Re: [perl6/specs] 761178: remove some some duplicate words words

2010-09-07 Thread Jason Switzer
On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 11:29 AM, Moritz Lenz mor...@faui2k3.org wrote: Brandon S Allbery KF8NH wrote: On 9/7/10 08:17 , nore...@github.com wrote: Commit: 7611788411e5aff5f3ae150e2da9929ee546d6d8 http://github.com/perl6/specs/commit/7611788411e5aff5f3ae150e2da9929ee546d6d8 It was nicer

Re: Natural Language and Perl 6

2010-08-01 Thread Jason Switzer
On Sun, Aug 1, 2010 at 5:46 AM, Timothy S. Nelson wayl...@wayland.id.auwrote: Hi. I'm wondering if any thought has been given to natural language processing with Perl 6 grammars. No specific tool is best suited for natural language processing. There was apparently a time in which

Re: r31043 -[S32/Containers] Buf does Stringy, too

2010-06-02 Thread Jason Switzer
On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 5:10 AM, pugs-comm...@feather.perl6.nl wrote: Author: masak Date: 2010-06-02 12:10:22 +0200 (Wed, 02 Jun 2010) New Revision: 31043 Modified: docs/Perl6/Spec/S32-setting-library/Containers.pod Log: [S32/Containers] Buf does Stringy, too -class Buf does

Re: Ideas for a Object-Belongs-to-Thread threading model (nntp: message 5 of 20)

2010-05-13 Thread Jason Switzer
On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 3:59 AM, nigelsande...@btconnect.com wrote: This should be a reply to Daniel Ruoso's post above, but I cannot persuade my nntp reader to reply to a post made before I subscribed here. Sorry And at the core of that, is the need for preemptive (kernel) threading and

Re: expression of seconds (was Re: A new era for Temporal)

2010-04-09 Thread Jason Switzer
On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 3:06 PM, Jonathan Worthington jonat...@jnthn.netwrote: Though even clearer and same number of characters as whole_seconds is: $dt.seconds.round This makes more sense to me than the first example you listed because when dealing with time measurement, I rarely think of

Re: You never have privacy from your children in Perl 6

2010-03-26 Thread Jason Switzer
On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 7:16 AM, Carl Mäsak cma...@gmail.com wrote: You're using it wrong. You need to put 'trusts B;' in A in order for B to see A's privates. I hope it is obvious why this is the case. -- Darren Duncan Aye, my mistake. Apparently the syntax I used to try to get at the

Re: Gripes about Pod6 (S26)

2010-02-12 Thread jason switzer
On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 10:12 PM, Timothy S. Nelson wayl...@wayland.id.auwrote: There's a school of thought, common among printing/publishing types, that insists that underline was intended solely to replace italics when they couldn't be represented (i.e. no fonts, as with ASCII terminals and

Re: Interactive Perl 6 shell

2009-12-28 Thread jason switzer
://perl6advent.wordpress.com/2009/12/01/day-1-getting-rakudo/ Sorry about that empty reply. -Jason Switzer

S19 questions

2009-10-25 Thread jason switzer
I was reading over S19 and had a few questions. 1) The colon delimiter (:name) is specified but no options are declared to use it specifically. It's not clear why we would need this delimiter on top of the other more popular delimiters. Are the long form (double dash), meta syntax form (double

Re: Rukudo-Star = Rakudo-lite?

2009-08-10 Thread jason switzer
Since I don't know anything about nuclear power plants, I think the BikeShed should be painted blue and called Rakudo Whatever or just Rakudo. -Jason s1n Switzer

[Invitation] June Dallas.p6m Meeting @ Tue Jun 9 7pm – 10pm (perl6-language@perl.org)

2009-06-05 Thread jason switzer
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June Dallas.p6m Meeting

2009-06-04 Thread jason switzer
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Re: Module naming conventions

2009-06-01 Thread jason switzer
On Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 7:50 PM, Jon Lang datawea...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 5:44 PM, Daniel Carrera daniel.carr...@theingots.org wrote: I think we might need to come up with some sort of standard naming convention to distinguish dependencies. Something that the *user* can

use v5 Support

2009-03-25 Thread jason switzer
I want to pose the same question for clarification that I asked #perl6: S01 says that perl5 code will be supported via use v5. Can someone confirm that embedded perl5 code is still required of any valid implementation? If so, how will XS code be supported? Will the namespace between v5 code and

