Re: perl 6 hosting?

2006-05-25 Thread Gabor Szabo
On 5/25/06, David Cantrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I might be able to host a virtual machine with perl6 on it and give out accounts. I need to think about how to stop people being naughty though. Probably the easy part is to to remove the most dangerous calls such as eval and system and then

Fwd: eval

2006-05-25 Thread Michael Mathews
Oh try! I like that! But is CATCH implemented in pugs? Anyone care to give a working example of try/CATCH? --michael On 25/05/06, Yuval Kogman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To complement string eval with eval { } (now called try): try { die foo; } or say error: $!

Re: eval

2006-05-25 Thread David Romano
Hi Michael, On 5/24/06, Michael Mathews [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Oh try! I like that! But is CATCH implemented in pugs? Anyone care to give a working example of try/CATCH? I don't think CATCH is implemented in pugs yet: #!/usr/local/bin/pugs catcher; sub catcher { say here; try {

Perl 6 Wiki -- 2 more possibilities, further discussion.

2006-05-25 Thread Conrad Schneiker
(Responding to 3 notes on 2 mail lists here; Changed subject line.) Juerd wrote: Feather, the semi-public, semi-private, Perl 6 development server, is available to host a Perl 6 wiki. The hostname www.perl6.nl is deliberately kept available for something like that. Does that mean you are

Re: Perl 6 Wiki -- 2 more possibilities, further discussion.

2006-05-25 Thread Michael Mathews
The (oh so very cool) idea of implementing the perl 6 wiki IN perl 6 (eventually) is a powerful argument. I also concede that control issues mean we don't want the official wiki to be on wikipedia. Kwiki is already a perl-based wiki, but I have no experience using it. We don't have to put perl 6

Re: [perl #39056] [BUG] vtable override doesn't work in sub-subclasses

2006-05-25 Thread Leopold Toetsch
Am Mittwoch, 3. Mai 2006 00:30 schrieb Patrick R.Michaud (via RT): Vtable overrides don't appear to work in a once-removed subclass (i.e., a subclass of a subclass).  It's easiest to explain with code: Fixed now in r12797. Thanks for the test. leo

Re: Perl 6 Wiki -- 2 more possibilities, further discussion.

2006-05-25 Thread Juerd
Please, for proper threading, don't reply to multiple messages at once. Conrad Schneiker skribis 2006-05-25 1:46 (-0700): Juerd wrote: Feather, the semi-public, semi-private, Perl 6 development server, is available to host a Perl 6 wiki. The hostname www.perl6.nl is deliberately kept

perldoc or pod parser in Perl6

2006-05-25 Thread Gabor Szabo
sligthly related to the Perl6 wiki issue, is there a perldoc command or a podparser implemented in Perl6 already ? Gabor

Re[2]: perl 6 hosting?

2006-05-25 Thread Andrew Shitov
GS The hard part is to make sure they won't write code to exploit other sites or GS create hug load on your machine... Any idea of how to avoid endless loops? :-) Restricting execution time? -- ___ Andrew, [EMAIL

Re: Logic Programming for Perl6 (Was Re: 3 Good Reasons... (typo alert!))

2006-05-25 Thread Larry Wall
This topic may be better suited to perl6-language, unless you consider its denizens to already be self-selected against logic programming. :) Larry

Instructions to build parrot using mingw

2006-05-25 Thread Joshua Gatcomb
All: It has been 1.5 years since I have built parrot and a lot has changed. Today I decided to dust off some old projects but I am having trouble getting it to build. Previously, I used Cygwin. I have mingw, msys, and ActiveState Perl Unfortunately, I do not have permission to create files in

[svn:perl6-synopsis] r9307 - doc/trunk/design/syn

2006-05-25 Thread larry
Author: larry Date: Thu May 25 11:21:16 2006 New Revision: 9307 Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S06.pod Log: Clarifying the distinction between the of and where return types. Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S06.pod ==

Re: Logic Programming for Perl6 (Was Re: 3 Good Reasons... (typo alert!))

