Luc St-Louis

Can't install this repo as a non-privileged user

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## The problem Build.pm wants to write to a root-owned directory: https://github.com/perl6/doc/blob/41c473934f9cdd8d1f70fceef0bfa0e66da6b6a7/Build.pm6#L11-L12 ## Suggestions Edited from https://colabti.org/irclogger/irclogger_log/perl6?date=2019-07-11#l347 ugexe: [Build.pm] assumes it can write to any repository that contains perl6 modules...

MySQL "0" timestamps mishandled.

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The following will give the error "Month out of range. Is: 0, should be in 1..12". #!/usr/bin/env perl6 =begin doc Have a database with a table having a timestamp column,...

symlink confusion

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⟨file-link⟩.IO.f reports True instead of False when ⟨file-link⟩ is a symlink to a regular file. Similarly ⟨dir-link⟩.IO.d reports True instead of False when ⟨dir-link⟩ is a symlink to a directory....

https://docs.raku.org/language/modules.html#require mentions "require loads a compunit and imports definite symbols at runtime". Not sure what a "definite symbol" is and it is also unclear what it is that gets imported...

zef may fail to install IO::String

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tl;dr: For historical reasons 'zef install IO::String' may fail, reporting problems with Text::CSV:ver. Workaround: 'zef install IO::String:ver' or a more recent version, if any. Details: I'm upgrading my Rakudo from...

The :f adverb in quoted strings may be too eager

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Given: my $s = 'baz' sub foo { $^a } compare these expressions: Q:c'{$s}' Q:f'&foo($s)' I believe both should evaluate to `baz`, but the second one fails with `Type Str...

$?FILE.IO.absolute incorrectly reports module names

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Given file `/tmp/bleah/Foo.rakumod` (a single line): note ""; running `raku -I/tmp/bleah -e 'use Foo'` should print: ` but actually prints: Why is the module name appended there? This also happens...