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[BUG] Perl6 code examples should be removed from Perl #218

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jgpuckering opened this issue Oct 30, 2022 · 6 comments
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[BUG] Perl6 code examples should be removed from Perl #218

jgpuckering opened this issue Oct 30, 2022 · 6 comments
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I’ve been going through the Perl code idioms, filling in many that were missing, when I noticed that there are some that are specific to Perl 6 — which is now named Raku and which is a different language than Perl 5. See idiom #50 for an example.

Perl 5 and Perl6/Raku have officially diverged are now going their separate ways. Having Perl 6 code intermixed with Perl 5 examples is confusing.

Perhaps there should be a language entry for Raku and the Perl 6 code examples relocated.

At a minimum the Perl 6 code examples under Perl should be removed.
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Hi Gary, thank you so much for all your recent contributions.

Yes I agree, any snippet specific to Perl6/Raku is not appropriate as a "Perl" entry, and should be fixed (jump back to Perl5 compat) or deleted.

If you know how to modify them directly to match Perl5, please do so.

If you can help me with a list of implementation IDs to be deleted, I will be happy as an Admin to delete them.

Sometimes an Idiom has multiple implementations for the same language, which is why it's important to find the specific implementation ID to be deleted (e.g. by clicking on the impl language name near the idiom title)
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jgpuckering commented Oct 30, 2022 via email

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When there's more than one way to do it, and they are all acceptable, then we can have several of them, no problem. The visitor will read them, maybe test them, and figure out which one best fits their needs.

codepad.org is really cool and simple, however

  • It's stuck with Perl 5.8.0
  • It currently gives me 500 Internal Server Error, as you may have noticed already

The alternative wandbox.org is really cool too! I recommend it.

To discover missing entries, as a contributor: have a look at the Perl Backlog. It shows a random sample of things to complete, different when you refresh.

The Language Coverage page shows first the columns of your "favorite languages", in green. In the subsequent columns, the languages are sorted by completeness: 1 point for an snippet, 1 point for a doc link, 1 point for a demo link.

I agree with the sentiment "some simple things are tricky to implement" - and also it takes times! Often more than 15mn for a correct implementation, with documentation, and with a runnable demo.

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jgpuckering commented Oct 31, 2022 via email

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Question: what does clicking the Flag button do? And is that documented anywhere?

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Deleplace commented Oct 31, 2022 via email

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