Re: perl 6 and web open source projects

2007-12-09 Thread cdumont
herbert breunung wrote: Mark J. Reed wrote: I do think It Would Be Nice If there were a native Perl6 DRY/MVC/OMG/WTF/BBQ webapp dev framework ready to go (go where? into a webapp-oriented P6 distro, natch) around the same time that the lang itself is done. I imagine a port of Catalyst would fi

Re: Switch/Given and English, Was perl 6 grammar

2007-12-09 Thread Mark J. Reed
I think the idea is that if your programming language keywords are all English anyway, you might as well have them make sense *as* English. That makes it easier for English-speakers to learn, without making it harder for non-English speakers - except for the fact that it's different from other prog

Re: Switch/Given and English, Was perl 6 grammar

2007-12-09 Thread cdumont
Richard Hainsworth wrote: I don't know why, this given... when sounds so 'English' without really being that English. The construct sounds better in English than ... case ...> because: a) Switch is more commonly used in English as a noun, eg., Use the switch to turn on the light. But beca

[perl #48391] [TODO][PDD] PDD19 does not specify sub :flags

2007-12-09 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by Klaas-Jan Stol # Please include the string: [perl #48391] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=48391 > The PDD19 for PIR does not specify .sub flags. (:load, :init, :multi, etc.) This must

[PATCH] [NQP] Use || in places where order matters

2007-12-09 Thread Jonathan Scott Duff
I understand that | and || may not actually be differentiated in implementation yet, but they do different things according to the spec. I've attached a patch for NQP to change | to || in places where I think it matters. -Scott -- Jonathan Scott Duff [EMAIL PROTECTED] nqp.patch Description: Bin

Re: Platform testing for concurrency scheduler runloop

2007-12-09 Thread Andy Armstrong
On 9 Dec 2007, at 21:02, Allison Randal wrote: Andy Armstrong wrote: And Instruments is telling me this: http://hexten.net/junk/parrot1.png Nice level of detail in this tool. Almost worth the cost of 10.5 all on its own. It seems rather lovely. Bear in mind that I didn't even launch it u

dynoplibs does not compile with llvm-gcc and on Windows

2007-12-09 Thread Marton Papp
-- Hi! When trying to make Parrot, the make stopped in dynoplibs directory. The dlls were not compiled because the linking command line statements did not contain the directory of parrot lib and -lparrot lib statement.. These were missing from \tools\build\dynoplibs.pl It looks like if ($CC

Hi! I am trying to compile parrot with llvm-gcc and found bugs

2007-12-09 Thread anteusz
Hi! I have started to compile with llvm-g++ and gcc on Windows Xp. Here it is what I used : set path=%path%;c:\mingw\bin;D:\extracted\icu2\icu\bin e: cd e:\extracted\parrot-0.5.0\bin perl configure.pl --cc=E:\llvm\bin\llvm-gcc.exe --cxx=E:\llvm\bin\llvm-g++.exe --link=E:\llvm\bin\llvm-g++.exe

Re: [BUG] imcc register allocation does not consider PASM register usage

2007-12-09 Thread Allison Randal
Klaas-Jan wrote: There is of course the option of taking the current behavior as "correct", effectively forgetting about this piece of the specification. I can, however, imagine a situation in which someone would want to do manual register allocation (writing Parrot assembly) for certain cases.

Re: Platform testing for concurrency scheduler runloop

2007-12-09 Thread Allison Randal
Andy Armstrong wrote: And Instruments is telling me this: http://hexten.net/junk/parrot1.png Nice level of detail in this tool. Almost worth the cost of 10.5 all on its own. It seems to hang much more readily with CX_DEBUG enabled - including once during make rather than make test. Good

Re: Standards bearers (was "Re: xml and perl 6")

2007-12-09 Thread chromatic
On Saturday 08 December 2007 06:50:48 Richard Hainsworth wrote: > Surely, some concentrated thought by the inventive and resouceful minds of > who lead this project should go into language utilisation and > popularisation. My goodness, @Larry's pretty darn busy trying to build the core kernel of

Re: perl 6 and web open source projects

2007-12-09 Thread herbert breunung
Mark J. Reed wrote: I do think It Would Be Nice If there were a native Perl6 DRY/MVC/OMG/WTF/BBQ webapp dev framework ready to go (go where? into a webapp-oriented P6 distro, natch) around the same time that the lang itself is done. I imagine a port of Catalyst would fit the bill nicely. As fa

once promised Perl 6 Tutorial

2007-12-09 Thread herbert breunung
as you all can see under http://www.perlfoundation.org/perl6/index.cgi?tutorial I started to get real with. The main idea is that i want to keep an wiki and not make an POD out of it because i think Hypertext is better for learning. It is basicaly an english mirror of my german tut and thats go

Re: [BUG] imcc register allocation does not consider PASM register usage

2007-12-09 Thread Klaas-Jan
On Dec 8, 7:26 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chromatic) wrote: > On Friday 07 December 2007 11:22:10 Klaas-Jan Stol wrote: > > > According to the spec, this is a bug. > > > Now, this isn't a big deal, because the semantics of the program aren't > > changed. The only problem I can imagine is for embedders,

[perl #48367] intlist_get could be dereferencing NULL

2007-12-09 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by Andy Lester # Please include the string: [perl #48367] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=48367 > --- osname= linux osvers= 2.6.9-42.0.3.elsmp arch= x86_64-linux-thread-multi cc= gc

Re: Platform testing for concurrency scheduler runloop

2007-12-09 Thread Paul Cochrane
On 07/12/2007, Allison Randal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Andy Dougherty wrote: > > > > Whether this is a defect in the vtables_4 test sourcefile for failing to > > initialize the vtables, or whether pmc_new ought to be more defensive, I > > can't say. > > Looks like a bug in the test, as there ar