Re: [perl #53714] [PATCH] parrot segfaults when dyna-loading main program

2008-05-05 Thread chromatic
On Monday 05 May 2008 13:50:51 NotFound wrote: > On Mon, May 5, 2008 at 2:52 AM, via RT Tom Erdevig > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Parrot segfaults running this: > > .sub _ :main > > null S0 > > loadlib P0, S0 > > .end > > The segfault is caused by src/dynext.c:Parrot_load_lib sett

Re: nested 'our' subs - senseless?

2008-05-05 Thread David Green
On 2008-May-3, at 5:04 pm, John M. Dlugosz wrote: What does this mean? our sub outer () { ... our sub inner () { ... } } inner; # defined? I think this should be illegal. Nested named subs makes sense for 'my', with the rules of visibility matching the ability to clone the closure

Re: [perl #53762] Moving languages out of the repository (a 1.0 question)

2008-05-05 Thread Will Coleda
On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 1:23 AM, Will Coleda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The goal for 1.0 is to ship languages separately from parrot; Can we > get a brief summary of what sort of licensing/copyright issues apply > when the languages are removed from perl.org repository? > > My simplistic unders

[perl #53762] Moving languages out of the repository (a 1.0 question)

2008-05-05 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by Will Coleda # Please include the string: [perl #53762] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=53762 > The goal for 1.0 is to ship languages separately from parrot; Can we get a brief summary

Re: [perl #52396] [BUG] Test 1 of t/pmc/io.t sigbus on ppc

2008-05-05 Thread chromatic
On Tuesday 01 April 2008 20:25:12 Seneca Cunningham wrote: > # New Ticket Created by "Seneca Cunningham" > # Please include the string: [perl #52396] > # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. > # http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=52396 > > > > prove -v out

Re: [perl #53350] Build warnings in src/jit_emit.h

2008-05-05 Thread chromatic
On Friday 25 April 2008 10:36:02 Will Coleda wrote: > a default build on feather is generating the following warnings: > > src/jit_emit.h:1725: warning: cast discards qualifiers from pointer target > type src/jit_emit.h:1764: warning: cast discards qualifiers from pointer > target type src/jit_emi

[perl #53592] [PATCH]: config/auto/pcre.pm: touch-ups and tests

2008-05-05 Thread James Keenan via RT
Tests appear to be passing steadily on a selected sample of smoke boxes, so I'm resolving the ticket.

Re: nested 'our' subs - senseless?

2008-05-05 Thread John M. Dlugosz
Jon Lang dataweaver-at-gmail.com |Perl 6| wrote: On Mon, May 5, 2008 at 6:01 AM, John M. Dlugosz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: TSa Thomas.Sandlass-at-barco.com |Perl 6| wrote: No, because {...} is just a declaration. You can give a definition later in the surrounding module/package/class.

[perl #53600] [CAGE] config/auto/python.pm unused?

2008-05-05 Thread James Keenan via RT
Patch applied in r27328.

Re: This week on parrot?

2008-05-05 Thread Stephen Gunnell
Hi, Yes we do exist. I'm watching and waiting for Parrot to be stable enough to continue my project. What would be *REALLY* helpful is an ongoing log of the way that the parrot syntax is changing. At the moment if you miss anything you have very little chance of catching up. Cheers, Steveg On

Re: [perl #53714] [PATCH] parrot segfaults when dyna-loading main program

2008-05-05 Thread NotFound
On Mon, May 5, 2008 at 2:52 AM, via RT Tom Erdevig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Parrot segfaults running this: > .sub _ :main > null S0 > loadlib P0, S0 > .end > The segfault is caused by src/dynext.c:Parrot_load_lib setting > its local lib_name variable to NULL and then passing it al

Re: This week on parrot?

2008-05-05 Thread Andy Lester
On May 5, 2008, at 2:57 PM, Patrick R. Michaud wrote: FWIW, I suspect that Rakudo-related news (as opposed to Parrot news) belongs in my use.perl journal posts, and that I should be the one writing those summaries. I was doing that regularly back in Nov-Jan, but got sidetracked and haven't got

Re: This week on parrot?

2008-05-05 Thread Patrick R. Michaud
On Mon, May 05, 2008 at 12:48:11PM -0700, Eric Wilhelm wrote: > >I guess what I'd really like to see would be something aimed higher   > >than the p5p summaries are.  It'd be something that could be   > >interesting to a wider range of readers, not just the people who care > >   about the nitty gri

Re: This week on parrot?

2008-05-05 Thread Eric Wilhelm
# from Andy Lester # on Monday 05 May 2008: >But do those lurkers actually exist? I exist (or at least, I operate under the assumption that I exist.) >that the people who would be interested in a summary are already on   >the list. Indeed I am on the list. But, I usually don't read anything wi

Re: This week on parrot?

