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Set by lizmat on 6 September 2022.
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Voldenet m: Buf.new(255).decode.say 00:37
camelia Malformed UTF-8 at line 1 col 1
in block <unit> at <tmp> line 1
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Voldenet Xliff: you can easily trigger malformed utf-8 sequence by using `255` as first byte with no following bytes – it's fatal because such sequence is not valid utf8 and probably some different encoding 00:45
tellable6 Voldenet, I'll pass your message to Xliff
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Voldenet m: Buf.new(255).decode("utf8-c8").say 00:50
camelia 􏿽xFF
Voldenet ^ it's also possible to say "yeah but it's valid utf8, trust me" and get some silly bytes out of it
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guifa leont: wait for my TPRC talk? :-) 01:59
um Xliff: example? I think I understand but not 100% sure 02:00
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grondilu Hi all 11:44
I have a sorted list of words. I would like to compress them with a bash brace expansion syntax
I suspect it'd be easy to do in raku, but I'm too lazy to try it hard 11:45
maybe one of you want to suggest a solution
the bash brace expansion syntax is what turns a{b,c,d} int ab ac ad 11:46
so I'd like to turn say <abc abd ef eg> into "ab{c,d} e{f,g}" 11:47
braces can be nested btw 11:49
maybe I need a Trie 11:50
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grondilu installs the 'Trie' module 11:55
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Anton Antonov @grondilu I have been planning for some time to experiment which trie implementation is the fastest (over what data.) 12:02
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grondilu Well, I can say the Trie module is not great. It only makes single character keys, for a start. And only ascii. 12:04
Anton Antonov @grondilu ⎡I'd like to turn say <abc abd ef eg> into "ab{c,d} e{f,g}⎦ -- Speaking for "ML::TriesWithFrequencies" only : there is visualization routine/method and XML, WL, and JSON representation methods that can be adapted for this. 12:05
Voldenet grondilu: String::Utils has this
say root <abcd abce abde>;
"ab"
grondilu ^that seems useful 12:06
Anton Antonov @grondilu "It only makes single character keys,[..]" -- Well, "ML::TriesWithFrequencies" has shrinking function. (A fundamental operation for tries I would say. It is literally in the name.) 12:07
grondilu what does ML stand for here?
Voldenet some tries module would be more complete solution, since `root` pretty much only finds roots
Anton Antonov @grondilu ML == Machine Learning, (Please, do catch up with the current trends...) 12:08
grondilu noted 12:09
Anton Antonov @grondilu The third visualized trie here shows shrinking: raku.land/zef:antononcube/ML::Trie...requencies
@grondilu "ML" is also, sort of, a warning -- I see that module as data mining or ML tool, not so much as "just a data structure" tool. 12:11
grondilu that API is kind of confusing. Why a 'trie-say' function instead of defining a gist method? 12:13
Anton Antonov @grondilu trie-say is for consistency with the other trie packages I made. And, of course, there is gist method. 12:15
grondilu ok
so I bet there is a recursive way to create the string I want from a shrinked trie. 12:16
Anton Antonov @grondilu Yes, there is an universal traversal function. But you can probably just use the keys of the Hash-representation. 12:18
@grondilu For example, trie-create-by-split(<abc abd ef eg>).shrink.form;
@grondilu The line above is a visualization warm up only. 12:20
grondilu TRIEVALUE fields are the frequencies, right?
Anton Antonov @grondilu This closer to what you want: say trie-create-by-split(<abc abd ef eg>).shrink.words; 12:21
@grondilu Returns ((ab d) (ab c) (e f) (e g)) . 12:22
@grondilu Yes, "TRIEVALUE'" is for frequencies and probabilities.
