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Petit_Dejeuner How would I get a file or socket to auto-close when the scope its defined in is left? I'm pretty sure I could do something with phasors, but isn't something like that already built in? 01:46
raschipi Petit_Dejeuner: Depends on how you are using it. 01:50
raschipi If you have a Seq that reads from the file, using the :close argument will make it close automatically. If you opened it just has a handle to read and write to, you'll need to explicitly close the file. 01:51
Perl6 avoids doing some tracking other languages do to avoid the performance penalty. 01:54
ugexe i think you are confused 01:55
Petit_Dejeuner Maybe if I post the code I'm trying to translate my intent will be clearer. pastebin.com/raw/PXixC0zC
raschipi: I'm surprised that there's a performance penalty for that kind of thing. Doesn't Perl6 have to check the phasors on every block either way? 01:56
ugexe they are talking about reference counting which is gc related closing of handles, not scope 01:58
docs.perl6.org/routine/close#(IO::...tine_close 01:59
raschipi ugexe: Maybe I wasn't clear with my words, but I'm aware of the difference and I know Perl6 doesn't guarantee any of them.
ugexe there is an example of how to close handles using... LEAVE phaser
raschipi ugexe: Yes, that was the next thing I was going to tell him, but I didn't start with it because he said that wasn't the answer he was looking for. 02:00
So yeah, Petit_Dejeuner, explicitly close your files in the LEAVE phasor.
Petit_Dejeuner Alright, thanks.
ugexe it was only stated that they wanted something built in. im not sure how this is not the built in answer you would be looking for 02:01
the alternative is handles always close when leaving scope unless you explicitly do... i dunno... and then it stays open? 02:02
hell `break` isnt even valid perl6 02:04
Petit_Dejeuner Many languages provide stdlibs with two ways to open files. The first returns a high level file handler that can be manually closed. This first way is almost always wrong and requires a try/finally wrapper or a dynamic-unwind around it, depending on the language. The second interface is a high order function or macro that takes a block of code as an argument. Inside that block of code, the file handler is available, 02:05
but after the block is done running, the file handler is closed.
ugexe how is that different than phaser + close? 02:06
raschipi Petit_Dejeuner: You're lookint for creating a Seq that returns the file by pieces and closes it afterwards. If you use .words or .lines on it, pass the :close argument to get something already done. 02:07
ugexe sub foo(&code) { my $handle = ...; LEAVE $handle.close; &code($handle); }
Petit_Dejeuner ugexe: I don't have to write phaser + close or anything like it, the way I opened the file ensures it will be closed correctly.
Yes, but there's no reason to write a helper if it's not already available. It just makes my code more obtuse. 02:08
Petit_Dejeuner raschipi: I'll look into that. 02:08
ugexe right, you'd normally just write LEAVE $whatever.close, the &code was just because it was in what you said other libraries provide 02:09
Petit_Dejeuner If the Seq isn't what I want, I'll probably just use the LEAVE.
raschipi Try the P6 way, it works and it's simple to use. It's just different and you're not used to it yet. 02:10
Petit_Dejeuner I'll try! :) 02:11
raschipi Petit_Dejeuner: Some tips for doing it: right after opening the file, register the LEAVE phaser. It doesn't need to be near where you think it will be executed. Let Perl6 keep track of that for you. 02:22
AlexDaniel raschipi++ 02:35
AlexDaniel ♥ LEAVE 02:36
gfldex m: class C { my $a = 42; method m { temp $a; say $a; $a = 0; say $a } }; C.new.m 05:57
camelia 42
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parv Emric F makes a string case for Bailador: blogs.perl.org/users/emeric/2017/08...-help.html . That, or the post could have been only a place holder. 06:02
s/string/strong/
ufobat sounds like an SOS call :D 06:03
gfldex the internet must be broken. I made a mistake in my blog and wasn't corrected before I could blink! 06:05
nadim Good morning! 07:52
lizmat .tell gfldex cool blog: gfldex.wordpress.com/2017/08/20/pr...-for-your/ but couldn't you use a trait aka "my $c is watched" ? 08:19
yoleaux lizmat: I'll pass your message to gfldex.
