<http://xrl.us/jwuc>
Macros
Herbert Snorrason wants more specifics on macros in Perl 6. Larry gave
him some.
<http://xrl.us/jwud>
Synopsis Typos
Yiyi Hu and Andrew Savige found a few typos in a few synopses. Larry
graciously fixed them.
<http://
ML::Parser::Syck
Bernhard Schmalhofer posted a brief look at what has already been done
with adding support of libsyck and left the door open to anyone who
wished to pick up the torch. Warnock applies.
<http://xrl.us/jpxi>
Parrot Link Issues
Klaas-Jan Stol had problems l
Perl 6 Summary for 2006-01-02 though 2006-01-09
All~
Welcome to another Perl 6 Summary. On a complete tangent, if you are
playing World of Warcraft and see a troll hunter named Krynna, she
rocks. She royally saved me. Be nice to her.
Perl 6 Compiler
PIL Containers and Roles
Perl 6 Summary for 2005-12-05 through 2005-12-12
All~
Welcome to another Perl 6 summary. This week, like last, Parrot has
produced the highest volume of emails. Fine by me, Parrot tends to be
easiest to summarize. This summary is brought to you by Snow (the latest
soft toy in t
Piers~
On 11/30/05, The Perl 6 Summarizer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> So, I hopped into a taxi (and I use the word hopped advisedly) and
> repaired straightway to King's Cross and thence home to Gateshead, where
> my discomfort was somewhat ameliorated by the distraction of preparin
Perl 6 Summary for 2005-11-14 through 2005-11-21
All~
Welcome to another Perl 6 Summary. The attentive among you may notice
that this one is on time. I am not sure how that happened, but we will
try and keep it up. On a complete side note, I think there should be a
Perl guild o
Larry~
On 11/8/05, Larry Wall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 08, 2005 at 10:55:05AM -0500, Matt Fowles wrote:
> : Patrick~
> :
> : On 11/8/05, Patrick R. Michaud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> : > On Tue, Nov 08, 2005 at 12:57:18PM +, [EMAIL PROTEC
Patrick~
On 11/8/05, Patrick R. Michaud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 08, 2005 at 12:57:18PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > "Patrick R. Michaud" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > :And we also get \d:0123 as a cheap way of saying \d0123.
> >
> > I think the ':' changes the meaning of t
=head1 Perl 6 Summary for 2005-10-10 through 2005-10-18
All~
Welcome to another Perl 6 Summary. Sadly, this week's summary is not
brought to you by cookies as I already finished them. Sadder still,
it is also brought to you a week late. On the plus side, Mike
Doughty's "Haughty Melodic" is qui
Perl 6 Summary for 2005-09-26 through 2005-10-02
All~
Welcome to another summary, this time a day late because I was in Philly
for Serenity. If you haven't seen Serenity yet you should stop reading
this summary and go see it. The summary will be here when you get back.
I promis
Perl 6 Summary for 2005-09-12 through 2005-09-19
All~
Welcome to another Perl 6 Summary, this time brought to you with a
shorter pause (::grumble:: $WORK ::grumble::) and assisted by cookies.
Perl 6 Compilers
Circular Preludes for Fun and Confusion
Yuval Kogman posted a reall
Perl 6 Summary for 2005-08-15 through 2005-08-22
All~
Welcome to another monday summary, which hopefully provides some
evidence that mondays can get better. It always feels like writing
summaries is an uphill battle, perhaps I should switch to writing about
Perl 6 Language firs
Perl 6 Summary for 2005-08-02 through 2005-08-10
All~
Welcome to another summary, brought to you by chinese food. The
attentive among you will notice that this summary is a day late, because
I did not feel like doing it yesterday. If only I could do that at
work...
Perl 6 Co
Autrijus~
On 8/6/05, Autrijus Tang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> (Cc'ing p6l, but this feels like a p6c thread...)
>
> Greetings. As I'm moving forward with the new PIL runcore,
> I'm now trying to document my understanding as visual diagrams.
>
> The first one is about the compilation cycle:
>
ilures Nonfatal
Bernhard Schmalhofer suggested that " make languages " should not give
up after the first failure, but should instead build the remaining
languages.
<http://xrl.us/gv7k>
Dynclasses on Windows
Nick Glencross and Jonathan Worthington dis
Perl 6 Summary for 2005-07-05 through 2005-07-12
All~
Welcome to another summary from the frog house. A house so green it can
be seen from outerspace (according to google earth).
Perl 6 Compiler
Building Pugs Workaround
Sam Vilain posted a useful work around to the error "err
ister Allocation Bug
Leo opened a ticket for a problem with improper control flow tracking.
Bill Coffman wondered whether the new register design had been
implemented yet.
<http://xrl.us/gke9>
Pass by Value PMCs
Klaas-Jan Stol mused that the new calling conventions
Perl 6 Summary for 2005-05-24 through 2005-05-31
All~
Welcome to another Perl 6 summary, brought to you by Aliya's new
friends, Masha Nannifer and Philippe, and my own secret running joke.
Without further ado, I bring you Perl 6 Compiler.
Perl 6 Compiler
method chaining
Perl 6 Summary for 2005-05-03 through 2005-05-17
All~
Welcome ot another fortnight's summary. Wouldn't it just figure that I
can't think of anything sufficiently non-sequiterish to amuse myself.
Perhaps I need a running gag like Leon Brocard or chromatic's
cummingseque capitali
Perl 6 Summary for 2004-04-26 through 2005-05-03
All~
Welcome to another weeks summary. This week I shall endeavor not to
accidentally delete my summary or destroy the world. So here we go with
p6c.
