Re: [perl #56304] AutoReply: smokej consumes all memory Revision: 28672 on linux

2008-07-04 Thread Andy Armstrong
s under certain circumstances. Fixed in svn. I'm going to be making a new release sometime in the next couple of days. Might be worth hanging on to see if that fixes it? -- Andy Armstrong, Hexten

Re: Musings on operator overloading (was: File-Fu overloading)

2008-02-24 Thread Andy Armstrong
$h = HTML::Tiny->new(); $h->body($h->head($h->title('FooPage')), $h->body(...)); I'd love to be able to drop the '$h->' everywhere. Like this: $h->body( head( title( 'FooPage' ) ), body( ... ) ); I guess that would/could be a related mechanism. -- Andy Armstrong, Hexten

Re: make test errors (likely test harness related)

2008-01-12 Thread Andy Armstrong
ill probably be released in the next few days. In the mean-time early adopters and those afflicted by a broken 3.01 can grab 3.02 from the subversion repo: http://svn.hexten.net/tapx/trunk Or can download a tarball of the latest build from http://hexten.net/tapx/ Thanks for the report :) --

Re: Another deadlock on Mac OS 10.5.1

2007-12-31 Thread Andy Armstrong
On 31 Dec 2007, at 11:50, Andy Armstrong wrote: Sure thing. What's the approved method of running a single test? Ignore this. -- Andy Armstrong, Hexten

Re: Another deadlock on Mac OS 10.5.1

2007-12-31 Thread Andy Armstrong
thod of running a single test? -- Andy Armstrong, Hexten

Re: Another deadlock on Mac OS 10.5.1

2007-12-31 Thread Andy Armstrong
On 31 Dec 2007, at 05:04, chromatic wrote: Full test log available on request. I'd like to see verbose output for just the shootout tests. I've fixed those a few times before. $ perl t/harness -v t/examples/shootout.t 2&>1 > shootout.txt http://hexten.net/junk/s

Another deadlock on Mac OS 10.5.1

2007-12-30 Thread Andy Armstrong
esult: FAIL $ uname -a Linux shonky 2.6.20-16-powerpc #3 Sun Sep 23 19:20:00 UTC 2007 ppc GNU/ Linux Full test log available on request. -- Andy Armstrong, Hexten

Another deadlock on Mac OS 10.5.1

2007-12-30 Thread Andy Armstrong
Sorry if I've missed something recent that means that this is expected behaviour but r24318 is hanging during make test on Mac OS 10.5.1 / Intel. The test log and pictures of the process probe are here: http://hexten.net/junk/20071230-193600/ -- Andy Armstrong, Hexten

Re: Platform testing for concurrency scheduler runloop

2007-12-12 Thread Andy Armstrong
On 12 Dec 2007, at 19:53, Allison Randal wrote: So, I'm interested to see what your 10.5 box does. I uncommented the Parrot_cx calls and ran the tests twice - once with CX_DEBUG = 1, once with CX_DEBUG = 0. It got through them all both times :) -- Andy Armstrong, Hexten

Re: Status of docs/embed.pod and Parrot::Embed?

2007-12-11 Thread Andy Armstrong
On 11 Dec 2007, at 22:39, Tim Bunce wrote: Perhaps new contributors could make notes about stumblings blocks encountered along the way, so we know where to put signposts for others who follow. Good plan. I'll keep notes. -- Andy Armstrong, Hexten

Re: Status of docs/embed.pod and Parrot::Embed?

2007-12-11 Thread Andy Armstrong
headspace I'll just pick a ticket and run with it, thanks. -- Andy Armstrong, Hexten

Re: VMs in the news

2007-12-11 Thread Andy Armstrong
On 11 Dec 2007, at 17:28, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: "Andy" == Andy Armstrong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Andy> Or perhaps somebody could podcast an interview with them? :) Perhaps you were joking, but I noted that as a potential show for FLOSS Weekly. Thanks for the

Re: VMs in the news

2007-12-11 Thread Andy Armstrong
On 11 Dec 2007, at 04:57, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: "Andy" == Andy Armstrong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Andy> Rubinus (new Ruby runtime) Andy> http://www.infoq.com/news/2007/12/engine-yard-bets-big-rubinius I'm trying to figure out why Rubinous is building a

VMs in the news

2007-12-10 Thread Andy Armstrong
Rubinus (new Ruby runtime) http://www.infoq.com/news/2007/12/engine-yard-bets-big-rubinius C--: a portable assembly language that supports garbage collection http://research.microsoft.com/~simonpj/Papers/c--/c--gc.htm Everybody's at it :) -- Andy Armstrong, Hexten

Re: Status of docs/embed.pod and Parrot::Embed?

