Hopefully, by tomorrow, you'll find four new "5to6" documents at http://doc.perl6.org/language.html
Whew.
Hopefully, some of you will find them useful.
Sunday, August 16, 2015
And we're off!
My Perl 5 to Perl 6 project has (to the extent that has so far been written) been merged into the main Perl 6 doc tree.
Escape is imminent.
So I got a message the other day on #perl6 from someone asking about my Perl 5 to Perl 6 documentation. It seems that, despite my mentioning it constantly, someone missed the github link. :-)
Anyway, that gave me a shove to clean up the documents and bring them in line with the general guidelines for Perl 6 documentation. That is now mostly done. There's really just one more thing that needs to be done...
I need titles.
It's been suggested that the titles should have the form 5to6-[subject], and that seems reasonable to me. The question is what to use for the subjects. My current thought is to use the titles of the Perl 5 documents each of my documents is based on. E. g. 5to6-perlvar, 5to6-perlfunc, etc.
Time to hit up the Perl 6 people for suggestions as to what would be most acceptable.
Wish me luck...
Anyway, that gave me a shove to clean up the documents and bring them in line with the general guidelines for Perl 6 documentation. That is now mostly done. There's really just one more thing that needs to be done...
I need titles.
It's been suggested that the titles should have the form 5to6-[subject], and that seems reasonable to me. The question is what to use for the subjects. My current thought is to use the titles of the Perl 5 documents each of my documents is based on. E. g. 5to6-perlvar, 5to6-perlfunc, etc.
Time to hit up the Perl 6 people for suggestions as to what would be most acceptable.
Wish me luck...
Monday, August 3, 2015
An opportunity missed - but all is not lost!
Last Thursday, I had a couple of commitments that prevented me from going to the NY Perl Mongers tech meeting that evening. This was particularly unfortunate, as David Farrell gave a talk on parsing Perl 5 POD with Perl 6 grammars.
Fortunately, I happened to see David on Friday, and mentioned that I was sorry to have missed his talk. He was nice enough to not only send me a copy of his slides, but to send me links to some articles he's written for his Perl Tricks site (http://perltricks.com) and his github repositories for his Perl 5 POD parser and his Perl 6 One-Liners book. So, as most of this is publicly available, I figured I'd share.
Perl 5 Pod: https://github.com/dnmfarrell/Pod-Perl5
Perl 6 One-Liners: https://github.com/dnmfarrell/Perl6-One-Liners
Perl Tricks articles:
http://perltricks.com/article/136/2014/11/20/Get-started-with-Perl-6-one-liners
http://perltricks.com/article/144/2015/1/13/How-to-create-a-grammar-in-Perl-6
http://perltricks.com/article/170/2015/4/30/Parsing-Perl-5-pod-with-Perl-6
I'm planning on digging into the grammar features of Perl 6 in the near future, so this should all be helpful.
Thanks David!
Fortunately, I happened to see David on Friday, and mentioned that I was sorry to have missed his talk. He was nice enough to not only send me a copy of his slides, but to send me links to some articles he's written for his Perl Tricks site (http://perltricks.com) and his github repositories for his Perl 5 POD parser and his Perl 6 One-Liners book. So, as most of this is publicly available, I figured I'd share.
Perl 5 Pod: https://github.com/dnmfarrell/Pod-Perl5
Perl 6 One-Liners: https://github.com/dnmfarrell/Perl6-One-Liners
Perl Tricks articles:
http://perltricks.com/article/136/2014/11/20/Get-started-with-Perl-6-one-liners
http://perltricks.com/article/144/2015/1/13/How-to-create-a-grammar-in-Perl-6
http://perltricks.com/article/170/2015/4/30/Parsing-Perl-5-pod-with-Perl-6
I'm planning on digging into the grammar features of Perl 6 in the near future, so this should all be helpful.
Thanks David!
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