Installing http::Daemon on win32

2009-11-01 Thread Steve Pitchford
Hi, I've got parrot 1.7 and the October release of rakudo. After a bit of fettling, mostly down to my lack of concentration, I got "perl6" up and running, and was able to get a tad of code running. I came into problems when trying to get http::deamon installed. It doesn't seem at all happy instal

Re: what should be the default extension?

2008-01-08 Thread Steve Pitchford
Richard Hainsworth wrote: May I suggest the following extension to the 'use ' pragma, viz. use in as constrained by local system> Without wanting to sound too stupid - why not delegate the decision to a class/resource loader of some manner, specify your resources as '[some unique charactor

Re: Project Idea: Perl 6 Syntax Explainer

2007-07-12 Thread Steve Pitchford
Moritz Lenz wrote: Steve Pitchford wrote: Moritz Lenz wrote: First of all I hope there are no objections against fiddling with STD.pm. My approach so far (see <http://svn.pugscode.org/pugs/misc/perlhints/>) has been to write blocks for each token like so: key: * name:

Re: Project Idea: Perl 6 Syntax Explainer

2007-07-12 Thread Steve Pitchford
Moritz Lenz wrote: Dave Whipp wrote: One approach would simply be to edit Perl-6.0.0-STD.pm and add some markup. To pick a token at random: =p6explain * An asterix in a version expression matches any version =end token whatever { '*' {*} } You convinced me, in-place documentation is

Re: the CGI.pm in Perl 6

2006-09-19 Thread Steve Pitchford
Randal L. Schwartz wrote: "David" == David Cantrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: But don't throw out the simplicity of CGI.pm's basic task handling: parsing the incoming parameters (including file upload), and generating sticky forms and other common HTML elements. Dav