the-owlery

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   by the-owlery 11y ago

   Perl 6 has slides, IRC, a skim-through (learnxinyminutes), reference docs, examples, but alas no solid tutorial. This, IMO, will be a major problem if it persists until Christmas.
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   by the-owlery 11y ago

   Perl 6 needs a good tutorial.
3. 3.▲
   by the-owlery 11y ago

   The page looks fine. I think the "Fun" and "Whatever" pages could be merged. The front page should probably explain more why someone would want to use the language. That said though, none of this is going to matter unles
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   by the-owlery 11y ago

   This is on Debian Testing: $ perl6 -e '$*DISTRO.say' debian (3.16.0.4.amd.64) Sorry, should probably take this to #perl6.
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   by the-owlery 11y ago

   Thanks. Tried installing but got errors. ==> Fetching p6doc ==> Building p6doc ==> Testing p6doc # Failed test 'empty blocks argument gives undefined content' # at t/pod-convenience.t line 31
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   by the-owlery 11y ago

   Thanks, kbenson; missed that. Works now!
7. 7.▲
   by the-owlery 11y ago

   Ok. Command-line history/editing works now. I wiped out ~/.rakudobrew and started over: rakudobrew build moar rakudobrew build-panda panda install Linenoise Thanks.
8. 8.▲
   by the-owlery 11y ago

   I installed via rakudobrew (`rakudobrew build glr`), but have no `panda` in my ~/.rakudobrew/bin directory.
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   by the-owlery 11y ago

   It's great that this is available (haven't worked through it yet). Two major show-stoppers for me right now though: * In the Perl 6 repl, I can't use my up/down arrows, or ^p/^n to get at previous lines I typed, nor
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    by the-owlery 11y ago

    My understanding is that type inferencing allows you to omit specifying types in many places (the compiler uses heuristics to figure out the types in those places out at compile-time), but that you still need to specify types when necessary
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    by the-owlery 11y ago

    > > * hearing how difficult it is to learn, and > I thought it was pretty straight forward coming from Erlang. > The biggest thing for me was practice thinking in recursion. I use Clojure, generally like functional programming,
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    by the-owlery 11y ago

    I've avoided Haskell, primarily because: * hearing how difficult it is to learn, and * recalling C++ & Java, not crazy about the idea of going back to having to specify types for everything. But Haskell is enticing to me: * binding