Re: Filename literals

2009-08-16 Thread Timothy S. Nelson
On Sun, 16 Aug 2009, David Green wrote: On 2009-Aug-15, at 9:22 am, Jon Lang wrote: IOW, your "outside the file" stuff is whatever can be done without having to open the file, and your "inside the file" is whatever only makes sense once the file has been opened. Correct? Pretty much,

Re: S26 - The Next Generation

2009-08-16 Thread Damian Conway
Darren Duncan asked: > But one thing I'm not sure whether or not it was addressed is regards to > whether free-form documentation is still supported or can be effectively > combined with embedding documentation into the places that it is > documenting. Yes and yes. Normal Pod blocks weren't ment

Re: S26 - The Next Generation

2009-08-16 Thread Darren Duncan
Damian Conway wrote: It's Sunday evening and, as promised, here's the new draft of S26. That's great to see. And from the executive summary, it seems to include a lot of the features or behaviors I was suggesting in the "comments as preserved meta-data" thread. I will look at this new S26 m

Re: S26 - The Next Generation

2009-08-16 Thread David Green
On 2009-Aug-16, at 2:26 pm, Damian Conway wrote: It's Sunday evening and, as promised, here's the new draft of S26. Yay! (To the contents, that is, not to the posting of it. Well, to the posting too, since otherwise it would have been much harder to read.) Perl that accesses $=POD and/

r28005 - docs/Perl6/Spec

2009-08-16 Thread pugs-commits
Author: benmorrow Date: 2009-08-16 21:16:39 +0200 (Sun, 16 Aug 2009) New Revision: 28005 Modified: docs/Perl6/Spec/S04-control.pod Log: [Spec] Clarify behaviour of closure traits when an exception is thrown. Modified: docs/Perl6/Spec/S04-control.pod ===

[perl #68568] [BUG] Less than awesome error message when passing a named where a positional should be in Rakudo

2009-08-16 Thread Carl Mäsak via RT
On Sun Aug 16 04:30:06 2009, masak wrote: > rakudo: sub foo($positional, :$named) {}; foo(:named) > rakudo 0d4fe0: OUTPUT«invalid arg type in named portion of > args␤in sub foo [...] > it doesn't say the name of the arg that cause the error, or > the name of the arg that it expected > * masak su

[perl #68572] [BUG] Instead of emitting a cautious and slightly scary internal error message, Rakudo should forbid nesting other packages in roles

2009-08-16 Thread Carl Mäsak
# New Ticket Created by "Carl Mäsak" # Please include the string: [perl #68572] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=68572 > rakudo: role Maybe[::T] { role Just[T] {} }; say Maybe[Int].new() rakudo 0d4fe0: OUTPU

Re: Filename literals

2009-08-16 Thread David Green
On 2009-Aug-15, at 9:22 am, Jon Lang wrote: IOW, your "outside the file" stuff is whatever can be done without having to open the file, and your "inside the file" is whatever only makes sense once the file has been opened. Correct? If so, could you give some examples of how such a distinction c

[perl #68568] [BUG] Less than awesome error message when passing a named where a positional should be in Rakudo

2009-08-16 Thread Carl Mäsak
# New Ticket Created by "Carl Mäsak" # Please include the string: [perl #68568] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=68568 > rakudo: sub foo($positional, :$named) {}; foo(:named) rakudo 0d4fe0: OUTPUT«invalid ar

[perl #68558] [BUG] nextwith and callwith do not work with the .new method in Rakudo

2009-08-16 Thread Carl Mäsak
# New Ticket Created by "Carl Mäsak" # Please include the string: [perl #68558] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=68558 > rakudo: class A { has $.foo; method new($foo) { nextwith(:$foo) } }; say A.new("OH HAI"