nadim Hi, I see that Str has a rotor method that is a Todo, is there a plan to implement those or one implements it and send a patch? 09:06
also, there's a Hash.grep method that is a Todo, how was that supposed to work? 09:07
El_Che I pointed the rakudo/zef Fedora to this channel in case he has questions, so be nice :) 09:26
(as you always are)
lizmat nadim: where do you see those things? 09:44
nadim lizmat: docs.perl6.org/type/Hash#(Any)_method_grep 09:51
nadim note that in the case of Hash.grep it is implemented 09:52
lizmat nadim: well, not really: it's implemented because Hash is an Any, and Any.grep is implemented
nadim what is the TODO supposed to mean? 09:53
lizmat that the *documentation* is missing
Ven`` Damian Conway is beautifully insane, huh. 09:57
nadim anything new or the same old insane? 10:06
nadim Here is a rather weird question, i have a piece of text generated with .perl; I want to evaluate is in another context where I know the types used in the .perl do not exist. Is there a way to catch the errors, force the generation of "dummy" types? 10:17
lizmat nadim: the only thing I can think of, is iterative: EVAL the string, if it throws an X::Undeclared::Symbols, look at unk_types, create them, and rince/repeat 10:20
nadim thanks for the X::Undeclared::Symbol tip. EVAL being fast as it is, that means it would take forever. I had an object, mainly string, 500 KB in size, it took 40 seconds to EVAL. 10:29
Zoffix Petit_Dejeuner: note there's a module that gives you a `does auto-close` trait that will install the phaser for you. I didn't read far into backlog, but most of the common file operations can be done with IO::Path and you never need to worry about file handles or when to close them. 10:43
buggable: eco Trait::IO
buggable Zoffix, Trait::IO 'Helper IO traits': github.com/zoffixznet/perl6-Trait-IO
Zoffix As for some suggesting LEAVE phasers: keep in mind the code shown will trigger the phaser when routine is called with incorrect args. Probably applies to methods only... 10:46
m: class { method foo { my $foo = open 'bar'; LEAVE $foo.close; } }.foo: 42
camelia No such method 'close' for invocant of type 'Any'. Did you mean 'clone'?
in block <unit> at <tmp> line 1
Zoffix ^ not a very enlightening error, since it dies with that before it can tell you wrong args were passed
Zoffix "Perl6 avoids doing some tracking other languages do to avoid the performance penalty." 10:49
Huh? I thought it was just a different mechanism
The ref counting has its own host of issues 10:50
piojo It looks like on windows, the newlines are being changed to '\r\n' 11:22
Perl6 won't open the file in binary mode and allow printing
is there a workaround? in other environments (or perl5), you just open the file as binary. 11:23
I mean in output, when I call $fh.print("$line\n")
piojo Okay, I used $fh.write($line.encode("utf-8")), but I'm surprised it takes so much boilerplate (on every single line) to avoid the dreaded \r\n 11:29
lizmat piojo: have you tried opening with :nl-out("\n") 11:32
timotimo the encoder has a translate-nl option
you can pass an encoder object to :enc, and you can pass :!translate-nl to the encode method 11:33
timotimo like Encoding::Registry.find("utf8").new(:!translate-nl) 11:34
macsnowball nick macsnowball 11:40
Ven`` Aw, I regret missing TPCiA.
when's the SPW?
ilmari this week (fri-sat) 11:41
act.perl-workshop.ch/spw2017/
timotimo is going to spw o/ 11:42
Ven`` oh, probably a bit late to book 11:43
lizmat conf is still open to registration :-) 11:45
piojo lizmat: I opened with :nl-out(""). Didn't try "\n" yet
lizmat et on parle Francais la bas
piojo lizmat: nl-out doesn't help, I'll try timotimo's way 11:47
Ven`` il y a marqué anglais :)
their "online booking" link doesn't seem to work. mmh..
should look for a different hotel, since hotel du golf itself's website doesn't help at all. two links to book but none work, and the "rates" link doesn't work ;o) 11:50
piojo timotimo: I think the syntax is "encoder" rather than "new" :enc(Encoding::Registry.find("utf8").encoder(:!translate-nl)) 11:56
timotimo: but it fails with: Unknown string encoding 'Encoding::Encoder::Builtin<160273136>'
timotimo oh? wow 11:57
piojo I'm using rakudo star 07, so I'll see if the new release fixes it, when it comes out 11:58
timotimo perhaps you can call .encoding(Encoding::Registry.find(......)) on the handle once you've built it 11:58
piojo I can't test moar-blead because of the build problem... 11:59
timotimo the new release is just about done, i don't think a fix for this will be put in
piojo I meant maybe it's already done
I know most developers don't use Windows, so maybe someone spotted this previously
timotimo we just fixed some windows build issues today 12:00
piojo Nice
timotimo is it about something with registers and such?
