Re: overloaded operator calling conventions

2004-12-10 Thread Leopold Toetsch
Leopold Toetsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [ fullquote ] > A recent discussion with Sam has shown that the current calling > conventions for overloaded operators don't match Python semantics (nor > Perl6 when I interpret S06 and S13 correctly). > The difference is that Parrot is passing in the d

Re: [perl #32996] Register coloring not dirtying registers for method calls properly

2004-12-10 Thread Leopold Toetsch
Dan Sugalski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The register coloring algorithm's not dirtying registers right, and > looks to be assuming that things are in registers across method calls > when they really aren't. Fixed and thanks for the test case, leo

Re: [CVS ci] class refactoring 1 - Integer

2004-12-10 Thread Patrick R. Michaud
On Sat, Dec 11, 2004 at 04:42:54AM +0100, Leopold Toetsch wrote: > Patrick R. Michaud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Just as C returns its first non-false argument, the interpretation > > of C would be that it returns its single non-false argument, or 1 if > > both (all?) arguments logically eva

Re: The split opcode

2004-12-10 Thread Leopold Toetsch
James deBoer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I would even go further than that and say that if we went with > PGE::Rule's "split", the split opcode should be obsoleted. All these function/method like opcodes will be refactured somewhen. WRT split (you write): PGE::Rule."split"() in general $

Re: [CVS ci] class refactoring 1 - Integer

2004-12-10 Thread Leopold Toetsch
Patrick R. Michaud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Just as C returns its first non-false argument, the interpretation > of C would be that it returns its single non-false argument, or 1 if > both (all?) arguments logically evaluate to false. Yep, except *0* if both evaluate to either true or false.

Re: [perl #32996] Register coloring not dirtying registers for method calls properly

2004-12-10 Thread Leopold Toetsch
Leopold Toetsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dan Sugalski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> The register coloring algorithm's not dirtying registers right, > There are still some compatibility hooks inside parrot that set P1 on > the caller's end (or on both sides). I'll remove this remenants RSN. L

Re: [CVS ci] class refactoring 1 - Integer

2004-12-10 Thread Luke Palmer
Sam Ruby writes: > Mike Guy wrote: > > > >Perl5 C always returns a "standard" boolean value, i.e. > >dualvar(0, '') or dualvar(1, '1').Perl6/Parrot should do the same > >thing. > > Try: > > perl -le "print 'day' xor 'night'" > > On the version of Perl I have installed, I get "day" as the

Re: [CVS ci] class refactoring 1 - Integer

2004-12-10 Thread Paul Johnson
On Fri, Dec 10, 2004 at 01:28:10PM -0500, Sam Ruby wrote: > Mike Guy wrote: > > > >Perl5 C always returns a "standard" boolean value, i.e. > >dualvar(0, '') or dualvar(1, '1').Perl6/Parrot should do the same > >thing. > > Try: > > perl -le "print 'day' xor 'night'" > > On the version of

Re: The split opcode

2004-12-10 Thread James deBoer
Patrick R. Michaud wrote: On Fri, Dec 10, 2004 at 01:34:03PM -0500, James deBoer wrote: Currently, the split opcode is declared as 'split(out PMC, in STR, in STR)' where $2 is a regex. PGE, however, currently supports three types of regular expressions, and more are likely going to be added.

Re: [CVS ci] class refactoring 1 - Integer

2004-12-10 Thread Luke Palmer
[ From p6i ] Patrick R. Michaud writes: > On Fri, Dec 10, 2004 at 08:50:46PM +0100, Leopold Toetsch wrote: > > Not quite. It gives one value if one is true or 0 (false). This is more > > information then the perl5 implementation returns. The returned value (if > > any) is still true but usable, if

Re: [perl #32989] Problem in linux ppc

2004-12-10 Thread chromatic
On Fri, 2004-12-10 at 07:23 -0800, via RT wrote: > trying to compile parrot (cvs) in a linux ppc machine I get the following > error. It looks like the configure process gets confused and does not compile > the ppc jit code when it is under linux: This is a duplicate of #32514, which still awai

Re: [CVS ci] class refactoring 1 - Integer

2004-12-10 Thread Patrick R. Michaud
On Fri, Dec 10, 2004 at 08:50:46PM +0100, Leopold Toetsch wrote: > >> We need language lawyers ;) > > > IANAL, but I am a mathematician.Because C necessarily always > > depends on *both* its arguments, analogies with C and C are > > inappropriate.C cannot short-circuit, and it is not sensi

Re: [CVS ci] class refactoring 1 - Integer

2004-12-10 Thread Leopold Toetsch
Mike Guy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Leopold Toetsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote >> dropping bitwise xor, and including "undef xor undef" reveals that Perl5 > has a different opinion then Parrot (or Perl6?). > inline op xor(out INT, in INT, in INT) :base_core { > $1 = ($2 && ! $3) ? $2 : ($3 && !

