[netlabs #700] Win32 parrot.exe fails all tests

2002-06-11 Thread Clinton A. Pierce
# New Ticket Created by "Clinton A. Pierce" # Please include the string: [netlabs #700] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # http://bugs6.perl.org/rt2/Ticket/Display.html?id=700 > After correcting the build problem with MSVC (stock MSVC++ 6.0, AS Perl, etc.

Re: Apoc 5 questions/comments

2002-06-11 Thread Piers Cawley
Andy Wardley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sat, Jun 08, 2002 at 06:51:19AM +1000, Damian Conway wrote: >> I have no doubt that, once Perl 6 is available, we'll see a rash of >> modules released in the Grammar:: namespace. Including >> Grammar::HTML and Grammar::XML. > > I have no doubt that, o

Re: [netlabs #700] Win32 parrot.exe fails all tests

2002-06-11 Thread Clinton A. Pierce
At 10:54 PM 6/10/2002 +, you wrote: ># New Ticket Created by "Clinton A. Pierce" ># Please include the string: [netlabs #700] ># in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. ># http://bugs6.perl.org/rt2/Ticket/Display.html?id=700 > > > >After correcting the build proble

[netlabs #702] BASIC causes sevg's in parrot

2002-06-11 Thread Clinton A. Pierce
# New Ticket Created by "Clinton A. Pierce" # Please include the string: [netlabs #702] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # http://bugs6.perl.org/rt2/Ticket/Display.html?id=702 > To reproduce, sync with CVS, build, run "basic.pl" -- that's all. This versi

Re: Stacks, stacks, stacks (And frames)

2002-06-11 Thread Bryan C. Warnock
On Tue, 2002-06-11 at 01:38, Dan Sugalski wrote: > (A note--when this says "stack" I really mean all the stacks) > > Okay, I've been thinking about stacks and stack frames, and suchlike > things. Well, calling them "stacks" is a bit of a misnomer, since > they're really trees, and that's partia

A5 implies perl6's real timescale

2002-06-11 Thread Peter Haworth
A5 says this: > I'm accepting the basic premise of this RFC that the ?...? construct is > going away, one way or another. and perlop (from 5.6.1) says this: > ?PATTERN? > ... > This usage is vaguely deprecated, which means it just might possibly > be removed in some distant future v

[Patch] other mathematical operations

2002-06-11 Thread Josef Höök
I've added Gcd and factorial to core.ops, see attachement. Dan is this something you want? I also have "least common multiple" and "binomial" implementation waiting. If you want them i can can make a patch /Josef --- core.ops.orig Tue Jun 11 10:03:19 2002 +++ core.opsTue Jun 11 1

Re: Consensus needed...

2002-06-11 Thread David M. Lloyd
On Mon, 10 Jun 2002, Jeff wrote: > Tests are now failing because of the removal of the 'inc_n_ic' opcode. I > find this interesting for several reasons. One, the tests probably > should have been removed. Two, once the 'inc' operator has two > parameters, it is no longer 'increment' in my mind. I

[Patch] other mathematical operations

2002-06-11 Thread Josef Höök
I've added Gcd and factorial to core.ops, as attachement. Dan is this something you want? I also have "least common multiple" and "binomial" implementation waiting. If you want them i can can make a patch /Josef --- core.ops.orig Tue Jun 11 10:03:19 2002 +++ core.opsTue Jun 11

Re: Stacks, stacks, stacks (And frames)

2002-06-11 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 8:22 AM -0400 6/11/02, Bryan C. Warnock wrote: >On Tue, 2002-06-11 at 01:38, Dan Sugalski wrote: >> (A note--when this says "stack" I really mean all the stacks) >> >> Okay, I've been thinking about stacks and stack frames, and suchlike >> things. Well, calling them "stacks" is a bit of a mi

Re: Consensus needed...

