Re: Is irc.libera.chat down?

On 4/19/24 03:09, Todd Chester via perl6-users wrote: A sex, 19-04-2024 às 02:36 -0700, Todd Chester via perl6-users escreveu: Hi All, Is https://kiwiirc.com/nextclient/irc.libera.chat/#raku down? -T On 4/19/24 03:03, David Santiago wrote: > > It works for me. >

Re: Is irc.libera.chat down?

A sex, 19-04-2024 às 02:36 -0700, Todd Chester via perl6-users escreveu: Hi All, Is     https://kiwiirc.com/nextclient/irc.libera.chat/#raku down? -T On 4/19/24 03:03, David Santiago wrote: > > It works for me. > > Regards, > David > Hi David, The circle just go

Is irc.libera.chat down?

Hi All, Is https://kiwiirc.com/nextclient/irc.libera.chat/#raku down? -T

Re: need native call help

On 4/18/24 04:50, yary wrote: I did a lot of very deep windows programming in my previous job and reminding me that I would always use the 8.3 short name for file operations! dir /x will get it for you. Must be API called for it also. Probably only works on local volumes not network rounded

Re: Practical Raku projects

On 12/24/20 12:23 AM, JJ Merelo wrote: Hi, El jue, 24 dic 2020 a las 3:55, Matthias Peng (>) escribió: May I ask if there is any practical perl6 project running? For example, homebrew by ruby, k8s by go, flask by python etc. I doubt there's any

Re: I need help understanding ".contains" method construction

On 12/23/20 4:39 PM, Ralph Mellor wrote: 1) why is it "$needle" and not "$!needle" on line 338? Is this because it is an internal variable and not a variable from the class declaration? Got it It's a parameter from line 337. If that's what you mean by "an internal variable", then

Re: Is the cosine page wrong?

Going back to the original question, should not the doc page say? method cos( Cool:D: --> Cool:D ) On 12/23/20 4:28 PM, Ralph Mellor wrote: > If a method does not explicitly specify its invocant type, it is set > to the type of the enclosing class. But it does not specify an

Re: New Raku 2020.10.02

On 10/29/20 2:58 PM, Bruce Gray wrote: I don't know if you are*supposed* to have to do all this to "know what changed" (since I do not use those packages myself); I am just trying to answer the implied question. I wrote a program that checks about 70 programs I support and downloads new

Re: Is thre a way to do an "if" on "use lib"?

On 2020-06-07 18:49, ToddAndMargo via perl6-users wrote: ~ #!/usr/bin/env raku # Note: this has to be the first thing at the top my @LibPath; BEGIN {    for ('K:/Windows/NtUtil', 'X:/NtUtil') -> $candidate { push @LibPath, $candidate if $candidate.IO.d;  

Re: fill in form

> On 12/05/2020 20:44, ToddAndMargo via perl6-users wrote: >>> On 12/05/2020 00:47, ToddAndMargo via perl6-users wrote: Hi All, I want to create a fill in form in Windows: city, state, etc., you fill in the data. Is there some library out there for that?

Re: tip: Windows, Git, and those nice Linux utilities

On 10/04/2020 01:37, ToddAndMargo via perl6-users wrote: On 2020-04-09 09:39, Richard Hainsworth wrote: Am I missing something here? It would seem obvious to me that Git and Raku are not linked in any way, except of course for developers who only use Git with Raku, or who only have a 

Re: irrational nubmer?

On 2020-03-11 01:23, Todd Chester via perl6-users wrote: On 2020-03-10 22:55, Shlomi Fish wrote: Speaking of trivia, and off topic, did you know that √2 caused a major religious upheaval when the result of a 1,1,√2 triangle came out?  The poor Pythagoreans: all numbers had to be rational

Re: irrational nubmer?

On 2020-03-10 22:55, Shlomi Fish wrote: Speaking of trivia, and off topic, did you know that √2 caused a major religious upheaval when the result of a 1,1,√2 triangle came out? The poor Pythagoreans: all numbers had to be rational. Hippasus even got murdered for blowing the whistle on √2.

