[perl #51478] PDD17PMC : argument doesn't array

2008-03-09 Thread Will Coleda via RT
On Sun Mar 09 01:25:38 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Saturday 08 March 2008 18:22:56 Will Coleda wrote: > > > No. {a b} is a string with no interpolation done. > > No fair. Did you just go back in time and change Ousterhout's mind about > that? > > I'll keep digging then. > > -- c > O

Re: [perl #51478] PDD17PMC : argument doesn't array

2008-03-09 Thread Mark J. Reed
On Sun, Mar 9, 2008 at 5:25 AM, chromatic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Saturday 08 March 2008 18:22:56 Will Coleda wrote: > > > No. {a b} is a string with no interpolation done. Well, yeah, it's a string - but with a whole library of functions that will treat it as a list. It's kind of like

Re: [perl #51478] PDD17PMC : argument doesn't array

2008-03-09 Thread chromatic
On Saturday 08 March 2008 18:22:56 Will Coleda wrote: > No. {a b} is a string with no interpolation done. No fair. Did you just go back in time and change Ousterhout's mind about that? I'll keep digging then. -- c

Re: [perl #51478] PDD17PMC : argument doesn't array

2008-03-08 Thread Will Coleda
On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 3:03 PM, chromatic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thursday 06 March 2008 11:47:41 Will Coleda wrote: > > > Sure. Take the original: > > > > $ ../../parrot tcl.pbc -e "puts [concat {expand}[lindex {a b} 1]]" > > > > and just tack a --pir on the end: I verified that savin

Re: [perl #51478] PDD17PMC : argument doesn't array

2008-03-08 Thread Will Coleda
On Sat, Mar 8, 2008 at 2:59 PM, chromatic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thursday 06 March 2008 06:22:21 Will Coleda wrote: > > > > in PDD17, the following program (which prints "b\n" in trunk), dies: > > > > $ ../../parrot tcl.pbc -e "puts [concat {expand}[lindex {a b} 1]]" > > argument doesn'

Re: [perl #51478] PDD17PMC : argument doesn't array

2008-03-08 Thread chromatic
On Thursday 06 March 2008 06:22:21 Will Coleda wrote: > in PDD17, the following program (which prints "b\n" in trunk), dies: > > $ ../../parrot tcl.pbc -e "puts [concat {expand}[lindex {a b} 1]]" > argument doesn't array. Ha. The problem's not Parrot (as far as I can tell) but Tcl. {a b} is a

Re: [perl #51478] PDD17PMC : argument doesn't array

2008-03-06 Thread chromatic
On Thursday 06 March 2008 11:47:41 Will Coleda wrote: > Sure. Take the original: > > > $ ../../parrot tcl.pbc -e "puts [concat {expand}[lindex {a b} 1]]" > > and just tack a --pir on the end: I verified that saving that out to a > .pir file and running *that* through parrot generates the same err

Re: [perl #51478] PDD17PMC : argument doesn't array

2008-03-06 Thread Will Coleda
On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 2:41 PM, chromatic via RT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thursday 06 March 2008 06:22:21 Will Coleda wrote: > > > in PDD17, the following program (which prints "b\n" in trunk), dies: > > > > $ ../../parrot tcl.pbc -e "puts [concat {expand}[lindex {a b} 1]]" > > argumen

Re: [perl #51478] PDD17PMC : argument doesn't array

2008-03-06 Thread chromatic
On Thursday 06 March 2008 06:22:21 Will Coleda wrote: > in PDD17, the following program (which prints "b\n" in trunk), dies: > > $ ../../parrot tcl.pbc -e "puts [concat {expand}[lindex {a b} 1]]" > argument doesn't array. > > This exception is coming from src/inter_call.c:374 > > 369 d

[perl #51478] PDD17PMC : argument doesn't array

2008-03-06 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by Will Coleda # Please include the string: [perl #51478] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=51478 > in PDD17, the following program (which prints "b\n" in trunk), dies: $ ../../parrot tcl.