[PATCH] suggestion for the file "grammar.pg"

2008-07-03 Thread Gerd Pokorra
Hello, I suggest the little attached patch (diff -u) for the file "languages/perl6/src/parser/grammar.pg", so that the following code my $a = .2; will also be accepted from Rakudo. Gerd Pokorra patch.tar Description: Unix tar archive

Re: [PATCH] suggestion for the file "grammar.pg"

2008-07-03 Thread Moritz Lenz
Hi, Gerd Pokorra wrote: > I suggest the little attached patch (diff -u) for the file > "languages/perl6/src/parser/grammar.pg", so that the following code > > my $a = .2; > > will also be accepted from Rakudo. But does the language specification allow it? I don't think so, and STD.pm (after whi

Re: [PATCH] suggestion for the file "grammar.pg"

2008-07-03 Thread Patrick R. Michaud
On Fri, Jul 04, 2008 at 12:15:24AM +0200, Moritz Lenz wrote: > Hi, > > Gerd Pokorra wrote: > > I suggest the little attached patch (diff -u) for the file > > "languages/perl6/src/parser/grammar.pg", so that the following code > > > > my $a = .2; > > > > will also be accepted from Rakudo. > > Bu

Re: [PATCH] suggestion for the file "grammar.pg"

2008-07-04 Thread Patrick R. Michaud
STD.pm was updated to handle leading dot in Num constants, thus we now have (in both rakudo's grammar and STD.pm): token escale { <[Ee]> <[+\-]>? \d+ } # careful to distinguish from both integer and 42.method token dec_number { [ |'.' \d+[_\

Re: [PATCH] suggestion for the file "grammar.pg"

2008-07-04 Thread Gerd Pokorra
Hello, here same output: First a test with pugs Version: 6.2.13 (r17105) which use STD.pm [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ pugs -e 'my $a=.2; say $a' 0.2 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ pugs -e 'my $a=E+3' *** No such subroutine: "&E" at -e line 1, column 3 - line 2, column 1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ The secon