Re: I need `dir` help

2018-05-10 Thread jerry gay
i'm afraid you didn't read the docs very closely... Returns the contents of a directory as a lazy list of IO::Path objects stringifying an IO::Path object gives you a large string. the examples in the docs take up more room than the description of the routine. here's the first: Examples: > # T

Re: need <-[x]> help

2018-05-03 Thread jerry gay
you want a negative lookahead assertion, which are described (with an example) at https://docs.perl6.org/language/regexes#Lookahead_Assertions On Thu, May 3, 2018 at 3:10 AM, Todd Chester wrote: > Hi All, > > What I am trying to do is to replace a quote `"` > with `inches`, but NOT when the quot

Re: s:g/T/U/ doesn't work ?

2012-10-24 Thread jerry gay
On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 5:35 AM, Marc Chantreux wrote: > Cannot assign to a non-container > in sub infix:<=> at src/gen/CORE.setting:11692 > in block at /tmp/ZZZ:4 > you're attempting to modify a string constant, which cannot be modified. try something like (untested): my $snippet

Re: How are unrecognized options to built-in pod block types treated?

2010-08-04 Thread jerry gay
On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 15:56, Damian Conway wrote: > Carl proposed: > >> The other path that seems reasonable to me would be to use the same >> naming scheme as for the block types, i.e. reserve all-upper and >> all-lower forms (and die if an unrecognized one of this form is >> encountered), and l

Re: Radix (base) conversion

2010-07-23 Thread jerry gay
On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 07:45, Mark J. Reed wrote: > No, 42/13 is 42 over 13, which is 3 + 3/13.  Let's not confuse > fractions and bases, please. > ha! yet another case of crossed wires too early in the morning. sorry for the confusion, i've been making similar apologies all day. too bad i don'

Re: Radix (base) conversion

2010-07-23 Thread jerry gay
On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 05:17, Jan Ingvoldstad wrote: > Hi. > > I was fiddling about with a small example of how nice radix adverbials are > for conversion: > > my $x = 6*9; > say :13($x); > > rakudo: 69 > > ($x = 54 in base 10, but 54 in base 13 is 69 in base 10.) > > Strangely enough, I cannot f

Re: Command-line args (weekly contribution to P6)

2010-05-26 Thread jerry gay
On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 00:53, Moritz Lenz wrote: > The spec doesn't elaborate on how the short args are specified in the > signature of MAIN. I see two possible approaches (that don't contradict): > > 1) one renames them in the signature, so it would like > > sub MAIN(:name(:$n)) > > then $n has

Re: r29129 - docs/Perl6/Spec

2009-11-19 Thread jerry gay
On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 08:17, Thom Boyer wrote: > I'm curious about the change from "blorst" to "blast." I quickly figured out > that "blorst" was > derived from "BLock OR STatement" (as S04 used to say: "In fact, > most of these phasers will take either a block or a statement (known as > a I in

Announce: Rakudo Perl 6 development release #21 ("Seattle")

2009-09-17 Thread jerry gay
On behalf of the Rakudo development team, I'm pleased to announce the September 2009 development release of Rakudo Perl #21 "Seattle". Rakudo is an implementation of Perl 6 on the Parrot Virtual Machine [1]. The tarball for the September 2009 release is available from http://github.com/rakudo/rakud

Parrot 1.6.0, "half-pie" Released!

2009-09-15 Thread jerry gay
On behalf of the Parrot team, I'm proud to announce Parrot 1.6.0 "half-pie." Parrot (http://parrot.org/) is a virtual machine aimed at running all dynamic languages. Parrot 1.6.0 is available on Parrot's FTP site, or follow the download instructions at http://parrot.org/download. For those who wo

Re: S26 - The Next Generation

2009-08-19 Thread jerry gay
On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 11:03, Kyle Hasselbacher wrote: > Perl 5 programmers are sometimes surprised to find that 'perl -c > strange.pl' can execute code.  Imagine their surprise to find that > 'perl6doc' does too. > this is why it's spelled 'perl6 --doc', which should give you some hint that you'r

Re: Embedded comments: two proposed solutions to the comment-whole-lines problem

2009-08-11 Thread jerry gay
for the latest spec changes regarding this item, see http://perlcabal.org/svn/pugs/revision/?rev=27959. is everyone equally miserable now? ;) ~jerry

Re: [perl #65006] mingw32-make realclean doesn't clean everything

2009-04-27 Thread jerry gay
On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 08:02, Patrick R. Michaud wrote: > On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 07:04:28AM -0700, webmas...@cosmicperl.com via RT > wrote: >> Infinoid helped me track the problem down to * being escaped on some of >> the directories for the cleanup. So things like:- >> $(PMC_DIR)\*.h >> Need t

