A new problem.

2015-08-12 Thread Christian Aperghis-Tramoni
Now I hane rakudo on MoarVM working, I get an error I didn't have formerly on parrotVM. Ech time i read a file containing french diacritic characters (éèàç ...) it returns the error : Malformed UTF-8 if the file contains only standards ascii charecters, i do not have any problem. Can

Re: A new problem.

2015-08-12 Thread Brent Laabs
Use « enc = latin-1 » as an argument to open (method or class form) to change the character encoding. On Wed, Aug 12, 2015 at 8:32 AM, Christian Aperghis-Tramoni christian.aperg...@lidil.univ-mrs.fr wrote: Now I hane rakudo on MoarVM working, I get an error I didn't have formerly on parrotVM.

Re: What are Perl 6's killer advantages over Perl 5?

2015-08-12 Thread H.Merijn Brand
On Tue, 11 Aug 2015 21:41:21 -0400, David H. Adler d...@pobox.com wrote: The reason for my request is to help with a better introduction in my modest draft tutorial on converting Perl 5 to Perl 6 code at the Perl Monastery. I am comfortable with the example code I use there (which is not

Re: What are Perl 6's killer advantages over Perl 5?

2015-08-12 Thread Tom Browder
On Wed, Aug 12, 2015 at 4:02 AM, Kamil Kułaga teodoz...@gmail.com wrote: One thing that was not mentioned already is using Rat instead of standard floating point number. It prevents many silly mistakes especially when counting money. Thanks, Kamil. -Tom

Re: What are Perl 6's killer advantages over Perl 5?

2015-08-12 Thread Tom Browder
On Tue, Aug 11, 2015 at 6:41 PM, Andrew Kirkpatrick uberm...@gmail.com wrote: Built-in facilities for the language to parse, transform and extend ... Thanks, Andrew. -Tom

Re: What are Perl 6's killer advantages over Perl 5?

2015-08-12 Thread Tom Browder
On Wed, Aug 12, 2015 at 2:00 AM, H.Merijn Brand h.m.br...@xs4all.nl wrote: On Tue, 11 Aug 2015 21:41:21 -0400, David H. Adler d...@pobox.com ... *THE* killer feature that will be seen by all beginning perl6 programmers is its awesome error messages. It is a shame that ... Thanks! -Tom

Re: What are Perl 6's killer advantages over Perl 5?

2015-08-12 Thread Kamil Kułaga
One thing that was not mentioned already is using Rat instead of standard floating point number. It prevents many silly mistakes especially when counting money. On Tue, Aug 11, 2015 at 2:12 PM, Tom Browder tom.brow...@gmail.com wrote: I have seen several lists of new Perl 6 features (versus Perl

Re: What are Perl 6's killer advantages over Perl 5?

2015-08-12 Thread Fagyal Csongor
Hi, On Tue, Aug 11, 2015 at 07:12:00AM -0500, Tom Browder wrote: I have seen several lists of new Perl 6 features (versus Perl 5) but they all seem to be lists that intermix features with varying degrees of value to ordinary Perl 5 users. If one wants to sell long-time Perl 5 users (already

Re: What are Perl 6's killer advantages over Perl 5?

2015-08-12 Thread Tom Browder
On Tue, Aug 11, 2015 at 8:45 PM, Fagyal Csongor csongor.fag...@kepesmedia.com wrote: On Tue, Aug 11, 2015 at 07:12:00AM -0500, Tom Browder wrote: I have seen several lists of new Perl 6 features (versus Perl 5) but they all seem to be lists that intermix features with varying degrees of value

[perl #125796] Extra empty line returned by lines()

2015-08-12 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by Rob Hoelz # Please include the string: [perl #125796] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # URL: https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=125796 For example: my $p = shell 'yes | head', :out; my @lines = $p.out.lines;