Re: Recognising libraries.

2010-12-11 Thread Brandon S Allbery KF8NH
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12/9/10 13:43 , yary wrote: > I see a pattern - the libs not found have a version number. They > should also be removed (along with the .so), let the linker determine > the version. How it will decide between 4.7 and 4.8 when you tell it > to load l

Re: [Fwd: [Fwd: Re: what is going on here?]]

2009-01-11 Thread Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH
On 2009 Jan 11, at 3:50, Richard Hainsworth wrote: To be precise - why the ':' after the sort? '%players.sort' calls the 'sort' method/sub on the hash '%players'. '{.value}' runs '.value' on $_ at some point. But when? So once again, what is the ':' doing? How else could this code be writt

Re: reporting bugs

2009-01-04 Thread Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH
On 2009 Jan 4, at 9:20, Richard Hainsworth wrote: I posted an email to per6-all asking about how one should go about reporting bugs. That message has appeared on the list. So again: how can bugs be reported? A quick google of "rakudo bug" points to rakudo...@perl.org -- brandon s. allbery

Re: Perl as a better web language ?

2008-12-11 Thread Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH
On 2008 Dec 11, at 23:55, howard chen wrote: Hello, I love perl for its rich set of modules but PHP is a better template language for web developments. Wouldn't it be great to see if Perl6 support it? It can be done as a library, take a look at Perl6 grammars. -- brandon s. allbery [solaris,

Re: Perl 6 fundraising and related topics.

2008-02-21 Thread Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH
On Feb 21, 2008, at 14:42 , Larry Wall wrote: Again, that was a really good argument for pugs, which among other things *renewed* excitement in parrot. But pugs also demonstrated some difficulties with that approach. The fact is that every approach has run into almost insurmountable diffic