infinity literals - 'Inf' vs '+Inf'

2009-12-22 Thread Darren Duncan
I was studying the synopsis today for how Perl 6 uses infinities, and among the 48 occurrences of [|-|+]Inf in the synopsis, I noticed that in some places you seemed to use +Inf to mean positive infinity and other places you just say Inf. So are there just 2 canonical infinity values, -Inf

Re: infinity literals - 'Inf' vs '+Inf'

2009-12-22 Thread Carl Mäsak
Darren (): I was studying the synopsis today for how Perl 6 uses infinities, and among the 48 occurrences of [|-|+]Inf in the synopsis, I noticed that in some places you seemed to use +Inf to mean positive infinity and other places you just say Inf. So are there just 2 canonical infinity

[perl #71536] [BUG] Rakudo allows two multi variants with the exact same signature to be defined

2009-12-22 Thread Carl Mäsak
# New Ticket Created by Carl Mäsak # Please include the string: [perl #71536] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # URL: http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=71536 This be Rakudo 8dc189. $ perl6 -e 'multi sub f($a) {}; multi sub f($a) {}; f(42)'

Re: infinity literals - 'Inf' vs '+Inf'

2009-12-22 Thread Moritz Lenz
Darren Duncan wrote: I was studying the synopsis today for how Perl 6 uses infinities, and among the 48 occurrences of [|-|+]Inf in the synopsis, I noticed that in some places you seemed to use +Inf to mean positive infinity and other places you just say Inf. So are there just 2

Re: [perl #71536] [BUG] Rakudo allows two multi variants with the exact same signature to be defined

2009-12-22 Thread Moritz Lenz
Carl MXXsak (via RT) wrote: This be Rakudo 8dc189. $ perl6 -e 'multi sub f($a) {}; multi sub f($a) {}; f(42)' Ambiguous dispatch to multi 'f'. Ambiguous candidates had signatures: :(Any $a) :(Any $a) The definition of two variants with equivalent signatures (i.e. identical up to names)

Re: Parrot and Perl 6 Summary

2009-12-22 Thread Lithos
Please find: http://lith-ology.blogspot.com/2009/12/seven-days-between-parrot-and-camel_22.html Lithos

[perl #71544] [BUG] Cgrep arity sensitivity is too different from Cmap

2009-12-22 Thread Carl Mäsak
# New Ticket Created by Carl Mäsak # Please include the string: [perl #71544] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # URL: http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=71544 masak`` is there any sense in having grep behave the same way as map with respect to