Re: Smooth numeric upgrades?

2008-10-03 Thread Michael G Schwern
Larry Wall wrote: > On Fri, Oct 03, 2008 at 11:57:30PM -0400, Michael G Schwern wrote: > : What's the status of numeric upgrades in Perl 6? Is see the docs say "Perl > 6 > : intrinsically supports big integers and rationals through its system of type > : declarations. Int automatically supports p

Re: Smooth numeric upgrades?

2008-10-03 Thread Larry Wall
On Fri, Oct 03, 2008 at 11:57:30PM -0400, Michael G Schwern wrote: : What's the status of numeric upgrades in Perl 6? Is see the docs say "Perl 6 : intrinsically supports big integers and rationals through its system of type : declarations. Int automatically supports promotion to arbitrary precisi

Smooth numeric upgrades?

2008-10-03 Thread Michael G Schwern
What's the status of numeric upgrades in Perl 6? Is see the docs say "Perl 6 intrinsically supports big integers and rationals through its system of type declarations. Int automatically supports promotion to arbitrary precision" but it looks like it's doing the same thing as Perl 5. $ ./perl6 -e

Re: [svn:parrot] r31604 - in trunk/languages/pipp: src/pmc t/pmc

2008-10-03 Thread chromatic
On Friday 03 October 2008 18:14:19 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Log: > [pipp] implement clone, add, i_add and assign_pmc and enable associated > tests > > > Modified: trunk/languages/pipp/src/pmc/phparray.pmc > === >=== --- trunk

Re: [perl #59600] [PATCH] Require Storable 2.13 indirectly by requiring perl 5.8.6

2008-10-03 Thread Will Coleda
On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 9:28 PM, James Keenan via RT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri Oct 03 08:55:12 2008, coke wrote: >> This is a patch-response to r31585, which required a particular >> version of Storable in one file. >> >> Attached, find a patch which bumps our core perl requirement to 5.8.

[perl #59600] [PATCH] Require Storable 2.13 indirectly by requiring perl 5.8.6

2008-10-03 Thread James Keenan via RT
On Fri Oct 03 08:55:12 2008, coke wrote: > This is a patch-response to r31585, which required a particular > version of Storable in one file. > > Attached, find a patch which bumps our core perl requirement to 5.8.6, > the first time this particular version of Storable was included as a > core mod

Re: globs and rules and trees, oh my! (was: Re: XPath grammars (Was: Re: globs and trees in Perl6))

2008-10-03 Thread Jon Lang
Timothy S. Nelson wrote: >> note to treematching folks: it is envisaged that signatures in >> a rule will match nodes in a tree >> >>My question is, how is this expected to work? Can someone give an >> example? > >I'm assuming that this relates to Jon Lang's comment about using >

Re: [perl #59600] [PATCH] Require Storable 2.13 indirectly by requiring perl 5.8.6

2008-10-03 Thread Will Coleda
On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 2:37 PM, chromatic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Friday 03 October 2008 11:19:34 Will Coleda wrote: > >> On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 12:13 PM, Geoffrey Broadwell < >> Fair enough. For these two files, I recommend something more like: >> >> use 5.008; # get nice error on older

Re: [perl #59600] [PATCH] Require Storable 2.13 indirectly by requiring perl 5.8.6

2008-10-03 Thread chromatic
On Friday 03 October 2008 11:19:34 Will Coleda wrote: > On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 12:13 PM, Geoffrey Broadwell < > Fair enough. For these two files, I recommend something more like: > > use 5.008; # get nice error on older perls > use 5.8.6; # our actual requirement > > Which is from the slightly

Re: [perl #59600] [PATCH] Require Storable 2.13 indirectly by requiring perl 5.8.6

2008-10-03 Thread Will Coleda
On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 12:13 PM, Geoffrey Broadwell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 2008-10-03 at 08:55 -0700, Will Coleda wrote: >> Index: Makefile.PL >> === >> -BEGIN { require 5.008 } >> +BEGIN { require 5.8.6 } > >> Index: Con

Re: [perl #59600] [PATCH] Require Storable 2.13 indirectly by requiring perl 5.8.6

2008-10-03 Thread Geoffrey Broadwell
On Fri, 2008-10-03 at 08:55 -0700, Will Coleda wrote: > Index: Makefile.PL > === > -BEGIN { require 5.008 } > +BEGIN { require 5.8.6 } > Index: Configure.pl > === > -use

[perl #59600] [PATCH] Require Storable 2.13 indirectly by requiring perl 5.8.6

2008-10-03 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by Will Coleda # Please include the string: [perl #59600] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=59600 > This is a patch-response to r31585, which required a particular version of Storable in on

Re: [svn:parrot] r31581 - in branches/hllmagic: runtime/parrot/library t/library

2008-10-03 Thread Patrick R. Michaud
On Fri, Oct 03, 2008 at 01:23:14AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > +parrotclass = split '::', $S0 > +$P0 = getinterp > +$P0 = $P0['namespace';1] > +$P0 = $P0.get_name() > +$P0 = shift $P0 > +unshift parrotclass, $P0 > +parrotclass = get_root_namespace [parrotclass] Th

Re: [perl #59576] [PATCH] 'property' scope for PAST::Var

2008-10-03 Thread Patrick R. Michaud
On Thu, Oct 02, 2008 at 02:16:01PM -0700, I Sop wrote: > > I just copied the 'attribute' method, renamed everything, and changed the > parameter order for the 'getprop' op. Why should this be a PAST::Var node as opposed to simply using a PAST::Op node with :pirop('getprop') and/or :pirop('setpr

Re: [pugs-commits] r22496 - t/spec/S03-operators

2008-10-03 Thread Patrick R. Michaud
On Fri, Oct 03, 2008 at 10:02:56AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > +#?rakudo skip ',=' > +#?DOES 2 > +{ > +my @a = 1, 2; > +is (@a ,= 3, 4).join('|'), '1|2|3|4', ',= on lists works the same as > push (return value)' > +is @a.join('|'), '1|2|3|4', ',= on lists works the same as push