Yapsi 2010.07 Released!

2010-07-01 Thread Carl Mäsak
It is with an unwarranted sense of contentment that I want to announce, on behalf of the Yapsi development team, the July 2010 release of Yapsi, a Perl 6 compiler written in Perl 6. You can get it here -- try it, it's fresh! Yapsi i

Re: S06 -- grammatical categories and macros

2010-07-01 Thread Aaron Sherman
On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 7:33 PM, Jonathan Worthington wrote: > Aaron Sherman wrote: > >> See below for the S06 section I'm referring to. >> >> I'm wondering how we should be reading the description of user-defined >> operators. For example, "sub infix:<(c)>" doesn't describe >> the precedence leve

Re: [perl #76290] [BUG] @*ARGS contains an element when no arguments are sent into the script in Rakudo

2010-07-01 Thread Moritz Lenz
Carl MXXsak (via RT) wrote: > # New Ticket Created by "Carl Mäsak" > # Please include the string: [perl #76290] > # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. > # http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=76290 > > > > $ perl6 -e 'say @*ARGS.perl' > ["-"] > wt

[perl #76298] [BUG] 'has' declarations and method protos can't coexist peacefully in Rakudo

2010-07-01 Thread Carl Mäsak
# New Ticket Created by "Carl Mäsak" # Please include the string: [perl #76298] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=76298 > rakudo: class A { has $.b; proto method b {} } rakudo 806efc: OUTPUT«===SORRY!===␤A me

Re: [perl #76238] Bool.pick always returns false.

2010-07-01 Thread Steven Lembark
On Mon, 28 Jun 2010 08:13:21 -0700 "Patrick R. Michaud via RT" wrote: > For a wide variety of reasons, Rakudo currently implements Bool as a > fundamental type rather than an enumeration. As such, Bool.pick is > acting the same as if one had written "Int.pick" or "Num.pick" -- it's > treating t

[perl #76290] [BUG] @*ARGS contains an element when no arguments are sent into the script in Rakudo

2010-07-01 Thread Carl Mäsak
# New Ticket Created by "Carl Mäsak" # Please include the string: [perl #76290] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=76290 > $ perl6 -e 'say @*ARGS.perl' ["-"] wtf? this must be a recent change. it seems to h

[perl #76294] [BUG] Can't numify Failure in Rakudo

2010-07-01 Thread Carl Mäsak
# New Ticket Created by "Carl Mäsak" # Please include the string: [perl #76294] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=76294 > rakudo: say "abcd".index("xyz") == 0 rakudo aa015a: OUTPUT«Method 'Bridge' not found f