Re: %ARGH

2009-04-19 Thread jerry gay
On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 18:57, Timothy S. Nelson wrote: >        Hi all.  Can we change %*OPTS to %*ARGH ?  By analogy with @ARGS, but > a hash of args?  I've always used that, and kind of like the amusement > factor :). > > cute, but please, no. %*OPTS is descriptive and properly huffmanized. f

Re: Logo considerations

2009-03-23 Thread jerry gay
On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 09:22, Richard Hainsworth wrote: > Hats off to the designer of the gimel symbol - the associations with anarchy > are probably right for perl6. But to be honest, a letter didnt quite inspire > me. Since, I dont want to criticize without providing other ideas, here are > som

Re: r25745 - docs/Perl6/Spec

2009-03-09 Thread jerry gay
On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 10:16, Patrick R. Michaud wrote: >> On Sun, Mar 08, 2009 at 09:43:17AM +0100, pugs-comm...@feather.perl6.nl >> wrote: >> =item * ws >> >> Match whitespace between tokens. >> >> =item * space >> >> Match a single whitespace character. Hence C< > is equivalent to C< >> + >.

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

Re: Rakudo Perl development release #14 ("Vienna")

2009-02-26 Thread jerry gay
On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 22:04, Patrick R. Michaud wrote: > On behalf of the Rakudo development team, I'm pleased to announce > the February 2009 development release of Rakudo Perl #14 "Vienna". > Rakudo is an implementation of Perl 6 on the Parrot Virtual Machine [1]. > The tarball for the Februar

Re: How do the test suites differ?

2009-02-21 Thread jerry gay
On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 12:13, Andy Lester wrote: > Rakudo has a test suite. It also pulls in the spec test suite. > > If I work on some tests (as one might expect), where should I put them? > What are the criteria for what goes where? > if you're testing the innermost internals of rakudo--the m

Re: Question about testing perl6, rakudo or pugs online

2009-02-13 Thread jerry gay
On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 06:37, dev.null.box wrote: > Hi... > > I´m used to test oneliners on the perl6 irc channel when i´m at > home... But, at work, latetly i´m having lots of free time (this week > has been sooo boring). > > But, i have irc blocked at my office (and yes, i´ve tried alternative

Re: [perl #39714] [TODO] Refactor IMCC to remove static globals

2009-02-12 Thread jerry gay
On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 15:53, Will Coleda wrote: > On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 6:09 PM, kjstol wrote: >> On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 9:22 PM, Will Coleda via RT < >> parrotbug-follo...@parrotcode.org> wrote: >> >>> On Tue Jul 04 19:30:44 2006, autri...@gmail.com wrote: >>> > IMCC currently relies on a l

Re: [perl #36330] [TODO] Create a BigNum PMC

2009-02-05 Thread jerry gay
On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 10:23, Will Coleda wrote: > On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 1:12 PM, chromatic wrote: >> On Thursday 05 February 2009 08:57:18 jerry gay wrote: >> >>> we will roll our own bignum, and give users the ability to use gmp or >>> another external libr

Re: [perl #37993] [BUG] optimized parrot behaves differently than non-optimized (win32-msvc)

2009-02-05 Thread jerry gay
On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 10:44, Reini Urban via RT wrote: > On Thu Jan 29 06:05:13 2009, Whiteknight wrote: >> On Wed Dec 24 05:39:54 2008, Whiteknight wrote: >> > On Tue Dec 23 19:02:17 2008, jk...@verizon.net wrote: >> > > On Sat Jun 14 17:15:32 2008, jk...@verizon.net wrote: >> > > > Would it be

Re: [perl #36330] [TODO] Create a BigNum PMC

2009-02-05 Thread jerry gay
On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 08:45, Andrew Whitworth via RT wrote: > On Thu Feb 05 08:40:47 2009, particle wrote: >> On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 08:26, Andrew Whitworth via RT >> wrote: >> > 1) Are we going to be relying on libraries to handle our BigInt/BigNum >> > implementations, or are we intending to r

Re: [perl #36330] [TODO] Create a BigNum PMC

2009-02-05 Thread jerry gay
On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 08:26, Andrew Whitworth via RT wrote: > 1) Are we going to be relying on libraries to handle our BigInt/BigNum > implementations, or are we intending to roll our own? we can't rely on external libraries, whether for bignum, unicode, gc, or anything else. we can detect and u

