Re: [perl #58524] prefix:<=> doesn't read from $*IN in Rakudo

2008-09-02 Thread Moritz Lenz
Carl MXXsak (via RT) wrote: > # New Ticket Created by "Carl Mäsak" > # Please include the string: [perl #58524] > # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. > # http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=58524 > > > > r30698: > ./perl6 -e 'say $*IN.readline' # wor

Re: [perl #58526] pick(*) is broken on nested arrays in Rakudo

2008-09-02 Thread Moritz Lenz
Carl MXXsak (via RT) wrote: > # New Ticket Created by "Carl Mäsak" > # Please include the string: [perl #58526] > # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. > # http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=58526 > > > > r30698: > $ ./perl6 -e 'say [1,2,3,4,5,6].pick

Re: Speccing Test.pm?

2008-09-02 Thread Geoffrey Broadwell
On Tue, 2008-09-02 at 12:32 -0700, Darren Duncan wrote: > Now a common factor to both of my proposals is that this Test.pm is > intentionally kept as simple as possible and contains just the > functionality needed to bootstrap the official Perl 6 test suite; if the > official test suite doesn't

[perl #58506] Problem with :outer

2008-09-02 Thread Bob Rogers
From: Bob Rogers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2008 21:55:54 -0400 . . . I suspect this faked call is what's causing the "too few arguments" error (though none of my naive attempts to fix it worked). If this case is not covered by the test suite (I'm running an experiment

[perl #58506] Problem with :outer

2008-09-02 Thread Bob Rogers
From: Stephen Weeks (via RT) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tue, 02 Sep 2008 01:21:49 -0700 # New Ticket Created by Stephen Weeks # Please include the string: [perl #58506] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display

Re: What happened to "err" operator?

2008-09-02 Thread Larry Wall
On Tue, Sep 02, 2008 at 07:56:33PM -0400, Mark J. Reed wrote: : I think you're thinking of the "erm" operator... : : But back to "orelse" - is the only difference between "and"/"or" and : "andthen"/"orelse" the fact that the result of the lhs gets passed as : a parameter into the rhs? 'Cause I do

Re: What happened to "err" operator?

2008-09-02 Thread Mark J. Reed
I think you're thinking of the "erm" operator... But back to "orelse" - is the only difference between "and"/"or" and "andthen"/"orelse" the fact that the result of the lhs gets passed as a parameter into the rhs? 'Cause I don't see the difference between "short circuit" and "proceed on success/f

Re: What happened to "err" operator?

2008-09-02 Thread ajr
> On Sun, Aug 31, 2008 at 04:28:36PM -0500, John M. Dlugosz wrote: >> Has the "err" operator, as a low-precidence version of //, been removed? > > Yes. > It could be recycled as a "fuzzy Boolean", returning a fractional value between +1 and -1, indicating the confidence with which the result is off

[perl #58526] pick(*) is broken on nested arrays in Rakudo

2008-09-02 Thread Carl Mäsak
# New Ticket Created by "Carl Mäsak" # Please include the string: [perl #58526] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=58526 > r30698: $ ./perl6 -e 'say [1,2,3,4,5,6].pick(*)' # expected 645213 $ ./perl6 -e 'say [[

[perl #58524] prefix:<=> doesn't read from $*IN in Rakudo

2008-09-02 Thread Carl Mäsak
# New Ticket Created by "Carl Mäsak" # Please include the string: [perl #58524] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=58524 > r30698: ./perl6 -e 'say $*IN.readline' # works (i.e. repeats what I write) OH HAI! OH HA

[perl #38432] [BUG] Exception thrown from constructor leads to oddness

2008-09-02 Thread Stephen Weeks via RT
I don't get a segfault when running the test case without the 'end' opcode. Can anyone else confirm if this still segfaults? cet.pir Description: Binary data

Re: Speccing Test.pm?

2008-09-02 Thread Mark J. Reed
> 2. The Perl 6 language spec itself would specify a basic set of test > routines built-in to the language, in a Test namespace That sounds like a good idea, but it would require that the above Test functionality be included in the automated tests... which runs the risk of infinite recursion.

Re: Speccing Test.pm?

2008-09-02 Thread Patrick R. Michaud
On Tue, Sep 02, 2008 at 12:32:49PM -0700, Darren Duncan wrote: > Patrick R. Michaud wrote: >> I think it's good to have a prototype Test.pm that we can point to as >> a reference, but I don't think we need to try to designate it as being >> "official". > > [...] > 2. The Perl 6 language spec itsel

Re: Speccing Test.pm?