Re: Logo considerations

2009-03-24 Thread jason switzer
On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 3:10 PM, James Fuller james.fuller.2...@gmail.comwrote: Is there any sponsorship money to spend on a very good graphic designer to create something based on a small list of requirements as to what meaning it should convey ? I would agree; have a professional do it and

Re: r25490 - docs/Perl6/Spec

2009-02-23 Thread jason switzer
On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 9:47 PM, pugs-comm...@feather.perl6.nl wrote: Added: docs/Perl6/Spec/S28-special-variables.pod === +=head2 Named variables (see S02): +$?OS # operating system compiled for +$*OS

Re: RFD: Built-in testing

2009-01-22 Thread jason switzer
On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 4:51 PM, jerry gay jerry@gmail.com wrote: $x == $y :ok({ .true ?? 'message' !! 'failure message' }) :diag( 'tap comment', :some_tap_propertysome values) I just want to stress again that I would like to see no focus on just tap emitters. While I realize this

Re: RFD: Built-in testing

2009-01-20 Thread jason switzer
On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 1:08 PM, Moritz Lenz mor...@faui2k3.org wrote: So Larry and Patrick developed the idea of creating an adverb on the test operator instead: $x == 1e5 :ok('the :ok makes this is a test'); This is an adverb on the infix:== operator, and might desugar to something

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

2009-01-15 Thread jason switzer
On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 8:59 PM, Jon Lang datawea...@gmail.com wrote: OK, then. If I'm understanding this correctly, the problem being raised has to do with deciding which language features to treat as primitives and which ones to bootstrap from those primitives. The difficulty is that

Re: [PATCH] Add .trim method

2009-01-12 Thread jason switzer
On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 9:07 AM, jesse je...@fsck.com wrote: 'left' and 'right' are probably not the right names for functions which trim leading and/or trailing space, since their meanings get somewhat ambiguous if a language renders right-to-left instead of left-to-right or vice-versa

Re: Not a bug?

2009-01-12 Thread jason switzer
On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 3:54 PM, Larry Wall la...@wall.org wrote: On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 01:19:12PM -0800, Jon Lang wrote: : As well, isn't there a way to escape a character that would otherwise : be interpolated? If the intent were as you suppose, the original : could be rewritten as: :

Re: [PATCH] Add .trim method

2009-01-12 Thread jason switzer
On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 6:26 PM, Ovid publiustemp-perl6langua...@yahoo.comwrote: - Original Message From: jason switzer jswit...@gmail.com If we wanted language dependent version, use :leading, :trailing, and :both. That will require each implementation properly handle

Re: r24737 - docs/Perl6/Spec

2009-01-02 Thread jason switzer
On Fri, Jan 2, 2009 at 8:12 PM, Geoffrey Broadwell ge...@broadwell.orgwrote: On Fri, 2009-01-02 at 12:27 -0800, jerry gay wrote: oh, yes, whoops! i responded to someone else in #pugs earlier, and forgot to address the item here. Cperl6 --doc replaces p5's Cperldoc (that's the latest idea

Re: Working with files wish list

2008-12-15 Thread jason switzer
On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 10:43 AM, Richard Hainsworth rich...@rusrating.ruwrote: a) I am fed up with writing something like open(FP, ${fname}_out.txt) or die Cant open ${fname}_out.txt for writing\n; The complex definition of the filename is only to show that it has to be restated

Re: Working with files wish list

2008-12-15 Thread jason switzer
On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 6:59 PM, Leon Timmermans faw...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 6:42 PM, jason switzer jswit...@gmail.com wrote: It's lazy and kinda cheating, but for small simple tasks, it gets the job done. I'm not up to speed with the IO spec, but a sort of auto-slurp

Re: Split with negative limits, and other weirdnesses

2008-09-27 Thread jason switzer
It makes sense to me to go with option 1; you get what you ask for. It also makes sense to make to not use magical implied numbers, such as negatives, to accomplish things that either ranges or whatever star can accomplish. Just my 2 cents. -Jason s1n Switzer On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 4:27 AM,