Announce: Niecza Perl 6 v24
This is release number 24 of Niecza Perl 6, marking 24 months since the first
public release. How time flies.
You can obtain a build of Niecza from [1]. This build contains a
working compiler as a set of .exe and .dll files suitable for use with
Mono or
On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 03:24:00PM +0100, Arne Skjærholt wrote:
Hi all.
I have rewritten S21 so that Zavolaj/NativeCall is spec. S21 as of
right now is probably the most thorough documentation of the current
state of NativeCall.
Most of the basic functionality is fairly stable I think, and
Announce: Niecza Perl 6 v22
This is the twenty-second release of Niecza Perl 6, scheduled on the last
Monday of the month.
You can obtain a build of Niecza from [1]. This build contains a
working compiler as a set of .exe and .dll files suitable for use with
Mono or Microsoft .NET. If you
On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 09:38:43AM -0700, Carey Tilden wrote:
On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 2:01 PM, Moritz Lenz mor...@faui2k3.org wrote:
I've tried to come up with some sort of stability rating for the specs,
and this is as far as I got: https://gist.github.com/2346494
I like that a lot. Any
On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 09:15:41AM -0400, yary wrote:
I'm a little confused by this report. The two code snippets are
exactly the same- I checked with diff. Does the same code have
different results with different runs, or is there a copy/paste error?
Also is the space between the brackets in
On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 10:09:35PM +0200, Marc Chantreux wrote:
hello,
i'm writing an article on Perl6 and i would like some facts to reassure
early adopters. according to the test suite and the will of Perl6
implentors, what proportion (in %) of Perl6 can be concidered as stable?
what are
Announce: Niecza Perl 6 v21
This is the twenty-first release of Niecza Perl 6, scheduled on the last
Monday of the month.
You can obtain a build of Niecza from [1]. This build contains a
working compiler as a set of .exe and .dll files suitable for use with
Mono or Microsoft .NET. If you
Announce: Niecza Perl 6 v20
This is the twentieth release of Niecza Perl 6, where I pretend I'm on
the UTC-36 timezone and thank Solomon Foster for the first release where
he did all the real work. non-bootstrap has run into a dead end; I need
to regroup and decide the next direction.
You
On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 11:12:19PM +0300, Gabor Szabo wrote:
I have a freshly cloned rakudo and tried to build it on an Ubuntu
12.04 (32 bit) it failed here.
The machine has 512Mb RAM and 256 Mb swaps space and it seems they
were both full.
Is that it or they are unrelated? How much is the
Announce: Niecza Perl 6 v19
This is the nineteenth release of Niecza Perl 6, as usual scheduled on
the last Monday of the month. Most of the activity this month has been
on the non-bootstrap branch (see below). It has now been two years since
the first commit to the Niecza repository.
Announce: Niecza Perl 6 v18
This is the eighteenth release of Niecza Perl 6, as usual scheduled on
the last Monday of the month.
You can obtain a build of Niecza from [1]. This build contains a
working compiler as a set of .exe and .dll files suitable for use with
Mono or Microsoft .NET.
On Tue, May 08, 2012 at 05:19:40AM +0200, Frederik Schwarzer wrote:
Hi,
I had a little problem with rindex and wrote a small demo code that
shows what I found.
The code is:
use v6;
my $string = perl;
say $string;
say $string.WHAT;
say $string.index(e);
say $string.rindex(e);
say ;
Announce: Niecza Perl 6 v16
This is the sixteenth release of Niecza Perl 6, as usual scheduled on
the last Monday of the month.
You can obtain a build of Niecza from [1]. This build contains a
working compiler as a set of .exe and .dll files suitable for use with
Mono or Microsoft .NET.
On Sat, Mar 24, 2012 at 06:16:58PM -0700, Jonathan Lang wrote:
IMHO: if we're going to take loss of precision into account, we should do so
explicitly. I'm a bit rusty, so forgive me if I misuse the terminology: if a
number has an epsilon, the epsilon should be attached to it as a trait so
On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 11:14:54PM +0100, Daniel Carrera wrote:
Hey,
I have a few slightly related questions:
1. The semicolon operator would allow Perl 6 to support N-dimensional
arrays... How would one iterate over that type of array?
my num @matrix[ 10 ; 10 ; 10 ];
I ask because a
Announce: Niecza Perl 6 v15
This is the fifteenth release of Niecza Perl 6, as usual scheduled on
the last Monday of the month. No, it's not dead.
