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The magic of exponential growth (or, fun with Planck times)

Posted on August 5, 2014 by ShimmerFairy

A while back I was thinking about how one would implement a time-oriented system for keeping notes. When thinking about the differences between points and ranges in time, I naturally came to the conclusion that a second technically covers a … Continue reading →

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Buffers Aren’t Strings

Posted on April 27, 2014 by ShimmerFairy

So, the issue of this post has recently come up once again, because this: infinitely recurses in Rakudo. Why? It’s because both Buf and Str do Stringy, and when eq is given disparate types, it calls .Stringy on both of them. … Continue reading →

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I Just Love (♥!) C++

Posted on April 25, 2014 by ShimmerFairy

Let’s say you want to keep a bunch byte values around in a std::vector<uint8_t> until you get the chance to write it to a file. So, here comes the first piece of data: Anyone who knows their C++ knows that … Continue reading →

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About Those Slangs…

Posted on April 19, 2014 by ShimmerFairy

I like the idea of slangs. They let you modify the grammar of Perl 6 (or maybe you’d prefer Q, or perhaps Regex?). This means you could easily switch into a more pythonesque style of programming just by importing a … Continue reading →

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Perl 6 and CPAN? Well…

Posted on March 9, 2014 by ShimmerFairy

So, just earlier today the issue of putting Perl 6 modules (and other assorted things) on CPAN came up. I feel that it’s pertinent to put all of my concerns with this now, instead of waiting until people are in … Continue reading →

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A Brand New Spec, S15

Posted on December 12, 2013 by ShimmerFairy

So, for the past few days I’ve been working on a provisional S15 mostly for fun. I was considering TimToady’s long-ago suggestion of developing a libicu replacement tuned to Perl 6’s needs, and after learning some interesting things about NFG, … Continue reading →

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Some Thoughts on Unicode in Perl 6

Posted on July 22, 2013 by ShimmerFairy

All of the recent work on Rakudo, getting it to run on the JVM, and the creation of and work on MoarVM as another backend for NQP (and thus Rakudo), has created a sense that we’re really moving forward in … Continue reading →

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NQP on LLVM: How to Port

Posted on July 12, 2012 by ShimmerFairy

I’ve since realized that writing a version of NQP on LLVM from scratch would be either quite a lot of work or, by taking as many of the .nqp files as I can from the exisiting NQP for a self-compiling … Continue reading →

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Thoughts on starting NQP on LLVM

Posted on June 25, 2012 by ShimmerFairy

Lately I’ve been getting into certain project ideas (which I’ll specify later if they ever become anything) that would require a GUI of some kind. Although I’ve had some success learning SFML, I’m not too much a fan of C … Continue reading →

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RD* Phasers Set to PRE

Posted on May 21, 2012 by ShimmerFairy

Well, I hope the PRE phaser fires before the START phaser, or else this post’s title will look silly. The purpose of this post, as suggested by the title, is for me to formally list what it is I plan … Continue reading →

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