A proposal for Perl's branding - let's free all the butterflies

2018-02-16 Thread Nigel Hamilton
Here is a suggestion for Perl's branding: http://nigelhamilton.com/perl-branding-proposal.html

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2016-04-18 Thread Nigel Hamilton
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Re: Logo considerations - 3 logos needed

2009-03-25 Thread Nigel Hamilton
I like the Camelia it's colourful, fun - it even has an embedded, sideways reference to a Camel. But IMHO there is a need for three logos: 1. Combined Parrot + Rakudo I like the suggestion of having cartoon speech bubbles around the Parrot that contain favicons of the language icons (e.g.,

Re: Logo considerations - 3 logos needed

2009-03-25 Thread Nigel Hamilton
But IMHO there is a need for three logos: 1. Combined Parrot + Rakudo (Parrot with speech bubbles in favicon halo)++ 2. Rakudo Camelia++ 3. Perl6 = the test suite The current plan is that Perl6 will not have a single implementation but that the test suite is shared by

Re: derived class generators and introspection

2006-08-31 Thread Nigel Hamilton
Rather, the proposal is focusing on what users of these data structures would / could see. The idea is that relational structures have the same ease of use and flexability that things like hashes or arrays or sequences or sets do now. They can of course just be stored in RAM like the

Re: derived class generators and introspection

2006-08-30 Thread Nigel Hamilton
HI Darren, Generally I really like the idea of fixing the relational/OO mismatch problem by swallowing the relational model whole. :-) But I wonder if we are ready to say goodbye to the tyranny of disk seek? How will your proposed system use the disk? And if it does use the disk what

Re: Exceptuations

2005-09-27 Thread Nigel Hamilton
And handling user errors in a GUI application is a task for event handling, *not* exception handling. I agree that both mechanisms share large parts of the infra-structure supporting them. But I make a strong conceptual distinction between them. Which leads to the question, does Perl6 have or

Re: -X's auto-(un)quoting?

2005-04-23 Thread Nigel Hamilton
What about . for each level up you want to go? instead of 1.say, 2.say, 3.say you use .say, ..say, ...say (Ok, I'm just kidding.. really!) I read your message after I suggested the same thing (I'm too impatient to read all new messages before sending replies). Why were you just kidding? I think

Re: .method == $self.method or $_.method?

2005-03-19 Thread Nigel Hamilton
On Thu, Mar 17, 2005 at 03:59:43PM -0800, Michael G Schwern wrote: : What it doesn't solve is the $.method vs .method issue. They look similar : but one works on the invocant and one works on $_. Still a trap. Yes, and that's probably the killer of the oc idea. So much for Sleep Brain, heh,

Re: [RFC] A more extensible/flexible POD (ROUGH-DRAFT)

2005-03-15 Thread Nigel Hamilton
I agree. I think the biggest mistake Perl 6's documentation system could make is to make it Javadoc-style automatic. This is one of those weird, backwards, cultural decisions, where we actually want to make the programmer's life a little harder. When I (seldomly) progam in Java, I find it very

Re: [Pugs] Closing a file handle surprised the heck out of me

2005-03-14 Thread Nigel Hamilton
: Given this Pugs program, t.p6: : : my $fh = open(@ARGS[0]); : my @lines = =$fh; : $fh.close(); : for @lines { print$_ } : : running: : : pugs t.p6 t.p6 : : produces no output. Move $fh.close() to after the for : loop and all is well. Is this a bug? I wonder if IO::All could provide some