Re: [perl #128156] dependency errors

2016-05-21 Thread Lloyd Fournier
nine++ has attempted to fix this issue: https://github.com/rakudo/rakudo/commit/c59e4dc44772cb09edeb8aa7f0ce0385f951cf5d Though it seems to have made the failure more random. Try the following: while true; do test -e lib && rm -r lib; # this is needed to trigger it for some reason mkdir

[perl #123934]

2016-05-21 Thread Patrick Zimmermann
(I tried adding this comment about a month ago, but failed hard. Thus another try.) As expressed by perlpilot++ and some others, having say "asdfEnd" ~~ /:ratchet [ xyz | .+! ] End /; say "asdfEnd" ~~ /:ratchet [ xyz || .+! ] End /; say "asdfEnd" ~~ /:ratchet [ .+! ] End /; all fail might also

Re: [perl #126163] [LTA] silence of IterationEnd failures

2016-05-21 Thread Zefram
Sam S. via RT wrote: >is there anything else other than the `CORE::` object that would leak an >`IterationEnd` value into a Seq/List passed to user code? There are some kinds of programming that would be liable to innocently run into the actual object even if it doesn't have a regular name. It lo

Re: can a method name contain a funny character?

2016-05-21 Thread yary
Thanks for the in-depth analysis. My misunderstanding was about what an identifier considers a number; I have no well-thought-out ideas on the subject of what an identifier ought to be. Having the docs mention that "number" means only characters with a Unicode Property GeneralCategory of Nd might

Re: can a method name contain a funny character?

2016-05-21 Thread Larry Wall
On Fri, May 20, 2016 at 09:39:30AM -0400, yary wrote: : On Tue, Apr 12, 2016 at 6:12 PM, Brandon Allbery : wrote: : > I was explaining why some "symbols" are acceptable to the parser. Which : one : > is more appropriate is not my call, : : I was thinking about what exactly are valid identifiers i

Re: [perl #126163] [LTA] silence of IterationEnd failures

2016-05-21 Thread Zefram
Sam S. via RT wrote: >Can you describe an actual example of something a Perl 6 module author >might want to do that could cause IteratorEnd to be leaked outside of >its intended context? Introspect on the CORE:: stash. Perhaps in order to parse code that refers to objects by their Perl 6 names, a

[perl #126701] [JVM] FIRST not executed in 'for' loop

2016-05-21 Thread Christian Bartolomaeus via RT
The tests for FIRST pass now, psch++. I unfudged the tests with commit https://github.com/perl6/roast/commit/ce7363836a and I'm closing this ticket as 'resolved'.

[perl #128094] [JVM] Issues with rakudo-j after merge of branch 'relocateable-precomp'

2016-05-21 Thread Christian Bartolomaeus via RT
As a status update: things are substantially better now (2016.04-218-gaa2715d) -- thanks to nine++ and psch++ + stresstest runs in a reasonable time again (precompiled Test.pm can be used) + test for RT #114354 passes again + FIRST works now The remaining issues are: - 'make install' still fa

Announce: Rakudo Perl 6 compiler, Release #99 (2016.05)

2016-05-21 Thread Rob Hoelz
On behalf of the Rakudo development team, I’m very happy to announce the May 2016 release of Rakudo Perl 6 #99. Rakudo is an implementation of Perl 6 on the Moar Virtual Machine[^1]. This release implements the 6.c version of the Perl 6 specifications. It includes bugfixes and optimizations on top