Re: Integrating the Pugs test suite into the Synopses

2006-08-22 Thread Agent Zhang
On 8/22/06, Christopher D. Malon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Aug 22, 2006, at 9:55 AM, Agent Zhang wrote: > Well, in short, we have divided the .t files in the Pugs test suite > into pieces and inserted every resulting snippet after the > corresponding paragraph of the Synopses. This is reall

Re: Latest $1,000 Wiki for Perl 6 proposal/offer.

2006-08-22 Thread Andy Lester
On Aug 23, 2006, at 12:21 AM, Conrad Schneiker wrote: Could I just pay someone at TPF $1,000 to set up a wiki *for* Perl 6 on perl.org? Whatever wiki TPF chooses is fine with me. I'm working on a wiki right now. I work for Socialtext, an enterprise wiki company, and I'm working on get

Latest $1,000 Wiki for Perl 6 proposal/offer.

2006-08-22 Thread Conrad Schneiker
Hopefully someone at The Perl Foundation (perl.org) will read and respond to this. (Other comments and suggestions are certainly welcome, however.) Could I just pay someone at TPF $1,000 to set up a wiki *for* Perl 6 on perl.org? Whatever wiki TPF chooses is fine with me. I would als

GUI toolkits (RE: a practical question)

2006-08-22 Thread Conrad Schneiker
> From: Richard Nabil Hainsworth [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > But I want to start doing real things. Which for me requires gui toolkits. [...] > So how to write an application in perl6 that uses (for the sake of > illustration) WxWidgets? > > For simplicity, just a small window with "Hello Worl

Re: [svn:parrot-pdd] r14308 - in trunk: . cage docs docs/art docs/dev docs/imcc docs/pdds docs/pdds/clip docs/stm languages languages/tcl/docs lib/Pod/Simple t/distro

2006-08-22 Thread Joshua Hoblitt
I hope you didn't do that by hand. I wrote a utility last Dec. specifically for formatting Parrot's Pod. http://search.cpan.org/~jhoblitt/Pod-Tidy-0.09/ -J -- pgp5clC56Bbat.pgp Description: PGP signature

[perl #40219] [TODO] - Steal Perl5's sprintf tests

2006-08-22 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by Matt Diephouse # Please include the string: [perl #40219] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=40219 > Parrot's sprintf implementation is currently quite buggy, as evidenced by failing Tc

[perl #40218] [BUG] - get_*_global opcodes throw exceptions

2006-08-22 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by Matt Diephouse # Please include the string: [perl #40218] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=40218 > So sayeth the docs for the get_*_hll global opcodes: If the global doesn't exist,

LLVM and HLVM

2006-08-22 Thread John Siracusa
Has anyone looked at LLVM lately? http://llvm.org/ It seems to be making a lot of progress lately with the support of Apple (which is using LLVM for its own purposes in Mac OS X). Is there anything there Parrot can steal? Would it make sense for Parrot to target LLVM bytecode and let LLVM do fu

[perl #40217] Parrot_autoload_class() knows about Python and Tcl

2006-08-22 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by Chip Salzenberg # Please include the string: [perl #40217] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=40217 > Hard-coded language names in Parrot are ... well ... bad. Very bad. -- Chip Salzenbe

[svn:parrot-pdd] r14308 - in trunk: . cage docs docs/art docs/dev docs/imcc docs/pdds docs/pdds/clip docs/stm languages languages/tcl/docs lib/Pod/Simple t/distro

2006-08-22 Thread ambs
Author: ambs Date: Tue Aug 22 10:14:31 2006 New Revision: 14308 Modified: trunk/docs/pdds/clip/pdd06_pasm.pod trunk/docs/pdds/clip/pdd09_gc.pod trunk/docs/pdds/clip/pdd10_embedding.pod trunk/docs/pdds/clip/pdd11_extending.pod trunk/docs/pdds/pdd21_namespaces.pod Changes in other ar

Re: Heredoc issue in pugs.

2006-08-22 Thread Nathan Gray
On Wed, Aug 23, 2006 at 02:16:11AM +0800, Yiyi Hu wrote: > #!/usr/bin/env pugs > > my $a = q:t /END/ > test > END; > > $a.perl.say; > > Above example works ok in pugs, But the problem is. > From S02 > > Heredocs are no longer written with <<, but with an adverb on any > other quote construct: >

Re: Heredoc issue in pugs.

2006-08-22 Thread Larry Wall
On Tue, Aug 22, 2006 at 08:32:52PM +, Luke Palmer wrote: : On 8/22/06, Larry Wall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: : >print qq:from/FOO/; : : On a somewhat related, somewhat unrelated note, I am a little bit : worried about the false duality of :to and :from. Well, that's kinda why theres's no

Re: Heredoc issue in pugs.

2006-08-22 Thread Luke Palmer
On 8/22/06, Larry Wall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: print qq:from/FOO/; On a somewhat related, somewhat unrelated note, I am a little bit worried about the false duality of :to and :from. Luke

Re: Heredoc issue in pugs.

