chromatic

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by chromatic 6y ago
I remember it!
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by chromatic 6y ago
Without consulting Stack Overflow, describe the “...” operator in Perl. Does it count as a trick question if I implemented it?
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by chromatic 6y ago
The 2016 edition covers most of what's in 5.32; if I were to do an update for Perl 5.32, I'd include postfix dereferencing and the built-in function signature mechanisms now that they're very stable and supported.
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by chromatic 6y ago
I'm curious why it's not available in physical copy from Pragmatic? I believe it is: https://pragprog.com/cart/add/skus?sku_id=821_820 I'm not confident about the correct "buy" link to
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by chromatic 6y ago
You might find it amusing that "JavaScript: The Good Parts" directly inspired the "Modern Perl" book.
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by chromatic 7y ago
If it is carefully designed, it should prove to be useful just like it has in Raku. I don't see how it can be designed well enough. The fundamental problem is that Perl operators are monomorphic and variables are polymorphic. This wa
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by chromatic 7y ago
It just doesn't make sense to pay your employees more in hopes that they will spend more and you'll get the revenue back. Not even if their marginal propensity to consume is high?
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by chromatic 7y ago
Comments like this is what makes people not want to participate in your community. I think that's a mistake; it's important to call out bad actions and bad actors. Another person made an important point elsewhere. If someone had
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by chromatic 7y ago
I'm saying the amount of good he did for this country far outweighs his wrongs. I'm just certain sure his slaves felt the same way. Especially Ona Judge.
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by chromatic 7y ago
perl, which does that with cpan CPAN doesn't do that, because CPAN is a series of mirrors that neither collect nor report aggregate download numbers.
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by chromatic 7y ago
These two individuals are quite knowledgeable programmers, so I'm inclined to agree with them. They're both extremely knowledgeable, but neither of them can work with other people, so their forks seem motivated by the desire to
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by chromatic 7y ago
Explanation for others How odd then that ~90% of the discussions about ditching Parrot were primarily complaining about the deprecation policy and first-class Rakudo support, not speed. I suppose you would know better though, being object
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by chromatic 7y ago
It is the simpliest explanation. It's the laziest explanation. Did you ever ask yourself why , for example, all of the calling convention code paths were consolidated into a single code path? It wasn't to make a single, ineffi
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by chromatic 7y ago
I think no one was more surprised than Simon himself that his April Fools joke turned out to be the plan.
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by chromatic 7y ago
As parrot maintainer I could explain what caused the downfall: Stupid people. Reini, it seems like you think everyone who disagrees with you is stupid. This isn't an explanation for anything . We were boxed in for two really good no
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by chromatic 7y ago
Initially, a lot of Parrot's purpose in reality was to be a VM for Perl 6, but Parrot also had a goal of being a good general VM for dynamic languages. This was, initially, for two reasons: * allow Perl 5 code to run in process with
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by chromatic 7y ago
What kind of a license doesn't have to be observed by one of the parties to the license? That's every license. You might be thinking of a contract, which is a binding agreement between two parties. Think of a license as a grant
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by chromatic 7y ago
Different programming languages exist for many reasons, only one of which is syntax. Many of these reasons relate to data structures and runtime control flow. WASM won't be able to "solve" these issue any better than the JVM
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by chromatic 7y ago
Imo the issue of a time line (estimated or actual) is immaterial to the original point made up thread (the role of tests in determining a compiler's compliance to a language specification). The issue is whether P6 advocates are hones
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by chromatic 7y ago
Quoting Larry Wall from 2000 If you're going to quote Larry Wall from 2000, be honest and also quote him as saying he wanted to release a beta by TPC 2001 and get the final version out by 2002. Don't mislead people by cherry-pic
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by chromatic 7y ago
I'm not going to count eval(...) as exception handling as a language feature in Perl 5. :) You should. It's a perfectly valid exception handling mechanism. It's unfortunate that the name "eval" is overloaded for t
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by chromatic 8y ago
> There is more than one version, and I know the first version was made freely available online Good news! Every version is freely available online. Here's the most recent: http://modernperlbooks.com/books/moder
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by chromatic 8y ago
> Wasn't Perl 6's Parrot kind of meant to fulfil that role? Yes, that was an original project goal. You can see this as far back as Larry's State of the Onion 2003: https://www.perl.com/pub/2003/0
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by chromatic 8y ago
That's an interesting reading of that chapter.
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by chromatic 9y ago
Specifically, he shows that one of the examples in the documentation for the CGI.pm module had an exploitable vulnerability. I think that's overstating things. He reported a "vulnerability" in Bugzilla which wasn't a s
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by chromatic 9y ago
Productive investments are good for the economy. Are they? Or are you defining "productive" circularly here? If I'm wealthy and I invest in derivatives or complicated tranches, is that "productive" because it&#x27
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by chromatic 9y ago
Why buy Disney today when you can buy Disney and Ford tomorrow? As a shareholder, because that money could be put to productive use today, rather than waiting for a future which may not come. To my mind, that's why the pressure for A
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by chromatic 9y ago
Thus Apple hoards cash because it believes the bubble will burst? Is that the Austrian explanation for Apple's behavior? (Still an honest question. I've never understood this about the Austrian school.)
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by chromatic 9y ago
That said, the banks + federal oversight encourage money to be created out of thin air, which makes it easy to spend money, and makes it impossible to incentivize deferred consumption. So, everyone spends money, no limits on it, and we all
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by chromatic 9y ago
It seems equally intuitive that investment drives the economy. The economic principle you're looking for is "velocity of money". If you think of a GDP in terms of a multiplier in how often/fast money circulates, then y

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