A FatRat.base issue

2019-03-21 Thread Aaron Sherman
, 5).base(2) -- Aaron Sherman, M.: P: 617

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

Re: Fwd: Re: grammars and indentation of input

2016-09-13 Thread Aaron Sherman
s 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 specification outside of the prima

Re: grammars and indentation of input

2016-09-13 Thread Aaron Sherman
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, Sep

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 <joseph.h.gar...@gmail.com> wrote: > Wait, quotes *are an operator* ? If so

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