Re: A s/// brain teaser to share

2018-05-02 Thread James Ellis Osborne III
Don't say innocent if you mean punchline. On Tue, May 1, 2018, 10:46 PM ToddAndMargo wrote: > Hi All, > > You guys will noticed a bunch of things you have been helping me with > in the following. Thank you! > > :-) > > I have been working on cleaning up the file transfer of data from a > point

Re: <<>> question

2017-10-05 Thread James Ellis Osborne III
MIME Is The Sacha Guitry Picture. On Oct 4, 2017 8:23 PM, "Todd Chester" wrote: > On 10/04/2017 08:20 PM, Todd Chester wrote: > >> So in this context "{$x}" means insert (interpolate) a >> variable into the list? I was thinking it meant to >> insert a variable into a string. Did saying <<>> >>

Re: Tip: hash indexing

2017-10-03 Thread James Ellis Osborne III
Canadian Handicrafts Guild On Oct 3, 2017 11:22 AM, "ToddAndMargo" wrote: > Sweet!I added a reverse print to the pile! > > > #!/usr/bin/env perl6 > > #`{ > Hashes do not print in the order they are created. it is a Perl 6 thing. > To overcome this, create an index of the hash. > } > >

Re: Announce: Rakudo Star Release 2016.07

2016-07-22 Thread James Ellis Osborne III
That is quite a step forward! Happy 22nd, All! On Jul 22, 2016 4:01 AM, "Steve Mynott" wrote: > > On behalf of the Rakudo and Perl 6 development teams, I’m pleased to > announce the July 2016 release of “Rakudo Star”, a useful and usable > production distribution of Perl 6. The tarball for the J

Re: '!' versus 'not' in boolean expression

2016-01-18 Thread James Ellis Osborne III
Too many Reimanns & Not enough role? -jas On 18 January 2016 at 11:37, Elizabeth Mattijsen wrote: > >> On 18 Jan 2016, at 19:55, Tom Browder wrote: >> >> In creating some new Perl 6 programs I've run across several instances >> I'm confused about, to wit: >> >> Example 1 >> --- >> >

Re: Recalling previous commands

2016-01-01 Thread James Ellis Osborne III
Try Out Linenoise https://github.com/hoelzro/p6-linenoise/ panda install Linenoise -jas On 1 January 2016 at 13:52, Brandon Allbery wrote: > On Fri, Jan 1, 2016 at 4:47 PM, Parrot Raiser <1parr...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Every time I make a typo in a complex command, I reflexively hit >> ctrl-k

Re: $epsilon = 1.0e-6 feels too big for Rat()

2015-12-31 Thread James Ellis Osborne III
Considering that the Chinese 5th Century is 1849, I would expect http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015046627348 to present less zuo. -jas On 31 December 2015 at 03:48, Darren Duncan wrote: > Considering that a non-fat Rat has a 64-bit denominator, I would expect > conversions from Num

Hello List! Error found in glossary.pod

2015-12-27 Thread James Ellis Osborne III
Line 1585:1587 Reads: -- =head2 NST No Such Thing. -- Surely Thi[j]s Is No Longer True? -jas