Re: A FatRat.base issue

2020-10-06 Thread Aaron Sherman
This report was a long time ago. Entirely possible that it's been resolved. On Fri, Oct 2, 2020, 2:58 PM William Michels wrote: > On Thu, Mar 21, 2019 at 5:17 PM Aaron Sherman wrote: > > > > Here's four commands using my Math::Sequence module (note that the > diff

A FatRat.base issue

2019-03-21 Thread Aaron Sherman
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Re: What's involved in the creation of a new Rakudo * version?

2016-10-16 Thread Aaron Sherman
Yep, I'm pleased that Star is behind a bit. It needs to be the stable face of Perl 6, but updated frequently enough that it's not irrelevant. On Sun, Oct 16, 2016, 12:51 PM Steve Mynott wrote: > There are star releases every 3 months. > > There was a RC0 of 2016.10 released today. > > There is a

Re: Fwd: Re: grammars and indentation of input

2016-09-13 Thread Aaron Sherman
sking about). When you do everything in one place, the result must have the ability to maintain and respond to global state. There's really no other way around it. A pure BNF cannot parse Python. Aaron Sherman, M.: P: 617-440-4332 Google Talk, Email and Google Plus: a...@ajs.com Toolsmith,

Re: Fwd: Re: grammars and indentation of input

2016-09-13 Thread Aaron Sherman
e spec is actually written in Perl 6), the reality is that the parts that aren't written in Perl 6 can be written in just about anything (with C/MoarVM and JVM implementations working just fine). It's not a context sensitive grammar that was the issue with Perl 5, it was the lack of a spec

Re: grammars and indentation of input

2016-09-13 Thread Aaron Sherman
ch as a parameter by inserting an empty block. You can see this documented and used here: http://examples.perl6.org/categories/parsers/SimpleStrings.html Aaron Sherman, M.: P: 617-440-4332 Google Talk, Email and Google Plus: a...@ajs.com Toolsmith, developer, gamer and life-long student. On Tue

Re: coded size limits on Perl data types?

2016-09-13 Thread Aaron Sherman
presenting it as a region of memory isn't really interesting. What you want to know about it are things that there are other ways to calculate, such as its modulus by certain primes, its log in various bases, etc. Aaron Sherman, M.: P: 617-440-4332 Google Talk, Email and Google Plus: a..

Re: Observations from a C++/Python developer that never used Perl5

2016-09-09 Thread Aaron Sherman
args: {@*ARGS.join(',')}"; Aaron Sherman, M.: P: 617-440-4332 Google Talk, Email and Google Plus: a...@ajs.com Toolsmith, developer, gamer and life-long student. On Fri, Sep 9, 2016 at 8:59 PM, Joseph Garvin wrote: > Wait, quotes *are an operator* ? If so how would I define

Re: Observations from a C++/Python developer that never used Perl5

2016-09-08 Thread Aaron Sherman
> > it is combining too many new things at once: Well, it is meant to be the up-front example of everything at once before the step-by-step... > * BUILD > * new These are the heart of construction. I don't think there's any avoiding that in a class tutorial. * submethod > * bless These are