2007-12-10 Thread Andy Armstrong
3.00 - so to some extent I've answered my own question - but I'd like to get my hands dirty with Parrot proper too. -- Andy Armstrong, Hexten

Re: Platform testing for concurrency scheduler runloop

2007-12-09 Thread Andy Armstrong
On 9 Dec 2007, at 21:02, Allison Randal wrote: Andy Armstrong wrote: And Instruments is telling me this: http://hexten.net/junk/parrot1.png Nice level of detail in this tool. Almost worth the cost of 10.5 all on its own. It seems rather lovely. Bear in mind that I didn't even laun

Re: Platform testing for concurrency scheduler runloop

2007-12-08 Thread Andy Armstrong
y with CX_DEBUG enabled - including once during make rather than make test. What next? -- Andy Armstrong, Hexten

Re: Platform testing for concurrency scheduler runloop

2007-12-08 Thread Andy Armstrong
On 8 Dec 2007, at 14:18, Andy Armstrong wrote: Please let me know if there's anything you'd like me to investigate. I'm afraid I don't know my way around parrot, er, at all - but I'm willing to learn. Ah, Mac OS 10.5 has dtrace - which I hadn't tried befor

Re: Platform testing for concurrency scheduler runloop

2007-12-08 Thread Andy Armstrong
willing to learn. In happier news it's snowing here and repeatedly running the parrot test suite is warming my knees up nicely :) -- Andy Armstrong, Hexten

Re: Platform testing for concurrency scheduler runloop

2007-12-08 Thread Andy Armstrong
.287/335 for about ten minutes until I interrupted it and then t/op/string_cs.1/50 for another ten or so minutes. -- Andy Armstrong, Hexten

Re: What is the origin of the nickname, "Texas quotes"?

2007-12-07 Thread Andy Armstrong
On 7 Dec 2007, at 23:19, Chas. Owens wrote: That is my take on it: "Everything is bigger in Texas", even French Quotes. You know, from a complete outsider's perspective, I really prefer the Paris, Texas explanation :) -- Andy Armstrong, Hexten

Re: Pair notation for number radix

2007-12-04 Thread Andy Armstrong
On 4 Dec 2007, at 16:19, Andy Armstrong wrote: my $amp = '&'; # No unit, plain text my $body = "$amp"html; # gets & Per http://search.cpan.org/~andya/String-Smart/ I should say. -- Andy Armstrong, Hexten

Re: Pair notation for number radix

2007-12-04 Thread Andy Armstrong
olating plain text into a string that has the unit 'html' would force a (user defined) html upgrade on the interpolated text. On the other hand my $amp = '&'html; my $body = "$amp"html; # gets & -- Andy Armstrong, Hexten

Re: xml and perl 6

2007-11-28 Thread Andy Armstrong
On 28 Nov 2007, at 18:28, James Fuller wrote: A few things I could imagine; native XML data type (and whatever that means at this late stage) What might that mean at any stage? -- Andy Armstrong, Hexten

Re: [perl #47453] make test errors (likely test harness related)

2007-11-15 Thread Andy Armstrong
px/trunk Or can download a tarball of the latest build from http://hexten.net/tapx/ Thanks for the report :) -- Andy Armstrong, Hexten

Re: [perl #47453] make test errors (likely test harness related)

2007-11-14 Thread Andy Armstrong
about two months ago (and I reported it at the time) and it went away when I uninstalled T::H 2.99_02. That's a pretty compelling smoking gun :) I'm checking out parrot now... -- Andy Armstrong, Hexten