piojo yeah, I saw lots of discussion about it
I'll try building from source tomorrow
timotimo yeah, no fix for the encoder for this release 12:01
you can always create your encoder up top and use it to encode all your strings and .write them to your binary handle
piojo timotimo: same result when setting the encoding on the open $fh 12:02
timotimo yeah
i tried it locally with the very latest version
same error
piojo It would be nice to have a pre-made encoder with a string name that doesn't translate newlines, but it's enough if this info is readily available 12:04
stackoverflow is good for that, when you're not sure where to stick the info in the documentation
just ask a question, and answer it yourself :) 12:05
(if you know it's something people are going to search for)
piojo timotimo: thanks for the explanation! 12:08
timotimo no prob 12:09
gfldexwork lizmat: I had the plan to be brave and implement a slang but a trait is a good fallback. I may just add it to the block before I fail at the slang. :-> 12:18
Ven`` TIL about the $_ with X idiom :). lizmat++ 12:20
Ven`` well, $x = $_ with $y, rather. 12:20
timotimo it's like R//R= :P 12:23
(except that still gives you the wrong thing) 12:24
or, huh, maybe not?
i don't think R= is actually a metaop
raschipi So, people really didn't like the way I tried to explain why Perl6 doesn't have some guarantees other languages have. Isn't it the motive to not guarantee everything will be garbage collected to make sure rakudo will exit fast? (Letting the OS do the work...) And the motive for not doing reference counting is to allow the flexibility necessary for more modern GC designs?
timotimo well, reference counting does have a big performance impact for multithreaded programs 12:25
and yeah, we do let the OS clean everything up, that's why we don't guarantee we run DESTROY for everything
raschipi So, what did I got wrong? Zoffix, can you help me? What were the details I missed? 12:27
timotimo let me look again 12:28
raschipi I can bring you links to the relevant parts if you want. 12:29
Zoffix raschipi: where did I say you got anything wrong? 12:31
Defensive much?
raschipi No, I'm just asking if that's the case.
Because of this: irclog.perlgeek.de/perl6/2017-08-21#i_15048898. I'm asking what you meant, did I got some detail wrong? 12:32
timotimo you can say "refcounting is just a differnet mechanism", but in multithreaded situations it's far inferior to anything "completely" gc-based 12:33
Zoffix I asked if it were really true we used different mechanism from Perl 5 simply for performance reasons.
timotimo doesn't D offer both ref-counted parts and GC'd parts? and if you don't use the GC, the GC doesn't end up in your program at all?
raschipi OK, thanks for the explanation.
lizmat I seem to recall that MoarVM had some parts refcounted, but that turned out to be a Bad Idea(tm) 12:52
timotimo was that the frame cache or something? hmm. 13:06
jnthn Frames used to be ref-counted
jnthn Before we introduced the call stack regions mechanism 13:06
And then made them GC-able
jnthn And yeah, it didn't work out too well to have a hybrid model 'cus it intersected badly with generational GC 13:07
So as soon as your program kept lots of closures alive, GC performance started to tank
mspo can you create your own gc generations at runtime? 13:15
jnthn No 13:16
.oO( Does any VM do that? :) )
mspo erlang, of course :) 13:18
each process is its own thing
raschipi I heard Erlang has the opposite problem people usually have with concurrency, _nothing_ is shared. 13:19
mspo but the beam collector only works on process-level. There are no generations that i know about
raschipi: yeah it's tricky
X="stuff".
raschipi mspo: Do you know if it's possible to mmap files in diffrent heavy weight threads in Erlang? 13:21
mspo raschipi: you don't have any access to os threads at all, as far as I know 13:22
raschipi: BEAM decides the number of threads and how to schedule them
raschipi Right, does it have an interface for mmap?
mspo raschipi: I don't think so 13:24
raschipi Thanks.
mspo raschipi: if file:something does an mmap under the hood or not; I wouldn't know 13:25
raschipi: but it would be unusual for erlang to expose that kind of low level detail 13:26
raschipi mspo: I'm seeing the discussion online, and people talk about patching the VM to get that behavior.
mspo raschipi: it would be a nice option probably 13:27
raschipi mmap is most interesting when the same file is mapped in multiple processes.
"because of mmap‘s alignment restrictions combined with the way the Erlang runtime allocate binaries, I was forced to copy the data into the binary, thus killing any performance benefits mmap might have provided." 13:29
sena_kun > m: say "<html>My Content</html>" ~~ /'<html>' .*? '<'/ 13:35
m: say "<html>My Content</html>" ~~ /'<html>' .*? '<'/
camelia ｢<html>My Content<｣
sena_kun m: say "<html>My Content</html>" ~~ /'<html>' .*? '<h'/
camelia Nil
sena_kun Do I miss something?