Voldenet btw, a lot of complexity in JSON/XML of that lib could be reduced by using iterators 12:27
Anton Antonov @Voldenet Interesting! (But I am not sure what you mean... 🙂 )
Voldenet m: sub visit-leafs($tree) { gather for $tree.kv -> $k, $v { if $v ~~ Rat { ($k, $v).take }; if $v ~~ Hash { ($k ~ $_[0], $_[1]).take for visit-leafs($v) } } }; say visit-leafs({ a => .5, b => { c => .3, d => .2 }}) 12:28
camelia ((bc 0.3) (bd 0.2) (a 0.5))
Voldenet took a while to write it in irc prompt
`sub visit-leafs($tree) { gather for $tree.kv -> $k, $v { if $v ~~ Rat { ($k, $v).take }; if $v ~~ Hash { ($k ~ $_[0], $_[1]).take for visit-leafs($v) } } }; say visit-leafs({ a => .5, b => { c => .3, d => .2 }})`
for discord readability
ofc, that `($k, $v)` could become a class with properties like .depth 12:29
it mostly abstracts away the recursion 12:30
Anton Antonov Ok, I will experiment with that code. 12:32
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Nemokosch I brought a fun issue for today, not sure if I have this recorded anywhere 12:51
Anton Antonov @Nemokosch Where? 12:53
@Voldenet "it mostly abstracts away the recursion" -- So, with that code, I should expect faster conversions to JSON or XML with smaller memory imprint? (I do occasionally produce large tries that have to be represented in JSON.) 12:54
Voldenet I'm not sure about faster, but it would not hold in memory anything but path taken 12:57
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Voldenet theoretically it could be faster for large tries 13:00
i'm not sure how JSON::Fast handles iterators tho 13:01
Anton Antonov @Voldenet Ok, good to know. I tried your code above -- it seems "bureaucratic" enough. Its full inclusion in the Trieish class, though, does not produce more concise code. 13:05
Voldenet it isn't that it will make the whole codebase shorter 13:07
just that it will make both serialization and traversal shorter, but longer if you combine them\
but traversal could be then presented as separate method
using visitor pattern here would be even more bureaucratic :D 13:08
Anton Antonov @Voldenet 1) Your It is instructive. 2) And, yes, there is trie traversal class in "ML::TriesWithFrequencies", I will consider using that idea there. 13:13
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Voldenet I see that TrieTraverse is enormously similar 13:27
Nemokosch @Anton Antonov so here is the story 13:32
You have a set of integers, let's say
you want to check values against that set - values that you receive as command-line arguments 13:33
you notice that you never find the value in the set, even if you are certain that it exists
it turns out that the input you get is not an integer - but it is an integer at the same time, from a different perspective. let me explain 13:49
What you get passed to MAIN is an allomorph, something that can have different type aspects. I have a vague idea why somebody thought this was a good idea but wouldn't dare to say for sure. 13:50
so here you have, say, an IntStr with 5, rather than an Int with 5 so it hashes differently 13:51
the real problem is that you can declare your variables as Int $foo as much as you want, it won't help because IntStr satisfies that type constraint 13:52
and from this perspective, it's funny that you can do $foo.Int explicitly and that is going to help 13:53
if $foo ~~ Int, it seems reasonable to expect that $foo.Int is an identity
however - fortunately, in this case - that's not necessarily true, as demonstrated 13:54
lizmat and yet another Rakudo Weekly News hits the Net: rakudoweekly.blog/2023/05/22/2023-...xcinating/ 13:58
Nemokosch is The Wibble is basically The Onion but for nerds? 14:05
Voldenet I get it that raku is mindblowingly difficult, but what are the downsides? :> 14:07
lizmat I'm not sure... first time I heard about it 14:08
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Anton Antonov @Voldenet Mostly: 1) Newcomers do not see -- or get rewarded -- of their knowledge of other "standard" languages. 2) Newcomers do not think of feel that their knowledge of Raku is going to transfer to other programming languages. 3) The average age of the Raku practitioners is 56. 14:11
tonyo not sure that's entirely accurate
m: multi MAIN(Int() $d = "5") { say $d ~~ IntStr; say $d ~~ Int; };
camelia False
True
Anton Antonov @Voldenet At this point I have a extensive list of why not to use Raku. (And similar lists for Python, R, and WL.) 14:13
Nemokosch "5" is not IntStr though
tonyo looks like an Int okay
Nemokosch <5> would be
Voldenet m: multi MAIN(Int() $d = <5>) { say $d ~~ IntStr; say $d ~~ Int; };