Re: [perl #62974] Signed-zero tests failing on Windows XP

2009-02-01 Thread jerry gay
On Sun, Feb 1, 2009 at 13:07, Will Coleda wrote: > On Sun, Feb 1, 2009 at 12:29 PM, via RT Alan Rocker > wrote: >> # New Ticket Created by Alan Rocker >> # Please include the string: [perl #62974] >> # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. >> # http://rt.perl.org/rt

Re: [perl #59790] t/stm/basic_mt.t #4 hangs on several platforms

2009-01-31 Thread jerry gay
On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 16:06, James Keenan via RT wrote: > The t/stm/*.t tests have gone away (when or whence I do not know), so I > propose we close this ticket. Any objections? > the STM subsystem has been removed. close the ticket, and all other STM-related tickets. ~jerry

Re: [svn:parrot] r36057 - in trunk: . config/auto config/auto/format config/gen/config_h include/parrot src t/compilers/imcc/syn t/op

2009-01-27 Thread jerry gay
On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 10:58, Nicholas Clark wrote: > On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 10:24:46AM -0800, parti...@cvs.perl.org wrote: > >> -gen_sprintf_call(tc, &info, ch); >> -ts = cstr2pstr(tc); >> +/* check for Inf and

Re: Rakudo repository -- svn or git?

2009-01-27 Thread jerry gay
On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 08:18, Patrick R. Michaud wrote: > I will be making a decision (and possibly starting the > migration) tomorrow. If anyone has any strong opinions > one way or another, please let them be known quickly. > I'd also prefer that we not get into long discussions at this > time

Re: RFD: Built-in testing

2009-01-23 Thread jerry gay
On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 12:37, Dave Whipp wrote: > I could also imagine writing code that reads from an Sqlite database, and > imposes that info onto the test. Whatever mechanism is used, I think we need > a language-defined mechanism to supply a stable unique identifier for each > test, so that i

Re: RFD: Built-in testing

2009-01-22 Thread jerry gay
On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 09:22, Moritz Lenz wrote: > Richard Hainsworth wrote: > But it is interesting to think about the case where a user wants two > different diagnostic test messages (to all the testing gurus out there: > do you actually want such a feature?). It shouldn't be too hard to do; >

Re: RFD: Built-in testing

2009-01-21 Thread jerry gay
On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 13:44, Ovid wrote: > - Original Message > >> From: Moritz Lenz > >> * the word 'is' is overloaded in Perl 6 >>* if we export subs is() and ok(), we clutter the >> namespace with subs with short names >>* is() is rather imprecise; it doesn't say *h

Re: A Logo design for Rakudo Perl 6

2009-01-16 Thread jerry gay
On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 07:46, Guy Hulbert wrote: > On Fri, 2009-16-01 at 09:16 -0600, Patrick R. Michaud wrote: >> I agree fully about the need for a visual representation; as far as >> the name goes I'm hoping that people will think of "Rakudo Perl" in >> a manner to the way that we currently t

Re: r24846 - docs/Perl6/Spec

2009-01-09 Thread jerry gay
On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 14:26, Eirik Berg Hanssen wrote: > "jerry gay" writes: > >> On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 13:16, Eirik Berg Hanssen >> wrote: >>> That doesn't look very "eager" to me. >>> >> it's "eager"

Re: r24846 - docs/Perl6/Spec

2009-01-09 Thread jerry gay
On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 13:16, Eirik Berg Hanssen wrote: > pugs-comm...@feather.perl6.nl writes: > >> +C<--prelude=Perl6-autoloop-no-print>. Since eager matching is used, if you >> +need to pass something like: >> >> + ++foo -bar ++foo baz ++/foo ++/foo >> >> +you'll end up with >> + >> + %+OPTS

Re: [perl #62116] no interpolation into string of array element

2009-01-09 Thread jerry gay
On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 08:26, Jonathan Scott Duff wrote: > On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 9:49 AM, jerry gay wrote: >> >> On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 02:31, via RT Richard Hainsworth >> wrote: >> > # New Ticket Created by Richard Hainsworth >> > # Please include t

Re: [perl #62116] no interpolation into string of array element

2009-01-09 Thread jerry gay
On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 02:31, via RT Richard Hainsworth wrote: > # New Ticket Created by Richard Hainsworth > # Please include the string: [perl #62116] > # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. > # http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=62116 > > > > Array el

Re: [perl #62010] [PATCH] fix PARROT_EXPORT visibility=default for gcc other than 4.x