jnthn / 13:36
sena_kun omg
mspo can you tell perl6 to mmap a file? 13:36
raschipi mspo: I suppose I should try it using NativeCall. 13:37
mspo raschipi: I think they would need a nif-module to give an mmap interface but i don't know how it would all work 13:38
so the same answer :)
timotimo yeah, nativecall lets you handle mmapped stuff 13:39
you can't allocate perl6 objects into an mmapped region, though
raschipi Well, bummer. 13:40
mspo is that a practical limitation?
raschipi Like I said, the interesting part is to have a mmaped file in two processes, alocating the objects in the file would mean the object would be available in both processes. 13:41
Like if they were threads.
moritz how do pointers work in mmap'ped memory regions? 13:42
timotimo if you allocate a perl6 object into a shared memory region, it's very easy to make your vm segfault ... 13:44
moritz I can imagine, yes 13:45
raschipi moritz: Pointers are restricted to offsets to inside the file itself.
I completely see why it doesn't work, though. 13:46
ingy how do I get every element of an array after the first? 13:48
AlexDaniel m: my @a = <a b c d>; say @a[1..*]
camelia (b c d)
ingy ta
timotimo m: my @a = <a b c d e f g>; .say for @a.skip(1)
camelia b
c
d
e
f
g
AlexDaniel bench: HEAD my @a = <a b c d>; for ^10000 { say @a[1..*] } 13:49
benchable6 AlexDaniel, starting to benchmark the 1 given commit
AlexDaniel, ¦HEAD: «1.6327»
AlexDaniel bench: HEAD my @a = <a b c d>; for ^10000 { .say for @a.skip(1) }
benchable6 AlexDaniel, starting to benchmark the 1 given commit
AlexDaniel that's not entirely identical, but…
Ven`` the first one creates a temporary string
AlexDaniel m: my @a = <a b c d e f g>; say @a.skip(1) 13:50
camelia (b c d e f g)
benchable6 AlexDaniel, ¦HEAD: «6.6695» 13:50
Ven`` why not say @a.skip(1)?
AlexDaniel bench: HEAD my @a = <a b c d>; for ^10000 { say @a.skip(1) }
benchable6 AlexDaniel, starting to benchmark the 1 given commit
AlexDaniel, ¦HEAD: «1.2387»
AlexDaniel yep
timotimo one less loop, that explains the performance discrepancy 13:51
Ven`` The overhead is probably because the 1st one has two iterators, the second one has one
(one iterator for 1..*, one iterator for @a vs one iterator for @a)
AlexDaniel m: my @a = <a b c d>; say WHAT @a[1..*] 13:52
camelia (List)
AlexDaniel m: my @a = <a b c d>; say WHAT @a.skit(1)
camelia No such method 'skit' for invocant of type 'Array'. Did you mean any of these?
emit
shift
sin
skip

in block <unit> at <tmp> line 1
AlexDaniel m: my @a = <a b c d>; say WHAT @a.skip(1)
camelia (Seq)
timotimo it doesn't necessarily do an iteration of the 1..*
it could totally see it's a Range and work more efficiently
AlexDaniel yea, I'd expect it to be smarter than that
AlexDaniel why does it have to return a List there though? 13:53
Ven`` let's go check with the magic bus
AlexDaniel m: my @a = <a b c d>; say WHAT @a.list.skip(1)
camelia (Seq)
AlexDaniel m: my @a = <a b c d>; say WHAT @a.list[1..*] 13:53
camelia (List)
Ven`` m: my @a = 1..*; say WHAT @a[1..*] 13:54
reified?
camelia (timeout)
timotimo AFK for a bit
Ven`` m: my @a = 1..*; say WHAT @a.skip(1)
camelia (Seq)
Ven`` yup...
kannan hello good day. i am new here. can one learn perl6 without knowing much of perl5? (just going to get started with coding) 13:55
Ven`` kannan: perl6.org/resources/ see here 13:56
We have a "For Newcomers" section.
kannan Ven` ` oh ok, thanks 13:57
raschipi kannan: Yes, no need to know Perl5 at all.
Ven`` say: 1..* ~~ Iterable:D
kannan good. i will start then.
Ven`` m: say 1..* ~~ Iterable:D
camelia True
Ven`` timotimo, AlexDaniel: apparently lizmat++ worked on such a candidate and reverted the commit ( github.com/rakudo/rakudo/commit/75...60459f14fe ) 13:58
lizmat yeah, it broke stuff in the ecosystem afaik 14:01
lizmat and I also realized I would need to dig deeper to really make things faster generally 14:01
that area of the setting is still showing scars of the GLR 14:02
m: my @a = ^10; dd @a[^5].WHAT
camelia List
lizmat ideally, I would want that to return a Seq
AlexDaniel yeah 14:03
lizmat but that will be for after the SPW
AlexDaniel Ven``: RT #131830
synopsebot6 Link: rt.perl.org/rt3/Public/Bug/Display...?id=131830
jnthn Seq? It's by design that indexing consistently returns a List, I thought...
lizmat jnthn: but why ?
