RT Hall of Shame [perl #15308]

2005-01-19 Thread William Coleda
This week's Hall of Shame ticket is [perl #15308] http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=15308 Originally submitted in July of 2002 by Scott Walters, the only activity on the warnocked ticket was a ping to the list in April of 2004 asking if someone could rule on the patch. No followups we

Roadmap, RT, TODO...

2005-01-19 Thread William Coleda
Now that Dan's back, I'd like to make sure we have a roadmap in place for moving forward. I had great plans to flesh it out more than I have, but work has intruded. I've checked in what I have so far in docs/ROADMAP. I would like to eventually have every single outstanding task documented in RT,

failures under Devel::Cover only

2005-01-19 Thread leif . eriksen
Hi, I am doing some testing under Devel::Cover, and get some weird results sometimes. What should I be looking at in my code or test cases that is provoking this discrepancy? Without D::C ++ [EMAIL PROTECTED] src]$ make test ... PERL_DL_NONLAZY=1 /usr/b

Re: Test run of the new Phalanx 100

2005-01-19 Thread Andy Lester
Msql-Mysql-modules This is just the old distro that contained DBD::mysql and DBD::msql. I don't think the latter is maintained, and DBD::mysql is already on the list. OK, updated. Thanks. I really wish this were more exact. I have to wonder if this bot traffic is totally skewing everything. :

Re: Test run of the new Phalanx 100

2005-01-19 Thread Dave Rolsky
On Mon, 17 Jan 2005, Andy Lester wrote: Msql-Mysql-modules This is just the old distro that contained DBD::mysql and DBD::msql. I don't think the latter is maintained, and DBD::mysql is already on the list. -dave /*=== VegGuide.Org

Re: Perl 6 How Do I?

2005-01-19 Thread Luke Palmer
Uri Guttman writes: > > "LP" == Luke Palmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > LP> use Rule::XML; > LP> for <> { > LP> mysub($_) for m:g/(ÂRule::XML::tagÂ)/; > LP> } > > shouldn't that be in the Grammar namespace? not that we have finalized > namespaces but i was unde

Re: Perl 6 How Do I? (Was: Perl 6 Summary for 2005-01-11 through 2005-01-18)

2005-01-19 Thread Luke Palmer
Austin Hastings writes: > Luke Palmer wrote: > > >Austin Hasting writes: > > > > > >>How do I concisely code a loop that reads in lines of a file, then > >>calls mysub() on each letter in each line? > >>Or each xml tag on the line? > >> > >> > > > >And I guess the answer is the same as in Perl

Re: E, Perl 6, etc.

2005-01-19 Thread Larry Wall
On Tue, Jan 18, 2005 at 10:08:57PM -0800, Rich Morin wrote: : I recently encountered a language, E, which has some very nifty : features for building distributed systems. The current version : of E is built on top of Java, but I wonder: : : * whether E's features will (could) be supported in P

Re: Name of parrot executable

2005-01-19 Thread Matt Diephouse
On Wed, 19 Jan 2005 11:09:19 -0500, Dan Sugalski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Good point--we should. That'd mean we'd want to have three sets of > data: the invoked full/base name, the 'program' full/base name, and > the interpreter full/base name. Then we can use this to have parrot look for .inc

Re: Name of parrot executable

2005-01-19 Thread Jonathan Worthington
"Nicholas Clark" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wed, Jan 19, 2005 at 10:54:53AM -0500, Dan Sugalski wrote: "parrot". If, on the other hand, we were invoked as: parrot foo.pbc then both fullname and basename would be "parrot". Unix hashbang (and Windows file association) invocation may give us s

Re: Perl 6 How Do I? (Was: Perl 6 Summary for 2005-01-11 through 2005-01-18)

2005-01-19 Thread Austin Hastings
Luke Palmer wrote: Austin Hasting writes: How do I concisely code a loop that reads in lines of a file, then calls mysub() on each letter in each line? Or each xml tag on the line? And I guess the answer is the same as in Perl 5. I don't understand what the problem is with Perl 5's approac

Re: Proposed vtable changes WRT method lookup

2005-01-19 Thread Matt Fowles
Leo~ On Wed, 19 Jan 2005 16:26:07 +0100, Leopold Toetsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [ cc'ed p6l ] > > Matt Fowles wrote: > > Leo~ > > > > On Wed, 19 Jan 2005 10:02:26 +0100, Leopold Toetsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > > >>But where does that PerlMMD PMC come from? Does the Perl6 compil

Re: Name of parrot executable

2005-01-19 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 4:02 PM + 1/19/05, Nicholas Clark wrote: On Wed, Jan 19, 2005 at 10:54:53AM -0500, Dan Sugalski wrote: "parrot". If, on the other hand, we were invoked as: parrot foo.pbc then both fullname and basename would be "parrot". Unix hashbang (and Windows file association) invocation may g

Re: Name of parrot executable

2005-01-19 Thread Nicholas Clark
On Wed, Jan 19, 2005 at 10:54:53AM -0500, Dan Sugalski wrote: > "parrot". If, on the other hand, we were invoked as: > > parrot foo.pbc > > then both fullname and basename would be "parrot". Unix hashbang (and > Windows file association) invocation may give us something different > -- if

Re: Name of parrot executable

2005-01-19 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 10:14 AM -0800 1/18/05, Will Coleda wrote: To implement tcl's [info nameofexecutable] I need to get the name of the exectuable parrot was invoked with. I would have expected to live in interpinfo, but don't see it there. Anyone have a pointer to where this is? (If it's not in yet, I'll add a TOD

Re: Proposed vtable changes WRT method lookup

2005-01-19 Thread Leopold Toetsch
[ cc'ed p6l ] Matt Fowles wrote: Leo~ On Wed, 19 Jan 2005 10:02:26 +0100, Leopold Toetsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: But where does that PerlMMD PMC come from? Does the Perl6 compiler generate one somewhere? It is generated by the compiler. During compilation all of the different MMD functions wi

Re: Perl 6 How Do I? (Was: Perl 6 Summary for 2005-01-11 through 2005-01-18)

2005-01-19 Thread Jonathan Scott Duff
On Tue, Jan 18, 2005 at 10:43:00PM -0700, Luke Palmer wrote: > Oh, I thought I replied, but now that I look over the question I guess I > didn't. The question was: > > Austin Hasting writes: > > How do I concisely code a loop that reads in lines of a file, then > > calls mysub() on each letter in

Re: Name of parrot executable

2005-01-19 Thread Leopold Toetsch
Will Coleda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > To implement tcl's > [info nameofexecutable] > I need to get the name of the exectuable parrot was invoked with. I would > have expected to live in interpinfo, but don't see it there. The executable name (and all interpreter arguments) are swallowed by im

Re: Calling conventions, invocations, and suchlike things

2005-01-19 Thread Leopold Toetsch
Dan Sugalski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi folks. The lost son is back, welcome. > The easy one first -- why the object is out-of-band, rather than one > of the parameters. > Parrot's got the interesting, and somewhat unfortunate, requirement > of having to allow all subroutines behave as meth