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Raku language design documents
Originally raised on https://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=83720 is there a method that pulls out .re and .im as a list .reals that's so misnamed what PerlJam said. * masak considers getting a #perl6...
Currently two tests are not working when working from a rakudo checkout when no rakudo is installed, because both try to find the executable in the path. * The `&chdir...
In S05 it defines as: > Unicode properties are indicated by use of pair notation in place of a normal rule name: > > ``` > # a letter >...
Many people have read [Traits: Composable Units of Behaviour](http://scg.unibe.ch/archive/papers/Scha02bTraits.pdf) (Composable), but the authors were targeting a Smalltalk audience and made assumptions in this regard which means that some concepts do...
The current spec says `uniprop` returns the narrowest numerical type for numerical properties and boolean for boolean properties, and returns Str for all other properties. It also mentions a `unibool`...
mr_ron m: "\t" \~\~ /\/ camelia rakudo-moar 94d457: OUTPUT«Method 'sp' not found for invocant of class 'Cursor' in block at /tmp/iA3DUp1FLJ:1» \s seems to be now in http://design.perl6.org/S05.html#Character_class_shortcuts and wherever...
Hello, I was referring to S26 to get familiarity with Perl 6 Pod system. I am trying the examples from the synopsis. Unfortunately, the numbered list/head code doesn't work the...
https://design.perl6.org/S32/Str.html#sprintf says about "mostly identical". "Mostly" is how much exactly, is it absolutely equal to all things that come below? Judging by the current implementation, we don't have side modifiers...
In 7afa4fe1c187cf6ec63332a6233182101c00c424 there was an addition to S05 that says: "Backslash escapes for literal characters in ordinary strings are allowed in regexes (C, C, etc.)." To me, this is very...
