Re: what can I do with perl 6 today ?

2008-07-02 Thread Aaron Trevena
2008/7/1 Guy Hulbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Tue, 2008-01-07 at 19:44 +0100, Aaron Trevena wrote: >> That's why I created the >> http://www.perlfoundation.org/perl6/index.cgi?what_can_i_do_with_perl_6_today >> page on the wiki at the very end (

what can I do with perl 6 today ?

2008-07-01 Thread Aaron Trevena
Hi All, As I've said before, I think pretty handy yardstick of measuring progress with Perl 6 Language and Compilers, is seeing just what you can actually do with it today, now, this minute.. That's why I created the http://www.perlfoundation.org/perl6/index.cgi?what_can_i_do_with_perl_6_today pa

Re: Help with the "What can I do with Perl 6 today" wiki page

2008-04-16 Thread Aaron Trevena
On 16/04/2008, Aaron Trevena <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I started the "What can I do with Perl 6 today" wiki page at the start > of the year... That would be at http://www.perlfoundation.org/perl6/index.cgi?what_can_i_do_with_perl_6_today A. -- http://www.aarontre

Help with the "What can I do with Perl 6 today" wiki page

2008-04-16 Thread Aaron Trevena
Hi All, I started the "What can I do with Perl 6 today" wiki page at the start of the year, but have been too busy with $paid_work to put much time into it since. I was hoping anybody who's written perl 6 code and run it with Rakudo or pugs could help fill in the gaps - there are a list of common

Re: am I doing something wrong - hanoi example with 0.5.1 parrot release

2008-01-03 Thread Aaron Trevena
On 02/01/2008, jerry gay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > @*ARGS and infix:// have been implemented in perl6 thanks to patrick, > so hanoi.pl works with the svn head in parrot repo. Yup - hanoi page on the wiki has been updated to reflect that. I plan to try a few more programs out on the next monthl

am I doing something wrong - hanoi example with 0.5.1 parrot release

2007-12-30 Thread Aaron Trevena
running the example at http://svn.pugscode.org/pugs/examples/algorithms/hanoi.pl parrot ~/downloads/parrot-0.5.1/languages/perl6/perl6.pbc hanoi.pl I get.. Null PMC access in isa() current instr.: 'parrot;Perl6Object;make_proto' pc 55 (src/gen_builtins.pir:76) called from Sub 'parrot;Bool;onload

what can I do in perl 6 today?

2007-12-28 Thread Aaron Trevena
Hi all, I was wondering about this - people keep on asking about "when it will be finnished" - I'm more interested in "can I do X in it" where X is something I'm interested in and/or something I can contribute to and/or something that I consider important for production code I want to migrate to p

Re: Project Idea: Perl 6 Syntax Explainer

2007-07-19 Thread Aaron Trevena
This looks like it could 2 different things - 1 is a doxygen type markup where you provide extra stuff, the other could just extract the relevent pod or pod6 for a function/method/operator from standard pod. IME, people write the bare minimum documentation - standard perl5 pod is pretty much that