I’ve been fooling around with pre-built Rakudo packages on Travis CI so I figured that I should do the same on AppVeyor. Last night I had a Ubuntu build that […]
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Use pre-built Rakudo packages on Travis CI
I changed my Perl 6 Travis setup so I’m not using the community supported Perl 6. That one builds rakudo and sometimes it exhausts the memory. Even if it didn’t […]
Read moreCoercion types in signatures don’t work and won’t for awhile
I wanted to make a method that took an integer or a string that looked like an integer. I thought a coercion type would work nicely for that. The Int […]
Read moreMy AppVeyor config now tests Perl 6 on Linux too
AppVeyor now supports Ubuntu along with Windows. I’ve updated my Perl 6 AppVeyor config example to include that. I created a chocolatey package for Rakudo Star to make it easier […]
Read moreInfinite, cycling sequences
My Tie::Cycle Perl 5 module is almost trivial but it solved a customer problem a long, long time ago. It’s makes a list that looks like a scalar. Every time […]
Read moreThe Universal Set
Some people like to think you can’t have a universal set. I say otherwise. The difference is what you can do about it. Perl 6 has the empty set, ∅ […]
Read moreHints for Perl 6 on Windows
I’m not going to waste too much time in the book explaining any particular operating system. I want to save space and I know I’ll probably want to keep updating […]
Read moreCustom operators for Knuth’s Arrow
The Wikipedia page for Knuth’s up arrow notation makes some claims about superscripts: But many environments — such as programming languages and plain-text e-mail — do not support superscript typesetting.
Read moreTest a module version
The META6.json file has metadata for a Perl 6 module. But I like to also put things in the module file. I’d rather have some of that stuff with the […]
Read moreDe-duping iTunes
Every so often I notice that my iTunes library has a lot of duplicate items and I need to get rid of things. It’s mostly a task for finding an […]
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