and bloated horse, I have no doubt that I will > enjoy and take advantages of the improvements in Perl6, but I still don't > see the logic in changing operators. I mean, why make old code u

Re: perl6

2002-04-04 Thread Elaine -HFB- Ashton
Timothy Johnson [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth: *> *>At the risk of beating a dead and bloated horse, I have no doubt that I will *>enjoy and take advantages of the improvements in Perl6, but I still don't *>see the logic in changing operators. I mean, why make old code unusable? *&

RE: perl6

2002-04-04 Thread Chas Owens
On Thu, 2002-04-04 at 10:39, Timothy Johnson wrote: > > At the risk of beating a dead and bloated horse, I have no doubt that I will > enjoy and take advantages of the improvements in Perl6, but I still don't > see the logic in changing operators. I mean, why make old code u

RE: perl6

2002-04-04 Thread Jonathan E. Paton
> At the risk of beating a dead and bloated horse, I have no doubt that I will > enjoy and take advantages of the improvements in Perl6, but I still don't > see the logic in changing operators. I mean, why make old code unusable? > If you can make a Perl5->6 converter, why

RE: perl6

2002-04-04 Thread Timothy Johnson
At the risk of beating a dead and bloated horse, I have no doubt that I will enjoy and take advantages of the improvements in Perl6, but I still don't see the logic in changing operators. I mean, why make old code unusable? If you can make a Perl5->6 converter, why can't you in

RE: perl6

2002-04-04 Thread Chas Owens
On Thu, 2002-04-04 at 03:25, peter grotz wrote: > > variable sigils ($@%) are now constant (ie you say > >@array[2] instead of $array[2]), the concatenation operator is > changing > >from '.' to ' - ' (note the whitespace), the member of operator '->' is > > >changing to '.', and various other s

RE: perl6

2002-04-04 Thread Jonathan E. Paton
> what at hell should these changes help us? I´m using perl 5.6.1 now for > a long time and I don´t wanna change my kind of writing my progs, only > because some mastermind thinks that he must change the good old!! There are many better changes, including: * Parrot (the interpreter) will be easi

RE: perl6

2002-04-04 Thread peter grotz
> variable sigils ($@%) are now constant (ie you say >@array[2] instead of $array[2]), the concatenation operator is changing >from '.' to ' - ' (note the whitespace), the member of operator '->' is >changing to '.', and various other small things. what at hell should these changes help us? I´m

Beginner? Please provide input into design of next version of perl (perl6).

2001-05-12 Thread Me
This is just my survey of one small but (imo) important aspect of perl 6. It will take about two minutes and six mouse clicks to do it. I will collate all answers and report to the people who are designing Perl 6 (including Larry Wall of course). http://www.self-reference.com/cgi-bin/perl6plural