[svn:parrot-pdd] r21272 - trunk/docs/pdds/draft

2007-09-13 Thread allison
Author: allison Date: Thu Sep 13 23:30:18 2007 New Revision: 21272 Modified: trunk/docs/pdds/draft/pdd17_pmc.pod Log: [pdd] Expanding reference information in PMC PDD. Modified: trunk/docs/pdds/draft/pdd17_pmc.pod ==

Re: [perl #45405] [PROPOSAL] [IMCC] Remove '.sym' directive for defining symbolic local vars.

2007-09-13 Thread Joshua Isom
On Sep 13, 2007, at 9:00 PM, Allison Randal wrote: Joshua Isom wrote: And while we're add it, can we add the magic to do the same thing we to do labels to variables as well? What thing? Allison It's the little magic that turns this: .macro foo(bar) .local $baz: print "he

Re: Discussion of pdd22_io.pod

2007-09-13 Thread Allison Randal
Paul Cochrane wrote: Therefore, I thought it'd be a good idea to stimulate some discussion on list, so that something can be distilled from this to help out our architect and those brave enough to implement the design :-) Excellent. Many thanks. =item * In the Composition subsection of the

Re: [perl #45437] [BUG]: platform-specific utility 'sed' appears in makefile

2007-09-13 Thread Joshua Isom
On Sep 13, 2007, at 8:21 PM, Jerry Gay (via RT) wrote: # New Ticket Created by Jerry Gay # Please include the string: [perl #45437] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=45437 > in r21240, ptc added a 'cover' tar

Re: [perl #45409] [PROPOSAL][IMCC] Remove .pcc_sub directive

2007-09-13 Thread Allison Randal
Klaas-Jan Stol (via RT) wrote: Therefore, in order to keep IMCC simple and remove syntax redundancy, I propose to remove the ".pcc_sub" directive from IMCC. Agreed. If there are any remaining differences, they're implementation artifacts and should be merged. Allison

Re: [PROPOSAL][IMCC] Make .pcc_begin_{yield,return} syntax a bit stricter

2007-09-13 Thread Allison Randal
Klaas-Jan wrote: On Sep 13, 6:18 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Patrick R. Michaud) wrote: On Wed, Sep 12, 2007 at 09:07:00AM -0700, Klaas-Jan Stol wrote: I propose to make IMCC a bit stricter and have it enforce to use the appropriate closing directive. So, close .pcc_begin_return with a .pcc_end_retu

Re: [perl #45407] [TODO][IMCC] either implement ".global" or remove it (need decision).

2007-09-13 Thread Allison Randal
Klaas-Jan Stol (via RT) wrote: I think it'd be good to make a decision on this: either remove the ".global" directive and the associated grammar rules (making it a few lines shorter), or implement it. Kill it. The notion of globals (as stored in the namespace) in Parrot has been greatly refin

Re: [perl #45405] [PROPOSAL] [IMCC] Remove '.sym' directive for defining symbolic local vars.

2007-09-13 Thread Allison Randal
On Sep 12, 2007, at 6:21 PM, Will Coleda wrote: On Sep 12, 2007, at 11:38 AM, Klaas-Jan Stol (via RT) wrote: I propose removing the ".sym" directive for normal cases (not for the macro stuff). If we're doing that, I think it would make sense to - remove .sym everywhere. - change the thing

Re: [svn:parrot-pdd] r21271 - trunk/docs/pdds/draft

2007-09-13 Thread Allison Randal
chromatic wrote: On Thursday 13 September 2007 18:17:21 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -where C is a pointer to a C structure: +where C is a pointer to a C union: I'm not sure that's true. *vtable is a pointer to a VTABLE, but I believe that the UnionVal struct members get flattened into the PMC

Re: [perl #45399] TODO: remove bareword "method" from imcc.l

2007-09-13 Thread Allison Randal
Klaas-Jan Stol (via RT) wrote: I propose to remove the bareword method to be recognized as ":method". Agreed. Allison

Re: [svn:parrot-pdd] r21271 - trunk/docs/pdds/draft

2007-09-13 Thread chromatic
On Thursday 13 September 2007 18:17:21 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > @@ -134,23 +48,15 @@ >  All PMCs have the form: >   >      struct PMC { > -        pobj_t obj; > +        UnionVal cache; > +        Parrot_UInt flags; >          VTABLE *vtable; >          PMC *real_self; > - #if ! PMC_DATA_IN_EXT