Ven``
.oO( The GLR also left scars in my understanding of this apparently )
 14:04
jnthn I'm sure this was discussed a bunch during the GLR. 14:05
ilmari GLR = gashes left and right
jnthn I don't consider it up for being revisited.
lizmat well, my recollection is that it was considered too complex to make it a Seq
but with my current knowledge of iterators, seqs and other internals,
I think it is merely tricky 14:06
and it could give a performance boost in many cases
jnthn Yeah but it's API. Everybody who's written my @foo := @bar[1..5]; would have their code broken by this
lizmat so perhaps this needs to be 6.d :-) 14:07
jnthn I don't recall it as "too complex", I recall it as a concious decision that slicing should return a List
daxim hey, the bugs I filed three days ago failed to materialise in the queue. I need a champion to take over for me: <paste.debian.net/hidden/33aab62d/> (NB: 3 bugs altogether) please highlight me if you do so. 14:30
ugexe there is no binary grammar parsing 14:32
daxim that's what the bug says 14:33
ugexe thats a feature request
AlexDaniel so mark it as [RFC] and that's it. 14:34
daxim: fwiw, “parser lacks a sensible error message” is a known thing. In fact, this was addressed a couple of days ago, but it's not backward-compatible 14:35
daxim what does addressed mean here?
AlexDaniel daxim: it was changed to return a Failure (which had all of the nice bits) instead of a Nil, but you can probably imagine how many people were relying on the old behavior :) 14:36
daxim ok, cool
AlexDaniel daxim: so first we moved it to 6.d (and it was usable if you put use v6.d.PREVIEW in your source), but today it was decided that it's not going to fly
daxim: in other words, 2017.08 release is not going to have it 14:37
Ven``
.oO( .parse-pretty-please )
 14:38
ugexe say $match-obj isnt pretty enough? 14:39
AlexDaniel daxim: in any case, here's a ticket, so we probably don't need another one: RT #131919&
synopsebot6 Link: rt.perl.org/rt3/Public/Bug/Display...?id=131919
Ven`` ugexe: when a match failed?
the Failure isn't for when the match succeeded.
ugexe ha i thought you were asking for a .parse-pretty (like a json-pretty)... I missed the please 14:40
AlexDaniel daxim: also, I've already done a bunch of PRs to modules that relied on the previous behavior, in a hope that it will ease up the transition. You see, we want this change as strongly as your ticket suggests it :) 14:42
mspo mm binary grammar
timotimo fwiw, you can parse your string as latin1 and pretend you have bytes with your grammar ...
AlexDaniel daxim: “infinite loop with grammar” is a valid ticket, but the doc part of it is better submitted here: github.com/perl6/doc/issues 14:43
daxim what about the failure mode? 14:45
AlexDaniel daxim: that's why I say that the ticket is valid. Most likely there's a way to do it better, but it has to be discussed more 14:48
daxim can you take care that the ticket doesn't fall under the table? 14:49
Skarsnik Hello 15:29
timotimo yo
Ven`` \o 15:34
kannan ok, now i ran the 'hello world' !! i added 3 lines to /etc/profile 15:36
export PATH=$PATH:/opt/rakudo-star-2017.07/bin
export PATH=$PATH:/opt/rakudo-star-2017.07/share/perl6/bin
export PATH=/usr/src/perl6/rakudo-star-2017.07/install/bin/:$PATH
not sure if these are the correct ones, i added first two from instructions seen after a 'make install', and the last one from installation instruction. 15:37
kannan on website - rakudo.org/how-to-get-rakudo/#Insta...Star-Linux 15:38
Skarsnik hm did you set a prefix? 15:39
timotimo can you look what these paths contain? 15:46
Skarsnik what di you use? rakudobrew? 15:47
timotimo i hope not! 15:49
ugexe its rakudo star, and they showed a link to the instructions they followed
kannan tom editor gives an error when i run a helloworld.p6 - Check Error: Failed to spawn command `perl6`. Make sure `perl6` is installed and on your PATH
atom editor i meant 15:50
ugexe did you refresh your shell so the PATH got updated? what does `echo $PATH` show?
timotimo when you change /etc/profile it doesn't immediately take effect everywhere 15:51
Skarsnik ugexe, dunno the link point me to etheir apt or rakudobrew 15:51
timotimo why are we still recommendin rakudobrew on rakudo.org 15:52
Petit_Dejeuner is it that bad?
kannan ugexe, thanks. i just need to restart the atom editor. 15:53
timotimo it can cause some trouble 15:54
timotimo it's meant for rakudo developers who want to quickly switch between multiple rakudo versions 15:54
Petit_Dejeuner like the python or ruby version managers?
