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From: Matthew Walton matt...@matthew-walton.co.uk
Date: Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 7:10 AM
Subject: Re: More flexible
Jon Lang wrote:
smuj wrote:
Jon Lang wrote:
Here's a radical notion: use something other than '#' to initiate an
inline comment.
[snippage]
Or maybe just don't allow embedded comments unless they are actually
embedded, i.e. if a line starts with a # (ignoring leading whitespace)
then it's
raiph (), Larry ():
Rakudo Zengi would be the most (in)appropriate, I think.
Why do I get the sense that some in the community are suffering siege
mentality? ;)
I had thought of things like Zen, Zero, Catalyst, etc.
But I love * | Star | Whatever. I love:
o The word Star, regardless of
Perhaps we could name the incomplete releases Rakudo Bikeshed.
Each release could be named after a popular color of bikeshed. The first
one should definitely be called Rakudo White Bikeshed.
-j
Quoth markjr...@gmail.com (Mark J. Reed):
I still like the double-bracket idea. I don't much mind the extra
character; 5 characters total still beats the 7 of HTML/XML.
I much prefer double-bracket to double-#: double-# gets caught out when
you do s/^/# on code which already includes
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This is a basic patch to add a mkdir function. The (optional) mode
parameter uses
Sorry for the delay in replying, but I was busy with other things and I
wanted to give other people a chance to reply. Since noone has, might it
be possible to get the attached patches committed? I'm not familiar with
the protocol for such things so, again, I'm sorry if I've got it wrong.
Ben
On Seg, 2009-08-10 at 22:06 -0500, raiph mellor wrote:
Rakudo Zengi would be the most (in)appropriate, I think.
This latter point is the most exciting for me. What is Rakudo Star?
Well, it's...
A Beatles drummer ?
-- Jose Celestino SAPO.pt::Systems http://www.sapo.pt
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Being on holidays, it is not easy to follow threads closely, so if
I repeat things other people have said already, I apologize beforehand.
My responses may b late as well.
Two years ago, I discussed various options, which compared POD to features
in to other languages and suggested various
Ben Morrow wrote:
However, I would much rather see a general syntax like
(# ... )
{# ... }
[# ... ]
with no whitespace allowed between the opening bracket and the #: this
doesn't seem to conflict with anything. Allowing # ... in rules would
also be nice.
That's rather elegant.
smuj wrote:
Jon Lang wrote:
smuj wrote:
Jon Lang wrote:
Here's a radical notion: use something other than '#' to initiate an
inline comment.
[snippage]
Or maybe just don't allow embedded comments unless they are actually
embedded, i.e. if a line starts with a # (ignoring leading
Author: jani
Date: 2009-08-11 17:08:49 +0200 (Tue, 11 Aug 2009)
New Revision: 27957
Modified:
docs/Perl6/Spec/S09-data.pod
Log:
Clarification of hash key sort order, based on S32
Modified: docs/Perl6/Spec/S09-data.pod
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On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 10:31 AM, Carl Mäsak cma...@gmail.com wrote:
In my post Three things in Perl 6 that aren't so great [0], I
outline three things about Perl 6 that bug me at present. Commenter
daxim made what seems to me a sensible proposal [1] for solving the
third problem, Comments in
On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 8:59 AM, Jon Lang datawea...@gmail.com wrote:
Ben Morrow wrote:
However, I would much rather see a general syntax like
(# ... )
{# ... }
[# ... ]
a preceding ':' (colon) makes it *notionally*
a null-label-block-comment-construct.
with no
Ben Morrow wrote:
Quoth markjr...@gmail.com (Mark J. Reed):
I still like the double-bracket idea. I don't much mind the extra
character; 5 characters total still beats the 7 of HTML/XML.
I much prefer double-bracket to double-#: double-# gets caught out when
you do s/^/# on code which
Moritz Lenz mor...@faui2k3.org writes:
In all other cases of quote like constructs are the semantics are
explicit first (think of Q, qx, m, , «), the delimiter comes later.
Changing that all of a sudden seems very unintuitive and wrong.
Thing is, comments are not quote-like. All of the
Author: lwall
Date: 2009-08-11 19:28:07 +0200 (Tue, 11 Aug 2009)
New Revision: 27959
Modified:
docs/Perl6/Spec/S02-bits.pod
docs/Perl6/Spec/S04-control.pod
docs/Perl6/Spec/S05-regex.pod
docs/Perl6/Spec/S32-setting-library/Containers.pod
Log:
change embedded comment syntax to #`[...]
At 6PM +0200 on 11/08/09 you (Moritz Lenz) wrote:
Ben Morrow wrote:
However, I would much rather see a general syntax like
(# ... )
{# ... }
[# ... ]
with no whitespace allowed between the opening bracket and the #: this
doesn't seem to conflict with anything.
Ben Morrow wrote:
This appears to be leading to a :comment modifier on quotables, with
some suitable shortcut. Perhaps 'q#'? Or are we not allowed mixed alpha
and symbols?
It's probably a bad practice, if possible.
(I really want to suggest £, just to teach USAnians '#' isn't called
for the latest spec changes regarding this item, see
http://perlcabal.org/svn/pugs/revision/?rev=27959.
is everyone equally miserable now? ;)
~jerry
for the latest spec changes regarding this item, see
http://perlcabal.org/svn/pugs/revision/?rev=27959.
is everyone equally miserable now? ;)
~jerry
Ha! :)
I do indeed feel underwhelmed. I'll surely get over it but I may as
well post why, even though Larry's presumably trying to stop the
jerry gay wrote:
for the latest spec changes regarding this item, see
http://perlcabal.org/svn/pugs/revision/?rev=27959.
is everyone equally miserable now? ;)
Already seen it. My latest points still stand, though: #`(...) is
still vulnerable to ambiguity relative to #..., whereas `#(...),
jerry gay wrote:
for the latest spec changes regarding this item, see
http://perlcabal.org/svn/pugs/revision/?rev=27959.
is everyone equally miserable now? ;)
I'm quite happy actually -- #` or #+ makes no difference to me :-)
S02 just got that little bit simpler, so the thread was
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Eirik Berg Hanssen wrote:
Moritz Lenz mor...@faui2k3.org writes:
In all other cases of quote like constructs are the semantics are
explicit first (think of Q, qx, m, , «), the delimiter comes later.
Changing that all of a sudden seems very unintuitive and wrong.
Thing is, comments are not
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