2009-01-08 Thread jerry gay
On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 15:42, Mark Glines wrote: > donald.hun...@gmail.com wrote: >> >> I was pretty averse to adding an additional configure step myself. The >> problem is that warnings.pm checks specifically for supported compiler flags >> and I didn't want to include other things there. The bug

Re: r24737 - docs/Perl6/Spec

2009-01-02 Thread jerry gay
On Fri, Jan 2, 2009 at 11:24, Geoffrey Broadwell wrote: > Thank you for the quick turnaround! > > On Fri, 2009-01-02 at 10:55 -0800, jerry gay wrote: >> On Fri, Jan 2, 2009 at 09:27, Geoffrey Broadwell wrote: >> > It's also not >> > obvious what a boolean n

Re: r24737 - docs/Perl6/Spec

2009-01-02 Thread jerry gay
On Fri, Jan 2, 2009 at 09:27, Geoffrey Broadwell wrote: > On Fri, 2009-01-02 at 17:08 +0100, pugs-comm...@feather.perl6.nl wrote: >> +=head2 Synopsis >> + >> + multi sub perl6( >> +Bool :a($autosplit), >> +Bool :c($check-syntax), >> +Bool :$doc, >> +:e($execute), >> +:$execute

Re: r24711 - docs/Perl6/Spec

2009-01-02 Thread jerry gay
On Thu, Jan 1, 2009 at 03:30, Darren Duncan wrote: > pugs-comm...@feather.perl6.nl wrote: >> >> --name :name >> --name=value:name >> --name="spacy value":name«'spacy value'» >> --name='spacy value':name«'spacy value'» >> --na

Re: [perl #61440] Rakudo complains about the wrong thing when matching * ~~ 1

2008-12-18 Thread jerry gay
On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 12:36, via RT Carl Mäsak wrote: > # New Ticket Created by "Carl Mäsak" > # Please include the string: [perl #61440] > # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. > # http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=61440 > > > > rakudo: * ~~ 1 > ra

Re: Perl6's RE(P)L

2008-12-18 Thread jerry gay
On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 11:51, Moritz Lenz wrote: >> Since Perl 5 has no REPL, I'm not sure where such a spec would go. S20, >> maybe, since the debugger is the closest thing? > > or maybe S19, because it defines the console interface to the rest of > the world. Or just pick a not-yet-used number

Re: 6PAN Spec question

2008-12-18 Thread jerry gay
On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 05:45, Mark Overmeer wrote: > * Daniel Ruoso (dan...@ruoso.com) [081218 13:39]: >> Em Qui, 2008-12-18 às 13:08 +1100, Timothy S. Nelson escreveu: >> > My question is, what sort of information actually belongs in a final >> > version of the 6PAN spec? I'm assuming it wi

Re: [perl #57492] [CAGE] Explore possible speedups of t/configure/*.t tests

2008-11-23 Thread jerry gay
On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 13:26, James Keenan via RT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon Sep 08 18:43:49 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> On Tue Aug 19 19:28:43 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> > A net total of 5 t/configure/*.t files were eliminated tonight as part >> > of r30368 (RT 57780). >> >>

Re: [perl #60732] Hash indexes shouldn't work on array refs

2008-11-21 Thread jerry gay
On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 10:43, via RT Moritz Lenz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > # New Ticket Created by Moritz Lenz > # Please include the string: [perl #60732] > # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. > # http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=60732 > > > > Fr

Re: [perl #60624] [DEPRECATED] PARROT_API changes to PARROT_EXPORT

2008-11-18 Thread jerry gay
On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 05:16, Andrew Whitworth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 9:50 PM, via RT Jerry Gay > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > # New Ticket Created by Jerry Gay > > # Please include the string: [perl #60624] > > # in the subje

Re: [perl #60568] Re: Broken link to Debian packages

2008-11-16 Thread jerry gay
On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 23:39, via RT Matt Kraai < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > # New Ticket Created by Matt Kraai > # Please include the string: [perl #60568] > # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. > # http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=60568 > > > > On

Re: [perl #60566] Broken link to Debian packages

2008-11-16 Thread jerry gay
On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 23:37, via RT Matt Kraai < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > # New Ticket Created by Matt Kraai > # Please include the string: [perl #60566] > # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. > # http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=60566 > > > > Ho

Re: Numify

2008-11-06 Thread jerry gay
On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 23:22, Chris Dolan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In "[perl #60350] [TODO] default __get_string method", Patrick added a > default Object.Str() that classes can override to get custom > stringification. Formerly, you could do that only by defining a method > named __get_string

Re: Why {{}} for regexp closures instead of just {}?

