Re: .perl, nested arrays, parens and a bug with .perl after hyperop

2007-05-20 Thread Juerd Waalboer
Steffen Schwigon skribis 2007-05-21 1:28 (+0200): > 1. Should assigning an arrayref to an array dereference? No, an array in list context only flattens when it has the @ sigil, or when it is explicitly flattened with the [] postcircumfix operator, or the | prefix operator. >Which Synopses de

.perl, nested arrays, parens and a bug with .perl after hyperop

2007-05-20 Thread Steffen Schwigon
Hi! Yesterday we discussed a strange behaviour of .perl on the result of a hyperoperator. The basic bug is that my @hyp = -« ([1, 2], 3); say @hyp.perl; outputs [(-1, -2), -3] which are strange inner parens inside the brackets that would get flattened after eval. I committed a :todo test

[perl #43008] [PATCH] docs/tests.pod: Expand discussion of testing of Perl 5 components of Parrot

2007-05-20 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by James Keenan # Please include the string: [perl #43008] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=43008 > The patch attached reflects the approach we've been taking over the last half-year or

[perl #43007] [PATCH] docs/configure/files.pod contributed in 'reconfigure' branch

2007-05-20 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by James Keenan # Please include the string: [perl #43007] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=43007 > In the 'reconfigure/' branch, I contributed a new file, docs/ configure/files.pod, in r

Re: [perl #43006] Tail call force-frees current context

2007-05-20 Thread Leopold Toetsch
Am Sonntag, 20. Mai 2007 21:51 schrieb Bram Geron: > Bram Geron wrote: > > The patch in fixes the problem for me. > > I realized that contexts currently initially have a ref_count of 0, if > they're not used as :outer targets for other subs. So in 'normal' > situations, the caller's context's ref_

Re: [perl #43006] Tail call force-frees current context

2007-05-20 Thread Bram Geron
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Bram Geron wrote: > The patch in fixes the problem for me. I realized that contexts currently initially have a ref_count of 0, if they're not used as :outer targets for other subs. So in 'normal' situations, the caller's context's ref_count now drops

[perl #43005] [TODO] Update t/README

2007-05-20 Thread James Keenan via RT
On Sun May 20 08:08:13 2007, jkeen at verizon.net wrote: > Since I created the postconfigure/ subdirectory, I'll start by > writing a patch describing what the tests in that directory are for. > If you worked on one of the other 4 undocumented subdirectories, > please submit a patch as well

[perl #43004] [TODO] Update t/TESTS.STATUS.pod

2007-05-20 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by James Keenan # Please include the string: [perl #43004] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=43004 > t/TESTS.STATUS.pod does not appear to have been substantively updated since March 2006

[perl #43005] [TODO] Update t/README

2007-05-20 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by James Keenan # Please include the string: [perl #43005] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=43005 > t/README does not appear to have been substantively updated since at least March 2006.

Re: odbc.lib still linked?

2007-05-20 Thread Klaas-Jan Stol
I sent this message a few days ago, but hasn't reached the list I think: hi, I experimented on windows with removing some libs that seemed unnecessary, and I ended with this line in my Makefile; C_LIBS = kernel32.lib ws2_32.lib msvcrt.lib which is rather shorter than: C_LIBS = oldnam

*.dev = docs/dev/*.pod ??

2007-05-20 Thread Paul Cochrane
Hi all, I've been reading through some of the pdd's and have noticed mention of *.dev files for actual implementation of features. I'm fairly sure these are actually the pod files under docs/dev, but I just wanted to make sure of this before I make the pdd's point to the files in this directory

Re: odbc.lib still linked?

2007-05-20 Thread Ron Blaschke
Klaas-Jan Stol wrote: > recently a patch was supplied and applied for odbc32.lib being linked into > parrot. > > This file is not needed for Parrot, but it seems it is still linked (at > least, here on my machine, winxp). > > \parrot\library\PAST-pm.pbc >C:\Perl\bin\perl.exe -e "chdir sh