Re: start up delay?

2018-08-05 Thread Simon Proctor
Have you tried running with --stagestats which gives you a break down of where the time is being spent? On thing is if you are running large script files it came take a while. Moving your code into modules, which get precompiled can give a significant speed boost. On Sun, 5 Aug 2018, 23:45

Creating the August 2018 Perl6 survey

2018-08-05 Thread Benji
We're working on polishing up questions / adding new questions for the next Perl6 user survey. If you'd like an invitation to change/add questions, hop on the IRC or respond to this email.

Re: need regex help

2018-08-05 Thread ToddAndMargo
On 08/02/2018 09:43 AM, Arthur Ramos Jr. wrote: This works too: my $x = "9.0v1"; die "Horribly" if $x =~ /[\p{L}]+/; Art Perl 5 by chance (=~)? Or am I missing something?

Re: need regex help

2018-08-05 Thread Curt Tilmes
On Thu, Aug 2, 2018 at 8:18 AM Timo Paulssen wrote: > Is this what you want? > > perl6 -e 'say "12345" ~~ /^<+alnum -alpha>+$/' > 「12345」 > > perl6 -e 'say "123a45" ~~ /^<+alnum -alpha>+$/' > Nil On Sun, Aug 5, 2018 at 6:41 PM Arthur Ramos Jr. wrote: > my $x = "9.0v1"; die "Horribly" if $x

Re: start up delay?

2018-08-05 Thread Elizabeth Mattijsen
> On 1 Aug 2018, at 20:14, ToddAndMargo wrote: > Is it just me or does Perl 6 take about three times as long to > start up as Perl 5? I do have a very fast machine and it takes > about seven see for some of my Perl 6 stuff to get past the > ruminating phase and start running. Seven seconds?

Re: need regex help

2018-08-05 Thread Arthur Ramos Jr.
This works too: my $x = "9.0v1"; die "Horribly" if $x =~ /[\p{L}]+/; Art On Thu, Aug 2, 2018 at 8:18 AM Timo Paulssen wrote: > Is this what you want? > > perl6 -e 'say "12345" ~~ /^<+alnum -alpha>+$/' > 「12345」 > > perl6 -e 'say "123a45" ~~ /^<+alnum -alpha>+$/' > Nil > > HTH > - Timo >

Re: OT: catch the bash error?

2018-08-05 Thread ToddAndMargo
On 08/05/2018 06:51 AM, Parrot Raiser wrote: That's the problem with using multiple related-but-not-identical languages. If you aren't completely on the ball, one of the others may grab you by the ankle and trip you. I have been converting a large program on mine over from Perl 5 to Perl6. I

Re: OT: catch the bash error?

2018-08-05 Thread Parrot Raiser
That's the problem with using multiple related-but-not-identical languages. If you aren't completely on the ball, one of the others may grab you by the ankle and trip you. On 8/5/18, ToddAndMargo wrote: >>> It is "do G=" not "do $G=" >>> >>> > > On 08/04/2018 01:14 AM, Laurent Rosenfeld via