Re: Status of my patches ...

2002-09-25 Thread Leopold Toetsch
Tom Hughes wrote: >>#17578 > Applied. First of all, thank you for comitting these. I hate 3-way rediff's ;-) >>#17193 necessary for imcc to write out PBC > Applied. Like you I don't like it much but there aren't any other > obviously better ways. Yes, seems so. > I missed that when it

Re: Status of my patches ...

2002-09-25 Thread Tanton Gibbs
> #17517 build system, permanent Configure runs - annoying at least I wish someone would commit this one as this does fix a very annoying problem, especially on cygwin. Tanton

Re: [perl #17578] [PATCH] imcc 0.0.9.3

2002-09-25 Thread Tom Hughes
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Andy Dougherty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What Solaris's qsort ended up doing was walking off the front of the > reglist[] array, effectively trying to sort reglist[-1], which, of > course, didn't exist. (*Why* it did that is a bit of a mystery; I'd hav

Re: Status of my patches ...

2002-09-25 Thread Tom Hughes
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Leopold Toetsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > #17578 imcc including all fixes sent to the list except todays fix >by Andy. > - actually the 3rd fix summary IIRC I sent in (s. there for a list of >patches, which are obsolete) > - CRUCIAL for non i386

Re: Paren madness (was Re: Regex query)

2002-09-25 Thread Nicholas Clark
On Mon, Sep 23, 2002 at 11:54:06PM -0600, John Williams wrote: > After testing various cases of x, I came up with one that I cannot > explain. Can someone tell me what is happening here (in perl5)? > > $ perl -le 'print "@{[ $a = ('a','b') x 3 ]}"; print $a' > a bbb > bbb > > or in other words

Status of my patches ...

2002-09-25 Thread Leopold Toetsch
or who applies what when and why or not? This questions arises sometimes, so I'll ask. Here is a list of current open patches in decreasing priority: #17578 imcc including all fixes sent to the list except todays fix by Andy. - actually the 3rd fix summary IIRC I sent in (s. there for a

RE: pre-PATCH: functions in languages/scheme

2002-09-25 Thread Jonathan Sillito
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > The current pad_stack handling is very much tied to Sub.pmc. The only > way of getting the current scope is creation of a new sub; the only > way setting the current pad is invoking this sub. > > But I didn't use

[INFO] parrot with Lea malloc - update

2002-09-25 Thread Leopold Toetsch
As already announced, I used the memory allocator from http://gee.cs.oswego.edu/dl/html/malloc.html and tossed the collect system. Description of changes: - DOD is the same incl, stack_walk and so on - resources.c is gone, no copying of memory, no string tails ... - dead objects are free'd, the

Re: [perl #17578] [PATCH] imcc 0.0.9.3

2002-09-25 Thread Andy Dougherty
On Wed, 25 Sep 2002, Leopold Toetsch wrote: > This patch obsoletes all previous imcc 0.0.9 patches and contains all > current fixes and improvements. > I suppose, problems Andy has, to be related with the parser. Actually, the core dump I got in reg_sort_f turned out to be a simple bug in re

Re: Paren madness (was Re: Regex query)

2002-09-25 Thread Aaron Sherman
On Tue, 2002-09-24 at 17:27, John Williams wrote: > If I understand our non-conclusions so far, we're waiting for Larry to > clarify: > > 1) how to create a 1-tuple/1-item list? > > 2) how to interpret the flattened list context? e.g. given this: > > > $x = (1,2,3); > > @y = (

Re: pre-PATCH: functions in languages/scheme

2002-09-25 Thread Juergen Boemmels
[cc'd to perl6-internals] "Jonathan Sillito" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] > If I remember correctly Sean's patch did store the scratchpad with the > Sub.pmc, except that I retreived it from the current context's pad_stack. > Then when Sub.pmc was invoked it pushed the correct pad on the st

RE: RFC: [] as the solitary list constructor

2002-09-25 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: Luke Palmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [snip] Luke, thanks and congratulations on a well written case. You put into words exactly what I was trying to put into words myself. Now I don't have to finish this ugly draft I have lying around. -Miko --

Perl 6 Summary for week ending 2002-09-22

2002-09-25 Thread Piers Cawley
The Perl 6 Summary for the Week Ending 20020822 So, another week, another Perl 6 summary. Let's see if I can get through this one without calling Tim Bunce 'Tim Bunch' shall we? Or maybe I should leave a couple of deliberate errors in as a less than cunning ploy to get more feedbac

Re: RFC: [] as the solitary list constructor

2002-09-25 Thread Janek Schleicher
Luke Palmer wrote at Wed, 25 Sep 2002 00:09:41 +0200: Very good written text. > =head1 DESCRIPTION > > Because of the addition of the flattening operator, parentheses in Perl 6, > when used as list constructors, are entirely redundant with brackets. > Additionally, parentheses have one incons