2006-05-25 Thread Ovid
- Original Message From: David Romano [EMAIL PROTECTED] duplicate results and this is almost always wrong. (See http://use.perl.org/~Ovid/journal/28378 for an SQL example of this problem). I re-read your journal entry and comments (I had read it back when you first had posted

Fw: Logic Programming for Perl6 (Was Re: 3 Good Reasons... (typo alert!))

2006-05-25 Thread Ovid
Larry pointed out that this topic is better suited for perl6-language instead of perl6-users, so I'm forwarding this along. Feel free to exercise your delete key. Cheers, Ovid -- If this message is a response to a question on a mailing list, please send follow up questions to the list.

Re: CPANTS is not a game.

2006-05-25 Thread Ovid
- Original Message From: David Golden [EMAIL PROTECTED] formatted. E.g. I believe this is sufficient to get the Kwalitee point: # t/pod_coverage.t __END__ use Test::Pod::Coverage; What? You think that's bad? Here are three lines from Acme::Code::Police:

Re: 3 Good Reasons...

2006-05-25 Thread Steffen Schwigon
Michael Mathews [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: So my question to the list is, in simple terms even an IT manager could grasp, explain what problems Perl 5 has that Perl 6 fixes, such that they would want to undergo the pain of ever switching. From a Perl point of view: there should be no pain. At

Re: CPANTS is not a game.

2006-05-25 Thread Philippe BooK Bruhat
Le mardi 23 mai 2006 à 21:56, Thomas Klausner écrivait: And no, I won't take the fun out of CPANTS. Then why did you filter out the Acme modules from the prereq lists? Mmm? For example, see http://cpants.perl.org/dist/Bot-MetaSyntactic and

PBC meta info

2006-05-25 Thread Leopold Toetsch
While reading pdd23 and thinking of implementation strategies for .begin_eh / .end_eh the following ideas jumped onto my branes: - .begin_eh / .end_eh is by far not the only metainfo we want / need in PBC files - we already have debug info (line numbers / file info = PC relation) - we need

Fwd: 3 Good Reasons...

2006-05-25 Thread Michael Mathews
Hi Steffen, I'm glad you made that point. If I understand your statement, it's a common gain cited by Perl 6 (actually Parrot) advocates: you can mix languages. But a point I was trying to make was that while this is fun for us developers, managers hate it, with very good reason. Having one

Re: Instructions to build parrot using mingw

2006-05-25 Thread Jurosz Michal
Hello, do not use msys. Try mingw32-make from cmd.exe. http://wiki.kn.vutbr.cz/mj/index.cgi?Build%20Parrot%20with%20MinGW can probably help too. Michal Jurosz Joshua Gatcomb wrote: All: It has been 1.5 years since I have built parrot and a lot has changed. Today I decided to dust off some

Re: Fw: Logic Programming for Perl6 (Was Re: 3 Good Reasons... (typo alert!))

2006-05-25 Thread Jonathan Lang
Hmm... How about this: Treat each knowledge base as an object, with at least two methods: .fact() takes the argument list and constructs a prolog-like fact or rule out of it, which then gets added to the knowledge base. .query() takes the argument list, constructs a prolog-like query out of it,

Re: [svn:perl6-synopsis] r9307 - doc/trunk/design/syn

2006-05-25 Thread Sam Vilain
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: +In either case this sets the Cof property of the container to CDog. +Subroutines have a variant of the Cof property, Creturns, that +sets the Creturns property instead. The Creturns property specifies +a constraint to be checked upon calling Creturn that, unlike the Cof

Re: Logic Programming for Perl6 (Was Re: 3 Good Reasons... (typo alert!))

2006-05-25 Thread A. Pagaltzis
* Ovid [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-05-25 20:45]: The first hurdle would be the syntax. The programmer just looking at the code would need to know when one section of code represents a snippet of logic programming. Is the following a function call or a Prolog fact? loves( 'foo', 'bar' );