Petit_Dejeuner can't remember what they're called. 15:55
rvm, pvm?
Skarsnik dunno I always fetch rakudo directly
kannan i installed from source (rakudo star) , as explained on the perl6intro page for installing. i did not install rakudobrew. 15:56
kannan now all i have left is to learn to code and learn perl6 , heh. 15:56
ugexe there is a few problems if you aren't experienced enough to know whats happening. for instance: problems with the git repos between 1 of 3 different things (rakudo, moarvm, nqp), artifacts when upgrading an existing installation ala moar-nom/moar-blead, previous module installations can go haywire, etc 15:57
timotimo and the bin/ stuff modules install ... they only actually show up when you "rakudobrew rehash" 15:58
ugexe but if you *do* know what you are doingits invaluable 16:02
and "know what you are doing" I really mean "know how to avoid the traps" 16:03
Skarsnik rm -fr rakudo && git clone 16:04
how git work in a nutshell
mspo yeah that split is pretty confusing 16:08
P6steve Hi - I am trying to write a perl6 Class "Distance" to work as a type. This works my Distance $d .= new: '1e1 m'; With infix foo, this too $d ⇐ '3e1 m'; BUT my Distance $c; $c ⇐ '3e1 m'; seems to load attributes but leave object itself undefined. 16:32
Probably a newbie error ... can someone give me a hint, please?
timotimo how does your infix work? 16:36
P6steve sub infix:<⇐> ($left, $right) { return $left.assign($right); } 16:37
timotimo that'll only work if the assign method works on undefined Distance objects
rather, "the type object" 16:38
if you don't .new your my Distance $c, it'll be just the type object of Distance
timotimo you can do a little magic with "is rw": turn your infix into a multi sub, one of the multis will look like (Distance:U $left is rw, $right) { $left = Distance.new; $left.assign($right) } 16:39
P6steve multi method assign (Str:D $right) { if self.defined { self.extract($right); } else { self.new($right); } }
timotimo oh, ok
that still doesn't do anything to actually cause assignment to the variable on the LHS of your arrow 16:40
it'll return the new object, but it'll just fall on the floor
P6steve ah - now I (think I) get it - multi the infix seems best
timotimo it makes sense to only ask for "is rw" if it's a Distance:U 16:41
because that lets you do something like Distance.new <= '1 m', where there is no variable that it could modify 16:42
P6steve sounds good - let me give that a shot - thanks 16:43
timotimo you're welcome! 16:47
i'll be afk for a bit
P6steve my Distance $c ⇐ '5e1 m'; say $c; #50 m Nice 17:02
Petit_Dejeuner Weird, when I call the socket 'print' method with a string argument, I get an error as if I'm calling 'print' as a string method and a function, like 'abc'.print('abc'). 17:11
gfldex m: constant \T = Int; my T $b;
camelia ( no output )
yoleaux 08:19Z <lizmat> gfldex: cool blog: gfldex.wordpress.com/2017/08/20/pr...-for-your/ but couldn't you use a trait aka "my $c is watched" ?
gfldex is that doced?
and more important, is that specced? 17:12
ugexe looking at the doc for trait i would say yes? 17:13
gfldex it's a bit to hidden. I shall issue right away! 17:16
timotimo s: IO::Socket::INET, 'print', \("Foo") 17:35
SourceBaby timotimo, Sauce is at github.com/rakudo/rakudo/blob/2017...ket.pm#L93
timotimo huh, how did the . in the tag name get lost? 17:35
Petit_Dejeuner: do you have an IO::Socket::INET or an IO::Socket::Async? 17:36
Petit_Dejeuner timotimo: I have an IO::Socket::INET
timotimo mhm, it should work with a string argument
can you show some code?
Petit_Dejeuner sure
Petit_Dejeuner timotimo: pastebin.com/raw/s9cZbQb1 17:38
DrForr Well, that was an odd greeting.
yoleaux 29 Jun 2017 10:52Z <tbrowder> DrForr: my Perl6::Parser PR passes all tests
timotimo yo DrForr, how are you doing?
timotimo howd on 17:39
Petit_Dejeuner: why does it say "parrot" there?
what's your perl6 --version?
Petit_Dejeuner 'This is perl6 version 2014.07 built on parrot 6.6.0 revision 0' 17:40
oh
sjn quick question; is there a way to query the version on of a loaded module? (eqiv. to print $My::Module::VERSION in perl5)
timotimo that's really not good :D
Petit_Dejeuner I'm guessing 2014's way too old.