2008-10-27 Thread jerry gay
On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 10:45 PM, Chris Dolan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > S05 always uses single curlies for closures, but throughout Parrot, code > seems to use double curlies in PGE regexps. Why is that? > > That is, why this: > m/ foo {{ say "found foo" }} / > and not this: > m/ foo { say "f

Re: Parrot 0.8.0, "Pareto Principle" released

2008-10-24 Thread jerry gay
On 10/24/08, Elyse M. Grasso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Friday 24 October 2008, jerry gay wrote: >> On behalf of the Parrot team, I'm proud to announce Parrot 0.8.0 >> "Pareto Principle." Parrot (http://parrotcode.org/) is a virtual >> machine aimed

Parrot 0.8.0, "Pareto Principle" released

2008-10-24 Thread jerry gay
On behalf of the Parrot team, I'm proud to announce Parrot 0.8.0 "Pareto Principle." Parrot (http://parrotcode.org/) is a virtual machine aimed at running all dynamic languages. Parrot 0.8.0 is available via CPAN, or follow the download instructions at http://parrotcode.org/source.html. For those

Re: [perl #60098] [BUG] "load_bytecode" couldn't find file 'P6object.pbc'

2008-10-24 Thread jerry gay
On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 8:49 AM, via RT Canol Gökel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > # New Ticket Created by Canol Gökel > # Please include the string: [perl #60098] > # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. > # http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=60098 > > > >

Re: [perl #60070] [BUG] "make opsrenumber" causes build to fail

2008-10-22 Thread jerry gay
On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 10:49 PM, Patrick R. Michaud (via RT) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > # New Ticket Created by Patrick R. Michaud > # Please include the string: [perl #60070] > # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. > # http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?

Re: [perl #48549] [DEPRECATED] [PDD19] Let .namespace (no args) have empty brackets

2008-10-20 Thread jerry gay
On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 6:49 AM, jerry gay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 11:42 AM, Andrew Whitworth via RT > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Wed Jul 30 11:57:39 2008, coke wrote: >>> PDD19 lists this as deprecated now, changing from an [RFC

Re: Fw: Running Perl 6 Tests

2008-10-20 Thread jerry gay
On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 8:55 AM, Ovid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It would help if I sent this to the correct mailing list. Oops. > > Cheers, > Ovid > > --- On Mon, 20/10/08, Ovid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I've been doing some work integrating Perl 6 into vim >> and now I'm trying to figure

Re: [perl #59940] [patch] convert perl tests to parrot

2008-10-18 Thread jerry gay
On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 4:00 PM, Mark Grimes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The attached patch now includes the pir/pasm_error_output* tests in > pir. I have also added t/pmc/complex.t. Couple of issues: > > 1) I am not sure how to deal with pcc_sub's so I put them into > t/pmc/objects-pcc_sub.t > 2)

Re: [perl #36249] [TODO] Document policy on breakage, er, backward compatibility.

2008-10-16 Thread jerry gay
On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 10:12 AM, Andrew Whitworth via RT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat Jun 11 13:08:49 2005, chip wrote: >> Short version: Up through version 0.8 or so, we promise to break >> everything constantly (but not until we have a good reason). After >> that, we will establish versi

Re: [perl #48549] [DEPRECATED] [PDD19] Let .namespace (no args) have empty brackets

2008-10-16 Thread jerry gay
On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 11:42 AM, Andrew Whitworth via RT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed Jul 30 11:57:39 2008, coke wrote: >> PDD19 lists this as deprecated now, changing from an [RFC] to >> [DEPRECATED], re-opening from stalled. > > The big hangup for this ticket is that various parts of PCT

Re: [svn:parrot] r31983 - trunk/languages/perl6/src/parser

2008-10-15 Thread jerry gay
On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 8:15 PM, Patrick R. Michaud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 01:39:32PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> -if $ { >> +my $name := $; >> +if $name { >> [...] >> -PAST::Val.new( :value(~$[0]) ) >> +PAST::

Re: [perl #59658] Build failure in src/pmc/float.c -- non-constant intiializer

2008-10-14 Thread jerry gay
On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 7:23 AM, Andy Dougherty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sat, 11 Oct 2008, Allison Randal via RT wrote: > > > jerry gay wrote: > > > > > > .\src\pmc\float.c(3340) : warning C4204: nonstandard extension used > > > : non-cons

Re: [RFC][PATCH] Rename Rakudo's "spectest_regression" to "spectest"

