Re: perl6's new name?

2019-08-13 Thread David E.
It's been said before, but I do think that the "Perl6" name is holding back adoption. Too many people think of the old Perl, and have no interest in looking at what's changed in a new version of the "same" language. Whatever the new name ultimately becomes, changing it (perhaps timed with a new ma

Re: perl6's new name?

2019-08-13 Thread David Christensen
On 8/11/19 11:14 PM, Eliza wrote: Hello perl6 world, I saw the perl6 github issue, just was confused will perl6 change its name? https://github.com/perl6/problem-solving/issues/81 I don't know whether to take this is troll bait or a real issue. Lots of people seem to be responding; so i

Re: perl6's new name?

2019-08-13 Thread William Michels via perl6-users
I've put up two name suggestions for Perl 6: NUPERL: www.nuperl.orgwww.nuperl.comwww.nuperl.net NEUPERL: www.neuperl.orgwww.neuperl.comwww.neuperl.net Specifics: https://github.com/perl6/problem-solving/issues/81#issuecomment-520960546 I'm not sure why this decision has to be m

Re: perl6's new name?

2019-08-13 Thread Laurent Rosenfeld via perl6-users
I don't think the decision has been made so far. At this point, it is a proposal by one (or possibly several) individual(s) whom I very much respect. And it is definitely not going to hapopen this week (and quite probably not this month). Even though my opinion on the subject is probably irrelev

Type name limit?

2019-08-13 Thread Mark Devine
This is Rakudo version 2019.07.1 built on MoarVM version 2019.07.1 implementing Perl 6.d. Is there a type “name” size limit in Perl 6/Rakudo/Moar? I’ve been making a hierarchy of classes to take in a > 4MB XML file, and I found it organized & convenient to use the names of the elements for clas

Re: perl6's new name?

2019-08-13 Thread Eliza
Hi, on 2019/8/14 5:19, Laurent Rosenfeld via perl6-users wrote: Having said that, I should add that if the name should really change, I think Camelia is probably the least bad idea that I can think of. Following the link: https://medium.com/@ThePearlSource/pearls-and-birthstones-the-pearl-m