[perl #77124] [BUG] 'perl6 --help' doesn't give any help in Rakudo

2010-08-10 Thread Carl Mäsak
# New Ticket Created by Carl Mäsak # Please include the string: [perl #77124] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # URL: http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=77124 mantovan guys hi mantovan I download rakudo, and when I try do perl6 --help I get,

r31937 -[S32/Str] fixed thinko in pack signature

2010-08-10 Thread pugs-commits
Author: masak Date: 2010-08-10 11:47:45 +0200 (Tue, 10 Aug 2010) New Revision: 31937 Modified: docs/Perl6/Spec/S32-setting-library/Str.pod Log: [S32/Str] fixed thinko in pack signature Spotted by moritz++ Modified: docs/Perl6/Spec/S32-setting-library/Str.pod

r31938 -[S32/Str] nicer where clause for pack

2010-08-10 Thread pugs-commits
Author: masak Date: 2010-08-10 13:50:30 +0200 (Tue, 10 Aug 2010) New Revision: 31938 Modified: docs/Perl6/Spec/S32-setting-library/Str.pod Log: [S32/Str] nicer where clause for pack Reads better and is more amenable to compiler optimization. Suggested by TheDamian++. Modified:

r31939 -[S32::IO] update to new type names, remove some thinkos

2010-08-10 Thread pugs-commits
Author: moritz Date: 2010-08-10 14:55:57 +0200 (Tue, 10 Aug 2010) New Revision: 31939 Modified: docs/Perl6/Spec/S32-setting-library/IO.pod Log: [S32::IO] update to new type names, remove some thinkos Modified: docs/Perl6/Spec/S32-setting-library/IO.pod

[perl #77134] negated smart-match does not topicalize like ~~

2010-08-10 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by Moritz Lenz # Please include the string: [perl #77134] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # URL: http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=77134 15:49 moritz_ rakudo: say 'abc' ~~ .say 15:49 +p6eval rakudo 4bd478: OUTPUT«abc␤1␤»

Large integers, ** and Int

2010-08-10 Thread Aaron Sherman
I've been running into all sorts of problems trying to take S02 at its word that Int supports arbitrary precision. It *sort of* does. But there are the edge cases where it doesn't. This might just be something that's not there yet, and I understand, but I thought I should report it. If

Re: Large integers, ** and Int

2010-08-10 Thread Moritz Lenz
Am 10.08.2010 01:11, schrieb Aaron Sherman: I've been running into all sorts of problems trying to take S02 at its word that Int supports arbitrary precision. It *sort of* does. It does in Perl 6, but not in Rakudo (known limitation). Moritz

[perl #77126] Cannot declare a Complex number without i

2010-08-10 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by Michael Cartmell # Please include the string: [perl #77126] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # URL: http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=77126 mich...@wslx1:working perl6 -v This is Rakudo Perl 6, version

[perl #77138] [BUG] subset attempt fails with Null PMC access

2010-08-10 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by Solomon Foster # Please include the string: [perl #77138] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # URL: http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=77138 colomon: star: subset ComplexNumeric of Numeric where { ($_ ~~ Real) || ($_ ~~

Re: The case of modules

2010-08-10 Thread Moritz Lenz
Hi, some of this has been discussed on #perl6, so I'd like to give a brief summary only: Am 06.08.2010 17:53, schrieb Tadeusz Sośnierz: While writing neutro (a working module installer, while waiting for proto/pls, see [1]), and wandering around modules listed on proto.perl6.org, I started

[perl #77140] [BUG] Nil.defined should probably not return True

2010-08-10 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by Stephane Payrard # Please include the string: [perl #77140] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # URL: http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=77140 perl6 say Nil.defined 1 -- cognominal stef

[perl #77140] [BUG] Nil.defined should probably not return True

2010-08-10 Thread Carl Mäsak via RT
On Tue Aug 10 09:00:25 2010, cognominal wrote: perl6 say Nil.defined 1 It goes against my expectations too, but it's spec. Rejecting ticket.

regex and

2010-08-10 Thread philippe.beauchamp
Hi there... New to the list and getting to understand perl6 after a bit of a hiatis from the Perl world. I'm working my way through the new grammar syntax trying to implement some useful modules, and was wondering if there is a mechanism within the grammar constructs to allow two rules to

Re: regex and

2010-08-10 Thread Moritz Lenz
Hi, philippe.beauch...@bell.ca wrote: rule TOP { ^ [ alpha* !abc ] $ } The syntax is specced, but it's not yet implemented in Rakudo. But note that !abc is a zero-width assertion, so your

RE: regex and

2010-08-10 Thread philippe.beauchamp
Great! That does it. Thanks. :) I realized my error on the anchors after sending... but didn't think of the * on the grouping. On the operator... are you saying that it would operate basically as expected... allowing sets of rules and'ed rather than or's with the | ? --- Phil

Re: regex and

2010-08-10 Thread Moritz Lenz
philippe.beauch...@bell.ca wrote: On the operator... are you saying that it would operate basically as expected... allowing sets of rules and'ed rather than or's with the | ? Yes, with the limitation that both parts separated by have to match the same length of string, so that for example

RE: regex and

2010-08-10 Thread philippe.beauchamp
Back to your original advice... If you want to match an alphabetic string which does not include 'abc' anywhere, you can write this as ^ [ !abc alpha ]* $ I presume this only works here because alpha is one character... if instead of alpha I used anything more complicated (for example)

[perl #77144] while $foo ~~ m:g// should warn

2010-08-10 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by Wenzel Peppmeyer # Please include the string: [perl #77144] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # URL: http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=77144 my $s = 'abcd'; while $s ~~ m:g/(.)/ { print $0 }; Neither works nor does it

[perl #76978] [BUG] The mkdir built-in has the wrong default mode in Rakudo

2010-08-10 Thread Carl Mäsak via RT
On Tue Aug 03 23:28:39 2010, masak wrote: masak the mkdir builtin creates a directory with mode 000 per default. do we really have the balance between security and least-surprise right in this case? sorear sounds like a flat out bug to me sorear should be 777 * masak submits rakudobug This

[perl #77146] What should be returned by the .keys method for Match invocants?

2010-08-10 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by Stephane Payrard # Please include the string: [perl #77146] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # URL: http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=77146 I edited my garbled sentences. [15:28:22] cognominal I know that a match is