$?OS change

2009-03-01 Thread Timothy S. Nelson
Hi. I note that we have $?OS, $?VM, and $?DISTRO (and their $* counterparts). I'd like to recommend that we eliminate $?OS, and replace it with $?KERNEL (ie. Linux) and maybe $?ARCH (ie. i386). Thoughts? :) - | Na

r25652 - docs/Perl6/Spec

2009-03-01 Thread pugs-commits
Author: wayland Date: 2009-03-02 07:00:47 +0100 (Mon, 02 Mar 2009) New Revision: 25652 Modified: docs/Perl6/Spec/S28-special-names.pod Log: Should've looked first -- $*DISTRO is documented in S02 :) Modified: docs/Perl6/Spec/S28-special-names.pod ==

r25651 - docs/Perl6/Spec

2009-03-01 Thread pugs-commits
Author: wayland Date: 2009-03-02 06:51:23 +0100 (Mon, 02 Mar 2009) New Revision: 25651 Modified: docs/Perl6/Spec/S28-special-names.pod Log: S28: - Did more heading changes to make it "Special Names" instead of "Special Variables" - Added lots of spec cross-references - Added

r25650 - docs/Perl6/Spec

2009-03-01 Thread pugs-commits
Author: wayland Date: 2009-03-02 06:29:37 +0100 (Mon, 02 Mar 2009) New Revision: 25650 Added: docs/Perl6/Spec/S21-calling-foreign-code.pod Log: Wrote this a few days ago, but forgot to svn add. Added: docs/Perl6/Spec/S21-calling-foreign-code.pod =

Re: Google's Summer of Code 2009

2009-03-01 Thread jerry gay
On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 17:26, Hinrik Örn Sigurðsson wrote: > Google has announced this year's Summer of Code[1]. The Perl > Foundation accepted one project (mentored by Moritz) related to Perl 6 > last year[2]. I was wondering if there are any developers interested > in mentoring students on Perl

Google's Summer of Code 2009

2009-03-01 Thread Hinrik Örn Sigurðsson
Google has announced this year's Summer of Code[1]. The Perl Foundation accepted one project (mentored by Moritz) related to Perl 6 last year[2]. I was wondering if there are any developers interested in mentoring students on Perl 6-related projects this year. I for one would like to apply (as a st

Re: r25541 - docs/Perl6/Spec

2009-03-01 Thread Timothy S. Nelson
On Fri, 27 Feb 2009, Henry Baragar wrote: I am starting to get overwhelmed by the number of special names and I am wondering why we need to have a flat naming space? For example, wouldn't it be easier to remember (and to introspect) the following? I vote in favour of the general idea, alth

Re: pod variables?

2009-03-01 Thread Timothy S. Nelson
On Fri, 27 Feb 2009, Darren Duncan wrote: Jon Lang wrote: Under the section about twigils in S02, "$=var" is described as a "pod variable". I'm not finding any other references to pod variables; what are tey, and how are they used? (In particular, I'm wondering if they're a fossil; if they ar

Re: Help re-building rakudo

2009-03-01 Thread Chris Dolan
On Feb 26, 2009, at 3:06 PM, Moritz Lenz wrote: But after that please do a 'make clean; perl Configure.pl' to make sure that the fallout of the previous build don't affect the new one. Time to update tools/rebase-rakudo.pl! Chris

Re: Range and continuous intervals

2009-03-01 Thread Jon Lang
Thomas Sandlaß wrote: > The benefit of a dedicated Interval type comes from supporting set > operations (&), (|) etc. which are still unmentioned in S03. Have set operations been implemented in either Rakudo or Pugs? > BTW, > what does (1..^5).max return? I think it should be 4 because this > is

Re: Rakudo's fork queue on GitHub

2009-03-01 Thread Chris Dolan
On Mar 1, 2009, at 11:06 AM, Andy Lester wrote: So how about this for the workflow, Patrick: 1) Developer creates a branch to work on a feature or cleanup or whatever 2) Developer commits to dev/rakudo work branch however much she wants. 3) Developer merges back to dev/rakudo master branch

