try.rakudo.org error

2011-01-04 Thread Dave Whipp
Is something wrong with the try.rakudo.org server? When I attempt to use it I get an alert box: "An error has occured on the server. Error Message: Cannot connect to Rakudo Eval Server at /var/www/try.rakudo.org/frontend/try-rakudo.pl line 33."

[perl #76602] numeric types need "conjugate" operator

2010-07-21 Thread Dave Whipp
# New Ticket Created by "Dave Whipp" # Please include the string: [perl #76602] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=76602 > (this is really a perl6 spec (S32) bug, not specifically rakudo ... but r

[perl #71846] currying of prefix: operator with !whatever_closure

2010-01-05 Thread Dave Whipp
# New Ticket Created by "Dave Whipp" # Please include the string: [perl #71846] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=71846 > By principle of least surprise, all three of these should result in th

[perl #62742] man, max should accept code block that defines ordering

2009-01-25 Thread Dave Whipp
# New Ticket Created by "Dave Whipp" # Please include the string: [perl #62742] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=62742 > According to S29, the "min" and "max" methods should

Re: design of the Prelude (was Re: Rakudo leaving the Parrot nest)

2009-01-23 Thread Dave Whipp
Darren Duncan wrote: I don't quite follow you. Are you saying your version of sqrt is an implicit declaration; maybe I don't understand how that differs from an explicit definition in this case? In any event, right at this moment I can't think of an answer to your question. Go ahead with wh

Re: design of the Prelude (was Re: Rakudo leaving the Parrot nest)

2009-01-22 Thread Dave Whipp
Darren Duncan wrote: Dave Whipp wrote: sub sqrt(Num where { 0 <= $_ <= Real::Max } $x) { (0..$x/2 :by(Real::Epsilon)).min: { abs $x - $^candidate ** 2 } } So do you really mean "as declarative a manner as possible"? Or would you consider this example to go beyond "

Re: design of the Prelude (was Re: Rakudo leaving the Parrot nest)

2009-01-20 Thread Dave Whipp
Darren Duncan wrote: 1. What we *should* be doing with the Prelude, like with STD.pm, is write under the assumption that the implementation is also written in Perl 6. We should write the Prelude in as declarative a manner as possible, saying *what* we want to happen rather than how, such as

[perl #62028] "say" with no args should be an error

2009-01-06 Thread Dave Whipp
# New Ticket Created by "Dave Whipp" # Please include the string: [perl #62028] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=62028 > S16 requires that "say" (and "print") when called with

[perl #61988] "$.foo" doesn't accept args

2009-01-05 Thread Dave Whipp
# New Ticket Created by "Dave Whipp" # Please include the string: [perl #61988] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=61988 > rakudo: class A { method foo { say @_ }; method bar { $.foo(4

[perl #61918] classes don't get a default .perl method

2009-01-02 Thread Dave Whipp
# New Ticket Created by "Dave Whipp" # Please include the string: [perl #61918] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=61918 > rakudo: class A { has $.foo }; my A $a .=new( foo => 42

[perl #61916] initialization parameters from base classes

2009-01-02 Thread Dave Whipp
# New Ticket Created by "Dave Whipp" # Please include the string: [perl #61916] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=61916 > The default "new" method allows values of attributes to be s

[perl #61892] list-comprehension assignments with declaration

2009-01-01 Thread Dave Whipp
# New Ticket Created by "Dave Whipp" # Please include the string: [perl #61892] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=61892 > (rakudo 34751) I've been trying to figure out how to do a &

[perl #61898] defined-or-assign operator not implemented

2009-01-01 Thread Dave Whipp
# New Ticket Created by "Dave Whipp" # Please include the string: [perl #61898] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=61898 > rakudo: my $a; $a //= 1 rakudo 34768: OUTPUT«get_iter() no

[perl #61894] lexicals not hoisted into classes

2009-01-01 Thread Dave Whipp
# New Ticket Created by "Dave Whipp" # Please include the string: [perl #61894] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=61894 > example: pugs: my $global = 1; class A { method foo { say "foo = $

[perl #61692] deep equality and junctions

2008-12-26 Thread Dave Whipp
# New Ticket Created by "Dave Whipp" # Please include the string: [perl #61692] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=61692 > It's seems that Rakudo's notion of equality under the "

Re: error building pugs: "Could not find module `Data.ByteString'"

2006-05-01 Thread Dave Whipp
Dave Whipp wrote: Could not find module `Data.ByteString': I updated to r10166: Audrey's update to third-party/fps/... fixed my problem. Thanks. Dave.

error building pugs: "Could not find module `Data.ByteString'"

2006-04-30 Thread Dave Whipp
I'm trying play with pugs for the first time. I checked it out from the repository (r10142) and, after installing ghc 6.4.2, attempted to build pugs. Fairly quickly, the build dies with the message below. Does anyone have any hints what the problem might be (I'm not a Haskell person yet, but I

Re: Table of Perl 6 "Types"

2006-01-04 Thread Dave Whipp
Larry Wall wrote: : - : Num : : Base Numeric type : Int : : : Float : : : Complex : : This bothers me. The reason we put in Num in the first pla

Re: HLL Debug Segments

2005-11-15 Thread Dave Whipp
Will Coleda wrote: Right, the hard bit here was that I needed to specify something other than "file". Just agreeing that we need something other than just "file/line". I'd have thought the onus is the other way: justify the use of "file/line" as the primitive concept. We're going to have