CIA

2005-01-12 Thread Robert Spier
Parrot is now listed on CIA http://cia.navi.cx/stats/project/parrot This will track all future commits, making them available as a RSS feed, etc. This slows down commits a little because of some work the script does to try and merge requests. I can tweak a little if people start noticing a del

Re: [perl #33751] [PATCH] Use INTERP in *.pmc files

2005-01-12 Thread Sam Ruby
Leopold Toetsch wrote: Bernhard Schmalhofer (via RT) wrote: I noticed the there is an interesting mix of 'interpreter' and 'INTERP' Thanks, applied except dynclasses. I leave that part up for Sam - dunno if he got diffs there. Applied. - Sam Ruby

How to check external library dependencies in 'dynclasses'?

2005-01-12 Thread Bernhard Schmalhofer
Hi, I'm working on a dynamic PMC that ties into the GNU dbm library, http://www.ugcs.caltech.edu/info/gdbm/gdbm_toc.html. The implementation is fairly straightforward, and simple test cases are already working. However I'm not sure about how to check for the availability of 'libgdbm.so'. If 'li

Scope exit and timely destruction

2005-01-12 Thread Leopold Toetsch
Given is a Perl snippet like: { my $fh = IO::File->new; $fh->open(">test.tmp"); print $fh "a"; } The filehandle is closed automatically at scope exit and the file contains the expected contents. That's quite easy in the current Perl implementation as it does reference counting. At t

taint mode generalization

2005-01-12 Thread Yuval Kogman
Hola... I think taint mode should be made reusable somehow, by implementing it in terms of contagious attribution... For example: my $string : secret = "password"; # the "secret" attr is # contagious, and causes memory to be overwritten before being # returned to the OS

Re: Dimension of slices; scalars versus 1-element arrays?

2005-01-12 Thread David Green
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Green) wrote: >I can imagine "table context" being reasonably popular. [...] >(Taking a scalar and returning a list is less common, but I can >imagine a 2-D version of 'split' that turns a string into a table) One way to generalise i

Re: Dimension of slices; scalars versus 1-element arrays?

2005-01-12 Thread David Green
OK, so at issue is the difference between an element of an array ($p5[1]) and a slice (that might contain only one element, @p5[1]), only generalised to n dimensions. (A problem which didn't exist in P5 because there were no higher dimensions!) And we don't want @B[4; 0..6] to reduce to a 1-

Re: [perl #33751] [PATCH] Use INTERP in *.pmc files

2005-01-12 Thread Leopold Toetsch
Bernhard Schmalhofer (via RT) wrote: I noticed the there is an interesting mix of 'interpreter' and 'INTERP' Thanks, applied except dynclasses. I leave that part up for Sam - dunno if he got diffs there. leo