Re: [perl #32996] Register coloring not dirtying registers for method calls properly

2004-12-10 Thread Leopold Toetsch
Dan Sugalski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The register coloring algorithm's not dirtying registers right, There are still some compatibility hooks inside parrot that set P1 on the caller's end (or on both sides). I'll remove this remenants RSN. leo

[perl #32996] Register coloring not dirtying registers for method calls properly

2004-12-10 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by Dan Sugalski # Please include the string: [perl #32996] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # http://rt.perl.org:80/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=32996 > The register coloring algorithm's not dirtying registers right, and looks to be assu

Re: The split opcode

2004-12-10 Thread Patrick R. Michaud
On Fri, Dec 10, 2004 at 01:34:03PM -0500, James deBoer wrote: > Currently, the split opcode is declared as 'split(out PMC, in STR, in > STR)' where $2 is a regex. > > PGE, however, currently supports three types of regular expressions, and > more are likely going to be added. So, which type of r

Re: Undeclared attributes

2004-12-10 Thread Abhijit Mahabal
Dave Whipp wrote: Attributes are declared with C, but also have a unique signil C<$.>. So is it strictly necessary to declare them? Or rather, is it Cly necessary -- i.e. is the following legal? no strict; class Foo { method bar { say $.a++ } } For the standard layout, I'd think it'd be g

Re: [CVS ci] class refactoring 1 - Integer

2004-12-10 Thread Sam Ruby
Mike Guy wrote: Perl5 C always returns a "standard" boolean value, i.e. dualvar(0, '') or dualvar(1, '1').Perl6/Parrot should do the same thing. Try: perl -le "print 'day' xor 'night'" On the version of Perl I have installed, I get "day" as the result. - Sam Ruby

RE: [CVS ci] class refactoring 1 - Integer

2004-12-10 Thread Gordon Henriksen
Precedence. print("day\n" xor "night\n"); -- Gordon Henriksen IT Manager ICLUBcentral Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Sam Ruby [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday December 10, 2004 13:28 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [CVS ci] class refact

The split opcode

2004-12-10 Thread James deBoer
Currently, the split opcode is declared as 'split(out PMC, in STR, in STR)' where $2 is a regex. PGE, however, currently supports three types of regular expressions, and more are likely going to be added. So, which type of regular expression should split use? The Perl6's split function will li

Re: New qa.perl.org updates

2004-12-10 Thread Andy Lester
On Fri, Dec 10, 2004 at 10:01:44AM -0800, Ovid ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I would add Test::MockModule to the test modules. I've stopped using > my Sub::Override since I encountered this very useful tool. > > On the test guidelines, perhaps there should be an "or die " > recommendation after "u

[perl #32989] Problem in linux ppc

2004-12-10 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by [EMAIL PROTECTED] # Please include the string: [perl #32989] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # http://rt.perl.org:80/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=32989 > --- osname= linux osvers= 2.6.9-gentoo-r9 arch= powerpc-linux-thread-multi cc=

Re: New qa.perl.org updates

2004-12-10 Thread Ovid
Two comments: I would add Test::MockModule to the test modules. I've stopped using my Sub::Override since I encountered this very useful tool. On the test guidelines, perhaps there should be an "or die " recommendation after "use_ok". Life gets pretty miserable if that fails but many subsequen

Re: S05 question

2004-12-10 Thread John Macdonald
On Thu, Dec 09, 2004 at 11:18:34AM -0800, Larry Wall wrote: > On Wed, Dec 08, 2004 at 08:24:20PM -0800, Ashley Winters wrote: > : I'm still going to prefer using :=, simply as a good programming > : practice. My mind sees a big difference between building a parse-tree > : object and just grepping f

Undeclared attributes

2004-12-10 Thread Dave Whipp
Attributes are declared with C, but also have a unique signil C<$.>. So is it strictly necessary to declare them? Or rather, is it Cly necessary -- i.e. is the following legal? no strict; class Foo { method bar { say $.a++ } }

Re: [CVS ci] class refactoring 1 - Integer

2004-12-10 Thread Mike Guy
Leopold Toetsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > dropping bitwise xor, and including "undef xor undef" reveals that Perl5 has a different opinion then Parrot (or Perl6?). inline op xor(out INT, in INT, in INT) :base_core { $1 = ($2 && ! $3) ? $2 : ($3 && ! $2) ? $3 : 0; goto NEXT(); } > We need la

Re: Dynamic libs don't seem to work

2004-12-10 Thread Sam Ruby
Klaas-Jan Stol wrote: Sam Ruby wrote: Klaas-Jan Stol wrote: Hello, I just got a fresh cvs checkout, compiled it, compiled pge and tried to make tcl. This is what I get: (cd ../../ && ./parrot --output=languages/tcl/lib/tcllib.pbc languages/tcl/lib/tcllib.imc) Couldn't load 'tcl_group': tcl_group

