Re: reduce metaoperator on an empty list

2005-05-21 Thread Edward Cherlin
On Friday 20 May 2005 08:11, "TSa (Thomas Sandlaß)" wrote: > John Macdonald wrote: > > ... (and there may be additional > > operator attributes that make sense there too, although none > > come immediately to mind). > > Well, I wonder why people neglect the fact that the > neutral/identity element

Re: reduce metaoperator on an empty list

2005-05-21 Thread Edward Cherlin
On Friday 20 May 2005 07:18, John Macdonald wrote: > Is there a built-in operator that doesn't have a meaningful > identity value? Certainly. > I first thought of exponentiation, but it has > an identity value of 1 - you just have to realize that since > it is a right associative operator, th

Re: reduce metaoperator on an empty list

2005-05-21 Thread Edward Cherlin
On Thursday 19 May 2005 20:42, Andrew Rodland wrote: > On Thursday 19 May 2005 10:51 pm, Sam Vilain wrote: > > Edward Cherlin wrote: > > > Here is the last answer from Ken Iverson, who invented > > > reduce in the 1950s, and died recently. > > > file:///usr/share/j504/system/extras/help/dictionary/

wanted: hash stress tests

2005-05-21 Thread Bob Rogers
From: Leopold Toetsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Fri, 20 May 2005 16:07:10 +0200 I'm currently rewriting the hash implementation in src/hash.c. The new hash structure has just one piece of malloced memory with bucket pointers and buckets in one piece. But before comitting I'd l

config/auto/m4.pl patch

2005-05-21 Thread Kevin Tew
Debian sid reports m4 --version as GNU M4 1.4.3 Written by Rene' Seindal. Copyright (C) 2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. notice the captial M

Re: Graphing tool for PerlGuts Illustrated

2005-05-21 Thread 'Yuval Kogman'
Alrighty then, the plan is like this: 1. I will sketch, and put my sketches in pug's repo. 2. When I'm done skething/writing, if by that time no-one has helped me I will try all of the above in order of increasing spookiness, till I get something that doesn't look t

Re: Graphing tool for PerlGuts Illustrated

2005-05-21 Thread Stevan Little
Yuval, I think that maybe hand hacking postscript (which very cool) is a little silly given how many great graphing tools are out there. If you scan them in and send them to me, I will lay them out and export that to postscript/pdf/png/etc. Stevan On May 20, 2005, at 5:29 PM, 'Yuval Kogman

Re: [perl #35900] [PATCH] skip dynclasses, spawnw tests on win32

2005-05-21 Thread Ron Blaschke
Leopold Toetsch wrote: > Jerry Gay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> dynclasses and spawnw have been busted on win32 for some time now. >> with this patch, these annoying test failures will be skipped on >> win32. > Good, just commit it ;-) Just my opinion on this: I'd rather see failures for things

Re: Graphing tool for PerlGuts Illustrated

2005-05-21 Thread Nathan Gray
On Sat, May 21, 2005 at 12:29:58AM +0300, 'Yuval Kogman' wrote: > On Fri, May 20, 2005 at 14:20:04 -0700, Jan Dubois wrote: > > > > IIRC(AIDRC), he hand-hacked postscript files for those diagrams :P > > > > After drawing them with a pen on graphing paper first to get the > > coordinates right. T

Re: Cross-type string appending message

2005-05-21 Thread Leopold Toetsch
Colin Paul Adams wrote: I'm getting the following error message: Cross-type string appending (fixed_8/ascii) (fixed_8/ascii) unsupported Just looking at the text alone suggests an incorrect error text (at best). Strange at best. Please provide a code snippet that exhibits the problem. BTW, w

RE: Declaration of my() variables using symbolic referentiation

2005-05-21 Thread Joe Gottman
> -Original Message- > From: news [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ingo Blechschmidt > Sent: Saturday, May 21, 2005 7:22 AM > To: perl6-language@perl.org > Subject: Declaration of my() variables using symbolic referentiation > > Hi, > > am I correct in the assumption that the foll

Declaration of my() variables using symbolic referentiation

2005-05-21 Thread Ingo Blechschmidt
Hi, am I correct in the assumption that the following is an error? # Not in a BEGIN block my $::(calc_varname()) = 42; I think so, as my() is a compile-time operation, but in this example, the variable name is not known until runtime, so I think this should be forbidden. Correct?

