On Sun, Oct 22, 2017 at 10:32 PM, Brandon Allbery wrote:
> This is still best discussed elsewhere... isn't there a stackexchange for
> this kind of stuff?
Ah, Stack Exchange, the quality site where the _first_ answer is the
most significant.
Anything else is better than asking people to go there
On Fri, Jul 21, 2017 at 10:50 AM, Todd Chester wrote:
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>
> On 07/21/2017 01:07 AM, Mark Carter wrote:
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>> I noticed that there is no Windows 32-bit version of rakudo, and it won't
>> even compile on cygwin.
>>
>> Are there plans for fixing this?
>
>
>
> Hi Mark,
>
> I may be wrong, but I do bel
Hah, I see that my original response only went to ToddAndMargo, how
dull-witted I must have been.
On Wed, Jun 21, 2017 at 10:13 PM, The Sidhekin wrote:
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> On Wed, Jun 21, 2017 at 1:35 PM, Luca Ferrari wrote:
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>> > I like Geany, but it does not support the "Secondary Selection"
>> > clipboard.
On Fri, Jun 16, 2017 at 12:13 PM, Elizabeth Mattijsen
wrote:
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>
> Failed to write bytes to filehandle: Broken pipe
> in block at -e line 1
>
> So it would appear this got fixed by the synchronous IO refactor, and will
> be available in the 2017.06 release, which is scheduled for tomorrow.
>
>
On Thu, Nov 17, 2016 at 8:08 AM, ToddAndMargo wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Would you guys tolerate a perl 5 question every so often?
>
>
Perl 5 questions that relate to Perl 6 would probably be on topic.
If what you want is help with Perl 5 for Perl 5's sake, though, I humbly
suggest that using one of t
On Fri, Apr 1, 2016 at 2:00 PM, Elizabeth Mattijsen wrote:
> Sorry if I wasn’t clear: If there is no dynamic var, it will make one:
> either from the environment, or set it to 64K (like it was before). So no
> programmer action is ever needed if they’re not interested in that type of
> optimizat
On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 10:36 AM, Elizabeth Mattijsen
wrote:
> > The reasoning behind _not_ setting things via environment variables, is
> that this means the programmer now needs to worry what e.g. the webserver
> running the Perl program does, and there are unknown stability (and
> possibly sec
On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 9:20 PM, Elizabeth Mattijsen wrote:
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>
> Thanks for your thoughts!
>
> I’ve implemented $*DEFAULT-READ-ELEMS in
> https://github.com/rakudo/rakudo/commit/5bd1e .
>
> Of course, all of this is provisional, and open for debate and
> bikeshedding.
>
>
Brilliant and brilliantl
On Wed, Sep 2, 2015 at 3:51 AM, Robert Strahl via perl6-users <
perl6-users@perl.org> wrote:
> I don't understand why some people feel so strongly that one-liners should
> be strict. That would undermine what a one-liner is — a quick way to get
> something done. I use perl5 one-liners very frequen
On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 17:30, Guy Hulbert wrote:
> Rakudo is not listed here:
> http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/
> Fixing that is something I'd like to help with.
>
> Note that go was listed *before* it was announced. That tells me that
> the go authors are, in some small way, more serious abo
On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 09:30, Daniel Carrera wrote:
> That's rather annoying. Isn't there a way to fix that?
>
Yes, install Rakudo Star instead, that bundles a suitable version of Parrot.
--
Jan
On Sun, Jan 2, 2011 at 19:02, Guy Hulbert wrote:
> Many people seem to be proposing questions which ask people's opinions
> of things which are factual and can be answered readily by reading the
> documentation.
>
> For example, your question can be partly answered by looking at the
> rakudo down
On Sun, Jan 2, 2011 at 18:33, Guy Hulbert wrote:
> On Sun, 2011-02-01 at 18:25 +0100, Jan Ingvoldstad wrote:
> > At least have the decency to change the e-mail subject when the
> > discussion's
> > subject has changed!
>
> IMO, the subject changed at the second p
On Sun, Jan 2, 2011 at 18:05, Guy Hulbert wrote:
> On Sun, 2011-02-01 at 10:27 -0600, Patrick R. Michaud wrote:
> > - What was the first production release of Linux?
> > - At what point was each of the above declared a "production
> > release";
> > was it concurrent with the release, or s
On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 11:27, Steffen Schwigon wrote:
> Just an opinion: imho every effort should go towards integrating CPAN
> in any way.
>
> Perl without CPAN feels like Kung-Fu on stack-heel shoe.
>
> Maybe any of those META2.0, cpanminus, CPAN::Packager,
> CPAN::Dpendency, MyCPAN::*, POD6 t
On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 20:21, Darren Duncan wrote:
> If all invocations of myop use a code literal for the $y argument, then
> this can be checked at compile time, but if the argument is a variable, they
> have to look further out.
>
>
Yup.
For those who don't quite see what this leads to, consi
On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 10:47, Smylers wrote:
> Larry Wall writes:
>
> > On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 11:21:52AM +0200, Jan Ingvoldstad wrote:
> >
> > : On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 11:15, Smylers wrote:
> > :
> > : > For the benefit of Perl 5 programmers used to
On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 11:15, Smylers wrote:
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> For the benefit of Perl 5 programmers used to string reverse it would be
> nice to have a warning if reverse is invoked with exactly one string
> argument (but not with an array which happens to contain a string as its
> only element).
>
Perhaps
On Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 5:14 PM, Christian Sturm wrote:
> Hi,
>
> do you know a short and easy way to iterate a block X times?
>
Here's one using the upto operator:
for ^$X {
$s *= $s;
}
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