Joseph Brenner

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## The Problem If you assign a series of hashes or arrays to a scalar (with '$' sigil) in just the same way you would to an array variable (with...

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The documentation of the internals of Raku/rakudo should probably be revised at some point. There are things like this, but they seem to be very out-of-date from the Parrot-era: https://github.com/rakudo/rakudo/blob/master/docs/architecture.html...

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Added a new test of multi-dispatch with sequential resolution of an ambiguous subset match. Following a discussion with Jonathan Worthington in https://github.com/rakudo/rakudo/issues/4547

Issue https://github.com/rakudo/rakudo/issues/4547 concludes that some additional roast tests are needed for multi-dispatch, e.g. when there are ambiguous checks of where clauses that are resolved sequentially at run-time.

## The Problem Given a simple hash: my %h = A => 1; If you're trying to type: say "output: ", %h; But drop the comma separator, you get an...

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(1) I don't understand quite what's being said here. Is the convention universally enforced? Is it only mandatory under certain circumstances? (2) Is this section up-to-date? The general thrust is...

I've tried using the tabs_on_bottom_menubar_on_top_patch.css and it leaves my tab bar up above the URL bar, instead of placing it below the bookmarks bar as desired. I'm using Firefox 115.3.1esr...

Summary: Code like this with redundant ^ twigils is valid, but should be strongly discouraged: my $cb = { ($^a eq $^b) ?? "$^a" !! "$^a & $^b" }; It's...

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The way duckmap works has varied with different versions of Raku. I used to think that the correct behavior was to try the indicated operation, and if it failed, pass...

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At present, Rats created from calculations are limited to 1 / (2⁶⁴ - 1), and yet a Rat created via Rat.new can exceed that precision. This oddity seems very peculiar,...

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