camelia True
True
Voldenet valid point
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tonyo anton would love to see the list for python too 14:14
Voldenet I would enumerate my list of reasons to dislike python, but I can't fit it in one line 14:15
Anton Antonov @tonyo Dully noted. 🙂 Here is a warm-up: pythonforprediction.wordpress.com/...-projects/
Voldenet @Anton Antonov: it's pretty funny that people see language's complexity as a downside while it obviously means that language has tons of built-in features 14:18
tonyo i'm not a big fan of python, just curious what most people's gripes are with different languages 14:19
they all have warts, some more than others
Anton Antonov @Voldenet Yeah. At this point, a primary reason for me to learn a new programming language is to change my way of thinking (about programming.) Raku has been good about that in the last 4-5 years since I started using it. 14:20
Voldenet ironically, I dislike python mostly because it's simple 14:21
Nemokosch Voldenet: I think there can be several reasons - the language might be not only harder to learn but also implement or just read and reason about
... or to get right with the design
if you need 50% complexity overhead for, say, 20% efficiency gain, it's almost surely not worth it. Of course these are arbitrary numbers, it's more about the principle. 14:23
Anton Antonov @Voldenet Ahh... I thought Python is simple and stupid, and that those its biggest selling points. I writing (and documenting) a bunch of Python packages I say now that Python is "deceptively simplistic." 14:24
Nemokosch and for Python, I frankly can't recall the sort of "simplicity" that forces you to write boilerplate. Of course, if you need a glue language for quick data processing or prototyping, it's not remotely close to Raku
but for anything more stationary, I don't think the difference would be big, or even be "in the right direction"
Voldenet the only feature I like in python is coroutines
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Voldenet beating java in this game is difficult 14:25
tonyo maybe, elsewhere it isn't difficult 14:26
learning haskell changed a lot of the way i think about programming 14:27
Nemokosch is "coroutines" a fancy name for async/await stuff? 14:28
Voldenet Sort of - async/await is hiding the complexity 14:30
coroutines are underlying concept
Anton Antonov @tonyo Every Haskell programmer I met while working at Wolfram Research was way too smug about functional programming with Haskell. (And they were all from Western Europe, BTW.) 14:33
Nemokosch I don't know about that but async-await is quite okay in the Node world 14:35
Voldenet it's amazing how in js every respected library like jquery/underscore used to ship their own promises implementation, because there was no builtin 14:40
despite widespread adoption 14:41
I'm not sure if underscore did ship with one 14:44
tonyo anton yea a lot of them are, i never got into it professionally but the way things fit together is a huge paradigm shift 14:50
Anton Antonov @tonyo Interestingly, I got (somewhat) familiar with Haskell in order to write functional parsers libraries in other languages. Also, reading articles by Wadler on monadic programming. 14:53
tonyo fwiw we got into it at ziprecruiter (a perl shop), and mjd was helping us navigate some of the ideas so it was more of a fun thing. i ended up writing a web crawler and json parser in it 14:54
ah nice, i was listening to a lot of bartosz
i find myself getting frustrated by the type hinting in python as a result of that + writing in go for a while (which also has a terrible type system) 14:55
Anton Antonov @tonyo So, did you learn/used Raku while working at crossrecruiter? 14:57
tonyo i got into raku as a result of being ostricized from nodejs (for criticising the callback pattern before it blew up), before that i was contributing to node core and writing C for time sensitive data parsing/analysis 14:58
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rf Morning folks 15:01
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Nemokosch isn't underscore called lodash? 15:18
the library, at least
tonyo wUnderbar would've been a cool name too 15:24
sjn hey, quick question; what's the schedule for the next language spec release? Docs website mentions 6.c being the current one, the executable says 6.d, and I'm not sure if 6.e is a work in progress... 15:29
Anton Antonov @tonyo So, not cross-recruiting related, but blaspheming (or crucifixion) related. 15:32
I think, Raku should have a certain crucifixion routine.
tonyo deletes improperly typed code?