Niecza now passes more spectests than Rakudo, but that is not an entirely
fair comparison, and we have the feature matrix now which is much
On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 12:15:17AM -0800, Darren Duncan wrote:
You said, provided said call does not throw an exception.
So does that mean you have also promoted some runtime exceptions to
compile time exceptions, or inlined the exception toss?
That would be useful. You don't have to wait
Announce: Niecza Perl 6 v14
This is the fourteenth release of Niecza Perl 6, as usual scheduled on
the last Monday of the month. I'm on winter break now, which means lots
of time for improvements. Muahahaha. This month hasn't seen much of a
focus.
With this release, Niecza now passes a
that it is O(n)).
The regex infix operators and are now supported (currently treated
as synonyms, but don't rely on this).
pow is a little bit smarter and needlessly returns NaN in fewer cases
(Solomon Foster, Stefan O'Rear).
Imported a few tweaks from STD, including a better message for say
On Fri, Dec 23, 2011 at 10:59:58PM +1100, Kris Shannon wrote:
sub infix:foo ($a, $b = ($a foo 2 * 3 - $a)) is tighter(infix:*)
{
$a == 0 ?? 1 foo 2 * 3 !! $a + $b
}
say 1 foo (2 * 3);
# 7
say (1 foo 2) * 3;
# 9
say 1 foo 2 * 3;
# 9
say infix:foo(1);
# Niecza: 7
say 0 foo
On Fri, Dec 02, 2011 at 02:57:31AM -0800, Moritz Lenz wrote:
11:26 moritz nom: use MONKEY_TYPING; augment class Sub { method
my_invoke {
self() } }; join.my_invoke
11:26 +p6eval nom b9aa5b: OUTPUT«===SORRY!===CHECK FAILED:Undefined
routine
'self' called
Announce: Niecza Perl 6 v12
This is the twelth release of Niecza Perl 6, as usual scheduled on
the last Monday of the month. I've not had very much time for Niecza
this month. This release marks one year since the first public release,
and about a year and a half since the project began.
Announce: Niecza Perl 6 v11
This is the eleventh release of Niecza Perl 6, as usual scheduled on
the last Monday of the month, at least in the US west coast time zone.
You can obtain a build of Niecza from [1]. This build contains a
working compiler as a set of .exe and .dll files suitable
Announce: Niecza Perl 6 v10
This is the tenth release of Niecza Perl 6, as usual scheduled on
the last Monday of the month.
You can obtain a build of Niecza from [1]. This build contains a
working compiler as a set of .exe and .dll files suitable for use with
Mono or Microsoft .NET. If
On Mon, Sep 05, 2011 at 11:03:08AM -0400, aroc...@vex.net wrote:
1. Should there be a way to make die behave like the Perl 5 version,
reporting the place of death unless the message is terminated by \n ?
The \n no longer suppresses the location indormation. I can't find a
definition either way
Announce: Niecza Perl 6 v9
This is the ninth release of Niecza Perl 6, as usual scheduled on
the last Monday of the month.
You can obtain a build of Niecza from [1]. This build contains a
working compiler as a set of .exe and .dll files suitable for use with
Mono. If you wish to follow
On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 04:06:47PM +0200, Carl Mäsak wrote:
I was working on the Little Animal Farm game yesterday, and wanted to
make it totally safe against tampering from the outside. (See
http://masak.org/carl/yapc-eu-2011-little-animal-farm/talk.pdf.)
I ended up implementing a custom
Announce: Niecza Perl 6 v8
This is the eighth release of Niecza Perl 6, as usual scheduled on
the last Monday of the month. No major general updates; having
courted alternatives I feel satisfied with the name Niecza again.
You can obtain a build of Niecza from [1]. This build contains a
I intend to change the definition of eval such that it does not catch
exceptions. String eval's role as the catcher of exceptions is a legacy of
Perl 1, which had no block eval, and I feel it has no place in Perl 6.