Re: qqx with quotes

On 2020-02-27 15:38, Andy Bach wrote: Win10 with a new raku install. would you do a perl6 -v for me?

Re: irrational nubmer?

On 2020-02-20 22:32, Tobias Boege wrote: On Thu, 20 Feb 2020, ToddAndMargo via perl6-users wrote: On Fri, 21 Feb 2020 at 13:31, ToddAndMargo via perl6-users mailto:perl6-users@perl.org>> wrote: $ perl6 -e 'say sqrt(2).base-repeating();' No such method 'base-repeating' for invocant

Re: irrational nubmer?

On 2020-02-23 03:07, Shlomi Fish wrote: Hi, just for the record - I was not talking about Raku, just about a hypothetical language with CAS-like capabilities (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_algebra_system ) that would be able to do it. I was just using Raku-like syntax for

Re: REPL and arrows problem

On 2020-01-21 21:44, Norman Gaywood wrote: On Wed, 22 Jan 2020 at 13:30, Todd Chester via perl6-users mailto:perl6-users@perl.org>> wrote: On 2020-01-21 16:38, Todd Chester via perl6-users wrote: > Fedora31 I have Fedora 31 and Readline does not seem to be worki

Re: I need syntax to sub declare return a hash and an array

On 2020-01-21 18:57, Tom Browder wrote: On Tue, Jan 21, 2020 at 18:34 Todd Chester via perl6-users mailto:perl6-users@perl.org>> wrote: On 2020-01-21 16:09, Todd Chester via perl6-users wrote: >> 4) A block (that is the { ... } bit) will always 'return' the last &

Re: Using raku/perl6 as unix "cat"....

On 2020-01-21 11:08, William Michels via perl6-users wrote: Good answers, all. Thanks to everyone for contributing. For anyone who wants a golfed "cat" replacement, command line arguments can give you shorter code: Hi William, I don't know if I contributed anything at all, but you are most

Re: REPL and arrows problem

On 2020-01-21 16:38, Todd Chester via perl6-users wrote: Fedora31 Xfce 4.14 xfce4-terminal-0.8.9.1-1.fc31.x86_64 $ rpm -qa \*raku\* xfce4-terminal-0.8.9.1-1.fc31.x86_64 $ raku -v This is Rakudo version 2019.07.1 built on MoarVM version 2019.07.1 implementing Perl 6.d.

REPL and arrows problem

Hi All, Fedora31 Xfce 4.14 xfce4-terminal-0.8.9.1-1.fc31.x86_64 I have the same setup on both computers. On my shop computer, in REPL, the arrow keys do not read correctly: > a todd special booboo^[[D^[[D^[[D^[[D^[[D How do I get my arrow back in REPL on mu shop computer? Many thanks, -T

Re: I need syntax to sub declare return a hash and an array

On 2020-01-21 16:09, Todd Chester via perl6-users wrote: 4) A block (that is the { ... } bit) will always 'return' the last expression evaluated. Seems to me I have see the last expression returned even without the {...}.  Maybe I am misremembering. > sub AplusB( $a, $b --> Int )

how do you --> two variables?

Hi All, What is the syntax for returning two variable from a sub? > sub x(--> Int, UInt) { return(-2,4) }; ===SORRY!=== Error while compiling: Malformed return value (return constraints only allowed at the end of the signature) --> sub x(--> Int⏏, UInt) { return(-2,4) }; Many thanks, -T

Re: I need syntax to sub declare return a hash and an array

On 2020-01-21 14:03, Elizabeth Mattijsen wrote: On 21 Jan 2020, at 22:37, Richard Hainsworth wrote: 2) 'returns' in the declaration (not the part in the block) used to be used, but for some arcane reason that I never really understood, it is deprecated. Not sure it is *the* reason, but

Re: I need syntax to sub declare return a hash and an array

> On 21/01/2020 04:09, ToddAndMargo via perl6-users wrote: >> On 2020-01-20 19:55, ToddAndMargo via perl6-users wrote: >>> Hi All, >>> >>> What is the proper way to state that I am returning a >>> hash from a sub? `sub x() returns % {}` >>> >>> And an array? `sub x() returns @ {}` >>> >>> Many

Re: Once again - You say one thing and do another Re: Bug to report: cardinal called an integer

On 2020-01-17 00:12, Veesh Goldman wrote: he's finally looked into making pull requests. Do you have a link to the pull requests for the documentation? I'd like to add some examples to a few pages.