2008-10-11 Thread jerry gay
On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 2:24 AM, Allison Randal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Moritz Lenz wrote: >> >> jerry gay wrote: >> A combined harness is much better in terms of reporting. > > Yes. > a combined harness is much easier now that we require T::H 3. anybody wi

Re: [RFC][PATCH] Rename Rakudo's "spectest_regression" to "spectest"

2008-10-10 Thread jerry gay
On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 5:26 AM, Moritz Lenz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Many people who try out Rakudo want to inform us about hanging or > failing "make spectest" - which is expected to fail until we implement > all of Perl 6 that is currently tested. > > Therefore I'd like to rename 'spectest_r

Re: [svn:parrot] r31791 - trunk/t/pmc

2008-10-08 Thread jerry gay
On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 1:59 PM, Nicholas Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Oct 08, 2008 at 01:48:17PM -0700, chromatic wrote: > >> In general, filesystems are case-insensitive, not platforms. I believe Mac >> OS >> X's Hateful File System Plus is one offender, though you can use UFS inst

Re: [perl #59658] Build failure in src/pmc/float.c -- non-constant intiializer

2008-10-07 Thread jerry gay
On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 12:00 PM, via RT Andy Dougherty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > # New Ticket Created by Andy Dougherty > # Please include the string: [perl #59658] > # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. > # http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=59658 >

Re: Practical Considerations

2008-10-06 Thread jerry gay
On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 5:49 AM, Elyse M. Grasso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My company sells an application that links a bugtracking tool with an SCM tool > so that, for example, the files changed for each bug are recorded in the > bugtracking tool. It is currently written in (mostly) non-object-o

Re: [svn:parrot] r31606 - in trunk/languages/perl6: . src/parser

2008-10-04 Thread jerry gay
On Sat, Oct 4, 2008 at 8:01 AM, Patrick R. Michaud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Oct 03, 2008 at 07:22:28PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> Log: >> [rakudo] implement 'package' package declarator >> >> Modified: trunk/languages/perl6/perl6.pir >> ==

Re: [perl #59374] [BUG] pmc2c produces incorrect code for RETURN(INTVAL -1)

2008-09-26 Thread jerry gay
On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 9:11 AM, Patrick R. Michaud (via RT) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > # New Ticket Created by Patrick R. Michaud > # Please include the string: [perl #59374] > # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. > # http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?i

Re: [svn:parrot] r31385 - trunk/docs/book

2008-09-24 Thread jerry gay
On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 4:31 PM, chromatic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wednesday 24 September 2008 11:22:22 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> Modified: >>trunk/docs/book/ch04_pir_subroutines.pod >>trunk/docs/book/ch09_hlls.pod >> >> Log: >> [Book] Add some basic info about VTables and HLL n

Re: [svn:parrot] r31049 - in trunk: include/parrot languages/perl6/src/builtins languages/perl6/src/parser languages/perl6/t

2008-09-18 Thread jerry gay
On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 10:21 AM, Patrick R. Michaud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 09:06:44AM -0700, jerry gay wrote: >> On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 8:37 AM, Geoffrey Broadwell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> wrote: >> > On Thu, 2008-09-18 at 0

Re: [svn:parrot] r31049 - in trunk: include/parrot languages/perl6/src/builtins languages/perl6/src/parser languages/perl6/t

2008-09-18 Thread jerry gay
On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 8:37 AM, Geoffrey Broadwell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 2008-09-18 at 07:34 -0500, Patrick R. Michaud wrote: >> > "Aggregating coroutine" and "aggregating yield" aren't nearly as zippy >> > as 'gather' and 'take', but they're more meaningful to a broader >> > audien

Re: [perl #58866] calling a PIR sub with 206 params segfaults parrot

2008-09-17 Thread jerry gay
On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 11:45 PM, Christoph Otto via RT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue Sep 16 15:00:24 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> On Tuesday 16 September 2008 14:47:58 NotFound wrote: >> >> > > It certainly shouldn't segfault. But, the question is: why does it >> > > segfault at 206 par

Re: [perl #58934] [CAGE] 'make fulltest' says "PASS" at the end, although some tests failed

2008-09-16 Thread jerry gay
On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 12:27 PM, via RT Moritz Lenz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > # New Ticket Created by Moritz Lenz > # Please include the string: [perl #58934] > # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. > # http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=58934 > > > >

