Rakudo release tomorrow

2009-03-19 Thread Patrick R. Michaud
Hello, everyone! I'm now officially back from a very restful and enjoyable family vacation. I intended to put out a call for release blockers yesterday but we got back to our hotel room very late and we had to get up early this morning to pack and catch our flights home. So, although I'm fairl

Re: routine arrow syntax and return/of types

2009-03-19 Thread Jon Lang
Darren Duncan wrote: > Maybe the problem is a technicality with the parser because ... > > I'm guessing that the problem is that until you see the <-- then what you've > read so far on its left is ambiguous as to whether it is a result type or a > parameter.  I can understand that but I don't know

Re: routine arrow syntax and return/of types

2009-03-19 Thread Darren Duncan
Larry Wall wrote: On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 02:18:35PM -0700, Darren Duncan wrote: Yes, --> is the "of" type, not the "as" type, as S02 I think says. Good to know. Second, since the "sub NAME (PARAMS --> RETTYPE) {...}" form looks nice visually, I would like to request a variant of that form,

Re: routine arrow syntax and return/of types

2009-03-19 Thread Larry Wall
On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 02:18:35PM -0700, Darren Duncan wrote: > I have a question and a request. > > In http://perlcabal.org/syn/S06.html#Named_subroutines it says: > > The general syntax for named subroutines is any of: > > my RETTYPE sub NAME ( PARAMS ) TRAITS {...}# lexical only >

r25933 - docs/Perl6/Spec

2009-03-19 Thread pugs-commits
Author: lwall Date: 2009-03-20 00:05:55 +0100 (Fri, 20 Mar 2009) New Revision: 25933 Modified: docs/Perl6/Spec/S06-routines.pod Log: make as trait consistent with as/of in S02 Modified: docs/Perl6/Spec/S06-routines.pod === --- do

routine arrow syntax and return/of types

2009-03-19 Thread Darren Duncan
I have a question and a request. In http://perlcabal.org/syn/S06.html#Named_subroutines it says: The general syntax for named subroutines is any of: my RETTYPE sub NAME ( PARAMS ) TRAITS {...}# lexical only our RETTYPE sub NAME ( PARAMS ) TRAITS {...}# also package-scoped

r25911 - docs/Perl6/Spec

2009-03-19 Thread pugs-commits
Author: lwall Date: 2009-03-19 21:35:30 +0100 (Thu, 19 Mar 2009) New Revision: 25911 Modified: docs/Perl6/Spec/S12-objects.pod Log: mark recent remarks as only for post-6.0.0 Modified: docs/Perl6/Spec/S12-objects.pod === --- docs

Re: Dallas.p6m

2009-03-19 Thread Andy Lester
On Mar 18, 2009, at 5:26 PM, fREW Schmidt wrote: s1n and I decided that we would start Dallas.p6m as we are close to each other geographically speaking. We are meeting tomorrow (Thursday, March 19, 7:00PM) at a coffee shop with free wifi. The address is 985 W Bethany Dr Allen, TX 75013.

r25909 - docs/Perl6/Spec

2009-03-19 Thread pugs-commits
Author: lwall Date: 2009-03-19 19:28:28 +0100 (Thu, 19 Mar 2009) New Revision: 25909 Modified: docs/Perl6/Spec/S12-objects.pod Log: clarify container constraint meaning of sigil as requested by jnthn++ Modified: docs/Perl6/Spec/S12-objects.pod =

r25908 - docs/Perl6/Spec

2009-03-19 Thread pugs-commits
Author: lwall Date: 2009-03-19 19:13:13 +0100 (Thu, 19 Mar 2009) New Revision: 25908 Modified: docs/Perl6/Spec/S12-objects.pod Log: [S12] attempt to clarify type narrowness of multiple constraints, enums, and where clauses Modified: docs/Perl6/Spec/S12-objects.pod ===

[perl #63986] Rakudo doesn't fail to accept [-1] (but STD does)

2009-03-19 Thread Carl Mäsak
# New Ticket Created by "Carl Mäsak" # Please include the string: [perl #63986] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=63986 > rakudo: my @a = ; @a[-1] = 'zero'; @a.perl rakudo f8b6ae: RESULT«"[\"one\", \"two\"]"»

Re: Dallas.p6m

2009-03-19 Thread Graham Barr
On Mar 18, 2009, at 5:26 PM, fREW Schmidt wrote: s1n and I decided that we would start Dallas.p6m as we are close to each other geographically speaking. We are meeting tomorrow (Thursday, March 19, 7:00PM) at a coffee shop with free wifi. The address is 985 W Bethany Dr Allen, TX 75013.

[perl #63978] lexically nested around the eval is broken

2009-03-19 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by Ilya Belikin # Please include the string: [perl #63978] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=63978 > Hi there, example: class C { method foo { eval("':)'.say") } } C.foo; die with:

[perl #63974] @_ doesn't get the first argument

2009-03-19 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by Moritz Lenz # Please include the string: [perl #63974] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=63974 > 00:01 < moritz_> rakudo: my $c = { say $_; say @_.perl }; $c(2, 3, 4, 5) 00:01 < p6eval>

[perl #63976] zero repetition (A)* in regexes may still produce non-empty @()

2009-03-19 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by Moritz Lenz # Please include the string: [perl #63976] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=63976 > Rakudo f8b6aeec564dfa79162b3f6b53302afdc2f33b19: '8' ~~ /\d (A)*/; my $x = $/; for @($x

Re: Rakduo Logo Proposal

2009-03-19 Thread Timothy S. Nelson
On Wed, 18 Mar 2009, Matthew Walton wrote: On Wed, 2009-03-18 at 16:43 +0100, Carl Mäsak wrote: Stephen (>): Use of the gimel[1] character comes from Justin Simoni's logo design proposal[2] from a while back, and the design is a reference to the anarchist symbol[3]. It also looks like a refe

Re: r25821 - docs/Perl6/Spec

2009-03-19 Thread Carl Mäsak
Jonathan (>): > O AKSHUALY...that's quite easy to do, since we just calls .WHAT on the value > to get its proto-object and stick it in the sig. So perhaps best is just to > re-define: > > multi sub fib (LITERAL) { ... } > > As meaning > > multi sub fib (LITERAL.WHAT $ where LITERAL) { ... } I like