Re: bitwise NOT

On Tue, Jan 14, 2020 at 7:45 AM Paul Procacci > wrote: >> What is the syntax for a twos complement anyway? I'm not sure I understand the question. Two's compliment is +^ ... the routine you've been using. On Tue, Jan 14, 2020 at 12:33 AM

Re: NQPMu ??

On 09/01/2020 19:16, ToddAndMargo via perl6-users wrote: On 2020-01-09 10:11, ToddAndMargo via perl6-users wrote: Hi All, What am I doing wrong here? Many thanks, -T $ raku To exit type 'exit' or '^D'  > my uint32 $c; 0  > $c = 0xFFAA; Cannot find method 'qast' on object of type

Re: How do I convert integer to cardinal on the fly?

On Tue, Jan 7, 2020 at 10:20 AM ToddAndMargo via perl6-users mailto:perl6-users@perl.org>> wrote: On 2020-01-06 22:54, ToddAndMargo via perl6-users wrote: > Hi All, > > What am I doing wrong here? > > > my int16 $x = 0xABCD; > -21555 > > > say

Re: Cardinals

On 2020-01-02 22:19, Darren Duncan wrote: On 2020-01-02 10:01 a.m., ToddAndMargo via perl6-users wrote: How do I do a 32 bit unsigned integer (cardinal)?  I have a situation where I need to be able to have the first bit be a one and not have Raku think it is a negative number. Why do you

Re: Cardinals

On 2020-01-02 10:14, Tobias Boege wrote: On Thu, 02 Jan 2020, ToddAndMargo via perl6-users wrote: Hi All, “He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.” ― Mark Twain This would be my five minutes. I will live. How do I do a 32

Re: I need helping understanding a pointer example

On 2019-12-30 23:14, Veesh Goldman wrote: Method declares a method as opposed to a function. The difference is that in a method, the first argument passed to the function is bound to `self`, which represents the object the call was made on. In traditional perl style, when you call a method

Re: My Native Call notes

On 2019-12-29 17:05, ToddAndMargo via perl6-users wrote: Native Call is tack the chr(0) at the end for you, most of the time Mistake on my part. No it won't. You have to add it yourself.

I need helping understanding a pointer example

Hi All, Over at https://docs.raku.org/language/nativecall.html#Basic_use_of_pointers There is an example: useNativeCall; classFooHandleisrepr('CPointer') { # Here are the actual NativeCall functions. subFoo_init() returnsFooHandleisnative("foo") {*} subFoo_free(FooHandle)

NativeCall Doc booboo

Hi All, https://docs.raku.org/language/nativecall.html#Passing_and_returning_values Did anyone else discover the mistake, hopefully not the hard way like I did.  Anyone get weird gibberish printed out like I did? my$string="FOO"; # The lifetime of this variable must be equal to the 

Re: modules and subsets

On 2019-12-12 00:22, Fernando Santagata wrote: On Thu, Dec 12, 2019 at 3:46 AM Todd Chester > wrote: On 2019-12-11 10:22, Fernando Santagata wrote: > File test.pm6 > > unit module test; > subset PosInt of Int is export where * > 0; >

Re: Fwd: Raku, docs, help [was: Re: vulgar?]

On 2019-12-11 14:26, Joseph Brenner wrote: Joseph Brenner wrote: The signatures in the documentation are certainly helpful, but they're no substitute for code examples. I'd go after adding more code examples, rather than removing other stuff. But then, maybe I'm coming into this

Re: Fwd: Raku, docs, help [was: Re: vulgar?]

