On Thu, Jul 05, 2012 at 02:39:00PM +0200, Moritz Lenz wrote:
> Am 05.07.2012 07:11, schrieb Patrick R. Michaud:
> > 3. Str.bytes
> >
> > The C<.bytes> method on C has always been somewhat problematic; in
> > Perl 6
> > we typically think of strings in terms of characters, codepoints, graphemes,
On Thu, Jul 05, 2012 at 02:39:00PM +0200, Moritz Lenz wrote:
> Am 05.07.2012 07:11, schrieb Patrick R. Michaud:
> >1. ? quantifier in regexes
> >
> >The C quantifier used to be specified to capture matches
> >in the same manner as C<*> and C<+> -- that is, it produced
> >a List of Match objects in
On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 8:39 AM, Moritz Lenz wrote:
>> Ultimately the Perl 6 specification says that version numbers are
>> supposed to be able to manage these sorts of issues for us; i.e., if
>> a program says C, then it gets all of the semantics of
>> exactly version 6.0.2, regardless of any dep
Am 05.07.2012 07:11, schrieb Patrick R. Michaud:
The first category of breakages are places where the Perl 6
specification has changed from what Rakudo currently implements.
1. ? quantifier in regexes
The C quantifier used to be specified to capture matches
in the same manner as C<*> and C<+>
Switching over to the 'nom' branch of Rakudo introduced
a large number of regressions and changes that affected
many users of Rakudo. I know all of the core developers
agree that this was really not a good thing, and we want
to work very hard to avoid such instabilities in the future.
Ideally a
