Re: Why do users need FileHandles?

2004-07-24 Thread Dan Hursh
Aaron Sherman wrote: Do any C++ programmers consider the STL to be anything other than "in core" even though it's not part of the compiler, and with at least GCC, it's distributed as a separate component? Do any C programmers consider strlen or sprintf to be outside of the core? It's part of the AN

Re: xx and re-running

2004-07-24 Thread Larry Wall
On Thu, Jul 22, 2004 at 02:48:59PM -0600, Luke Palmer wrote: : JOSEPH RYAN writes: : > When I think about your description of xxx, I : > summarized it in my head as "Call a coderef a certain : > number of times, and then collect the results." : > That's pretty much what map is, except that xxx i

Re: String interpolation

2004-07-24 Thread Larry Wall
On Thu, Jul 22, 2004 at 08:23:21AM +0200, Juerd wrote: : Larry Wall skribis 2004-07-21 12:25 (-0700): : > I'm inclining more towards the "only interpolate things that end with : > brackets or parens" rule. That would allow $foo.bar() to interpolate, : > but not $foo.bar. : : Anything that is deci

Re: String interpolation

2004-07-24 Thread Larry Wall
On Thu, Jul 22, 2004 at 03:33:01PM +0200, Michele Dondi wrote: : But then an interesting point, and one that has already : been raised, is that it should be somehow possible to customize string : interpolation bu means of e.g. adverbs (fortunately we don't have "true" : literal strings but rather

Re: Why do users need FileHandles?

2004-07-24 Thread Larry Wall
On Sat, Jul 24, 2004 at 04:51:52PM -0700, Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon wrote: : This would require 'cpan' to parse the script with a modified grammar : that noted all the 'use's (and 'require's, I guess), then install each : module. Or something like that. : : Hmm...maybe this could be done for Per

Re: String interpolation

2004-07-24 Thread Larry Wall
On Thu, Jul 22, 2004 at 11:12:16PM +0100, Dave Mitchell wrote: : On Wed, Jul 21, 2004 at 04:37:29PM -0700, Larry Wall wrote: : > We allowed/required @foo to interpolate in Perl 5, and it catches a : > certain number of people off guard regularly, including yours truly. : > So I can argue [EMAIL PRO

Re: Why do users need FileHandles?

2004-07-24 Thread Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon
David Storrs wrote: #!/usr/bin/perl6 #use warnings; # Note that I am NOT explicitly using these #use strict; { no 'warnings'; no 'strict'; # These must be explicitly turned off... no installation_security; # or this would throw warning & error use SomeModule; # use OtherMod

Re: String interpolation

2004-07-24 Thread Larry Wall
On Thu, Jul 22, 2004 at 11:16:09AM -0500, Dan Hursh wrote: : Larry Wall wrote: : >No Yes : >-- --- : >@foo@foo[1] : >%bar%bar{"a"} or %bar«a» : >$foo.bar$foo.bar() : >&foo &foo(1) : : I may have missed it, but what are the contexts

Re: String interpolation

2004-07-24 Thread Larry Wall
On Sat, Jul 24, 2004 at 11:59:30AM -0400, Jonadab the Unsightly One wrote: : : Correct me if I'm wrong, but, by analogy with $foo.bar(), ... : : > No Yes : > -- --- : > @foo@foo[1] : > %bar%bar{"a"} or %bar«a» : > $foo.bar$foo.bar() : >

Re: Why do users need FileHandles?

2004-07-24 Thread David Storrs
On Sat, Jul 24, 2004 at 02:23:10PM -0700, Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon wrote: > Jonadab the Unsightly One wrote: > > >Oh, and here's me resisting the urge to suggest that use ought to > >automatically install from the CPAN anything that isn't present, as a > >core behavior right out of the box. > > S

Re: Why do users need FileHandles?

2004-07-24 Thread Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon
Jonadab the Unsightly One wrote: Surely, at bare minimum, there must be something included in core to allow things that are not in core to be easily installed, the equivalent of what CPAN.pm is for Perl5 (hopefully even better, and I believe that's the current plan--the core will include CPAN, LWP,

Re: Pie-thon state 5 - and final

2004-07-24 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 12:24 PM +0200 7/24/04, Leopold Toetsch wrote: Below is the last summary of the attempt to implement enough of Python to run the Pie-thon benchmarks - within 5 weeks. Four and a half of seven programs are running. Albeit this experiment did fail, it IMHO has brought Parrot a lot further. Val

RE: Pie-thon state 5 - and final

2004-07-24 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 10:13 AM -0700 7/24/04, Tim Howell wrote: Does this mean that Dan is conceeding to Guido, or am I missing something? Yep, that's about it. Also, when/where at OSCON is all of this supposed to take place? Python lightning talks. -- Dan -

Question

2004-07-24 Thread swfbcoach
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RE: Pie-thon state 5 - and final

2004-07-24 Thread Tim Howell
Does this mean that Dan is conceeding to Guido, or am I missing something? Also, when/where at OSCON is all of this supposed to take place? --TWH -Original Message- From: Leopold Toetsch [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, July 24, 2004 3:25 AM To: Perl 6 Internals Cc: Dan Sugalsk