Re: Range and continuous intervals

2009-03-01 Thread TSa (Thomas Sandlaß)
On Friday, 27. February 2009 07:42:17 Darren Duncan wrote: > I was thinking that Perl 6 ought to have a generic interval type that is > conceptually like Range, in that it is defined using a pair of values of an > ordered type and includes all the values between those, but unlike Range > that type

[perl #63566]

2009-03-01 Thread Patrick R. Michaud via RT
Patch applied in 023bb60, thanks! Pm

Re: Rakudo's fork queue on GitHub

2009-03-01 Thread Andy Lester
So how about this for the workflow, Patrick: 1) Developer creates a branch to work on a feature or cleanup or whatever 2) Developer commits to dev/rakudo work branch however much she wants. 3) Developer merges back to dev/rakudo master branch with a "squash" option. 4) Developer posts me

[perl #63506] make spectest: Scope not found for PAST::Var '@INC'

2009-03-01 Thread Patrick R. Michaud via RT
Now fixed in cd8ea0c, thanks! Pm

Re: Help re-building rakudo

2009-03-01 Thread Moritz Lenz
yary wrote: > OK, I'll try some/all of the suggestions. I have a few comments- > > On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 12:06 PM, Patrick R. Michaud > wrote: > ... >> A longer announcement should be hitting the list later today, >> but for now the recommended build sequence for rakudo is: >> >> $ git clone

Re: [perl #63506] make spectest: Scope not found for PAST::Var '@INC'

2009-03-01 Thread Ilia Lobsanov
Module id = TAP::Harness CPAN_USERID ANDYA (Andy Armstrong ) CPAN_VERSION 3.16 CPAN_FILEA/AN/ANDYA/Test-Harness-3.16.tar.gz MANPAGE TAP::Harness - Run test scripts with statistics INST_FILE/opt/local/lib/perl5/5.8.9/TAP/Harness.pm INST_VERSION 3.16 On Sat, Fe

Re: [perl #63566]

2009-03-01 Thread Vasily Chekalkin
Patrick R. Michaud via RT wrote: does this patch work even if someone is running TAP::Harness instead of Test::Harness ? Probably no. But current t/harness explicitly use Test::Harness. -- Bacek

Re: [perl #63374] AutoReply: [BUG] Build fails with segfault while generating gen_settings.pir

2009-03-01 Thread Garrett Rooney
On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 9:56 PM, Patrick R. Michaud wrote: > On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 10:56:02PM -0500, Garrett Rooney wrote: >> On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 11:23 AM, perl6 via RT >> wrote: >> >> > I'm getting a crash on OS X when trying to build rakudo.  This is with >> > parrot r36907 and the curren

[perl #63458] Null PMC access in isa() when calling non-existant rule

2009-03-01 Thread Vasily Chekalkin via RT
On Wed Feb 25 00:49:42 2009, ml...@physik.uni-wuerzburg.de wrote: > 09:45 <@moritz_> rakudo: sub m (&f) { say "a" ~~ m// }; regex outer { > a }; > m(&a) > 09:45 < p6eval> rakudo 7f8ba6: OUTPUT«Null PMC access in isa()␤current > instr.: > '!SIGNATURE_BIND' pc 2559 (s

Re: Masak's S29 list

2009-03-01 Thread Moritz Lenz
Timothy S. Nelson wrote: > Here's my comments on Carl Masak's S29 list. Note that some of the > things that say that they're "now in" something still need a lot of work. > > # Range objects have .from, .to, .min, .max and .minmax methods > > Now in S32/Containers.pod > > # .contains on

Re: [perl #63506] AutoReply: make spectest: Scope not found for PAST::Var '@INC'

2009-03-01 Thread Ilia Lobsanov
This only occurs on the perl 5.8.9 built from macports. I see no such problem on Apple's bundled perl which is 5.8.8 ilia.

r25645 - docs/Perl6/Spec

2009-03-01 Thread pugs-commits
Author: lwall Date: 2009-03-01 09:48:35 +0100 (Sun, 01 Mar 2009) New Revision: 25645 Modified: docs/Perl6/Spec/S02-bits.pod docs/Perl6/Spec/S28-special-names.pod Log: doc tweaks. $?OSVER should be $?OS.ver or some such Modified: docs/Perl6/Spec/S02-bits.pod ===