Re:Is Perl 6 Being Renamed?
by evancox100 on Thursday August 29, 2019 @03:28PM
(#20832775)
# copy stdin to stdout, except for lines starting with #
while left_angle_right_angle:
if dollar_underscore[0] =eq= "#":
continue_next;
}
print dollar_underscore;
}
Re:Is Perl 6 Being Renamed?
by merlincorey on Thursday August 29, 2019 @04:47PM
(#20833499)
The opening block with `:` and ending block with `}` literally killed me.
My condolences to your family and friends.
If Roger Zelazny weren’t literally dead, he’d literally be rolling over in his grave for your use of the word literally.
figuratively
Re:Is Perl 6 Being Renamed?
by Stratoscope on Thursday August 29, 2019 @09:33PM
(#20835265)
A relevant and rather entertaining article from Merriam-Webster:
Did We Change the Definition of 'Literally'?
Literally every modern dictionary includes this definition
https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/misuse-of-lite...
My favorite bit: "If you dislike hearing other people use it, you may continue to be upset."
So you're (literally?) using "it figuratively killed me" as a figure of speech? For real?
Characterally.
Re:Is Perl 6 Being Renamed?
by singingfish on Friday August 30, 2019 @07:02AM
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people who use literally to mean figuratively literally give me the shits.
Re:Is Perl 6 Being Renamed?
by bryanrasmussen on Thursday August 29, 2019 @08:32PM
(#20834981)
brutally
i either missed the joke or missed the perl6 spec about :} notation. can you explain?
Pedantically, and this also helps serve your point, Parrot isn't used by any modern Perl 6 implementation, it's effectively dead (if not totally). MoarVM is the less ambitious (not trying to support every dynamic language like Parrot was) and more mature VM that is in use now.
And the requisite, ParrotVM is just pining for the fjords joke goes here. It has ceased to be, gone to meet it's maker, it is an Ex-Parrot.
EDIT: For reference, Parrot VM really was named because of that sketch. It started as an April Fools joke and kinda stuck. https://web.archive.org/web/20100718195724/http://www.perl.c...