Re: CPANTS preview - coverage in CPAN testers reports

2004-07-24 Thread Paul Johnson
On Sat, Jul 24, 2004 at 08:05:06PM +0300, Gabor Szabo wrote: > On Sat, 24 Jul 2004, Thomas Klausner wrote: > > > > What about adding (optional) coverage reports to the reports > > > the CPAN testers send in ? > > > > That might be a good idea. But AFAIK, coverage reports can vary greatly on > > d

Re: CPANTS preview

2004-07-24 Thread Tim Bunce
On Sat, Jul 24, 2004 at 06:35:44PM +0200, Thomas Klausner wrote: > Hi! > > On Fri, Jul 23, 2004 at 03:29:10AM +0100, Tim Bunce wrote: > > > The DBI gets 9. The one failure is permissions_ok: > > > > > permissions_ok (i.e. all files are read/writable by extracting user) > > > > Why is that a k

Re: CPANTS preview - coverage in CPAN testers reports

2004-07-24 Thread Gabor Szabo
On Sat, 24 Jul 2004, Thomas Klausner wrote: > > What about adding (optional) coverage reports to the reports > > the CPAN testers send in ? > > That might be a good idea. But AFAIK, coverage reports can vary greatly on > different platforms/Perls/installed modules IMHO this is exactly the reason

Re: CPANTS preview - coverage in CPAN testers reports

2004-07-24 Thread Thomas Klausner
Hi! On Sat, Jul 24, 2004 at 07:46:30PM +0300, Gabor Szabo wrote: > On Sat, 24 Jul 2004, Thomas Klausner wrote: > > > > - Test coverage. > > > > Impossibly, because CPANTS does not run code. > > But it could fetch it from some other place that does it, right ? Right. Back when Leon was maintain

Re: CPANTS preview

2004-07-24 Thread Thomas Klausner
Hi! On Fri, Jul 23, 2004 at 08:41:58AM +0200, James Mastros wrote: > - Having POD > - Not having the POD that h2xs puts in I wonder how many dists are authored by R.U. Thor :-) > - Having a README thats allready covered. > BTW, I tend to think that modules that require lots of other things

Re: CPANTS preview - coverage in CPAN testers reports

2004-07-24 Thread Gabor Szabo
On Sat, 24 Jul 2004, Thomas Klausner wrote: > > - Test coverage. > > Impossibly, because CPANTS does not run code. But it could fetch it from some other place that does it, right ? What about adding (optional) coverage reports to the reports the CPAN testers send in ? Gabor

Re: CPANTS preview

2004-07-24 Thread Thomas Klausner
Hi! On Fri, Jul 23, 2004 at 04:56:40AM +0200, Paul Johnson wrote: > At the moment the focus seems very much on packaging. That's fine, but > it does mean that "correctly" packaged junk looks pretty good. True, but most junk /is/ packaged badly. At its much easier to check for bad packages th

Re: CPANTS preview

2004-07-24 Thread Thomas Klausner
Hi! On Fri, Jul 23, 2004 at 03:29:10AM +0100, Tim Bunce wrote: > The DBI gets 9. The one failure is permissions_ok: > > > permissions_ok (i.e. all files are read/writable by extracting user) > > Why is that a kwalitee issue? I don't think it warrants impacting the kwalitee. First: Currently

Re: String interpolation

2004-07-24 Thread Larry Wall
On Sat, Jul 24, 2004 at 12:08:24PM -0400, Jonadab the Unsightly One wrote: : Johan Vromans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: : : > Larry Wall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: : > : >> : my $d="a"; : >> : print "--$d--{my $d = "b" }--$d--\n"; : >> : >> Yes, that is correct. : > : > I'm afraid things like th

Re: String interpolation

2004-07-24 Thread Jonadab the Unsightly One
Johan Vromans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Larry Wall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> : my $d="a"; >> : print "--$d--{my $d = "b" }--$d--\n"; >> >> Yes, that is correct. > > I'm afraid things like this will keep many popular editors and IDEs > from implementing perl6 support... Then maybe peo

Re: String interpolation

2004-07-24 Thread Jonadab the Unsightly One
Correct me if I'm wrong, but, by analogy with $foo.bar(), ... > No Yes > -- --- > @foo@foo[1] > %bar%bar{"a"} or %bar«a» > $foo.bar$foo.bar() > &foo&foo(1) @foo@foo.join(" ") Yes? /me idly wonders whether map an

Re: String interpolation

2004-07-24 Thread Jonadab the Unsightly One
Michele Dondi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Well, it seems that there's still a big confusion/indecision about > the default behaviour. But then an interesting point, and one that > has already been raised, is that it should be somehow possible to > customize string interpolation bu means of e.g.

Re: Why do users need FileHandles?

2004-07-24 Thread Jonadab the Unsightly One
JOSEPH RYAN <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Well, that's what all of the ruckus is about. There is a strong > leaning towards including *no* builtin modules with the core. Surely, at bare minimum, there must be something included in core to allow things that are not in core to be easily installe

Pie-thon state 5 - and final

2004-07-24 Thread Leopold Toetsch
Below is the last summary of the attempt to implement enough of Python to run the Pie-thon benchmarks - within 5 weeks. Four and a half of seven programs are running. Albeit this experiment did fail, it IMHO has brought Parrot a lot further. Valuable interals like integer->bigint promotion are