Re: [perl #58742] [TODO] Marker for RTs re SmartLinks

2008-09-16 Thread jerry gay
On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 5:14 AM, James Keenan via RT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue Sep 16 00:08:29 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> On Monday 15 September 2008 20:06:11 James Keenan via RT wrote: >> >> > See patch attached. The patch eliminates smartlink-related code from >> > Parrot, but d

Re: [perl #43857] [TODO] Refactor config probes that are used only by language implementation

2008-09-11 Thread jerry gay
On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 4:47 PM, James Keenan via RT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm trying to see if we can move this ticket toward resolution. I think > that it has remained unresolved for so long because the original post > originally called for two steps: (a) removal from Configure.pl of > c

Re: Why Some MMD Tests Fail

2008-09-08 Thread jerry gay
On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 1:09 AM, Allison Randal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > a) Do abstract base classes as currently implemented in Parrot serve any > useful purpose? If not, eliminate them. > can they be replaced by roles? ~jerry

Re: [perl #56382] [RFC] Making Test::Harness 3 available without including it in core parrot.

2008-09-07 Thread jerry gay
On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 7:17 AM, Will Coleda via RT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu Jun 26 11:01:00 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> chromatic wrote: >> >> > T::H 3 is only a requirement for people who want to type 'make >> smolder' (and >> > eventually I hope 'make smoke'), so probing for it w

Re: [perl #39117] [TODO] Using v?snprintf/strlcpy/strlcat when useful

2008-09-07 Thread jerry gay
On Sun, Sep 7, 2008 at 2:07 PM, Andy Dougherty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 6 Sep 2008, Christoph Otto via RT wrote: > >> On Wed May 10 11:01:34 2006, stmpeters wrote: >> > >> > I'm taking a look at it. I should have something working this evening >> > for the configs. Adding the HAS_BLAH

Re: [perl #58610] [ PATCH ] Broken link on parrotcode.org dev page - list item "Parrot Testing Status"

2008-09-05 Thread jerry gay
On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 9:59 AM, via RT Ronald Schmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > # New Ticket Created by Ronald Schmidt > # Please include the string: [perl #58610] > # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. > # http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=58610 > >

Re: [svn:parrot-pdd] r30569 - trunk/docs/pdds

2008-09-05 Thread jerry gay
On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 2:36 AM, Klaas-Jan Stol <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 12:43 PM, Allison Randal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Klaas-Jan Stol wrote: >> >>> >>> This must make the following syntax rule illegal: >>> >>> target = null >>> >>> because if "null" is declared

Re: My Parrot 0.7.0 patches (cygwin)

2008-08-26 Thread jerry gay
On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 11:00 AM, Allison Randal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > jerry gay wrote: >>> >>> #+ and #- is lisp so I don't want to destroy #+ the syntax rules. >>> #IF(): is quite short and easy to read. >>> >> i know it was all

Re: 57548-CONDITIONED_LINE_enh

2008-08-26 Thread jerry gay
On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 9:16 AM, Reini Urban <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > jerry gay schrieb: >> >> On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 2:34 AM, Reini Urban <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> >>> I'll go now for something like >>> >>> #IF(key1|

Re: My Parrot 0.7.0 patches (cygwin)

2008-08-26 Thread jerry gay
On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 2:34 AM, Reini Urban <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'll go now for something like > > #IF(key1|key2&(key3&!key4)) > #IFNOT(key1|key2&(key3&!key4)) > > And probably a shortcut for the negative else clause, like > #IF(cygwin): > #ELSE: > > #+ and #- is lisp so I don't want to d

Re: [perl #53976] [PATCH] Remove tools/dev/ops_renum.mak

2008-08-22 Thread jerry gay
On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 7:20 PM, Will Coleda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Aug 16, 2008 at 11:39 PM, James Keenan via RT >> 4. Parrot::OpsRenumber::renum_op_map_file() has been revised so that it >> will behave properly before Parrot 1.0 -- when deletion of opcodes is >> still permitted --

Re: [CAGE] clean up stray test files

2008-08-20 Thread jerry gay
On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 2:32 PM, Allison Randal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Running 'make test' now fills the main directory of the repository with junk > files like: > > test_98093.out > test_37653.c > test_98093.ldo > test_97159.c > > The offending tests need to be modified t

Re: Parrot 0.7.0 "Severe Macaw" - permissions

2008-08-19 Thread jerry gay
On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 1:13 PM, Jesse Vincent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [List-CC changed] > > On Aug 19, 2008, at 4:10 PM, Reini Urban wrote: > >> Bob Rogers schrieb: >>> >>> On behalf of the Parrot team, I'm proud to announce Parrot 0.7.0 "Severe >>> Macaw." Parrot (http://parrotcode.org/) is

