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2016-04-18 Thread Nigel Hamilton
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Blobs and IEEE floating point

2016-04-18 Thread Kevin Pye
Hi, I have a several-thousand-line long Perl 5 script which I've been translating to Perl 6 over some time, and it runs fine, although a little slowly :-) There is however one section which I haven't needed to use until recently, and which I've been avoiding translating because it's not all that

[perl #127924] [IMPROVEMENT] Explicit use of `return` on `is rw` subs should behave like `return-rw`

2016-04-18 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by Zoffix Znet # Please include the string: [perl #127924] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=127924 > Currently, if you use explicit keyword `return` to return out of a sub marked with `is