What's the point of having a package manager if everything is several years out of date. I gotta go install by hand. 17:41
DrForr Working on the emojicode parser, thinking about debugging.
timotimo there's packages you can get for your distro
huggable: packages
huggable timotimo, nothing found
timotimo buggable: packages
Petit_Dejeuner thanks
timotimo huggable: debian
huggable timotimo, nothing found
timotimo really
AlexDaniel huggable: deb 17:41
huggable AlexDaniel, CentOS, Debian, Fedora and Ubuntu Rakudo packages: github.com/nxadm/rakudo-pkg/releases
AlexDaniel huggable: debian :is: CentOS, Debian, Fedora and Ubuntu Rakudo packages: github.com/nxadm/rakudo-pkg/releases
huggable AlexDaniel, Added debian as CentOS, Debian, Fedora and Ubuntu Rakudo packages: github.com/nxadm/rakudo-pkg/releases
AlexDaniel huggable: packages :is: CentOS, Debian, Fedora and Ubuntu Rakudo packages: github.com/nxadm/rakudo-pkg/releases 17:42
huggable AlexDaniel, Added packages as CentOS, Debian, Fedora and Ubuntu Rakudo packages: github.com/nxadm/rakudo-pkg/releases
timotimo thanks! 17:43
Petit_Dejeuner: if you're on any of these distros, you're in luck!
sjn m: use Test; say Test.^ver; 17:49
camelia (Mu)
DrForr Working on the emojicode parser, thinking about debugging.
Grr.
sjn doesn't any of the core rakudo modules have a version defined? 17:50
El_Che DrForr: I understand the -o fun part, but wtf :)
sjn El_Che: -o fun # output fun 17:51
El_Che: -O fun # optimize fun
DrForr It just happens that I was on the worng tmux screen.
sjn :)
DrForr That and I'm distracted by watching a .. review, I think... of /Moonwalker/. 17:52
El_Che sjn: -O 🤡 17:53
sjn El_Che:-D
El_Che timotimo, Petit_Dejeuner: if you use and other distro, and there is demand for pkgs, I can add it. 17:54
Petit_Dejeuner El_Che: I'm on Devuan, so the Debian package would probably work, but it would just need to be tested. 17:55
Which I guess <<I'm>> in a pretty good position to do.
Although I just started installing rakudobrew, so I'll have to sanitize my system first. 17:56
El_Che wel, if devuan is binary compatible with the released debian version, it should work. No systemd deps on the pkgs :)
Petit_Dejeuner Oh, then that should be fine!
Let me see if rakudobrew works, then I'll try uninstalling it and check if the deb works. 17:58
El_Che both work :) 18:03
Geth ecosystem: 23e74625a9 | (Martin Barth)++ (committed using GitHub Web editor) | META.list
time::crontab META.info -> META6.json
 18:46
gfldex m: multi sub trait_mod:<is>(Variable $v, :$watched){ dd $v }; my $c is watched; say $c; 19:29
camelia Variable $c = Variable.new(name => "\$c", scope => "my", var => Any, block => -> gnatur { #`(Block|42281752) ... }, slash => Perl6::Grammar.new() #`[140095662401952])
(Any)		 19:30
gfldex what is slash in `Variable`?
ugexe the variable name is '$c' i presume 19:30
oh literal 'slash' 19:31
moritz probably a $/ during compile time 19:31
gfldex i'm trying to bind a new container to a Variable in a trait. Is there actually any way to do that? 19:37
timotimo gnatur %)
gfldex: i don't think so, as traits are compile-time
lizmat gfldex: I have been trying that this afternoon... didn't get it to work yet 19:39
gfldex i'm trying to tie a Proxy to a Variable as lizmat suggested. Looks like I will have to dive into NQP land.
muddy waters that
lizmat I assume you got to the Scalar container already? (1st param.var.VAR )
gfldex yes 19:40
lizmat I was thinking that maybe by using the $!whence on the container, you could do something
lizmat but I didn't get that to work: guess I still don't understand when the $!whence is being called 19:41
and I really should work on my slides :-) 19:42
timotimo i wonder if you should perhaps install it as "is default" does it 19:44
gfldex timotimo: doesn't work. The default value is just a fallback for the value in the container it seams. 19:52
lizmat yeah, that doesn't work
either we need to replace the container with a proxy, or do some $!whence magic
timotimo ah 19:53
moritz my $var := watched(); and then a sub watched that returns a Proxy 19:55
lizmat moritz: yes, but we were going for something syntactically less invasive 19:56
teatime is trying to determine what perl6 thing, if any, is the perl6 equiv to nodejs's streams / object streams 20:49
supplies, I think...
