"deprecated" (was Re: r29143 ...)

2009-11-19 Thread Darren Duncan
pugs-comm...@feather.perl6.nl wrote: @@ -1020,22 +1018,17 @@ C<< prefix: >> -Coerces to type C. Floor semantics are used for fractional -values, including strings that appear to express fractional values. -That is, C must have the same result as C in all -cases. All implicit conversions t

r29143 - docs/Perl6/Spec

2009-11-19 Thread pugs-commits
Author: lwall Date: 2009-11-20 08:10:40 +0100 (Fri, 20 Nov 2009) New Revision: 29143 Modified: docs/Perl6/Spec/S03-operators.pod Log: [S03] tweaks from TheDamian++ Various coercion clarifications Modified: docs/Perl6/Spec/S03-operators.pod =

r29142 - in docs/Perl6/Spec: . S32-setting-library

2009-11-19 Thread pugs-commits
Author: lwall Date: 2009-11-20 07:12:28 +0100 (Fri, 20 Nov 2009) New Revision: 29142 Modified: docs/Perl6/Spec/S02-bits.pod docs/Perl6/Spec/S03-operators.pod docs/Perl6/Spec/S04-control.pod docs/Perl6/Spec/S05-regex.pod docs/Perl6/Spec/S06-routines.pod docs/Perl6/Spec/S10-package

Re: r29111 - docs/Perl6/Spec

2009-11-19 Thread Darren Duncan
Darren Duncan wrote: Moritz Lenz wrote: FatRat.new(45207196, 10**37); And note that a decimal-specific answer isn't what I want, since I want something that would also work for this: 45207196 * 11 ** -37 FatRat.new(45207196, 11**37); Solomon Foster wrote: What's your objection to Fat

r29141 - docs/Perl6/Spec

2009-11-19 Thread pugs-commits
Author: lwall Date: 2009-11-20 05:34:57 +0100 (Fri, 20 Nov 2009) New Revision: 29141 Modified: docs/Perl6/Spec/S06-routines.pod docs/Perl6/Spec/S09-data.pod Log: [S06,S09] rename 'is ref' to 'is parcel' and make it synonymous with \ Modified: docs/Perl6/Spec/S06-routines.pod ==

r29140 - docs/Perl6/Spec

2009-11-19 Thread pugs-commits
Author: lwall Date: 2009-11-20 05:31:36 +0100 (Fri, 20 Nov 2009) New Revision: 29140 Modified: docs/Perl6/Spec/S12-objects.pod Log: [S12] start process of distingishing abstract ~ from concrete .Str (likewise for + vs .Num) Modified: docs/Perl6/Spec/S12-objects.pod ===

r29134 - docs/Perl6/Spec

2009-11-19 Thread pugs-commits
Author: lwall Date: 2009-11-20 03:40:33 +0100 (Fri, 20 Nov 2009) New Revision: 29134 Modified: docs/Perl6/Spec/S02-bits.pod docs/Perl6/Spec/S03-operators.pod docs/Perl6/Spec/S04-control.pod Log: [S02,3,4] attempt to rename void context to sink context and see if it clogs Modified: docs/

Rakudo Perl 6 development release #23 ("Lisbon")

2009-11-19 Thread Carl Mäsak
Announce: Rakudo Perl 6 development release #23 ("Lisbon") On behalf of the Rakudo development team, I'm pleased to announce the November 2009 development release of Rakudo Perl #23 "Lisbon". Rakudo is an implementation of Perl 6 on the Parrot Virtual Machine (see http://www.parrot.org). The tarb

Re: r29129 - docs/Perl6/Spec

2009-11-19 Thread Geoffrey Broadwell
I kinda like 'blorst'. The word makes me think of a warm stew on a cold winter night. And I agree with the searchability advantage of 'blorst' as well. -'f

Re: r29129 - docs/Perl6/Spec

2009-11-19 Thread jerry gay
On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 08:17, Thom Boyer wrote: > I'm curious about the change from "blorst" to "blast." I quickly figured out > that "blorst" was > derived from "BLock OR STatement" (as S04 used to say: "In fact, > most of these phasers will take either a block or a statement (known as > a I in

Re: r29129 - docs/Perl6/Spec

2009-11-19 Thread Thom Boyer
I'm curious about the change from "blorst" to "blast." I quickly figured out that "blorst" was derived from "BLock OR STatement" (as S04 used to say: "In fact, most of these phasers will take either a block or a statement (known as a I in the vernacular)). The best that I can figure for "blast" is