Re: Normalization of metaops

2009-01-31 Thread Larry Wall
On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 01:21:57PM -0800, Mark Lentczner wrote: > Two exceptions to these lists: > sym<,> gets :value and :iso > sym<%> gets :bool as well Also note that => is :value :iso despite being lumped with assignment. I consider => to be equivalent to . in Lisp, so [=>] is esse

Re: [perl #60940] Test failure: t/dynpmc/foo.t

2009-01-31 Thread kjstol
it's been failing for a while (until quite recently, iirc), but now it seems ok.Just svn up'ed, and nmake'd test; no failures. I'll report any new failures to trac, if necessary. thanks for coming back to me. Ticket can be closed. kjs On Sun, Feb 1, 2009 at 12:11 AM, James Keenan via RT < parrot

Re: [perl #59968] [BUG] Calling Test::More sub after catching a div by zero exception segfaults

2009-01-31 Thread Will Coleda
You can't use "P0" as a register in PIR these days, you need "$P0" instead. On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 7:22 PM, James Keenan via RT wrote: > Reviewing this RT today, I get a completely different problem: > > $ cat seg.pir > .sub main :main > .include 'include/test_more.pir' > > new P0, 'Integer' > n

r25138 - docs/Perl6/Spec

2009-01-31 Thread pugs-commits
Author: particle Date: 2009-02-01 01:26:46 +0100 (Sun, 01 Feb 2009) New Revision: 25138 Modified: docs/Perl6/Spec/S06-routines.pod docs/Perl6/Spec/S19-commandline.pod Log: [spec] spelling, grammar, and other clarifications; TimToady++ Modified: docs/Perl6/Spec/S06-routines.pod =

Re: [perl #59790] t/stm/basic_mt.t #4 hangs on several platforms

2009-01-31 Thread jerry gay
On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 16:06, James Keenan via RT wrote: > The t/stm/*.t tests have gone away (when or whence I do not know), so I > propose we close this ticket. Any objections? > the STM subsystem has been removed. close the ticket, and all other STM-related tickets. ~jerry

Normalization of metaops

2009-01-31 Thread Mark Lentczner
The concept of which metaops can apply to which other ops is looking pretty clear. The goal, as I understand it from Larry, is that while in general, metaops should be allowed, we want to disallow them where they either make no sense, or are very unlikely to be what the programmer thought

[perl #62948] [PATCH] some array autovivification fixes/improvements

2009-01-31 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by Ron Schmidt # Please include the string: [perl #62948] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=62948 > This is a follow up to rt #61324 that observed, among other things, that 'my @a; @a[2] =

[perl #61452] Rakudo doesn't treat several whatever stars in a row correctly in a list smartmatch

2009-01-31 Thread Carl Mäsak via RT
On Fri Jan 30 20:20:04 2009, s1n wrote: > On Wed Dec 17 15:38:07 2008, masak wrote: > > rakudo: say (1,2,3) ~~ (1,*,*,3) > > rakudo 34053: OUTPUT[0␤] > > If my understanding of how whatever-star works is right, this test isn't > entirely correct. What you probably meant to test was this: > > (2

[perl #62474] Rakudo forgets to clone when pushing xx'ed values to an array

2009-01-31 Thread Carl Mäsak via RT
On Fri Jan 30 20:37:51 2009, s1n wrote: > On Sat Jan 17 14:30:47 2009, masak wrote: > > $ perl6 -e 'my @a = "a" xx 5; @a[1] = "b"; say @a' > > abaaa > > $ perl6 -e 'push my @a, "a" xx 5; @a[1] = "b"; say @a' > > b > > $ svn info | grep Revi > > Revision: 35707 > > I'm not sure I understand how

Re: [perl #62920] Configure.pl errors generating makefile

2009-01-31 Thread ajr
> Could you try the following patch ? > That seems to have done the trick. -- Email and shopping with the feelgood factor! 55% of income to good causes. http://www.ippimail.com

Re: r25102 - docs/Perl6/Spec

2009-01-31 Thread Nicholas Clark
On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 11:11:42AM -0600, Patrick R. Michaud wrote: > On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 08:30:25AM -0800, Larry Wall wrote: > > So anyway, just because other languages call it a prelude doesn't > > mean that we have to. Perl is the tail that's always trying to > > wag the dog... > > > > Wha