Re: Standard library for perl6? (graphical primitives)

2005-10-18 Thread Dave Whipp
Markus Laire wrote: I'm not completely sure if it would be worth the trouble to support only most primitive graphical commands "in core", (no windows, etc..), and leave the rest to the modules (or to the programmer). To a large extent, I'd want to leave most details to modules, etc. But what

Re: Standard library for perl6? (graphical primitives)

2005-10-18 Thread Nathan Gray
On Sat, Oct 15, 2005 at 08:33:26AM +0300, Markus Laire wrote: > Could it be possible to create a "Standard library" for perl6, which > would also include graphical primitives (putpixel, getpixel, > getcolordepth, putimage, getimage, copyrectangle)? I'm interested in creating a perl6 binding to c

Re: Standard library for perl6? (graphical primitives)

2005-10-17 Thread Markus Laire
Bryan Burgers wrote: On 10/15/05, Luke Palmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 10/14/05, Markus Laire <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Perl does have CPAN, but the problem is that there are no standard modules, and so there can be several modules doing the same thing. And what is the problem with th

Re: Standard library for perl6? (graphical primitives)

2005-10-15 Thread chromatic
On Sat, 2005-10-15 at 12:45 -0500, Bryan Burgers wrote: > What I find exciting about parrot is that (it sounds like to me) > you'll be able to run a perl6 file anywhere that has parrot, much like > Java. I think what Markus is getting at is for there to be a way to > display graphics through parr

Re: Standard library for perl6? (graphical primitives)

2005-10-15 Thread Bryan Burgers
On 10/15/05, Luke Palmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 10/14/05, Markus Laire <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Perl does have CPAN, but the problem is that there are no standard > > modules, and so there can be several modules doing the same thing. > > And what is the problem with that? The proble

Re: Standard library for perl6? (graphical primitives)

2005-10-15 Thread Luke Palmer
On 10/14/05, Markus Laire <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Perl does have CPAN, but the problem is that there are no standard > modules, and so there can be several modules doing the same thing. And what is the problem with that? For example, some of the modules for graphics you get to choose from ar

Standard library for perl6? (graphical primitives)

2005-10-14 Thread Markus Laire
(I'm mainly interested about graphical primitives, but there are likely other areas where standard library would be of use.) If I want to write a crossplatform text-mode application, I could write it in perl, and know that it will be usable in wide variety of platforms, as long as I use only "