[ANNOUNCE] CPANPLUS 0.050_02

2004-12-10 Thread Jos I. Boumans
After quite a bit of feedback on the first beta, I'm pleased to announce the second beta. Get it from: http://cpanplus.xs4all.nl/~kane/CPANPLUS-0.050_02.tar.gz Or soon, a CPAN near you. Changes for 0.050_02Fri Dec 10 15:03:39 CET 2004 *

New qa.perl.org updates

2004-12-10 Thread Andy Lester
http://qa.perl.org/testing-guidelines.html is updated. So is http://qa.perl.org/test-modules.html, with new modules and some reorganization. xoxo, Andy -- Andy Lester => [EMAIL PROTECTED] => www.petdance.com => AIM:petdance

Re: Dynamic libs don't seem to work

2004-12-10 Thread Klaas-Jan Stol
Sam Ruby wrote: Klaas-Jan Stol wrote: Hello, I just got a fresh cvs checkout, compiled it, compiled pge and tried to make tcl. This is what I get: (cd ../../ && ./parrot --output=languages/tcl/lib/tcllib.pbc languages/tcl/lib/tcllib.imc) Couldn't load 'tcl_group': tcl_group: cannot open shared o

Classes with several, mostly unused, attributes

2004-12-10 Thread Abhijit Mahabal
Consider a class (e.g., the hypothetical Geometry::Triangle) that can have several attributes (side1, side2, side3, angle1, ang_bisector1, side_bisector, altitude1 and so forth), most of which will not be needed for most instances of Geometry::Triangle. I know how this can be done in P5. Using

Re: [CVS ci] class refactoring 1 - Integer

2004-12-10 Thread Leopold Toetsch
Eirik Berg Hanssen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Which Perl5 (xor, undef) would this be? It does not look like the > result is undef around here: > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ perl -le 'print defined($_)?"defined":"undef", ": «$_»" > for map {(undef xor $_), ($_ xor undef), (undef ^ $_), ($_ ^ undef)}

Re: iterators and functions (and lists)

2004-12-10 Thread Luke Palmer
Michele Dondi writes: > On Mon, 6 Dec 2004, Larry Wall wrote: > > >to return an infinite list, or even > > > > return 0..., 0...; > > > >to return a surreal list. Either of those may be bound to an array > > Hope not to bark something utterly stupid, but... if one iterates over > such a list,

Re: state vs my

2004-12-10 Thread Alexey Trofimenko
On Sat, 4 Dec 2004 22:03:19 -0800, Larry Wall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sun, Dec 05, 2004 at 02:15:51AM +0300, Alexey Trofimenko wrote: : oh! that it. I've found example which could make it clear to me : : sub test { : return sub { : for 1..3 { :state $var = 1; :print $var

Re: Python method overloading

2004-12-10 Thread Leopold Toetsch
Sam Ruby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Leopold Toetsch wrote: >> # find_method class 'A' method '__absolute': Sub >> # Calling sub '__absolute' > But only for classes that inherit from delegate. Yes of course. Objects's derived from ParrotObject (i.e. Parrot standard objects) dispatch to overload

Re: [CVS ci] class refactoring 1 - Integer

2004-12-10 Thread Eirik Berg Hanssen
Leopold Toetsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Sam Ruby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I took a look into this. Apparently, in Perl5, the result of xor'ing >> undef with anything is undef. I'm not suggesting that this is either >> right or wrong (it actually was surprising to me), > > Yep. It do

Re: [CVS ci] class refactoring 1 - Integer

2004-12-10 Thread Sam Ruby
Eirik Berg Hanssen wrote: Leopold Toetsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Sam Ruby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I took a look into this. Apparently, in Perl5, the result of xor'ing undef with anything is undef. I'm not suggesting that this is either right or wrong (it actually was surprising to me),

Re: iterators and functions (and lists)

2004-12-10 Thread Matthew Walton
Michele Dondi wrote: On Sun, 5 Dec 2004, Matthew Walton wrote: At least we had the sense to call them subroutines instead of functions. Of course, that also upset the mathematicians, who wanted to call them functions anyway. Go figure. That might be because the mathematicians haven't heard of a v

Re: [CVS ci] class refactoring 1 - Integer

2004-12-10 Thread Sam Ruby
Leopold Toetsch wrote: Sam Ruby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I took a look into this. Apparently, in Perl5, the result of xor'ing undef with anything is undef. I'm not suggesting that this is either right or wrong (it actually was surprising to me), Yep. It doesn't really follow the definition of x

Re: iterators and functions (and lists)

