Re: series operator issues

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 7/22/10 11:18 , Jon Lang wrote: > Second, I'm trying to think of a simple and intuitive way to write up > a series expression for: > >triangle numbers: 0, 1, 3, 6, 10, 15, 21, etc. >square numbers: 0, 1, 4, 9, 16, 25, 36, etc. >factoria

Announce: Rakudo Perl 6 compiler development release #31 ("Atlanta")

On behalf of the Rakudo development team, I'm happy to announce the July 2010 development release of Rakudo Perl #31 "Atlanta". Rakudo is an implementation of Perl 6 on the Parrot Virtual Machine (see ). The tarball for the July 2010 release is available from

Re: series operator issues

On 23 July 2010 01:41, Moritz Lenz wrote: > Use the right tool for the right job: > >>    square numbers: 0, 1, 4, 9, 16, 25, 36, etc. > > (1..10).map(* ** 2) Or even just: (1..10) »**» 2 Note that you can also get most of the effects you want by using @_ in the series' generator block.

r31789 -[S32] DateTime immutable, leap seconds validation

Author: masak Date: 2010-07-22 23:54:10 +0200 (Thu, 22 Jul 2010) New Revision: 31789 Modified: docs/Perl6/Spec/S32-setting-library/Temporal.pod Log: [S32] DateTime immutable, leap seconds validation The rest of this message is from Kodi++, who prepared the combined spec/Rakudo patch: There ar

Re: series operator issues

On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 4:52 PM, Jon Lang wrote: > I do have to admit that that's awfully clean-looking, but the > implementation > > would force a closure in a series to behave differently from a closure > > anywhere else. > > How so? > Unlike some of you, I haven't managed to memorize all of t

Re: series operator issues

On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 11:35 AM, Aaron Sherman wrote: > On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 1:13 PM, Jon Lang wrote: >>  Yes, it would be a >> special tool; but it would be much more in keeping with the "keep >> simple things easy" philosophy that Perl 6 tends to promote: >> >>    0, { $^a + $:i } ... * # s

Re: series operator issues

On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 1:13 PM, Jon Lang wrote: > > I also think it's doable without a special tool: > > > > 0, { state $i = 1; $^a + $i++ } ... * > > Kludgey; but possibly doable. > Well, it's kind of what state is there for. > > But what I'd really like to see would be for the index to be

Re: series operator issues

On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 9:25 AM, Aaron Sherman wrote: > On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 11:41 AM, Moritz Lenz wrote: >> The difficulty you're running into is that you're trying to use the wrong >> tool for the job. Just don't use the series operator when it's not easy to >> use. Perl 6 has other mechanis

Re: series operator issues

On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 11:41 AM, Moritz Lenz wrote: > > The difficulty you're running into is that you're trying to use the wrong > tool for the job. Just don't use the series operator when it's not easy to > use. Perl 6 has other mechanism too, which are better suited for these > particular pro

Re: series operator issues

Hi, Am 22.07.2010 17:18, schrieb Jon Lang: When I last reviewed the writeup for the series operators, I noticed two issues: First, why is the RHS argument a list? You only ever use the first element of it; so why don't you just reference a single value? The idea is that you can continue seri

series operator issues

When I last reviewed the writeup for the series operators, I noticed two issues: First, why is the RHS argument a list? You only ever use the first element of it; so why don't you just reference a single value? Second, I'm trying to think of a simple and intuitive way to write up a series expres

Re: Release Today!

Am 22.07.2010 14:30, schrieb Cosimo Streppone: On Thu, 22 Jul 2010 14:27:15 +0200, Will Coleda wrote: Can we get some more smokers setup? I would be interested. How do I do that? Should be as easy as make spectest_smolder Moritz

Re: Release Today!

On Thu, 22 Jul 2010 14:27:15 +0200, Will Coleda wrote: Can we get some more smokers setup? I would be interested. How do I do that? -- Cosimo

Release Today!

Last minute reminder for updates to Changelog, ROADMAP, etc. Looks like only have a single smoker at http://tinyurl.com/rakudosmoke - I haven't heard any issues on channel though, as long as you're building with a fresh parrot. Can we get some more smokers setup? Due to $DAYJOB, I'll be cutting t

[perl #76646] .count and .arity NYI on multis

# New Ticket Created by Lewis Wall # Please include the string: [perl #76646] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=76646 > rakudo: multi s (Int $x) { ~$x }; multi s (Str $x) { $x }; say &s.arity rakudo 31d41e: OUT

[perl #76648] [BUG] junctions produced by ^methods are unpredictable

# New Ticket Created by Dave Olszewski # Please include the string: [perl #76648] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=76648 > The following code, executed repeatedly, will produce different results, seemingly bas

[perl #76644] [BUG] overeager NYI for "state"

# New Ticket Created by Dave Olszewski # Please include the string: [perl #76644] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=76644 > It appears that using a bareword-form hash key that starts with the letters "state" wi

[perl #76642] [PATCH] Removed DateTime::strftime from Rakudo

# New Ticket Created by Timothy Totten # Please include the string: [perl #76642] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=76642 > The attached patch removes the DateTime::strftime module from Rakudo's tree. The modul