2002-06-11 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 9:50 AM -0500 6/11/02, David M. Lloyd wrote: >The question is, do we want all combos of i,p, and n? So add_i_i, add_n_i, >add_p_i, add_i_n, add_n_n, add_p_n, add_i_p, add_n_p, add_p_p? Or is this >too many ops? I'm OK with the combos, with the caveat that we may remove them if it turns out l

Re: Stacks, stacks, stacks (And frames)

2002-06-11 Thread Dave Mitchell
On Tue, Jun 11, 2002 at 11:31:37AM -0400, Dan Sugalski wrote: > We'll find out with A6 whether we do coroutines and continuations as > part of the core perl. If not, well, python does the first and ruby > the second, so it's all good in there. Does anyone feel like giving a 1 paragraph potted

Re: Stacks, stacks, stacks (And frames)

2002-06-11 Thread Melvin Smith
At 05:07 PM 6/11/2002 +0100, Dave Mitchell wrote: >On Tue, Jun 11, 2002 at 11:31:37AM -0400, Dan Sugalski wrote: > > We'll find out with A6 whether we do coroutines and continuations as > > part of the core perl. If not, well, python does the first and ruby > > the second, so it's all good in the

Re: Stacks, stacks, stacks (And frames)

2002-06-11 Thread Melvin Smith
At 12:29 PM 6/11/2002 -0400, Melvin Smith wrote: You can think of continuations as an execution "context". This context >incudes everything, not just stack. It is a snapshot in time. You may think Let me rephrase. The context doesn't include "everything", rather everything that is local to that c

Parrot Glossary

2002-06-11 Thread Robert Spier
There's enough words and definitions going by that not everyone understands that it's time for us to have a glossary. I'm willing to do the administrative work of maintaining it, if others send me entries. So... if there are words you think should be in the parrot glossary (the recent discussio

Re: [Patch] other mathematical operations

2002-06-11 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 1:07 PM +0200 6/11/02, =?latin1?Q?Josef_H=F6=F6k?= wrote: > >I've added Gcd and factorial to core.ops, as attachement. >Dan is this something you want? >I also have "least common multiple" and "binomial" implementation >waiting. If you want them i can can make a patch I like it, but I think I

Re: Stacks, stacks, stacks (And frames)

2002-06-11 Thread Uri Guttman
> "DS" == Dan Sugalski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: DS> We'll find out with A6 whether we do coroutines and continuations as DS> part of the core perl. If not, well, python does the first and ruby DS> the second, so it's all good in there. on the last perl cruise, i had a nice talk wit

Re: Apoc 5 questions/comments

2002-06-11 Thread Luke Palmer
> > > Dave Storrs wrote: > > > Can we please have a 'reverse x' modifier that means "treat whitespace as > > > literals"? Yes, we are living in a Unicode world now and your data could > > > > > > /FATAL ERROR\:Process (\d+) received signal\: (\d+)/ > > > > I don't see how this example is near

Re: [Patch] other mathematical operations

2002-06-11 Thread Jeff
Josef Höök wrote: > > I've added Gcd and factorial to core.ops, see attachement. > Dan is this something you want? > I also have "least common multiple" and "binomial" implementation > waiting. If you want them i can can make a patch > > /Josef How are we going to get people to write recursive

Re: [netlabs #700] Win32 parrot.exe fails all tests

2002-06-11 Thread Sebastian Bergmann
"Clinton A. Pierce (via RT)" wrote: > No warnings during compilation, no errors. > > The error reported for each test is: > > Parrot VM: Can't unpack packfile .pbc Same here (on Linux): http://www.sebastian-bergmann.de/stuff/parrot_test.txt -- Sebastian Bergmann http://s

Re: Stacks, stacks, stacks (And frames)

2002-06-11 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 5:07 PM +0100 6/11/02, Dave Mitchell wrote: >On Tue, Jun 11, 2002 at 11:31:37AM -0400, Dan Sugalski wrote: >> We'll find out with A6 whether we do coroutines and continuations as >> part of the core perl. If not, well, python does the first and ruby >> the second, so it's all good in there.