Re: 6PAN idea

2008-12-17 Thread B. Estrade
On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 10:19:07AM -0300, Daniel Ruoso wrote: Em Qua, 2008-12-17 ??s 23:35 +1100, Timothy S. Nelson escreveu: On Wed, 17 Dec 2008, Daniel Ruoso wrote: Em Qua, 2008-12-17 ??s 15:00 +1100, Timothy S. Nelson escreveu: My basic assumption is that there's going to be

Re: 6PAN idea

2008-12-17 Thread Daniel Ruoso
Em Qua, 2008-12-17 às 15:00 +1100, Timothy S. Nelson escreveu: My basic assumption is that there's going to be some kind of packaging system written around 6PAN. Please take a look in some notes I've written some time ago: http://www.perlfoundation.org/perl6/index.cgi?DistributionFormat

Re: Proposal: Make @a and @@a different variables

2008-12-17 Thread TSa
HaloO, Daniel Ruoso wrote: The number of summands might be also unknown. i.e.: map. when you have my @a == map { ... } == something() you can't really know how many elements you have in the first dimension... Hmm, I thought that all lists know their length, and if not they advertise Inf.

Perl6's RE(P)L

2008-12-17 Thread Mark J. Reed
Following up to a bug report, Mr Lenz wrote: Another detail: if i do this in the REPL, it works fine, until I close the REPL - then I get the same backtrace as before. ...except that this is a Rakudo bug, and Rakudo doesn't have a REPL. It has a REL, but if you want P, you have to arrange it

Re: 6PAN idea

2008-12-17 Thread Daniel Ruoso
Em Qua, 2008-12-17 às 23:35 +1100, Timothy S. Nelson escreveu: On Wed, 17 Dec 2008, Daniel Ruoso wrote: Em Qua, 2008-12-17 às 15:00 +1100, Timothy S. Nelson escreveu: My basic assumption is that there's going to be some kind of packaging system written around 6PAN. Please take a look

Re: 6PAN idea

2008-12-17 Thread Timothy S. Nelson
On Wed, 17 Dec 2008, Daniel Ruoso wrote: Em Qua, 2008-12-17 às 15:00 +1100, Timothy S. Nelson escreveu: My basic assumption is that there's going to be some kind of packaging system written around 6PAN. Please take a look in some notes I've written some time ago:

Parrot 0.8.2 Feliz Loro Released!

2008-12-17 Thread Andrew Whitworth
On behalf of the Parrot team, I'm proud to announce Parrot 0.8.2 Feliz Loro. Parrot (http://parrotcode.org/) is a virtual machine aimed at running all dynamic languages. Parrot 0.8.2 is available via CPAN (soon), or follow the download instructions at http://parrotcode.org/source.html. For those

Re: Support for ensuring invariants from one loop iteration to the next?

2008-12-17 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
* David Green david.gr...@telus.net [2008-12-16 18:30]: So what if we had LOOP $n {} that executed on the nth iteration? Ugh. Please no. Now you suddenly have this odd new corner of the language with all its very own semantics and you have to figure out how to make it orthogonal enough and when

Re: 6PAN idea

2008-12-17 Thread Timothy S. Nelson
On Wed, 17 Dec 2008, Daniel Ruoso wrote: It also allows one source package to generate different binary packages (for instance, having scripts, libs and docs splitted), and makes it easier to do an uninstall, because a binary/installable package would have a fixed list of files. I agree on

6PAN Spec question

2008-12-17 Thread Timothy S. Nelson
My question is, what sort of information actually belongs in a final version of the 6PAN spec? I'm assuming it will at least include 6PAN Package format (layout, metadata, etc), and I'd suggest that it also include the layout of packages on the 6PAN server. Some have suggested a particular