Re: [perl #125938] Numbers: 2**10000000000 and 1/(2**10000)

2016-03-19 Thread Parrot Raiser
"I get slightly different behavior:" - that's not surprising, given 7 months' difference between compiler versions. The division's 0 is probably justified, depending on your definition of epsilon ("Close enough for government work"), but is 1 a reasonable substitute for "an implausibly large numbe

[perl #127723] [BUG] "42" is wrongly rejected by from-json, even though it's valid JSON in Rakudo

2016-03-19 Thread Carl Mäsak
# New Ticket Created by "Carl Mäsak" # Please include the string: [perl #127723] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=127723 > m: from-json("42") rakudo-moar ad1928: OUTPUT«Invalid JSON: 42 [...] this seems to be

[perl #127736] [META] Issues blocking 2016.03 release

2016-03-19 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by Will Coleda # Please include the string: [perl #127736] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=127736 > -- Will "Coke" Coleda

[perl #127725] [Feature request] Method to convert a file descriptor to a filehandle

2016-03-19 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by Azry # Please include the string: [perl #127725] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=127725 > Hi! I would appreciate if an IO::Handle class could be created from a file descriptor. >From wh

[perl #127730] [BUG] SEGV with "output" CArray[Cstruct] in NativeCall

2016-03-19 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by Jonathan Stowe # Please include the string: [perl #127730] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=127730 > I found this trying to make a binding for portmidi. If one has library function that t

[perl #127726] Should NativeCall expose wchar_t?

2016-03-19 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by David Warring # Please include the string: [perl #127726] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=127726 > Prompted by this SO question http://stackoverflow.com/questions/35797181/native-calling

[perl #127737] Add support for native str arrays

2016-03-19 Thread Will Coleda via RT
On Fri Mar 18 06:52:28 2016, coke wrote: > https://github.com/rakudo/rakudo/commit/eed4ebb0c0 > > was committed to nom with this commit message: > > Because we currently release from nom, this needs to be reviewed ASAP, > as we have to deal with the spec issue before we cut a release. > > > >