2008-05-05 Thread NotFound
> > > Lurkers (potential contributors.) Posting it on use.perl.org (and/or > > > various other feed sources) would reach more of us. > > But do those lurkers actually exist? My gut says no. My gut says > > that the people who would be interested in a summary are already on > > the list. I

Re: [perl #53754] Fw: [TODO] PackFile_Constant_unpack_pmc should call Parrot_thaw_constants(), not Parrot_thaw()

2008-05-05 Thread chromatic
On Monday 05 May 2008 12:17:39 Mark Glines wrote: > [this is a resend; first one apparently didn't get through.] > > > There is a TODO comment in this function, which has been there for > quite some time. We need to figure out if this is still valid, and > either make the change, or remove the co

[perl #53754] Fw: [TODO] PackFile_Constant_unpack_pmc should call Parrot_thaw_constants(), not Parrot_thaw()

2008-05-05 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by Mark Glines # Please include the string: [perl #53754] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=53754 > [this is a resend; first one apparently didn't get through.] There is a TODO comment in

Re: nested 'our' subs - senseless?

2008-05-05 Thread Jon Lang
On Mon, May 5, 2008 at 6:01 AM, John M. Dlugosz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > TSa Thomas.Sandlass-at-barco.com |Perl 6| wrote: > > > > > No, because {...} is just a declaration. You can give a > > definition later in the surrounding module/package/class. > > Within that scope there can be only one d

[perl #50212] Configure step fails on Windows

2008-05-05 Thread Mark Glines via RT
On Mon Jan 28 18:20:11 2008, infinoid wrote: > On Fri Jan 25 15:10:50 2008, ajr wrote: > > > Hi, Alan! What kind of CPU do you have? If you have an AMD Athlon XP > > > (or something of similar lineage), I think I know what the problem is. > > > > > I think you've nailed it: Athlon XP-M. > > Hi,

Re: New specdoc available

2008-05-05 Thread John M. Dlugosz
TSa Thomas.Sandlass-at-barco.com |Perl 6| wrote: In "24.28.1 abs" you define our ::?CLASS multi method abs ( $x: ) I would rather nail down the return type to 'Num where {$_ >= 0}'. The latter might also get a nice name, e.g. Abs. This in turn would make the abs multi method/sub kind of redu

Re: [perl #53750] [BUG] The WHAT method of Protobject returns only the last component of the name

2008-05-05 Thread Patrick R. Michaud
On Mon, May 05, 2008 at 10:20:30AM -0700, Stephane Payrard wrote: > The following PIR program prints "Match". I would expect "PGE::Match". > I don't see the reason that motivates the current behavior > > .sub main >.local pmc match >.local string s >load_bytecode "compilers/pge/PGE.pbc

[perl #53750] [BUG] The WHAT method of Protobject returns only the last component of the name

2008-05-05 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by Stephane Payrard # Please include the string: [perl #53750] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=53750 > The following PIR program prints "Match". I would expect "PGE::Match". I don't see t

[perl #53748] rakudo bug: can't assign undef to Int variable

2008-05-05 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by Patrick R. Michaud # Please include the string: [perl #53748] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=53748 > - Forwarded message from Moritz Lenz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - current (r2732

Re: This week on parrot?

2008-05-05 Thread Patrick R. Michaud
On Mon, May 05, 2008 at 09:07:27AM -0700, chromatic wrote: > On Monday 05 May 2008 08:29:39 Andy Lester wrote: > > > On May 5, 2008, at 10:23 AM, Eric Wilhelm wrote: > > > Lurkers (potential contributors.) Posting it on use.perl.org (and/or > > > various other feed sources) would reach more of us

Re: This week on parrot?

2008-05-05 Thread chromatic
On Monday 05 May 2008 08:29:39 Andy Lester wrote: > On May 5, 2008, at 10:23 AM, Eric Wilhelm wrote: > > Lurkers (potential contributors.) Posting it on use.perl.org (and/or > > various other feed sources) would reach more of us. > But do those lurkers actually exist? My gut says no. My gut sa

Re: This week on parrot?

2008-05-05 Thread Andy Lester
On May 5, 2008, at 10:23 AM, Eric Wilhelm wrote: Lurkers (potential contributors.) Posting it on use.perl.org (and/or various other feed sources) would reach more of us. But do those lurkers actually exist? My gut says no. My gut says that the people who would be interested in a summary

Re: This week on parrot?