Re: [perl #47453] make test errors (likely test harness related)

2007-11-14 Thread Andy Armstrong
x/trunk/blib/lib -I/Users/ andy/Works/Perl/TAPx-Parser/tapx/trunk/blib/arch parrot.t ok All tests successful. Files=1, Tests=1, 0 wallclock secs ( 0.01 usr + 0.00 sys = 0.01 CPU) Result: PASS The only difference seems to be that T::H 3.01 makes the paths absolute. If I get time tomorrow I'll install parrot on this machine and try it for real. -- Andy Armstrong, Hexten

Re: [Win32] There's a new compiler in town (sort of)

2007-08-07 Thread Andy Armstrong
On 7 Aug 2007, at 15:51, Andy Lester wrote: Does MS provide any cheapie installs of their compiler? I now have WinXP running on my Mac laptop and it would be swell if I could do builds on MSVC, too. This any use? http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/ -- Andy Armstrong, hexten.net

Re: memcpy

2007-06-19 Thread Andy Armstrong
* copy int at q into int at p */ *p = *q; /* the same */ p = q; /* p and q point to same memory */ You're thinking of the third case - Andy is doing the second. -- Andy Armstrong, hexten.net

Re: x, xx, and negative counts

2007-05-29 Thread Andy Armstrong
r than adding some other potentially useful functionality? You're going to surprise people who use x to create padding strings if a negative count produces a padding string of the same length. -- Andy Armstrong, hexten.net

Re: Comments on File of the Week: debug.c

2007-05-16 Thread Andy Armstrong
a as it is for C :) (which is to say, Java is also guaranteed to short circuit properly as are most other mainstream languages these days) -- Andy Armstrong, hexten.net

Re: Comments on File of the Week: debug.c

2007-05-16 Thread Andy Armstrong
On 16 May 2007, at 15:20, Andy Armstrong wrote: More pedantically bitwise & and | are guaranteed to evaluate both arguments. And as you say they don't constitute a sequence point[1] so the order of evaluation of the arguments is undefined. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seque

Re: Comments on File of the Week: debug.c

2007-05-16 Thread Andy Armstrong
hort circuit completely reliably. -- Andy Armstrong, hexten.net

Re: Is Perl 6 too late?

2007-05-14 Thread Andy Armstrong
On 14 May 2007, at 12:31, Thomas Wittek wrote: How did C, C#, Java, Ruby, Python, Lua, JavaScript, Visual Basic, etc. know? They didn't. If there is a new release, you always have to check if your code still runs. I think that may be the point I'm making. -- Andy Armstrong, hexten.net

Re: Is Perl 6 too late?

2007-05-14 Thread Andy Armstrong
in the future so you could avoid them all? -- Andy Armstrong, hexten.net

Re: Enhanced enumerations

2007-03-19 Thread Andy Armstrong
is all :) -- Andy Armstrong, hexten.net

Re: for ... else

2007-03-04 Thread Andy Armstrong
at or a close variation of it was a pretty common idiom. -- Andy Armstrong, hexten.net

Re: "Don't tell me what I can't do!"

2006-10-02 Thread Andy Armstrong
The security angle is that it prevents the creation of subclasses that can circumvent security restrictions in the base class. I wonder if some of the debate here was informed by the perception that 'final' is a valuable feature in Java whereas actually it's a hacky bodge to solve a couple of language design problems? -- Andy Armstrong, hexten.net

Re: renaming "grep" to "where"

2006-09-20 Thread Andy Armstrong
On 20 Sep 2006, at 19:05, Larry Wall wrote: Let it be. :) I could just as easily have called for a revolution :) -- Andy Armstrong, hexten.net

Re: renaming "grep" to "where"

2006-09-20 Thread Andy Armstrong
onnotation - but 'grep' has the benefit that it also has an existing perl connotation. -- Andy Armstrong, hexten.net

Re: Accelerating Method Dispatch

2006-09-13 Thread Andy Armstrong
n the same as) PIC? It's not quite the same is it? The method Avi and Piers describe involves a normal call to a method the first action of which is to find out whether it's really the correct method. -- Andy Armstrong, hexten.net