2004-12-10 Thread Michele Dondi
On Mon, 6 Dec 2004, Larry Wall wrote: to return an infinite list, or even return 0..., 0...; to return a surreal list. Either of those may be bound to an array Hope not to bark something utterly stupid, but... if one iterates over such a list, may it be that on the first C one really starts ov

Re: specifying the key Type for a Hash

2004-12-10 Thread Michele Dondi
On Mon, 6 Dec 2004, Luke Palmer wrote: Well, there's always "domain" and "range", if we want to be mathematical. [snip] What you want here is "domain" and "codomain". Which leads me to believe that you don't want either. For the record, in most connections "range" would be just as good. Indeed "

Re: iterators and functions (and lists)

2004-12-10 Thread Michele Dondi
On Sun, 5 Dec 2004, Matthew Walton wrote: At least we had the sense to call them subroutines instead of functions. Of course, that also upset the mathematicians, who wanted to call them functions anyway. Go figure. That might be because the mathematicians haven't heard of a variant of a function

Re: state vs my

2004-12-10 Thread Michele Dondi
On Fri, 3 Dec 2004, Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon wrote: Larry Wall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: So optimizing to a state variable won't necessarily help your loop overhead, but it could help your subroutine overhead, at least in Perl 5, if Perl 5 had state variables. Best you can do in Perl 5 is an "our

Re: cvs commit: parrot/t/pmc perlstring.t

2004-12-10 Thread Leopold Toetsch
Sam Ruby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Leopold Toetsch wrote: >> -=item C > IMHO, all of these can go. The invoke methods need to be on the PMCs > returned by get_class. That's exactly how it worked - the PMCs get_class returns a PMC of the same type, so they act as their own class. But the "i

Re: [CVS ci] class refactoring 1 - Integer

2004-12-10 Thread Leopold Toetsch
Sam Ruby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I took a look into this. Apparently, in Perl5, the result of xor'ing > undef with anything is undef. I'm not suggesting that this is either > right or wrong (it actually was surprising to me), Yep. It doesn't really follow the definition of xor, nor does it

Re: Arglist I/O [Was: Angle quotes and pointy brackets]

2004-12-10 Thread Michele Dondi
On Fri, 3 Dec 2004, Larry Wall wrote: On Fri, Dec 03, 2004 at 06:43:05PM +, Herbert Snorrason wrote: : This whole issue kind of makes me go 'ugh'. One of the things I like : best about Perl is the amazing simplicity of the <> input construct. Hmm. while (<>) {...} for .lines {...} Looks l

Re: xx Inf

2004-12-10 Thread Michele Dondi
On Fri, 3 Dec 2004, Larry Wall wrote: On Sat, Dec 04, 2004 at 01:11:30AM +0100, Juerd wrote: : What happens to the flip flop operator? Will .. in scalar context remain : the same? I don't think so. It's definitely a candidate for a longer Huffmanization simply in terms of frequency of use. On top

Re: Python method overloading

2004-12-10 Thread Sam Ruby
Leopold Toetsch wrote: Sam Ruby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I continue to disagree with the part of this conclusion where you insert find_method into the discussion. To give a concrete example: at the moment the lookup involved in abs_p_p does not involve the use of find_method. $ cat abs.imc .sub

Re: [CVS ci] class refactoring 1 - Integer

2004-12-10 Thread Sam Ruby
Leopold Toetsch wrote: Leopold Toetsch wrote: Currently one test (t/pmc/pmc_43.pasm) is failing due to wrong inheritance. Actually not because of inheritance. The implementation of PerlUndef.logical_xor was bogus. I've fixed this and the test. I took a look into this. Apparently, in Perl5, the r

RE: New version of Test::LongString

2004-12-10 Thread Clayton, Nik
> I use Text::Differences for this, as it will show which lines are > different, rather than just the first 50 characters. Much > easier for me to diagnose problems. Something I put at the top of a lot of my test scripts is: if(eval "require Test::Differences; 1") { no warnings 'redefine';

Re: Dynamic libs don't seem to work

2004-12-10 Thread Sam Ruby
Klaas-Jan Stol wrote: Hello, I just got a fresh cvs checkout, compiled it, compiled pge and tried to make tcl. This is what I get: (cd ../../ && ./parrot --output=languages/tcl/lib/tcllib.pbc languages/tcl/lib/tcllib.imc) Couldn't load 'tcl_group': tcl_group: cannot open shared object file: No

Re: Dynamic libs don't seem to work

2004-12-10 Thread Klaas-Jan Stol
William Coleda wrote: Can you give us a copy of the generated "myconfig" file in the top level parrot directory? yep, this is it: = Summary of my parrot 0.1.1 configuration: configdate='Thu Dec 9 23:53:50 2004' Platform: osname=linux, archname=i486-linux