OT: Re: Web development I: Web::Toolkit

2006-09-20 Thread Thomas Wittek
reate a more semantic markup which can be styled using CSS. Of course there is more than just design. The cite attribute of the blockquote tag isn't supported by any browser AFAIK. -- Thomas Wittek http://gedankenkonstrukt.de/ Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: CGI Session management (was Re: the CGI.pm in Perl 6)

2006-09-20 Thread Thomas Wittek
lines CGI.pm/Web.pm/foo.pm that covers the most common web-request tasks. Regards -- Thomas Wittek http://gedankenkonstrukt.de/ Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: the CGI.pm in Perl 6

2006-09-19 Thread Thomas Wittek
ith the getting (and setting) of the incoming param values. A separate module, say HTML::Formgenerator, could easily use CGI.pm (or Web.pm,...) to get and set parameters: $value = $query->param('foo'); $query->param('foo','an','array','of'

Re: the CGI.pm in Perl 6

2006-09-12 Thread Thomas Wittek
Steffen Schwigon schrieb: > Thomas Wittek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> An other acceptable solution would be to create a backwards >> compatible P6 CGI.pm and create a new Web.pm with an all new >> interface, like Mark suggested. > I would strongly expect the CGI m

Re: the CGI.pm in Perl 6

2006-09-11 Thread Thomas Wittek
Trey Harris schrieb: > I agree with the sentiment, but as a practical matter, not having HTML > methods in CGI.pm could drastically limit Perl 6 adoption. Oh well. I thought it was common sense that it's a bad idea to mix code and markup. Who really wants to do itself this pain should use a separa

Re: Mutil Method Questions

2006-06-26 Thread Thomas Wittek
Steffen Schwigon: > Thomas Wittek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> Maybe I just phenomenally misunderstood multi subs, but unless I >> did, I can't see why we want to have subs when we can have multi >> subs that can do the same and even more. > > I understand

Re: Mutil Method Questions

2006-06-23 Thread Thomas Wittek
Steffen Schwigon schrieb: > At least the many keywords seem to be necessary to map the complexity > of different paradigms possible in Perl6. Multimethods are not just > overloading as in C++. Second, the different keywords declare > different behaviour you can choose. Just read S06, it's explained

Name of this wiki

2006-06-15 Thread Thomas Wittek
Conrad Schneiker schrieb: > 3) (Quoting from above link): "I propose that the wiki be called P6 to > signify its use of Perl6." I presently prefer something like the > "Perl++ Wikicosm". Another idea: Wiki is hawaiian for "quick, fast". Why not take another hawaiian word? Some examples (you will f

Re: class introspection and extention

2006-06-12 Thread Thomas Wittek
max demmelbauer schrieb: > * how can i serialize objects (like the use Storable qw(freeze thaw) in > perl5.8) Try $object.perl(.say) as stated in http://svn.openfoundry.org/pugs/docs/articles/tpr.pod (or http://gedankenkonstrukt.de/perl6doc/articles/tpr.html ;) ) -Thomas

Re: $1,000 prize for Perl 6 Wiki written in Perl 6

2006-06-07 Thread Thomas Wittek
Damn, forgot the link. Thomas Wittek schrieb: > That's mainly what I did as stated in my first post[1]. [...] [1]: news://nntp.perl.org:119/[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: $1,000 prize for Perl 6 Wiki written in Perl 6

2006-06-07 Thread Thomas Wittek
Juerd schrieb: > * Markdown does not have tables. > * Textile does not have paragraphs in table cells. > * Kwiki does not have paragraphs in table cells. > > Unless someone comes up with another way to do side-by-side layouts > (extremely useful for showcasing differences between Perl 5 and Perl 6

Re: $1,000 prize for Perl 6 Wiki written in Perl 6

2006-06-07 Thread Thomas Wittek
Udo Güngerich schrieb: > Thomas Wittek wrote: >> Unfortunately you probably have to throw away/heavily modify earlier >> increments, if you add features like a flexible syntax, which will need >> a different internal infrastructure. > > Well, if object-oriented desi

Re: $1,000 prize for Perl 6 Wiki written in Perl 6

2006-06-06 Thread Thomas Wittek
Udo Güngerich schrieb: > Why not doing a wiki system that does NOT have a fix syntax but rather > allows defining its syntax rules in e.g. YAML and thus being entirely > flexible? > [..] > It should have a proper user/groups system as well... > [..] > Why not give the wiki a web service API [..] G

Re: $1,000 prize for Perl 6 Wiki written in Perl 6

2006-06-03 Thread Thomas Wittek
A. Pagaltzis schrieb: > * Thomas Wittek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-06-03 22:30]: >> Interestingly it is very similar to Markdown although I never >> heard about it before :) > > Hmm, it doesn’t look similar at all to me? Headers (Markdown): # This is an H1 ## This is

Re: $1,000 prize for Perl 6 Wiki written in Perl 6

2006-06-03 Thread Thomas Wittek
A. Pagaltzis schrieb: > * Amir E. Aharoni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-05-28 23:00]: >> The popularity of Wikipedia made Media-Wiki syntax the de-facto >> standard. It's not perfect, but please don't reinvent the wheel >> (even though it's a PHP wheel). > [..] > Noone other than Mediawiki uses the Med

Re: Where can I find a Perl 6 langauge reference? -> Conclusion

2006-06-03 Thread Thomas Wittek
Thomas Wittek wrote: > Where should I start, when I want to get myself a picture of the current > Perl 6 language features and syntax? To conclude this, I'll give a list of online docs I find interesting about learning Perl6: 1) Synopses: http://dev.perl.org/perl6/doc/synopsis.ht

Where can I find a Perl 6 langauge reference?

2006-05-18 Thread Thomas Wittek
Where should I start, when I want to get myself a picture of the current Perl 6 language features and syntax? Where is the best place to take a look at, when I want to start experimenting with Perl 6 and pugs? Would you recommend reading the synopses[1]? Or should I take a look at pugs-doc? Or is