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Re: Parrot and Perl 6 Summary

2009-11-23T15:33:17Z

This is *very* valuable to us. Please keep it up!
-'f

Parrot and Perl 6 Summary

2009-11-23T00:15:55Z

Hello!
Today I posted my first attempt at summarizing Perl 6 and Parrot things at
[link]
Any comments and corrections welcome!
Lithos

S05 Regex - Unicode properties

2009-11-23T09:54:52Z

IMHO some details of Unicode property support seem unspecified:
1) Assumption: *ALL* Unicode properties and all of their aliases should
be supported.
E.g. this will also include the derived properties 'Grapheme_Base' and
'Grapheme_Extent' (missing in Perl 5 - obviously a bug in 'unicore').
2) Syntax of non-boolean properties:

Re: Parrot and Perl 6 Summary

2009-11-23T09:26:15Z

Looks good so far.
If you intend to do that weekly, it should be a valuable service, like the
summaries done years ago.
I also learned something new from it, like the existence of a new parrot-users
discussion list, a good targeted environment for people using Parrot to
implement languages, without the details of Parrot internals development.

Parrot and Perl 6 Summary

2009-11-23T08:24:56Z

Hello!
I posted my first attempt at summarizing Perl 6 and Parrot things at
[link]
Any comments and corrections welcome!
Lithos

r29157 - docs/Perl6/Spec

2009-11-20T20:19:45Z

Author: lwall
New Revision: 29157
Modified:
docs/Perl6/Spec/S03-operators. pod
Log:
[S03] tweaks, add conjectural RSR case
Modified: docs/Perl6/Spec/S03-operators. pod
============================== ============================== =======
--- docs/Perl6/Spec/S03-operators. pod 2009-11-20 20:16:12 UTC (rev 29156)

r29155 - docs/Perl6/Spec

2009-11-20T20:13:10Z

Author: lwall
New Revision: 29155
Modified:
docs/Perl6/Spec/S03-operators. pod
Log:
[S03] destroy two low-powered, obscure, short-circuiting operators
in favor of one high-powered, obscure-but-transparent, S metaoperator
Modified: docs/Perl6/Spec/S03-operators. pod
============================== ============================== =======

r29153 - docs/Perl6/Spec

2009-11-20T17:43:16Z

Author: lwall
New Revision: 29153
Modified:
docs/Perl6/Spec/S03-operators. pod
Log:
[S03] add infix:<else> to match infix:<also>, suggested by TheDamian++
Modified: docs/Perl6/Spec/S03-operators. pod
============================== ============================== =======
--- docs/Perl6/Spec/S03-operators. pod 2009-11-20 17:25:59 UTC (rev 29152)

r29151 - docs/Perl6/Spec/S32-setting-library

2009-11-20T16:21:42Z

Author: lwall
New Revision: 29151
Modified:
docs/Perl6/Spec/S32-setting-li brary/Containers.pod
Log:
[S32/Containers] typo
Modified: docs/Perl6/Spec/S32-setting-li brary/Containers.pod
============================== ============================== =======
--- docs/Perl6/Spec/S32-setting-li brary/Containers.pod 2009-11-20 16:19:09 UTC (rev 29150)

r29150 - docs/Perl6/Spec

2009-11-20T16:19:09Z

Author: lwall
New Revision: 29150
Modified:
docs/Perl6/Spec/S03-operators. pod
Log:
[S03] typo
Modified: docs/Perl6/Spec/S03-operators. pod
============================== ============================== =======
--- docs/Perl6/Spec/S03-operators. pod 2009-11-20 16:06:23 UTC (rev 29149)
+++ docs/Perl6/Spec/S03-operators. pod 2009-11-20 16:19:09 UTC (rev 29150)

r29149 - docs/Perl6/Spec/S32-setting-library

2009-11-20T16:06:23Z

Author: lwall
New Revision: 29149
Modified:
docs/Perl6/Spec/S32-setting-li brary/Containers.pod
Log:
[S32/Containers] minor typos
Modified: docs/Perl6/Spec/S32-setting-li brary/Containers.pod
============================== ============================== =======
--- docs/Perl6/Spec/S32-setting-li brary/Containers.pod 2009-11-20 15:53:45 UTC (rev 29148)

r29148 - docs/Perl6/Spec

2009-11-20T15:53:45Z

Author: lwall
New Revision: 29148
Modified:
docs/Perl6/Spec/S03-operators. pod
Log:
[S03] fix fossil found by edwin.steiner++
nail down that constants are still constants
Modified: docs/Perl6/Spec/S03-operators. pod
============================== ============================== =======
--- docs/Perl6/Spec/S03-operators. pod 2009-11-20 15:41:57 UTC (rev 29147)

r29145 - docs/Perl6/Spec/S32-setting-library

2009-11-20T13:15:02Z

Author: masak
New Revision: 29145
Modified:
docs/Perl6/Spec/S32-setting-li brary/Containers.pod
Log:
[S32/Containers] fixed copy/paste error
Modified: docs/Perl6/Spec/S32-setting-li brary/Containers.pod
============================== ============================== =======
--- docs/Perl6/Spec/S32-setting-li brary/Containers.pod 2009-11-20 08:39:12 UTC (rev 29144)

Re: r29144 - docs/Perl6/Spec

2009-11-20T11:20:26Z

Hello!
s/constant Dog/Dog/? Or am I missing something?
-Edwin

Re: r29129 - docs/Perl6/Spec

2009-11-19T16:04:35Z

I'm curious about this change. I quickly figured out that "blorst" was
derived from "BLock OR STatement" (quoting the previous rev: "In fact,
most of these phasers will take either a block or a statement (known as
a I<blorst> in the vernacular)).
The best that I can figure for "blast" is "BLock And STatement", which