2006-08-22 Thread Larry Wall
On Tue, Aug 22, 2006 at 08:12:09PM +0100, Daniel Hulme wrote: : > : my $a = q:t /END/ : > : test : > : END; : : > :print qq:to/END/; : > :Give $amount to the man behind curtain number $curtain. : > :END : : > : Which is correct? : : > Both of them are. See the table further

Re: Heredoc issue in pugs.

2006-08-22 Thread Daniel Hulme
> : my $a = q:t /END/ > : test > : END; > :print qq:to/END/; > :Give $amount to the man behind curtain number $curtain. > :END > : Which is correct? > Both of them are. See the table further down that says: What about the semicolon? After the terminator, or after the openin

Re: Heredoc issue in pugs.

2006-08-22 Thread Larry Wall
On Wed, Aug 23, 2006 at 02:16:11AM +0800, Yiyi Hu wrote: : #!/usr/bin/env pugs : : my $a = q:t /END/ : test : END; : : $a.perl.say; : : Above example works ok in pugs, But the problem is. : >From S02 : : Heredocs are no longer written with <<, but with an adverb on any : other quote construct:

#ParrotSketch Meeting 22AUG06

2006-08-22 Thread Will Coleda
Transcript now available at: http://www.parrotcode.org/misc/parrotsketch-logs/ irclog.parrotsketch-200608/irclog.parrotsketch.20060822 -- Will "Coke" Coleda [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Heredoc issue in pugs.

2006-08-22 Thread Yiyi Hu
#!/usr/bin/env pugs my $a = q:t /END/ test END; $a.perl.say; Above example works ok in pugs, But the problem is. From S02 Heredocs are no longer written with <<, but with an adverb on any other quote construct: print qq:to/END/; Give $amount to the man behind curtain number $curta

[svn:perl6-synopsis] r11316 - doc/trunk/design/syn

2006-08-22 Thread pmichaud
Author: pmichaud Date: Tue Aug 22 11:00:04 2006 New Revision: 11316 Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S05.pod Log: Change "If the first character after the angle is whitespace" to "If the first character after the identifier is whitespace" for constructs. Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S05.pod

Re: [perl #40210] [TODO] Provide a way for PGE's dump to go to string

2006-08-22 Thread Patrick R. Michaud
On Mon, Aug 21, 2006 at 07:16:46AM -0700, Will Coleda wrote: > While the primary use of dump is for immediate debug output (and > therefore puts is ok), being able to get at the string it generates > is *very* useful for testing. I've refactored the existing 'dump' method into separate 'dump_s

Re: clarify: does "Dog is Mammal" load Mammal for you?

2006-08-22 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Tue, Aug 22, 2006 at 12:37:33AM -0700, Trey Harris wrote: > I misstated my worry here. In this case, by the same rule that "my Dog > $foo" gets the right version because the longname is aliased to the > shortname in the lexical scope of the use, it would work. > > What I'm actually concerned

Re: Dumb doc question...

2006-08-22 Thread Agent Zhang
On 8/21/06, Agent Zhang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: http://svn.berlios.de/svnroot/repos/unisimu/Perl/Syn/ This position is no longer maintained. Please see http://feather.perl6.nl/~agentzh/syn/ instead. The .html pages there are updated every *one* hour by the cron program on feather. S

Integrating the Pugs test suite into the Synopses

2006-08-22 Thread Agent Zhang
Hi, there~ When you see the title, you may wonder what that means. Here is the answer: http://feather.perl6.nl/~agentzh/syn/S04.html Search for links named like "Show the snippet from ..." and click on them to find out what will happen. :) Well, in short, we have divided the .t files in the P

a practical question

2006-08-22 Thread Richard Nabil Hainsworth
I've been following the development of perl6 from its beginnings, read the Apocalypses and Exegesis as they came out, and though I am not a perl guru and did not understand it all, the language looks interesting and one I would like to experiment with. But I want to start doing real things. Wh

Re: End the Hollerith Tyranny? (linelength.t)

2006-08-22 Thread Nicholas Clark
On Mon, Aug 21, 2006 at 06:49:20PM -0400, Mr. Shawn H. Corey wrote: > Chip Salzenberg wrote: > > On Mon, Aug 21, 2006 at 06:05:08PM -0400, Mr. Shawn H. Corey wrote: > >> Don't forget that some programs, like mailers, wrap at 80 characters. > > > > I don't know of any mailer that is hard-coded at a

Re: clarify: does "Dog is Mammal" load Mammal for you?

2006-08-22 Thread Trey Harris
Oops, Luke Palmer alerted me to the fact that I screwed up in the below. In a message dated Tue, 22 Aug 2006, Trey Harris writes: My question is, if a program is running where two versions of Dog are loaded, say 1.3.4 and 2.1, and a file contains: use Dog-1.3.4-cpan:JRANDOM; class Poodle is

Re: clarify: does "Dog is Mammal" load Mammal for you?

2006-08-22 Thread Trey Harris
In a message dated Mon, 21 Aug 2006, Jonathan Scott Duff writes: But, assuming for the moment that C autoloads C, does that mean that class Dog is Mammal-4.5 is valid? Yes, it must be valid. See http://dev.perl.org/perl6/doc/design/syn/S11.html#Versioning : So you can just say m