RE: Two questions on Perl 6 functionality

2010-06-30 Thread Timothy S. Nelson
On Sun, 20 Jun 2010, Xi Yang wrote: You might mis-understood method modifiers. I mean: before x() after x() around x() . Just a note that I've usually seen this called Aspect-Oriented Programming. 2: Does Perl 6 has build-in support for message passing (like those in Glib and

Re: rakudo-current loop 2-3 orders of magnitude slower than perl 5?

2009-06-09 Thread Timothy S. Nelson
On Thu, 4 Jun 2009, Fagyal Csongor wrote: increase in the number of new Perl6ers at around 100x slower. (That, and the 10 most important Perl5 CPAN modules ported to Perl6 :)) Strangely enough, I was working on a list of things like this at one point. I'll format it up a bit, and include

Re: Logo considerations

2009-03-24 Thread Timothy S. Nelson
Firstly, I'd like to speak in favour of the idea of designing a logo for Perl6, and then creating a Rakudo logo based on the Perl6 logo and the Parrot logo. From here on, I'll be addressing the Perl6 logo. On Tue, 24 Mar 2009, Larry Wall wrote: On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 09:49:42AM -0700, Jon

Btw, I think these logo discussions have just proved the bikeshedding idea :)

2009-03-24 Thread Timothy S. Nelson
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Re: Rakduo Logo Proposal

2009-03-23 Thread Timothy S. Nelson
On Sat, 21 Mar 2009, Steffen Schwigon wrote: Hi! Why not taking a camel with 6 humps? Just joking, could not resist. :-) Does that mean that Alice should be the standard name in all Perl 6 examples? :) - |

Re: Rakduo Logo Proposal

2009-03-19 Thread Timothy S. Nelson
On Wed, 18 Mar 2009, Matthew Walton wrote: On Wed, 2009-03-18 at 16:43 +0100, Carl Mäsak wrote: Stephen (): Use of the gimel[1] character comes from Justin Simoni's logo design proposal[2] from a while back, and the design is a reference to the anarchist symbol[3]. It also looks like a

Re: A Logo design for Rakudo Perl 6

2009-03-06 Thread Timothy S. Nelson
On Fri, 6 Mar 2009, Darren Duncan wrote: Ross Kendall wrote: I was just reading over some of the previous logo discussion and came up with an idea for combining logos - i.e. Rakudo + Parrot. We could have a speech bubble coming from the Parrot's beak with the Rakudo logo (gimel?) inside.

Re: Perl as a better web language ?

2008-12-12 Thread Timothy S. Nelson
On Fri, 12 Dec 2008, Henk van Oers wrote: On Thu, 11 Dec 2008, Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH wrote: 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

Re: Fwd: [november] Re: arrays and arrays ref question

2008-10-30 Thread Timothy S. Nelson
On Thu, 30 Oct 2008, wrote: Hi there, question about arrays and array refs in Rakudo today. I have array ref my $ar = [1,2,3]; how can I go over it? I try: my $r = [1,2,3]; say $r.elems; 3 my $r = [1,2,3]; say $r.WHAT; Array my $r = [1,2,3]; Y.say for $r; Y my $r = [1,2,3]; .say

Re: Fwd: [november] Re: arrays and arrays ref question

2008-10-30 Thread Timothy S. Nelson
On Thu, 30 Oct 2008, Carl Mäsak wrote: Timothy (): my $r = 1 2 3; for $r - $t { say $t }; Which revision of Rakudo are you running? In my r32239, it outputs 1 2 3 on the same line (i.e. it doesn't iterate over each element). Oops. My bad. Try either of the following with parrot

Re: Modules

2008-10-12 Thread Timothy S. Nelson
On Sun, 12 Oct 2008, Moritz Lenz wrote: I would like to use an official CGI.pm, if one is available. Please forget about the official. Perl 6 will hopefully have multiple implementations, and they are all official if they pass the test suite. From what I've gathered so far, Perl 6 core will