The exception catching and associated unwinding makes it impossible to use
Announce: Niecza Perl 6 v7
This is the seventh release of Niecza Perl 6, as usual scheduled on
the last Monday of the month. I am pleased to note that Niecza is
starting to attract attention from the broader community. However,
this probably means a better name is needed; Niecza was OK as
Announce: Niecza Perl 6 v6
My summer has started. That is to say, hacking season. Many new and
exciting things are in this release, and I want to see many more.
You can obtain a build of Niecza from [1]. This build contains a
working compiler as a set of .exe and .dll files suitable for
On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 03:45:08PM -0400, Parrot Raiser wrote:
The following piece of trivial code, (drastically simplified from an
example I was trying to convert), produces different results (3rd
line) under Perl 5 and Perl 6. (Saved as t_f_int2)
print sqrt (1.5 * 1) ;
print \n;
On Sat, May 07, 2011 at 03:45:02PM +1000, Michael G Schwern wrote:
I was just playing around with eval, trying to figure out if you can define an
operator overload at runtime (seems you can't, good) and noticed this in the
spec... [1]
Returns whatever $code returns, or fails.
How does
Announce: Niecza Perl 6 v5
This release of Niecza is delayed slightly because of my personal
business. For the same reason there isn't as much cool new stuff as
I'd like. Sorry.
You can obtain a build of Niecza from [1]. This build contains a
working compiler as a set of .exe and .dll
Announce: Niecza Perl 6 v4
Niecza tag announcements occur on the last Monday of each month,
irrespective of the rate of development.
You can obtain a build of Niecza from [1]. This build contains a
working compiler as a set of .exe and .dll files suitable for use with
Mono or Microsoft
[In response to a comment on perl6-compiler, in the thread
[perl #85746] spec/S29-context/sleep.t is way too relax]
On Wed, Mar 09, 2011 at 12:31:34PM -0600, Patrick R. Michaud wrote:
While researching this ticket, I notice that S29 has a Csleep
function defined (line 246); this seems to be in
[Sorry about the delay. I mistyped the addresses the first time, and
the goodfornothing local mailer took 5 * 10^8 ms to bounce the mail.]
Announce: Niecza Perl 6 v3
This is the third announcement of a distinguished Niecza version, and
we seem to be settling into a routine here. *Yay* On
Announce: Niecza Perl 6 v2
This is the second announcement of a distinguished Niecza version, and
the first to be regularly scheduled. Niecza tag announcements occur
on the last Monday of each month.
You can obtain a build of Niecza from [1]. This build contains a
working compiler as a
Announce: Niecza Perl 6 v1
To mark one month since the first announcement of Niecza, to be known
retroactively as v0, this is another announcement, to be known as v1.
Further announcements will occur at intervals on the last Monday of
each month.
You have my assurance that the 'v1' tag,
I'm pretty sure this is correct. ~~ is supposed to temporarily set $_ to the
LHS; this is how $obj ~~ .defined works.
Announce: Niecza Perl 6
I am happy to make the first general announcement of Niecza Perl 6[1], a Perl 6
compiler project focusing on optimization research.
I have been tinkering with this for about 6 months now and I feel I finally
have something worth sharing.
While other Perl 6 compilers
On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 09:45:26AM +0100, Moritz Lenz wrote:
Hi,
thanks for your report
Am 19.11.2010 09:24, schrieb Ian Kent:
I've been trying to build Rakudo from source using Ubuntu Server 10.10.
Configure.pl ran successfully but running make always ends with the
following error:
On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 06:09:00PM +0100, Jonathan Worthington wrote:
...
With packed arrays, however, I'm less clear what they mean. Since
the point of a packed array is compact storage, there's no chance to
actually have containers. Thus does assignment to a slot in a
compact array ever make
On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 06:59:59PM -0800, Ben Goldberg wrote:
(snip plea to paint the bikeshed fuchsia)
The design of the I/O system will be chosen by the first person to implement
it. If you want any say in the matter, you need to be that person. Bonus
points if you also port at least one app
On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 05:47:46PM -0800, Ben Goldberg wrote:
I would like to know, is perl6 going to have something like select
(with arguments created by fileno/vec), or something like IO::Select
(with which the user doesn't need to know about the implementation,
which happens to be done
On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 01:42:06PM +0200, Leon Timmermans wrote:
On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 1:20 AM, Tim Bunce tim.bu...@pobox.com wrote:
I've not used them, but Ruby 1.9 Fibers (continuations) and the
EventMachine Reactor pattern seem interesting.