On 2019-12-11 14:06, Joseph Brenner wrote: The signatures in the documentation are certainly helpful, but they're no substitute for code examples. I'd go after adding more code examples, rather than removing other stuff. Hi Joseph, I would compromise on that. I would also like to see

Re: modules and subsets

On 2019-12-11 10:16, Elizabeth Mattijsen wrote: $ 6 'subset A of Int; dd OUR::.keys' ("A",).Seq Hi Elizabeth, subset A of Int; dd OUR::.keys ("A",).Seq Nil Would you explain how your are using dd and what your are showing me here? Also how it ties into my original question as to if the

Re: modules and subsets

On 2019-12-11 09:54, JJ Merelo wrote: By default, the scope of anything (containers, classes, whatever) is lexical to the scope they are in. Hi JJ, Thank you for responding. By the way, I'd be a Golden. I don't understand how you are using the word "lexical". I may be mixing Modula2

Re: where is my map typo?

On 2019-12-04 15:53, William Michels via perl6-users wrote: Do you not have a working Raku/Perl6 REPL install? Hi William, Being as I do not know what REPL is, I would have to say "no". This is the Perl I am using:

Re: hash and print question

On 2019-12-05 01:59, Todd Chester via perl6-users wrote: put he space or the "t" before "the". Chuckle.

Re: hash and print question

On Thu, Dec 5, 2019 at 10:52 AM Todd Chester via perl6-users mailto:perl6-users@perl.org>> wrote: Hi All, In the following, $ p6 'my %x= YesNo=>0xff, OkayCancel=>0x55; my $y="YesNo"; if %x<<$y>> {say %x<<$y >>.base(16)}else{s

vulgar?

Hi All, I really like this guys style of writing and examples for Perl6. But he can be a bit vulgar at times, which I ignore. Is he doing it on purpose? Or is there some translation error and he does not realize he is swearing? Warning: if you go here there are some dirty words in the titles:

hash and print question

Hi All, In the following, $ p6 'my %x= YesNo=>0xff, OkayCancel=>0x55; my $y="YesNo"; if %x<<$y>> {say %x<<$y >>.base(16)}else{say "n"};' FF $ p6 'my %x= YesNo=>0xff, OkayCancel=>0x55; my $y="Help"; if %x<<$y>> {say %x<< $y >>.base(16)}else{say "n"};' n I have to use a space after $y

Re: Match operator: error with any() junction and user-defined $_ topic variable

On 10/8/19 10:53 AM, Brad Gilbert wrote: Most operations with Junctions produce Junctions.     > 1 + any(2, 3)     any(3, 4) $ p6 'say 4 + any(44,66);' any(48, 70) Sweet! But what would you ever use it for? Would this be the intended use: add a number to all values in an array? $ p6

Re: I need help with "lines"

On 3/15/19 7:58 AM, Todd Chester via perl6-users wrote: Never did figure out why everything went into @x[0] The entire pipe gets put into @x[0]. @x[1] is uninitialized

Re: I need help with "lines"

On 3/15/19 3:02 AM, Peter Pentchev wrote: On Fri, Mar 15, 2019 at 11:52:15AM +0200, Peter Pentchev wrote: [snip] 3. The standard input stream in Perl 6 is called $*IN (think of it as mostly equivalent to what <<>> and <> would read from in Perl 5, ...sorry about this part, I know it's

Re: I need help with "lines"

On 3/15/19 2:52 AM, Peter Pentchev wrote: Hope that helped! G'luck, Peter [1] The "almost certainly" is because, yes, yes, I know, I also have that dusty old HP/UX crunching away in a customer's basement; still. Yes it does. Thank you! I remember zsh for my Solaris days. Or at

Re: I need help with "lines"

On 3/15/19 2:52 AM, Peter Pentchev wrote: 1. Learn to use pgrep instead of the myriad variations of ps | grep; pgrep has been standardized by POSIX for a long time and is almost certainly available in all the installations that you will ever need to touch[1]. pgrep is

