Perl 6 hands-on tutorial – A small introduction to a big language [pdf]

Re:Perl 6 hands-on tutorial – A small introduction to a big ... by raiph on Friday September 04, 2015 @11:40AM (#10171141)

> In the Perl 6 repl, I can't use my up/down arrows, or ^p/^n to get at previous lines I typed, nor ^a/^e and alt-B/alt-F to navigate on the line.

Try:

    panda install Linenoise

If that doesn't work, post the response to `perl6 -v` and `perl6 -e '$*DISTRO.perl.say'`.

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Re:Perl 6 hands-on tutorial – A small introduction to a big ... by the-owlery on Friday September 04, 2015 @11:45AM (#10171177)

I installed via rakudobrew (`rakudobrew build glr`), but have no `panda` in my ~/.rakudobrew/bin directory.

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Re:Perl 6 hands-on tutorial – A small introduction to a big ... by raiph on Friday September 04, 2015 @12:46PM (#10171528)

Ah. glr is 1) a very recent in-development branch that 2) only includes the compiler so 3) panda (the module installer) isn't included and 4) it may not work even if you download and manually install a copy of it.

You might want to visit the freenode IRC channel #perl6 to straighten things out.[1] In the meantime I'm going to install the glr branch and see what I find. It might be a few hours (at most a day I think) before I can get back to you.

[1] https://kiwiirc.com/client/irc.freenode.net/#perl6

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Re:Perl 6 hands-on tutorial – A small introduction to a big ... by the-owlery on Friday September 04, 2015 @12:55PM (#10171587)

Ok. Command-line history/editing works now. I wiped out ~/.rakudobrew and started over:

    rakudobrew build moar
    rakudobrew build-panda
    panda install Linenoise

Thanks.

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Re:Perl 6 hands-on tutorial – A small introduction to a big ... by kbenson on Friday September 04, 2015 @12:38PM (#10171493)

If you type rakudobrew by itself, the usage shows it is capable of a "rakudobrew build-panda" which is probably a good place to start. Panda is the Perl 6 package manager, in case that wasn't clear.

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Re:Perl 6 hands-on tutorial – A small introduction to a big ... by the-owlery on Friday September 04, 2015 @12:56PM (#10171594)

Thanks, kbenson; missed that. Works now!

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