Re: Blobs and IEEE floating point

2016-04-27 Thread Kevin Pye
Sorry to be so long replying and thanking you for your help -- I've spent most of the last week in hospital with very limited communications. Thank you -- lots of interesting information. I ended up for the moment with something like (retyping from memory)... method double { $!index += 8; na

[perl #126205] [BUG] perl6: problem with regex match: Cannot assign to a readonly variable or a value

2016-04-27 Thread Will Coleda via RT
On Sun Apr 17 08:41:03 2016, coke wrote: > On Mon Sep 28 13:28:14 2015, emilbar...@ymail.com wrote: > > Hi, > > I posted a bug report yesterday with a complicated script and worked > > to make it simpler. Now I think it's probably not a bug but I'm still > > unable to find a solution. > > My new d

[perl #128010] [BUG] reference to outside function prevents role instantiation

2016-04-27 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by grond...@yahoo.fr # Please include the string: [perl #128010] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=128010 > In file A.pm6 :unit class A ; our sub f {} In file B.pm6 :unit role B ; us

[perl #128009] “.uninames” exists but “.uniprops” doesn't (‘١٩’.uniprops)

2016-04-27 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by Alex Jakimenko # Please include the string: [perl #128009] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=128009 > Code: say ‘١٩’.uninames Result: (ARABIC-INDIC DIGIT ONE ARABIC-INDIC DIGIT NINE) Cod

Re: [perl #127980] Smartmatching $item ~~ list does not DWIM (4 ~~ (4,5,6,7))

2016-04-27 Thread Parrot Raiser
It appears, then, that the problem is managing the user's understanding of the construction and expectations about results. On 4/27/16, jn...@jnthn.net via RT wrote: > On Mon Apr 25 07:54:18 2016, sml...@gmail.com wrote: >> That said, two of the edge cases you have discovered, *do* feel pretty >>

Re: [perl #122709] [PERF] await Promise in different thread

2016-04-27 Thread Lloyd Fournier
Now I'm at home I tried it on my Mac, I can confirm that: perl6 -e 'my $waiter = Proc::Async.new(:path, :args).start; await start { await $waiter }' prints Hello World and then hangs forever. On Wed, Apr 27, 2016 at 2:58 PM Lloyd Fournier wrote: > Not sure if it's relevant here but last time

[perl #127987] Block.assuming method apparently not reentrant

2016-04-27 Thread jn...@jnthn.net via RT
On Mon Apr 25 06:10:50 2016, sml...@gmail.com wrote: > The following works fine: > > for (^100).race(batch=>1) { {1 + $^a}(10) } > > But the following pretty reliably crashes: > > for (^100).race(batch=>1) { {1 + $^a}.assuming(10)() } > > If even crashes when EVAL is used to make sure each

[perl #127980] Smartmatching $item ~~ list does not DWIM (4 ~~ (4,5,6,7))

2016-04-27 Thread jn...@jnthn.net via RT
On Mon Apr 25 07:54:18 2016, sml...@gmail.com wrote: > That said, two of the edge cases you have discovered, *do* feel pretty > strange: > > - An *empty* RHS list returning self instead of False. > - A RHS list with a Match as its first element returning self instead > of False. > > It may make s

Re: Perl 6 pod-handling code seems widely scattered

2016-04-27 Thread Moritz Lenz
On 04/25/2016 03:27 PM, Tadeusz Sośnierz wrote: On 25/04/16 14:13, Tom Browder wrote: I would like to hack on the pod handling code (particularly the HTML generation) but it seems to be quite scattered around github. Is http://github.com/perl6/Pod::To::HTML>> the definitive repo location for th