Re: GMC for dummies

2005-07-24 Thread Bob Rogers
From: Nattfodd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2005 03:22:04 +0200 Leopold Toetsch wrote: >> ... Perhaps you should save your (metaphorical) breath, and I'll >> wait for a more detailed design. > > > I'm waiting too :-) Hi, I believe I found a good workaround

Re: Do I need "has $.foo;" for accessor-only virtual attributes?

2005-07-24 Thread Sam Vilain
Stevan Little wrote: This is extended into the other sigil types; has %.foo; is sugar for this: has Hash $foo; # or has %foo, but really, the point is it's # an implementation detail, right? method foo is rw { return Proxy.new( :FETCH{ $foo }, # or a facade

Re: dynclasses on Windows

2005-07-24 Thread Nick Glencross
Jonathan Worthington wrote: "Nick Glencross" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I've been giving some thought to what needs doing to get dynclasses working on Windows. I'm not particularly intimate with Windows, but use cygwin quite a bit. I've also been looking at this, but for native Win32 rather t

Re: False Positives from Automated Testing at testers.cpan.org

2005-07-24 Thread _brian_d_foy
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Michael G Schwern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Jul 19, 2005 at 10:49:12PM -0400, James E Keenan wrote: > > The inference I drew was that the four false positives I received for > > v0.35 came from automated testing in an environment where IO::Capture > > w

Re: Database Transactions and STM [was: Re: STM semantics, the Transactional role]

2005-07-24 Thread Yuval Kogman
On Sun, Jul 24, 2005 at 18:50:28 +1200, Sam Vilain wrote: > Sorry for the necro-equine flagellation, but I think STM would have to > support general nesting to be useful. In fact I'd be highly surprised > if the Haskell STM implementation doesn't already support it. Uh, yeah, that's exactly my p

Re: Do I need "has $.foo;" for accessor-only virtual attributes?

2005-07-24 Thread Stevan Little
On Jul 24, 2005, at 2:40 AM, Sam Vilain wrote: Stevan Little wrote: Yes, we have. One thing to consider is that it is much easier to get the "Role order doesn't matter" thing when they are composed. Once you start keeping the roles around, you run into the possiblity for such things as "next

[perl #36647] 'make languages' should continue after building a language failed

2005-07-24 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by Bernhard Schmalhofer # Please include the string: [perl #36647] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # https://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=36647 > 'make languages' or 'cd languages && make' is a shortcut for building most lan

Re: Octal and Hex Conversions

2005-07-24 Thread Leopold Toetsch
On Jul 24, 2005, at 6:37, Matt Diephouse wrote: I don't see any opcodes currently for transforming octal and hexadecimal strings to their integer equivalents. Should there be? Yes. Maybe: set Ix, Sy, Ibase # Ibase = 2..36 This seems like a common language feature (at least for Parrot's

Re: [perl #32547] [TODO] Tcl - Support \u escapes

2005-07-24 Thread Leopold Toetsch
On Jul 24, 2005, at 4:17, Will Coleda via RT wrote: puts \u30b3\u30fc\u30d2\u30fc has worked for some time now; the [string] subcommands are documented as not working as part of the tcl language suite testing. If this mail is regarding a tcl TODO then please just make a note to yourself

Re: [perl #31163] Debugger - List breakpoints

2005-07-24 Thread Leopold Toetsch
On Jul 24, 2005, at 3:25, Will Coleda wrote: To use the same debugger commands as perl (which I assume is a goal), we'd need to make this command "L". The current implementation of the debugger is case agnostic as far as command names go, and since there's already an "l", there can't be an

[perl #36644] [PATCH] switched resizable*arrays to use resizablepmcarray's allocation strategy

2005-07-24 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by Matt Fowles # Please include the string: [perl #36644] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # https://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=36644 > All~ This patch moves the resizable array to using the same allocation strategy as resi

Re: [PATCH] Perl 6 FAQ

2005-07-24 Thread Robert Spier
Thanks, applied. At Thu, 21 Jul 2005 01:39:42 +0800, Autrijus Tang wrote: > > [1 ] > Below is a patch to remove the first Q&A from: > http://dev.perl.org/perl6/faq.html

Re: Exposing the Garbage Collector

2005-07-24 Thread Sam Vilain
Piers Cawley wrote: Let's say I have a class, call it Foo which has a bunch of attributes, and I've created a few of them. Then, at runtime I do: eval 'class Foo { has $.a_new_attribute is :default<10> }'; Assuming I've got the syntax right for defaulting an attribute, and lets assume I have,

Re: Subroutine and Method Introspection

2005-07-24 Thread Sam Vilain
chromatic wrote: A12 and S12 describe introspection on objects and classes. The metaclass instance has the method getmethods() which returns "method descriptors". The design specifies several traits queryable through these descriptors. [...] Currently, there's no way to query these traits