2008-09-02 Thread Darren Duncan
Patrick R. Michaud wrote: On Tue, Sep 02, 2008 at 02:10:39PM +0200, Moritz Lenz wrote: And then? Spec it? Or ship a prototype Test.pm as "official"? I think it's good to have a prototype Test.pm that we can point to as a reference, but I don't think we need to try to designate it as being "off

[PATCH] cygwin070patches

2008-09-02 Thread Reini Urban
Attached is a new patch for the cygwin070patches. This is against svn, so it replaces the patches _6 and _7. Fixed some logical flaw and enhanced the Makefiles. Renamed TMP to HLLNAME. -- Reini Urban http://phpwiki.org/ http://murbreak.at/ cygwin070patches_8.patch.gz Description: GNU Zip compre

[perl #46823] [TODO] [Pir] Rewrite Resizeable*Array tests properly when exceptions are implemented

2008-09-02 Thread Christoph Otto via RT
On Wed Aug 27 22:49:37 2008, cotto wrote: > > Most of these test wouldn't throw an exception anyway, since assigning > to a positive out-of-bounds element simply resizes the array. (This > excludes nonsensically large positive indicies, which should probably > tested for.) I added exception hand

Re: [perl #58500] [BUG] round broken, bugfix included

2008-09-02 Thread Moritz Lenz
Stephen Simmons (via RT) wrote: > # New Ticket Created by "Stephen Simmons" > # Please include the string: [perl #58500] > # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. > # http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=58500 > > > > With revision 30669, I find the follo

[perl #58506] Problem with :outer

2008-09-02 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by Stephen Weeks # Please include the string: [perl #58506] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=58506 > The attached pir file tries to call a sub set :outer() another sub without calling the

Re: Speccing Test.pm?

2008-09-02 Thread Patrick R. Michaud
On Tue, Sep 02, 2008 at 02:10:39PM +0200, Moritz Lenz wrote: > The test suite is considered "official" as in "everything that passes > the (completed) test suite may name itself Perl 6", and nearly all of > these files 'use Test'; However we don't ship an "official" Test.pm, nor > do we define whic

[perl #58488] crashing parrot when calling create_lexinfo

2008-09-02 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by Stephane Payrard # Please include the string: [perl #58488] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=58488 > One can crash calling rakudo on a file containing eval 'class A { has $.a}; my $a

[perl #58500] [BUG] round broken, bugfix included

2008-09-02 Thread Stephen Simmons
# New Ticket Created by "Stephen Simmons" # Please include the string: [perl #58500] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=58500 > With revision 30669, I find the following behavior of round() sully:perl6 stephens

Re: [svn:parrot-pdd] r30569 - trunk/docs/pdds

2008-09-02 Thread Klaas-Jan Stol
On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 2:28 PM, Allison Randal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Klaas-Jan Stol wrote: > >> >> So, preferably, the special words in PIR will be allowed as identifiers >> ('if','unless', 'null') and PIR will DWIM. What about the type >> identifiers: >> int, num, pmc, string; should these

Re: [svn:parrot-pdd] r30569 - trunk/docs/pdds

2008-09-02 Thread Allison Randal
Klaas-Jan Stol wrote: So, preferably, the special words in PIR will be allowed as identifiers ('if','unless', 'null') and PIR will DWIM. What about the type identifiers: int, num, pmc, string; should these be allowed as identifiers? The currently special PIR words such as if, unless, null are op

Re: [svn:parrot-pdd] r30569 - trunk/docs/pdds

2008-09-02 Thread Klaas-Jan Stol
On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 12:43 PM, Allison Randal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Klaas-Jan Stol wrote: > >> >> This must make the following syntax rule illegal: >> >> target = null >> >> because if "null" is declared as a .local, you can't know whether you want >> to nullify target, or want to set ta

Speccing Test.pm?

2008-09-02 Thread Moritz Lenz
Howdy, The test suite is considered "official" as in "everything that passes the (completed) test suite may name itself Perl 6", and nearly all of these files 'use Test'; However we don't ship an "official" Test.pm, nor do we define which test functions it should contain and export by default, nor

Re: [svn:parrot-pdd] r30569 - trunk/docs/pdds

2008-09-02 Thread Allison Randal
Klaas-Jan Stol wrote: This must make the following syntax rule illegal: target = null because if "null" is declared as a .local, you can't know whether you want to nullify target, or want to set target's value to that of the .local variable "null". I take it this is no problem; just stick to

Name spaces of PIR identifiers

2008-09-02 Thread François Perrad
It seems that PIR uses only one name space of identifiers. $ cat const.pir .const int cst = 42 .sub 'cst' print cst .end $ parrot const.pir error:imcc:undefined identifier 'cst' in file 'const.pir' line 5 $ cat label.pir .const int L1 = 42 .sub 'main' print L1 goto L1 L