Re: using git-bisect on rakudo

2014-03-29 Thread Siddhant Saraf
Oh noez ! Now even parrot fails to build with this error: " init::manifest - Check MANIFEST...No such file: editor/parrot.el Ack, some files were missing! I can't continue running without everything here. Please try to find the above files and then try running Configure again. " Full log

using git-bisect on rakudo

2014-03-28 Thread Siddhant Saraf
Hello, I used to be unable to build nqp-p a month ago or so. Recently, that changed, and now parrot + nqp-p builds fine. (rakudo doens't build yet, but that is another email) Now I want to find out which commit fixed things for me. I know how to use git-bisect on a single repo to find the commit

say vs print for .WHAT

2012-06-28 Thread Siddhant Saraf
(In Rakudo's REPL) > say 'a'.WHAT; Str() > print 'a'.WHAT; use of uninitialized variable $v of type Str in string context True > What is happening here? Is this a bug? ( Coz I don't see any $v variable anywhere.) What is the "True" indicating? (in niecza's REPL) niecza> say 'a'.WHAT; Str() niecz

Re: [perl #66152] Rakudo consumes excessive resources for a simple loop

2012-05-28 Thread Siddhant Saraf
On Mon, May 28, 2012 at 8:29 AM, Will Coleda via RT wrote: > > On Sat May 30 10:58:04 2009, a...@ali.as wrote: > > As requested by chromatic > > > > http://use.perl.org/~korpenkraxar/journal/39051 > > This url is now a 404. Anyone have the original text Here is the archived text: http://web.archi

Re: The trouble with awesome

2012-05-25 Thread Siddhant Saraf
Hello Estarde, (since I'm the 'new' guy in the community, I think only I have the energy to explain it to you :-) Well, try to think of Perl 6 as a human. Of course you can change a person's name, but who will go to the trouble of it all? eh? After all, we all know how some Mr. XYZ father likes t

[perl #113026] a much better bug report

2012-05-21 Thread Siddhant Saraf
(so please ignore my initial report, because it was lazily written, here is the proper bugreport, restated with clarity) The following loop should iterate infinitely, but it does not: my @array = 1, 2; for @array -> $n { $n.say; @array.push: $n + 2; } say @rray;

allow .re and .im to be l-values

2012-05-18 Thread Siddhant Saraf
r: my $x = 4 + 2i; $x.re = 5; rakudo 45679a: OUTPUT«Cannot assign to a non-container␤ in block at /tmp/PeeJaa8bWJ:1␤␤» I think $x.re (Real part of $x) and $x.im (Imaginary part of $x) should be allowed to be l-values. What do you say? Will this affect the performance of Rakudo, Niecza ? Recen