Perl 6 Compilers
implicit $_ on for loops
Kiran Kumar found a bug in pugs
Perl 6 Summary for 2005-04-12 through 2005-04-19
All~
Sadly, a slip of the mouse cause me to delete a partially completed
summary, so I am going to push ahead on the rewrite without a witty
intro. Feel free to make one up for yourself involving stuffed animals,
musicians, and d
Autrijus~
On Apr 12, 2005 3:50 PM, Autrijus Tang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> * `xor` and `^^` now short-circuits
How does this work? I thought xor /had/ to evaluate both sides.
Matt
--
"Computer Science is merely the post-Turing Decline of Formal Systems Theory."
-???
Perl 6 Language
ceil and floor
Ingo Blechschmidt wondered if ceil and floor would be in the core.
Warnock applies... Although Unicode operators would let me define
circumfix \lfloor \rfloor (although I only know how to make those
symbols in tex...). Hmmm... using tex to right P
Perl 6 Summary for 2005-03-07 through 2005-03-22
All~
Welcome to yet another fortnights summary. I believe this is the highest
volume I have ever seen the three lists at simultaneously. Hopefully
they will keep it up, because good work is being done. To aid in the
epic endeavou
Perl 6 Summary for 2005-02-22 though 2005-03-07
All~
Welcome to yet another fortnight summary. Once again brought to you by
chocolate chips. This does have the distinction of being the first
summary written on a mac. So if I break into random swear words, just
bear with me.
Perl 6 Summary for 2005-02-08 through 2005-02-22
All~
Welcome to yet another fortnight summary. Lately p6l has been out
stripping p6i in volume. While this used to be the norm, lately it has
become a rare occurrence. Strange... Anyway, this summary would be
brought to you buy c
Perl 6 Summary for 2005-01-31 through 2004-02-8
All~
Welcome to yet another summary in which I will undoubtedly confuse to
homophones. Probably more than a few this week as I am a little tired.
But perhaps the alien on my window or the vampire on my monitor will
help straighten
Perl 6 Summary for 2005-01-18 through 2005-01-31
All~
Welcome to another double feature summary. Sadly, this one was delayed
because of an argument that I was/am having with my connection.
Fortunately, a generous neighbor has allowed me to use his connection
for the time being.
All~
I have been struggling with my internet for the past 4 days, so this
weeks summary will be part of a "double feature" fortnight's summary
next week. Figured that I would provide advanced notice though...
Matt
--
"Computer Science is merely the post-Turing Decline of Formal Systems Theory."
Perl 6 Summary for 2005-01-11 through 2005-01-18
Welcome to yet another Perl Summary brought to you by music and pizza
(although the pizza is late in arriving). Like many summaries before it,
we start with an attempt at non sequitur and Perl 6 Language.
Perl 6 Language
idiomatic P
Perl 6 Summary for 2004-01-03 through 2004-01-11
Welcome to another Perl 6 summary. In this summary, we will explore such
thrilling issues as multi-dimensional slices of Chinese food. After all,
the amount of sauce any piece of Chinese food can absorb is proportional
to its surface
Perl 6 Summary for 2004-12-20 through 2005-01-03
All~
Welcome to a New Year of Perl 6 Summaries. I have been doing bi-weekly
summaries over the holiday season, but I plan on returning to weekly
ones now. Hopefully "World of Warcraft" won't prevent me, we shall see,
but if anyon
Perl 6 Summary for 2004-12-06 through 2004-12-20
All~
The observant among you might notice that I missed last week's summary.
With the hubbub and confusion of the holidays, I blame ninjas, in
particular Ryu Hyabusa. Given that Christmas is next weekend and New
Years is the week
Perl 6 Summary for 2004-11-29 through 2004-12-06
All~
Last week I asked for help identifying the source of a quotation. One
friendly soul suggested Alan J. Perlis, but could not find an actual
attribution. It did lead me to find a very applicable (and in my mind
funny) quote fr
Perl 6 Summary for 2004-11-22 through 2004-11-29
All~
Rather than try to do something witty about the strange music I am
listening to, or the stuffed animals who are assisting me. I will start
this summary off with an entirely self-serving request. A while
ago I saw the quote "
Perl 6 Summary for 2004-11-15 through 2004-11-22
All~
Welcome to yet another summary. Although Aliya is present for this
summary, I think the unnamed gecko with its tongue out will be the one
who is helping to bring it to you, aided of course by Nicola Conte and
Massive Attack.
Perl 6 Summary for 2004-11-08 through 2004-11-15
All~
Welcome to yet another Monday summary. This would have been a Sunday
summary, but Avernum (from Spiderweb Software) forcibly prevented it. As
usual, we will start out with Perl 6 Language.
Perl 6 Language
modules and expor
Perl 6 Summary for 2004-11-01 through 2004-11-08
All~
Welcome to yet another summary, brought to you (once again) with the aid
of the musical stylings of Dar Williams and Soul Coughing and a small
stuffed elephant name Aliya. And, without further ado, I give you Perl 6
Language
Perl 6 Summary for 2004-10-23 through 2004-11-01
All~
Welcome to another summary, this one being slightly delayed by
Halloween. Before I start off with perl6-language, let me remind all
American readers to vote tomorrow. Non-American readers should also
vote, but it seems unlik
Perl 6 Summary for 2004-10-18 through 2004-10-23
All~
Last week I received a request to summarize perl6-language before
internals. Frankly, it seems like a reasonable idea. Perl6-internals has
always been first as long as I can remember. So perhaps, it is time to
switch it up.
All~
I am willing to try and take on this responsibility. I have been
reading p6i for several years now and always appreciated the summary,
so what better way to give back.
Any advice/scripts that Piers (or anyone else) can provide me would be
appreciated.
Matt
--
"Computer Science is merely t
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