Re: Unicode Categories

2010-11-12 Thread karl williamson
Tom Christiansen wrote: Patrick wrote: : * Almost. E.g. isL would be nice to have as well. : : Those exist also: : : $ ./perl6 : say 'abCD34' ~~ / isL / : a : say 'abCD34' ~~ / isN / : 3 : They may exist, but I'm not certain it's a good idea to encourage the Is_XXX approach on

IO Multiplexing

2010-11-12 Thread Ben Goldberg
I would like to know, is perl6 going to have something like select (with arguments created by fileno/vec), or something like IO::Select (with which the user doesn't need to know about the implementation, which happens to be done with fileno/vec/select), or only an event loop. I would recommend

Re: IO Multiplexing

2010-11-12 Thread Moritz Lenz
Hi, Am 12.11.2010 02:47, schrieb Ben Goldberg: I would like to know, is perl6 going to have something like select (with arguments created by fileno/vec), or something like IO::Select (with which the user doesn't need to know about the implementation, which happens to be done with

[perl #79116] [BUG] Non-associative operators mistakingly allowed in reduction meta-op

2010-11-12 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by Solomon Foster # Please include the string: [perl #79116] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # URL: http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=79116 rakudo: say [leg] a b c p6eval: rakudo d85964: OUTPUT«-1␤» ...but... Any infix

Re: IO Multiplexing

2010-11-12 Thread Stefan O'Rear
On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 05:47:46PM -0800, Ben Goldberg wrote: I would like to know, is perl6 going to have something like select (with arguments created by fileno/vec), or something like IO::Select (with which the user doesn't need to know about the implementation, which happens to be done

Re: IO Multiplexing

2010-11-12 Thread Patrick R. Michaud
On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 11:21:10AM -0800, Stefan O'Rear wrote: TIMTOWDI. Perl without system calls is not Perl. +1 This is why S16 is junk - too much blue-sky thinking, not enough pragmatism and practical experience. Agreed. Forbidding things out of idealistic concerns like API purity is

Re: IO Multiplexing

2010-11-12 Thread Leon Timmermans
On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 8:21 PM, Stefan O'Rear stefa...@cox.net wrote: This goes without saying.  One caveat - it should be possible to pass integer file descriptors. Integer file descriptions should exist in the POSIX module, just like Win32 handles should exist in the Win32 module, but they