Re: unified languages-test

2008-08-18 Thread jerry gay
On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 11:51 AM, Will Coleda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 2:50 PM, jerry gay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 11:41 AM, Will Coleda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 2:29 PM, Mich

Re: unified languages-test

2008-08-18 Thread jerry gay
On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 11:41 AM, Will Coleda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 2:29 PM, Michael Peters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Will Coleda wrote: >> >>> The eventual goal of this cleanup is to get these tests running via >>> smolder to give core developers more feedback on

Re: [perl #57942] [BUG] Smolder failure [linelength, compilers/pirc]

2008-08-15 Thread jerry gay
On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 9:39 AM, Bob Rogers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: Geoffrey Broadwell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2008 09:07:46 -0700 > > . . . > > It seems then that we have two remaining options: > > 1. Don't run codingstd as part of smolder. > > 2. Differe

Re: [perl #57768] Negative-smartmatching on a regexp produces a Null PMC access in rakudo

2008-08-10 Thread jerry gay
On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 6:38 AM, via RT Carl Mäsak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I added two tests in t/operators/smartmatch.t to exercise the correct > behaviour. > thanks for the tests, but remember rakudo won't run these until they're moved to t/spec/. ~jerry

Re: [perl #53976] [PATCH] Remove tools/dev/ops_renum.mak

2008-08-10 Thread jerry gay
On Sat, Aug 9, 2008 at 3:50 PM, James Keenan via RT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat Aug 09 10:31:37 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> On Saturday 09 August 2008 06:33:46 James Keenan via RT wrote: >> >> > > What purpose remains, then, for either tools/dev/ops_renum.mak or >> my >> > > alternati

Re: [svn:perl6-synopsis] r14574 - doc/trunk/design/syn

2008-08-08 Thread jerry gay
On Fri, Aug 8, 2008 at 12:57 PM, Jon Lang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > But are 'twas and -x valid identifiers? IMHO, they should not be. > no, indeed they are not, because they don't start with underscore or alpha. that's why they won't work. ~jerry

Re: time op inconsistent on Win32

2008-08-07 Thread jerry gay
On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 12:40 PM, Ron Blaschke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jonathan Worthington wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> I've just been looking at the time op, and what it returns is somewhat >> platform specific. >> >> * On Win32, it's the number of seconds since January 1, 1601 > > If I remember co

Re: Reason for attributes.t fail

2008-08-07 Thread jerry gay
On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 3:26 AM, Jonathan Worthington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > Rakudo is currently failing t\spec\S12-class\attributes.t. This turns out > not to be an issue with attributes, but rather exceptions. The test does: > > my $c = Counter.new(); > try { > $c.x > } > ok($!, 'n

Re: [perl #57636] [TODO][PDD19] Document the reason for :unique_reg flag

2008-08-07 Thread jerry gay
On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 5:44 AM, Jonathan Worthington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Klaas-Jan Stol wrote: >> >> I think basically the question remans; is there any way we could do >> without the :unique_reg? >> > Yes: > > 1) Add the reference-taking op and register reference PMC to the Parrot > core.

Re: Catching exceptions with the // operator

2008-08-06 Thread jerry gay
On Wed, Aug 6, 2008 at 8:58 AM, Yaakov Belch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In a little language that I wrote some time ago, I found it very useful to > let the // operator catch exceptions: > > f(x) // g(y) does: > * If f(x) returns a defined value, use this value. > * If f(x) returns an undefined v

Re: Branching

2008-08-05 Thread jerry gay
On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 1:47 PM, Geoffrey Broadwell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 2008-08-05 at 16:19 -0400, Michael Peters wrote: >> We also need to think about deprecation cycles. If you deprecate a >> feature in 1 version and then it disappears in the next then the time >> between when my

Re: [perl #56716] [TODO]: speed up the configure tests

2008-07-30 Thread jerry gay
On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 4:25 PM, James Keenan via RT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue Jul 29 11:01:12 2008, particle wrote: > >> >> >> the failing test: >> t/steps/auto_ctags-01ok 1/31 >> # Failed test 'Got expected result' >> # at t/steps/auto_ctags-01.t line 65. >>

Re: [perl #56716] [TODO]: speed up the configure tests

2008-07-29 Thread jerry gay
On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 4:28 AM, James Keenan via RT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have prepared a patch which represents an 'svn diff' between trunk and > the 'parallel' branch at the point of the branch's inception. Rather > than swamp your inboxes, I'm posting it here: > > http://thenceforward

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