Continuations and fibers are incredibly
On Sun, Aug 01, 2010 at 12:04:55PM -0400, Ben Bowers wrote:
I've also noticed that 64 bit linux binaries for rakudo builds are ~2x
the size of the 32 bit builds, FWIW.
That shouldn't suprise anyone. The perl6 fakecutable (don't call it a
binary, please) consists of several million Parrot
On Sat, Jul 31, 2010 at 08:23:29PM +0200, Carl Mäsak wrote:
* It has been decided that attribute slots of the type $!foo are only
allowed *syntactically* within the class block that declares them.
(The exception to this, I guess, is the 'trusts' directive.) But this
means that something like
On Sat, Jul 31, 2010 at 02:36:02PM -0400, Brandon S Allbery KF8NH wrote:
On 7/31/10 14:23 , Carl Mäsak wrote:
a. Allow this form of encapsulation breakage.
b. Disallow detaching of certain methods.
c. Disallow attaching of certain anonymous methods.
I must confess I don't particularly
On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 09:26:15PM -0400, Todd Olson wrote:
Question: Can Rakudo show its steps in applying the Perl6 grammer
to a Perl6 program similar to use re 'debug' in Perl5?
perl6 --parsetrace
-sorear
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On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 04:02:19PM -0700, Jonathan Leto wrote:
Howdy,
I have a question about @_[0] for a sub that defines no arguments.
In the current Rakudo I get:
$ parrot ./perl6.pbc
my $r = sub { say @_[0].WHAT }; $r.()
Proxy()
whereas Pugs calls it a Scalar. Which is correct?
On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 04:55:38PM -0700, Darren Duncan wrote:
So, is Rakudo Star meant to be a parallel release series, sort of like
Perl 5.12.x vs 5.13.x are now, or are the monthly Rakudo releases we've
been seeing going to be named Star at some point? I thought I read
recently that
On Sat, Jun 05, 2010 at 09:19:01AM +1000, Timothy S. Nelson wrote:
Hi. I've been thinking more about reversible grammars. Specifically,
I'm wondering if the following pseudo-code will be possible:
## Match a grammar here
$match = Grammar.match($text)
## Need some code here to get
On Thu, Jun 03, 2010 at 03:52:02PM +0200, pugs-comm...@feather.perl6.nl wrote:
Author: masak
Date: 2010-06-03 15:52:01 +0200 (Thu, 03 Jun 2010)
New Revision: 31082
Modified:
docs/Perl6/Spec/S32-setting-library/Str.pod
Log:
[S32/Str] rethinking of tab characters
Also added a
On Thu, Jun 03, 2010 at 07:00:17PM +0200, Carl Mäsak wrote:
sorear ():
2. Indenting a blank line results in a blank line, not a line with only
whitespace.
What about indenting a line with only whitespace?
Implementor's choice; it won't come up in the viv port.
I think I can see use
On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 08:25:47AM -0700, Patrick R. Michaud via RT wrote:
1. I don't like that it modifies the parameters of !UNIT_START.
I see three alternatives - clone UNIT_START (DRY), inline UNIT_START in
the PAST (DRY), and unify !RESUME_HERE with !YOU_ARE_HERE (makes modules
run in the
On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 06:31:01AM +0200, Stéphane Payrard wrote:
When doing an analyse of a sample parse tree, I note that it is
cluttered by the reduction of optional subrules
to generate a zero length parse subtree. That is, rules with a '?'
quantifier matching zero time.
Suppressing such
(The following describes a proposed extension to Perl 6, methodical scoped
operators or methodicals for short. It is written in the present tense for
simplicity but should be understood as the future conditional.)
Normally, when you write a method call, the definition of the method is
entirely
On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 12:35:11PM -0300, Daniel Ruoso wrote:
Em Qua, 2010-04-21 às 00:16 -0700, Stefan O'Rear escreveu:
Normally, when you write a method call, the definition of the method is
entirely in the domain of the receiver's class:
$object.make-me-a-sandwich; # $object gets
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