use Perl

'7430' seems to be the wrong ticket number in your last link.

Other-wise, it is indeed good news to have modern Rakudo host PGE again. 'A grateful grammar engine still applauds.'

Oh, yes, that's exactly the thing.

I think has $.x := $y would have its uses, too; i'll poke around (in spec, code, #perl6) to see what might block/enable it.

class Car { # this is Perl 6 code
    my $cars-produced = 0;
    has $.cars-produced := $cars-produced;

    submethod BUILD() {
        ++$cars-produced;
    }
}

So you have a shared counter, an alias of it per instance (which seems redundant, but makes it work*... perhaps by some means one could persuade the compiler to compile it away, as it's constant as a reference), and accessors for inheriting.

Rakudo doesn't like the 'has $.x := $y' construct (yet?), nor other variations moving the bind into the BUILD, but std parses it fine, at least. So when I say 'makes it work', I mean 'in Perl 6, in theory, in my head'.

But .. but ... oh, yes, you're right. That was proto, and Austria, of course. A grateful nation still applauds.

Somehow I don't see using the 'getperl' name for this as contributing to peace and mutual support in the Perl 5/6 community. Perl 6 is nowhere near ready to stand as the default Perl to use; while Rakudo is getting quite interesting in the breadth and depth of what it implements, it still has holes to fill and needs to get several orders of magnitude faster; its 'ecosystem' is just beginning to be interesting but can hardly compete with CPAN as yet.

A 'getperl' site should for the forseeable future provide for getting both Perl 5 and Perl 6, in a reasonably balanced way. No, I don't know to manage this; perhaps TPF?

(ruby came and *went*??)

It was takadonet who needed aliasing like this (starting here).

answer: yes, from clues within the text.

seeing another log for 20 May just below this one, just wondering if this is the next week's log?

Anyway, I thought it was a two-pronged strategic manoeuvre from Sweden and Bratislava that stemmed the prospects of Viennese unrest.

(And who, really, could resist its magnificent Tlhingan (Tlingit?) Quch-Hom-woQ?)

May I humbly point out that it is, in fact, 'the most successful Perl 6 installer of the decade'.

Well, and the only. (To date, at least).

It closes, not the case of its permissions changing, but of statting and reading different files, because the file (in a writable directory, like /tmp) got renamed in the interim.

A tighter permission check, reasonably cheap: fstat, read, fstat again and check nothing but access time has changed.

int(fact(n)/2) is cute, but a bit off: it will grow as n^n, not n^2:

0 0 1 3 12 60 360 ...

C^n_2 is of course n!/(n-2)!2!, or n(n-1)/2:

0 0 1 3 6 10 15 ...