Re: Perl's internal time (was: Re: r25445 - docs/Perl6/Spec/S32-setting-library)

2009-02-21 Thread Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH
On 2009 Feb 20, at 14:36, Chris Dolan wrote: UTC: TAI with an offset, as corrected for the actual revolution of the Earth: usually 60 seconds in a minute, but occasionally 59 or 61. 60 minutes in every hour (so 3599, 3600, or 3601 seconds), 24 hours in every day (86399, 86400, or 86401 seconds

Re: r25445 - docs/Perl6/Spec/S32-setting-library

2009-02-21 Thread Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH
On 2009 Feb 20, at 12:21, Daniel Ruoso wrote: Em Sex, 2009-02-20 às 10:40 -0600, Dave Rolsky escreveu: On Fri, 20 Feb 2009, Daniel Ruoso wrote: If we're going to use an epoch, it should be the Operating System's epoch. Anything else will lead to confusion and disorder ;P And which OS epoch wou

Re: How do the test suites differ?

2009-02-21 Thread jerry gay
On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 12:13, Andy Lester wrote: > Rakudo has a test suite. It also pulls in the spec test suite. > > If I work on some tests (as one might expect), where should I put them? > What are the criteria for what goes where? > if you're testing the innermost internals of rakudo--the m

How do the test suites differ?

2009-02-21 Thread Andy Lester
Rakudo has a test suite. It also pulls in the spec test suite. If I work on some tests (as one might expect), where should I put them? What are the criteria for what goes where? xoa -- Andy Lester => a...@petdance.com => www.petdance.com => AIM:petdance

Re: r25445 - docs/Perl6/Spec/S32-setting-library

2009-02-21 Thread David Green
On 2009-Feb-20, at 11:17 am, Larry Wall wrote: Certainly, we'll be depending on the type system to keep these things straight. I'm not suggesting the user use bare Nums as anything other than naive durations for APIs such as sleep(). If we have some units to make suitable objects, we can say