[perl #45437] [BUG]: platform-specific utility 'sed' appears in makefile

2007-09-13 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by Jerry Gay # Please include the string: [perl #45437] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=45437 > in r21240, ptc added a 'cover' target to the makefile, along with 'cover-clean', which was

[svn:parrot-pdd] r21271 - trunk/docs/pdds/draft

2007-09-13 Thread allison
Author: allison Date: Thu Sep 13 18:17:20 2007 New Revision: 21271 Modified: trunk/docs/pdds/draft/pdd17_pmc.pod Log: [pdd] Answering a round of questions for the PMC PDD, filling in details on declaring PMCs, inheritance, and composition. Modified: trunk/docs/pdds/draft/pdd17_pmc.pod ==

[svn:perl6-synopsis] r14461 - doc/trunk/design/syn

2007-09-13 Thread larry
Author: larry Date: Thu Sep 13 17:26:46 2007 New Revision: 14461 Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S03.pod Log: typos and such Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S03.pod == --- doc/trunk/design/syn/S03.pod(original)

Re: [perl #41168] graceful "no compiler" error message?

2007-09-13 Thread James E Keenan
Andy Dougherty wrote: (If cc_build and cc_run do get meaningful exit codes, inter::progs needs to be revisited anyway to actually use those codes.) If you do revisit config/inter/progs.pm, please bear in mind that I have written some unit tests for that package: [parrot] 500 $ ls t/confi

[svn:perl6-synopsis] r14460 - doc/trunk/design/syn

2007-09-13 Thread larry
Author: larry Date: Thu Sep 13 16:29:08 2007 New Revision: 14460 Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S03.pod doc/trunk/design/syn/S05.pod Log: Clarifications requested by Wolfgang Laun++, and then some Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S03.pod =

Re: [perl #41168] graceful "no compiler" error message?

2007-09-13 Thread Andy Dougherty
On Thu, 13 Sep 2007, Paul Cochrane wrote: > The weird thing is that there *is* a graceful 'no compiler' message. > If cc_build fails then inter::progs exits with an appropriate error > message, and configuration stops at this point. That depends on the nature of the failure in cc_build. In the e

[svn:parrot-pdd] r21263 - trunk/docs/pdds/draft

2007-09-13 Thread allison
Author: allison Date: Thu Sep 13 11:05:11 2007 New Revision: 21263 Modified: trunk/docs/pdds/draft/pdd17_pmc.pod Log: [pdd] Reordering major section in PDD 17, some cleanups in reference material. Modified: trunk/docs/pdds/draft/pdd17_pmc.pod =

[svn:perl6-synopsis] r14459 - doc/trunk/design/syn

2007-09-13 Thread larry
Author: larry Date: Thu Sep 13 10:32:53 2007 New Revision: 14459 Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S05.pod Log: grammaro from Coke++ Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S05.pod == --- doc/trunk/design/syn/S05.pod(ori

Re: Discussion of pdd22_io.pod

2007-09-13 Thread jerry gay
On 9/13/07, Paul Cochrane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm in the process of reading through some of the PDDs, and have > noticed a couple of points in some of them where it's not clear to me > what's going on, or there is a todo item mentioned, or there is a > section which says that more discussi

[svn:perl6-synopsis] r14458 - doc/trunk/design/syn

2007-09-13 Thread pmichaud
Author: pmichaud Date: Thu Sep 13 10:04:14 2007 New Revision: 14458 Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S05.pod Log: Fix up some unquoted punctuation in regexes. Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S05.pod == --- doc/trunk/des

[perl #45423] [PATCH] pdd22_io.pod formatting changes

2007-09-13 Thread Paul Cochrane via RT
Applied in r21262.

[svn:parrot-pdd] r21262 - trunk/docs/pdds

2007-09-13 Thread paultcochrane
Author: paultcochrane Date: Thu Sep 13 09:27:52 2007 New Revision: 21262 Modified: trunk/docs/pdds/pdd22_io.pod Log: [pdd] Minor formatting changes. Modified: trunk/docs/pdds/pdd22_io.pod == --- trunk/docs/pdds/pdd22

Discussion of pdd22_io.pod

2007-09-13 Thread Paul Cochrane
Hi all, I'm in the process of reading through some of the PDDs, and have noticed a couple of points in some of them where it's not clear to me what's going on, or there is a todo item mentioned, or there is a section which says that more discussion needs to occur. Therefore, I thought it'd be a g