teatime like... streams, pipes, coroutines, are equivalent, yeah? 20:55
ugexe probably closer to a Channel 21:02
mspo promise? 21:04
lizmat and yet another Perl 6 Weekly hits the net: p6weekly.wordpress.com/2017/08/21/...ng-atomic/ 21:06
raschipi yay lizmat++ 21:08
gfldex lizmat: s/if 0 if/of 0 if/ 21:12
lizmat gfldex++ 21:13
(fixed)
gfldex ohh, it's a weekly that's announcing a talk about weeklies … one more level of indirection :-> 21:15
lizmat
.oO( indirection is grossly overrated )
 21:16
AlexDaniel lizmat++ 21:38
timotimo lizmat++ :) 21:46
ugexe ahem ⚛+++ 21:56
timotimo yeah, better make sure none of the ++ go to waste 21:57
geekosaur ...lizmatom? :p 21:58
or is that the nuclear option? 21:59
lizmat hmmm liztormatomic :-) 22:01
TEttinger there's ☣ 22:02
lizmat .u ☣ 22:03
yoleaux U+2623 BIOHAZARD SIGN [So] (☣)
lizmat yeah, we're keeping that for the dirty work
lizmat perhaps "use MONKEY" should have a unicode counterpart: "use ☣" 22:03
:-)
good night, #perl6! 22:04
TEttinger ☢
.u ☢ 22:05
yoleaux U+2622 RADIOACTIVE SIGN [So] (☢)
timotimo so ... the spw, right? 22:11
there's a pre-workshop meetup. the description asks people to "add this to your personal schedule" so they know how many spots to reserve
except the software won't let me do that, nor does it show any other attendees
cono m: class ☠ { method state { "DEAD" } }; ☠.new.state.say 22:21
camelia 5===SORRY!5=== Error while compiling <tmp>
Unable to parse class definition
at <tmp>:1
------> 3class7⏏5 ☠ { method state { "DEAD" } }; ☠.new.st
expecting any of:
generic role
cono is there any way to create unicode class name? :) 22:22
.u ☠ 22:23
yoleaux U+2620 SKULL AND CROSSBONES [So] (☠)
[Coke] unicode, sure. emoji, no. 22:41
jnthn It'd have to something that matches \w+ to parse the usual way. Though you can probably do class ::('weird symboles here') { } to do it anyway 22:44
Geth doc/master: 5 commits pushed by (Will "Coke" Coleda)++ 22:52
[Coke] m: class ::('💀') { ... } ; 22:53
camelia 5===SORRY!5=== Error while compiling <tmp>
The following packages were stubbed but not defined:
💀
at <tmp>:1
------> 3class ::('💀') { ... } ;7⏏5<EOL>
[Coke] m: class ::('💀') { } ;
camelia ( no output )
cono heh 22:54
[Coke] m: class ::('💀') { } ;say 💀.new.^name;
camelia 5===SORRY!5===
Argument to "say" seems to be malformed
at <tmp>:1
------> 3class ::('💀') { } ;say7⏏5 💀.new.^name;
Bogus postfix
at <tmp>:1
------> 3class ::('💀') { } ;say 7⏏5💀.new.^name;
expecting any of:
…
ugexe m: class ::("☠ ") { method state { "DEAD" } }; ::("☠.").new.state.say 22:55
camelia Failed

Actually thrown at:
in block <unit> at <tmp> line 1
AlexDaniel I mean… 22:56
m: class term:<☠> { method state { "DEAD" } }; term:<☠>.new.state.say
camelia DEAD
AlexDaniel this works, but…
zoll Does the 12:54 error message complain about "skull" not having a "say" method?
Xliff m: my %a = { 'A' => 1, 'B' => 2, 'cD' => 34, 'Ef' => 56 }; %a.keys => .lc; dd %a; 23:51
camelia Potential difficulties:
Useless use of hash composer on right side of hash assignment; did you mean := instead?
at <tmp>:1
------> 3=> 1, 'B' => 2, 'cD' => 34, 'Ef' => 56 }7⏏5; %a.keys => .lc; dd %a;
WARNINGS for <tmp>:
Useles…
AlexDaniel m: my %a = 'A' => 1, 'B' => 2, 'cD' => 34, 'Ef' => 56 23:58
camelia ( no output )
AlexDaniel or, if you insist 23:59
m: my %a = %('A' => 1, 'B' => 2, 'cD' => 34, 'Ef' => 56)
camelia ( no output )

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