The question has been raised, how to get named arguments into sub EXPORT via a use-statement. The ever helpful raiph provided an answer, which in turn left me with the question, why he didn’t…| Playing Perl 6␛b6xA Raku
As the title states, I made Raku bigger because lol context (that’s how the Synopsis is calling **@) makes supporting feed operators fairly easy. I wonder if Larry added this syntax to Signat…| Playing Perl 6␛b6xA Raku
Over on Reddit zeekar wasn’t too happy about Raku’s love of Seq. It’s immutability can be hindering indeed. my @nums = [ [1..10], ];@nums[0] .= grep: * % 2;@nums�…| Playing Perl 6␛b6xA Raku
According to Larry, laziness is a programmers virtue. The best way to be lazy is having somebody else do it. By my request, SmokeMachine kindly did so. This is not fair. We both should have been la…| Playing Perl 6␛b6xA Raku
Lately, some unhappiness has popped up about Range and it’s incomplete numericaliness. Having just one blogpost about it is clearly not enough, given how big Ranges can be. say (-∞..∞).elems;…| Playing Perl 6␛b6xA Raku
With great amusement I watch the discussion of worries about — let’s call them “changes” — of reddit on reddit. The OP wishes Usenet to be back. And yes, we traded robust and dece…| Playing Perl 6␛b6xA Raku
IRC keeps insisting on being a good source of thought. A few days ago rcmlz wished to parallelise quicksort. Raku doesn’t sport a facility to make recursion “just work” with oodle…| Playing Perl 6␛b6xA Raku
While fighting with NativeCall to get github-flavoured-markdown to work, I stepped onto a nice idiom. As many C-libs, cmark-gfm does enjoy enums that hide bitmasks. They have to do that because C d…| Playing Perl 6␛b6xA Raku
While reading the source of RakuDoc::To::Text I spotted lizmat doing dispatch by hand. She defines quite a few subs that all take a RakuAST::Doc-type and return a Str. However, they are multi-candi…| Playing Perl 6␛b6xA Raku
This blogpost is written in memory of Bram Moolenaar — a true hero of text. Greg Donald reminded me of an old itch of mine. Any object does refer to its base-class but the other way is omitted. So …| Playing Perl 6␛b6xA Raku