Re: [perl #45423] [PATCH] pdd22_io.pod formatting changes

2007-09-13 Thread jerry gay
On 9/13/07, via RT Paul Cochrane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Here are some minor formatting changes to pdd22. I wasn't sure if I > should commit this, so thought it'd be a good idea to swing it past > the list to make sure I wasn't doing anything silly. > looks good to me, apply away! ~jerry

[perl #45423] [PATCH] pdd22_io.pod formatting changes

2007-09-13 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by Paul Cochrane # Please include the string: [perl #45423] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=45423 > Here are some minor formatting changes to pdd22. I wasn't sure if I should commit this

[svn:perl6-synopsis] r14457 - doc/trunk/design/syn

2007-09-13 Thread larry
Author: larry Date: Thu Sep 13 08:59:19 2007 New Revision: 14457 Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S05.pod Log: Suggestioned clarifications from lots of folks++ Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S05.pod == --- doc/trunk/de

Re: [perl #41168] graceful "no compiler" error message?

2007-09-13 Thread Paul Cochrane
On 13/09/2007, Andy Dougherty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 13 Sep 2007, Paul Cochrane wrote: > > > On 12/09/2007, Andy Dougherty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Wed, 12 Sep 2007, Paul Cochrane via RT wrote: > > > > > > > On Mon Mar 19 15:59:44 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > On

Re: [perl #41168] graceful "no compiler" error message?

2007-09-13 Thread Andy Dougherty
On Thu, 13 Sep 2007, Paul Cochrane wrote: > On 12/09/2007, Andy Dougherty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wed, 12 Sep 2007, Paul Cochrane via RT wrote: > > > > > On Mon Mar 19 15:59:44 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > On Monday 19 March 2007 12:22, Andy Dougherty wrote: > > > > > > > > > I

Re: Kea Common Lisp pre-release

2007-09-13 Thread James E Keenan
Will Coleda wrote: I only removed it from trunk; if you copied the svn:externals property from trunk to your branch at some point, I'd say this is expected behavior. Perhaps so. The problem is that at no point was I *aware* that I was copying the property from trunk to branch. None o

Re: Kea Common Lisp pre-release

2007-09-13 Thread Will Coleda
On Sep 13, 2007, at 7:17 AM, James E Keenan wrote: Will Coleda wrote: For those not on #parrot, it's already been removed, but you may notice that it apparently tries to update the external repo *before* it removes the svn:externals property. So it looks like it's still there, but it's no

Re: Kea Common Lisp pre-release

2007-09-13 Thread James E Keenan
Will Coleda wrote: For those not on #parrot, it's already been removed, but you may notice that it apparently tries to update the external repo *before* it removes the svn:externals property. So it looks like it's still there, but it's not; update one more time and the prompt won't get you.

[perl #45387] [BUG] languages/lua/pmc/lua_private.h generating error in t/codingstd/c_header_guards.t

2007-09-13 Thread James Keenan via RT
Fixed by Paul Cochrane in r21207. Thanks, ptc.

[perl #41168] graceful "no compiler" error message?

2007-09-13 Thread Paul Cochrane via RT
On Thu Sep 13 02:16:12 2007, ptc wrote: > > > Applied the patch with some modifications so that it runs > correctly on > > > Windows in r21212. Tested on Linux x86, Windows and Cygwin. > > > > But did you actually address any of my objections? For example, do > you > > now pay attention to exit c

Re: [perl #41168] graceful "no compiler" error message?

2007-09-13 Thread Paul Cochrane
On 12/09/2007, Andy Dougherty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 12 Sep 2007, Paul Cochrane via RT wrote: > > > On Mon Mar 19 15:59:44 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > On Monday 19 March 2007 12:22, Andy Dougherty wrote: > > > > > > > I found the ticket that introduced this failing behavior,

Re: [PROPOSAL][IMCC] Make .pcc_begin_{yield,return} syntax a bit stricter

2007-09-13 Thread Klaas-Jan
On Sep 13, 6:18 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Patrick R. Michaud) wrote: > On Wed, Sep 12, 2007 at 09:07:00AM -0700, Klaas-Jan Stol wrote: > > I propose to make IMCC a bit stricter and have it enforce to use the > > appropriate closing directive. So, close .pcc_begin_return with a > > .pcc_end_return dire