Brad Gilbert

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It might work if the precompiled form can't be found. That could be the reason it sometimes works. I think it would work if you wrote `INIT DBIish.connect('Pg');`

I don't think we should incorporate Inline::Perl5 further into Rakudo. For one thing it would have likely prevented this bug fix from happening as soon. I would be **more** in...

> … But maybe we want to organize t/ in the Rakudo repository a bit better in order to reflect what is… To be fair, Roast isn't that well organized...

There exists a special constant `Empty` which is similar to what you want. my constant Empty = Slip.new; # The real code is nqp code Of course it does almost...

You can put instances of Mu, and Mu itself into an array ```raku [ 1, 2, Mu.new, Mu, 3, 4 ] ``` How can you tell the difference between a...

> So far, as I consider this thread, the idea of a special type to represent non-existent slots doesn't appeal to me. Any value might be considered as a candidate...

While I did often write "it's okay to surprise a beginner but it's not okay to surprise an expert"; I did not come up with that. It was from Larry...

I think this is how you should call it: ``` perl rename_ships.pl --p Heaven --type "hulk_huge" --format SUPPLY -- lacuna.yml ``` You wouldn't need to specify a config file if...

Is this still a problem?

This is one of the problems with the REPL. Which is why I often write the entirety of my code on a single line, in an enclosing block ```raku >...