Re: I need help with "lines"

On Fri, 15 Mar 2019, 05:34 Todd Chester via perl6-users, mailto:perl6-users@perl.org>> wrote: On 3/14/19 10:05 PM, Todd Chester via perl6-users wrote: > Hi All, > > What am I doing wrong here? > > ps ax | grep [f]irefox | perl6 -ne 'm

Re: I need help with "lines"

On 3/14/19 10:05 PM, Todd Chester via perl6-users wrote: Hi All, What am I doing wrong here? ps ax | grep [f]irefox | perl6 -ne 'my @x = $_.words[0].lines.reverse; print @x[0] ~ "\n";' 7380 7581 7698 13023 13767 13908 Two problems: 1) "lines" is putting ever

print to a printer

Hi All Fedora 29 Is there a way to print to a printer, other than a system call to lpr? Many thanks, -T

Re: .payload

On 2/28/19 2:06 PM, Timo Paulssen wrote: I just changed the docs to replace payload with message here. It's not a language bug, however. Here's the change on github: https://github.com/perl6/doc/commit/fb5d341036afe387f0ead0b76e09aef75205dcaf You are a force of nature Timo! :-)

Re: shift left syntax?

On 2/7/19 10:36 PM, yary wrote: perl6 -e 'my $i = 0x5DAE; $i +<= 1; say $i.base(0x10);' BB5C -y Hi Yary, $ p6 'my Buf $x=Buf.new(0xAE,0x5D); my int32 $i=0x5DAE; say $x; say $i.base(0x10); $i +< 0x01; say $i.base(0x10);' WARNINGS for -e: Useless use of "+<" in expression "$i

Re: print hex?

On 2/7/19 11:22 AM, Curt Tilmes wrote: On Thu, Feb 7, 2019 at 2:14 PM ToddAndMargo via perl6-users mailto:perl6-users@perl.org>> wrote: What is the easiest way to get both print and say to print $i below in Hex? $ p6 'my Buf $x=Buf.new(0xAE,0x5D); my int16 $i=0x5DAE; say $x;

buf to integer?

Hi All, I am dealing with a Buf what includes 32 bit integers, but they are entered somewhat backwards as view with hexedit: AE 5D 5C 72 represents the number 725C5DAE This is what I have come up with to convert this type of number in a buffer to and integer $ p6 'my Buf

shift left syntax?

Hi All, Is this the only way to shift left? $i = $i +< 0x01 $ p6 'my int32 $i=0x5DAE; say $i.base(0x10); $i = $i +< 0x01; say $i.base(0x10);' 5DAE BB5C Does we have any of those fancy += ~= ways of doing it? Many thanks, -T

Re: zef installs not working

On 10/17/18 1:05 PM, Joseph Brenner wrote: Todd Chester wrote: What I do is to go to the github source for the module: Next I cd into the directory and install it with zef install . Yes, that much seems to work fine. It seems a little peculiar that I can search the repositories with

Re: zef installs not working

On 10/16/18 8:20 PM, Joseph Brenner wrote: Lately zef hasn't been working for me to do module installation. I can do things like "zef --list" to get a list of available modules but when I actually try to do the installation I see things like this: zef install Array::Agnostic ===>

Re: routine declaration line question

On 10/12/18 3:47 AM, Curt Tilmes wrote: On Fri, Oct 12, 2018 at 6:08 AM Todd Chester via perl6-users mailto:perl6-users@perl.org>> wrote: > If nothing is being returned, it should really be indicated with --> Nil > since that can enable certain optimizati

Re: routine declaration line question

On 10/5/18 8:39 AM, Larry Wall wrote: On Thu, Oct 04, 2018 at 03:13:15PM -0400, Trey Harris wrote: : Right; that's what I meant by "stylistically" — a `--> Mu` can highlight : that something is being returned (and that side-effects are not the primary : purpose), while nothing indicates that