r27050 - docs/Perl6/Spec

2009-06-09 Thread pugs-commits
Author: skids Date: 2009-06-09 23:21:33 +0200 (Tue, 09 Jun 2009) New Revision: 27050 Modified: docs/Perl6/Spec/S09-data.pod Log: Make 0..* versus 0..*-1 less confusing to spec greppers Modified: docs/Perl6/Spec/S09-data.pod ===

Re: LValues, types, mutability

2009-06-09 Thread TSa
HaloO, John M. Dlugosz wrote: In your example above, @a is a read-only container, so the assignment would fail and this should be noticed at compile time. Fully agree. Now what if the parameter was declared as ref? The compiler gets passed the body of store17 and continues to the call. Th

r27045 - docs/Perl6/Spec

2009-06-09 Thread pugs-commits
Author: lwall Date: 2009-06-09 19:43:18 +0200 (Tue, 09 Jun 2009) New Revision: 27045 Modified: docs/Perl6/Spec/S12-objects.pod Log: [S12] limit multi method effects to inside a class to preserve encapsulation likewise .^methods describes a set of multi methods as a single method Modified: doc

Re: rakudo-current loop 2-3 orders of magnitude slower than perl 5?

2009-06-09 Thread Timothy S. Nelson
On Thu, 4 Jun 2009, Fagyal Csongor wrote: increase in the number of new Perl6ers at around < 100x slower. (That, and the 10 "most important" Perl5 CPAN modules ported to Perl6 :)) Strangely enough, I was working on a list of things like this at one point. I'll format it up a bit, and includ

Re: CPAN -- moving forward

2009-06-09 Thread Timothy S. Nelson
On Sat, 30 May 2009, Daniel Ruoso wrote: 1) A package format. This is supposed to be a source format, but different from current model used in CPAN, it's pretty clear already that it can't include a "build system", like ExtUtils::MakeMaker or Module::Install. There's already some consensus th

r27043 - docs/Perl6/Spec

2009-06-09 Thread pugs-commits
Author: wayland Date: 2009-06-09 14:33:13 +0200 (Tue, 09 Jun 2009) New Revision: 27043 Modified: docs/Perl6/Spec/S12-objects.pod Log: [S12] A heirarch must be the heir of a lord or king or something. Anyway, I've killed him and replaced him with a hierarch :). Modified: docs/Perl6/S

[perl #66388] [BUG] Cannot put Pod after a role declaration statement in Rakudo

2009-06-09 Thread Carl Mäsak via RT
Yes, this one was probably a false alarm; rejecting.

Re: say followed by lines - inconsistencies

2009-06-09 Thread Richard Hainsworth
Larry Wall wrote: Well, regardless of whether there are extra spaces, please note that the default stringifications are not intended as a serialization format. They are intended only to provide a bit of human readability for the common case of small, spaceless items such as numbers and words; t