use Zealousness;
Anton Antonov @tonyo Sounds good. 🙂 15:38
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librasteve I suspect that IntStr is the result of the chain (i) perl is untyped and can freely mix Int and Str, (ii) we want that flexibility in raku so that eg. '1' can be entered on the command line and later consumed as either a Str or an Int, (iii) but we don't want to lose this flexibility when we layer in some types 18:01
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lizmat librasteve yup 18:12
librasteve well I thought I'd check out the design docs (reading docs is not my usual first base ;-) ) design.raku.org/S02.html#Allomorph..._semantics 18:16
lizmat and since about a year or so, all allomorphs can be typechecked with the Allomorph class 18:17
m: dd <42>.^mro
camelia (IntStr, Allomorph, Str, Int, Cool, Any, Mu)
librasteve two aspects I had not fully understood (i) <1 1/2 6.02e23 1+2i string> (or any list of words) is a really cool tool and (ii) one purpose is to retain the original text number definition in the case of over/underflow 18:19
m: <1 1/2 6.02e23 1+2i string>.map(*.^name).say
Raku eval (IntStr RatStr NumStr ComplexStr Str)
librasteve m: <1 1/2 6.02e23 1+2i string>.are.say 18:20
Raku eval (Str)
librasteve m: <1 1/2 6.02e23 1+2i>.are.say 18:21
Raku eval (Allomorph)
leont Does anyone know an example of a module exporting the tags of another module? 18:55
lizmat perhaps P5builtins can be of inspiration? 18:58
leont That doesn't do tags, only positional arguments. 19:02
I don't really understand why these are two entirely different systems
It's genuinely confusing
ugexe leont: maybe github.com/LLFourn/p6-CompUnit-Uti...-exporting ? 19:03
lizmat well, aren't the nameds in EXPORT just a way to specify an EXPORT::MODULE::namespace ?
leont lizmat: I'm not sure that parses 19:07
Apparently, «package EXPORT::foo {}; %(EXPORT::foo::) = Other::Package::EXPORT::functions::» seems to do the trick 19:18
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rf tonyo: Are you working on multiple backends for HB? 19:30
tonyo not at the moment 19:31
rf Kk, just wondering :)
tonyo it will probably be a another few weeks to months, kind of backed up
rf Yeah no worries
I have an idea for a backend but i'll wait till your done, pretty backed up here too 19:32
tonyo if you get to it first it wouldn't hurt my feelings, i'm not champing at the bit for it yet 19:38
looks fairly straight forward though
Anton Antonov @rf Try to hurt the feelings of @tonyo with comments about Haskell. (I tried earlier, with no indication I succeeded.) 19:39
tonyo i only have one feeling hidden below a layer of abstraction 19:50
Anton Antonov I think fairies (e.g. Tinker Bell) are like that — they can “hold” only one feeling. 19:54
Nemokosch For IntStr type of things: to a large extent, the strong operators (+, ~ sort of stuff) can provide that without introducing a new type so I suspect the whole thing was in order to emulate "weak typing" with methods 19:58
tonyo doesn't it enable those through that type? 19:59
m: ay "A".Str + "B".Str
camelia ===SORRY!=== Error while compiling <tmp>
Undeclared routine:
ay used at line 1
rf I like Haskell 20:01
tonyo m: say "A".Str + "B".Str 20:03
camelia Cannot convert string to number: base-10 number must begin with valid digits or '.' in '⏏A' (indicated by ⏏)
in block <unit> at <tmp> line 1
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Nemokosch I mean if you have an IntStr, you have something that has the methods of an int and the methods of a string 20:09
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Anton Antonov @rf Yeah, but your way of liking Haskell might be radically different of the way @tonyo likes or hates Haskell. (I am not sure what tonyo's one feeling is on / about.) 20:20
tonyo i usually use it for deciding which snack i'm going to eat last 20:21
rf I use it to feel like I have a slight grasp on category theory (I don't) 20:24
Also tonyo, did you find out why siege was dying? 20:25
Against HB
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gfldex tonyo: I like Message.defaults in Mailgun and think I can turn that into a trait. 21:49
tonyo gfldex++ 21:50
guifa Nemokosch: I don't think it was so much weak typing with methods, as weak typing for when you do a quoted string list (akin to perl's @foo = qw(a 13 b c 93) ) so that they always pass the string test when passing to subs 22:01
tellable6 guifa, I'll pass your message to Nemokosch 22:02
Nemokosch the side effects of that are quite a high price to pay, though. If that's the intention, it would be much lower cost to simply use a coercing type annotation 22:04
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tonyo gfldex: are you using that mailgun module already? 23:05
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gfldex tonyo: no, just reading the sources to find nice things. :) 23:56

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