2009 -- the year of November. <november-wiki.org> <github.com/viklund/november> <irclog.perlgeek.de/november-wiki> <nopaste.snit.ch>
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masak OH HAI 18:51
zarah ni hao masak
masak: You have new messages. Write '/msg zarah @messages' to read them. 18:52
moritz_ moep
Tene HAI 19:16
masak I'm trying to do lists in November, but it's not going too well. 19:19
first, it's a tricky problem, but I think I have a way to do it.
second, Rakudo keeps getting in the way.
moritz_ man, I'd like to do some actual Perl 6 hacking, but too much stress these days 19:20
masak moritz_: Ph.D.?
Tene Anything specific you want me to look at in rakudo?
moritz_ writing 4 Perl 6 articles, maintaining a test suite, trying to study at the same time...
masak Tene: oh yes, please! use.perl.org/~masak/journal/38353
zarah masak's link is also tinyurl.com/c7tbgp
moritz_ masak: no, I'll still need at least 6 months for the stupid diploma thing 19:21
masak zarah: shut up.
zarah masak: :)
masak moritz_: ok.
Tene: jonathan already looked at bug #1, and pronounced it Harder Than He Thought. but that's the least important one anyway.
moritz_ I'm writing about a few major Rakudo features... 19:26
and so far I've got OO, grammars and multi dispatcher
Tene oh, the hash one?
I think that looked like a PCT bug.
masak unh.
moritz_ are there any other outstanding features that Rakudo does very well?
Tene moritz_: junctions work fairly well. Not perfectly, but pretty good. 19:27
masak moritz_: yes, I find that all the control flow things work very well these days.
for, loop, while, given, gather, if...
moritz_ thank you both 19:28
Tene with next/last/redo
Exceptions are okay.
masak haven't used those much, save for the hidden ones. :) 19:29
Tene :)
moritz_: you could also mention eval(... :lang<...>) 19:31
;)
moritz_ Tene: that's actually very good idea
Tene The big problem with that is that it doesn't report errors. 19:39
So if the load_bytecode fails, or if the program doesn't compile, it just does nothing. 19:40