Cross-type string appending message

2005-05-21 Thread Colin Paul Adams
I'm getting the following error message: Cross-type string appending (fixed_8/ascii) (fixed_8/ascii) unsupported Just looking at the text alone suggests an incorrect error text (at best). -- Colin Adams Preston Lancashire

[Fwd: [Python-Dev] First PyPy (preview) release]

2005-05-21 Thread Leopold Toetsch
Especially goals below ... leo Original Message Subject: [Python-Dev] First PyPy (preview) release Date: Fri, 20 May 2005 23:44:29 +0200 From: Armin Rigo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: python-dev@python.org The PyPy 0.6 release *The PyPy Development Team is happ

[perl #35910] [PATCH] parrotcode dl urls

2005-05-21 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by Dino Morelli # Please include the string: [perl #35910] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # https://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=35910 > It was pointed out by a visitor to #parrot that, on the index and source pages of parro

Re: Parrot as an extension language

2005-05-21 Thread Leopold Toetsch
Colin Paul Adams wrote: "Colin" == Colin Paul Adams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: "Leopold" == Leopold Toetsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Leopold> What's the difference WRT va_list? If the interface code Leopold> can stuff things into an array, it sould as well be able Leopold> t

Re: Parrot as an extension language

2005-05-21 Thread Colin Paul Adams
> "Colin" == Colin Paul Adams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > "Leopold" == Leopold Toetsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Leopold> What's the difference WRT va_list? If the interface code Leopold> can stuff things into an array, it sould as well be able Leopold> to prepare a va_list

Re: Parrot as an extension language

2005-05-21 Thread Colin Paul Adams
> "Leopold" == Leopold Toetsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Leopold> BTW (again) which interface generator for which Eiffel? Oops. I missed that last bit. All current Eiffel compilers are supported. -- Colin Adams Preston Lancashire

Re: Parrot as an extension language

2005-05-21 Thread Colin Paul Adams
> "Leopold" == Leopold Toetsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Leopold> Colin Paul Adams wrote: >>> "Leopold" == Leopold Toetsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Leopold> What's the difference WRT va_list? If the interface code Leopold> can stuff things into an array, it sould as we

Re: Parrot as an extension language

2005-05-21 Thread Leopold Toetsch
Colin Paul Adams wrote: "Leopold" == Leopold Toetsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Leopold> What's the difference WRT va_list? If the interface code Leopold> can stuff things into an array, it sould as well be able Leopold> to prepare a va_list. You are quite right. I'll harass the

Re: pcre.t failure

2005-05-21 Thread Leopold Toetsch
Chromatic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> t/library/pcreCan't use string ("Test::Builder") as a HASH ref while >> "strict refs" in use at lib/Test/Builder.pm line 304. > This is a feature of the Test-Simple update I did yesterday. > I bet $has_pcre is false for you and you're hitting the skip

Re: Parrot as an extension language

2005-05-21 Thread Leopold Toetsch
Dan Sugalski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 1) Someone fixes the Eiffel interface generator to understand C > variadic functions. Yep :) > 2) We provide a function and method call interface that assumes > you've already pre-filled in the registers according to parrot's > calling conventions That

Re: Parrot as an extension language

2005-05-21 Thread Colin Paul Adams
> "Leopold" == Leopold Toetsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Leopold> What's the difference WRT va_list? If the interface code Leopold> can stuff things into an array, it sould as well be able Leopold> to prepare a va_list. You are quite right. I'll harass the author of the interfac

Re: [perl #35900] [PATCH] skip dynclasses, spawnw tests on win32

2005-05-21 Thread Leopold Toetsch
Jerry Gay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > dynclasses and spawnw have been busted on win32 for some time now. > with this patch, these annoying test failures will be skipped on > win32. Good, just commit it ;-) > ~jerry leo