2008-05-05 Thread Eric Wilhelm
# from Andy Lester # on Monday 05 May 2008: >> This presupposes that the summaries are a good thing: anyone have >> any feedback on this point? > >Just wondering who the audience would be. Lurkers (potential contributors.) Posting it on use.perl.org (and/or various other feed sources) would rea

Re: New specdoc available

2008-05-05 Thread TSa
HaloO, John M. Dlugosz wrote: I posted my current work at http://www.dlugosz.com/files/specdoc.pdf Please look. In "24.28.1 abs" you define our ::?CLASS multi method abs ( $x: ) I would rather nail down the return type to 'Num where {$_ >= 0}'. The latter might also get a nice name, e.g.

Re: This week on parrot?

2008-05-05 Thread Andy Lester
On May 5, 2008, at 8:52 AM, Will Coleda wrote: This presupposes that the summaries are a good thing: anyone have any feedback on this point? Just wondering who the audience would be. -- Andy Lester => [EMAIL PROTECTED] => www.petdance.com => AIM:petdance

[perl #53600] config/auto/python.pm unused?

2008-05-05 Thread Will Coleda via RT
On Fri May 02 19:01:58 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Please review/apply patch attached. Looks good, though you can do the MANIFEST.SKIP fixup separately. Thanks.

This week on parrot?

2008-05-05 Thread Will Coleda
We've had very good luck sharing the release management duties, both in finding volunteers and documenting our process... Is there any interest in developing the same sort of shared process for a week in review writeup of parrotsketch, the mailing list, RT, commits, hackathons, etc.? If enough of

Re: nested 'our' subs - senseless?

2008-05-05 Thread John M. Dlugosz
TSa Thomas.Sandlass-at-barco.com |Perl 6| wrote: No, because {...} is just a declaration. You can give a definition later in the surrounding module/package/class. Within that scope there can be only one definition, of course. I did not mean to use { ... } to mean declaration only, but to show

Parrot Bug Summary

2008-05-05 Thread Parrot Bug Summary
Parrot Bug Summary http://rt.perl.org/rt3/NoAuth/parrot/Overview.html Generated at Mon May 5 13:00:02 2008 GMT --- * Numbers * New Issues * Overview of Open Issues * Ticket Status By Version * Requestors with mo

rakudo bug: can't assign undef to Int variable

2008-05-05 Thread Moritz Lenz
current (r27325) rakudo doesn't allow my Int $x = undef: echo 'my Int $x = undef' | ../../parro t perl6.pbc Type check failed Reported by muixirt++ Cheers, Moritz -- Moritz Lenz http://moritz.faui2k3.org/ | http://perl-6.de/ signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Test suite: use v6-alpha; Test absence of builtins?

2008-05-05 Thread Patrick R. Michaud
On Mon, May 05, 2008 at 02:16:30PM +0200, Moritz Lenz wrote: > 1) Most tests have a 'use v6-alpha;' line at the top. IMHO that's a bad > idea, because in the end we'll want to test v6, not v6-alpha (which I > think isn't even cleanly defined). Should we s/v6-alpha/v6/g the test > suite? I think yes

Test suite: use v6-alpha; Test absence of builtins?

2008-05-05 Thread Moritz Lenz
Hi, partly in preparation for GSoC I'd like to hear a few opinions on the test suite 1) Most tests have a 'use v6-alpha;' line at the top. IMHO that's a bad idea, because in the end we'll want to test v6, not v6-alpha (which I think isn't even cleanly defined). Should we s/v6-alpha/v6/g the test

[perl #53738] [PATCH] for file "tools/dev/install_files.sh"

2008-05-05 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by [EMAIL PROTECTED] # Please include the string: [perl #53738] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=53738 > Hello, after executing the command "make reallyinstall" the directory "runtime" is

Re: What does 'eqv' do exactly?

2008-05-05 Thread TSa
HaloO, John M. Dlugosz wrote: Yes. How is a snapshot different from the object? My interpretation is that === is an equivalence relation on a WHICH set and eqv is an equivalence relation on a WHAT set. A "mutable value" is an element of a (n>1):1 mapping of a subset of WHAT to a single WHICH.

Re: nested 'our' subs - senseless?

2008-05-05 Thread TSa
HaloO, John M. Dlugosz wrote: What does this mean? our sub outer () { ... our sub inner () { ... } } inner; # defined? No, because {...} is just a declaration. You can give a definition later in the surrounding module/package/class. Within that scope there can be only one definit

[perl #53714] [PATCH] parrot segfaults when dyna-loading main program

2008-05-05 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by Tom Erdevig # Please include the string: [perl #53714] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=53714 > Parrot segfaults running this: .sub _ :main null S0 loadlib P0, S0 .end Invok