[perl #17683] [PATCH] Fixes segfault in pdb

2002-09-30 Thread Jürgen
# New Ticket Created by Jürgen Bömmels # Please include the string: [perl #17683] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # http://rt.perl.org/rt2/Ticket/Display.html?id=17683 > Hi, When you use pdb and hit just you get a segfault. Thats quite anoying especiall

Re: Perl 6 JAPH ...

2002-09-30 Thread Michael G Schwern
On Sat, Sep 21, 2002 at 12:33:05PM +0200, Thomas Klausner wrote: > In accordance to Schwern's "How use strict got me a perl5porter", this > seems like "How obfuscation got me on perl6-internals" ... s/Schwern/Merijn/ For reference: http://husk.org/perl/yapc/DSCF0118.jpg I'm in the middle. Me

Would a getting started guide help

2002-09-30 Thread Erik Lechak
Hello All, I hope this is the correct place for my post. I have not seen many (or any) newbie parrot questions on this group. Please direct me to the correct group and forgive my intrusion if this message is misposted. I would like to start helping in the development of parrot. I have read

[perl #17691] [PATCH] Tiny printf type fixup

2002-09-30 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by Andy Dougherty # Please include the string: [perl #17691] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # http://rt.perl.org/rt2/Ticket/Display.html?id=17691 > This patch fixes a tiny problem in trace.c when sizeof(opcode_t) != sizeof(long). Mo

RE: [perl #17691] [PATCH] Tiny printf type fixup

2002-09-30 Thread Brent Dax
Andy Dougherty: # More generally, though, rather than sprinkling the sources # with INTVAL_FMT and other ugly (but correct and portable # things), should we be trying to # funnel everything through a central printf-like engine and # have it automatically provide the correct formats? # perl-5

Re: [perl #17683] [PATCH] Fixes segfault in pdb

2002-09-30 Thread Aldo Calpini
Jürgen Bömmels wrote: > Hi, > > When you use pdb and hit just you get a segfault. Thats > quite anoying especially if you are used to gdbs behaviour. > > The attached patch fixes this by just ignoring empty lines. this doesn't seem to me how pdb is supposed to work. docs/debugger.pod says:

Re: Perl 6 JAPH ...

2002-09-30 Thread H.Merijn Brand
On Sat 28 Sep 2002 02:23, Michael G Schwern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Sep 21, 2002 at 12:33:05PM +0200, Thomas Klausner wrote: > > In accordance to Schwern's "How use strict got me a perl5porter", this > > seems like "How obfuscation got me on perl6-internals" ... > > s/Schwern/Merijn/

Re: Interfaces

2002-09-30 Thread Michael Lazzaro
On Sunday, September 29, 2002, at 05:11 PM, Michael G Schwern wrote: > Here's some open problems: > > Would this be the default behavior for overridden methods, or will the > parent class/methods have to be declared "is interface" for the > signatures > to be enforced on subclasses? Heck, I'll

Re: Passing arguments

2002-09-30 Thread Paul Johnson
On Sun, Sep 29, 2002 at 09:31:46PM -, Smylers wrote: > Consider this Perl 5: > > while (<>) > { > # ... > foreach my $fruit (qw) > { > # ... > } > } > > Inside the inner loop C<$_> still holds the current line. In the > equivalent Perl 6 syntax, insider the inne

Re: Would a getting started guide help

2002-09-30 Thread Nicholas Clark
I think a getting started guide would help a lot. On Sat, Sep 28, 2002 at 10:46:36PM -0400, Erik Lechak wrote: > 3)Do I have to use pod? No offense, but I can't stand pod. The pdd > design document states that pod is the "...documentation language for > All Things Perl", but this is Parrot n

Re: [perl #17683] [PATCH] Fixes segfault in pdb

2002-09-30 Thread Juergen Boemmels
Aldo Calpini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Jürgen Bömmels wrote: > > Hi, > > > > When you use pdb and hit just you get a segfault. Thats > > quite anoying especially if you are used to gdbs behaviour. > > > > The attached patch fixes this by just ignoring empty lines. > > this doesn't seem to m

Re: Interfaces

2002-09-30 Thread Michael G Schwern
On Mon, Sep 30, 2002 at 10:12:48AM -0700, Michael Lazzaro wrote: > Heck, I'll jump into this one, since I've been working in _way_ too > many OO variations lately, some of them inflicted upon myself. While I > hope perl6 will allow extendable OO methodologies, the out-of-box one > needs to be

Re: Interfaces

2002-09-30 Thread Simon Cozens
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael G Schwern) writes: > method _do_internal_init ($num) is private { Just thinking aloud, would sub foo is method is private is integer is fungible { be better written as sub foo is fungible private integer method { or not? -- Those who do not un

RE: Interfaces

2002-09-30 Thread David Whipp
Michael Lazzaro wrote: > > What if a subclass adds extra, optional arguments to a > > method, is that ok? > > This is the scariest question, I think... In theory, yes, there are > lots of potential interfaces that would benefit from optional > extensions, & I've made a few. In strict terms,

Interface lists (was Re: Interfaces)

2002-09-30 Thread Michael G Schwern
On Tue, Oct 01, 2002 at 01:36:19AM +0100, Simon Cozens wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael G Schwern) writes: > > method _do_internal_init ($num) is private { > > Just thinking aloud, would > sub foo is method is private is integer is fungible { > > be better written as > su

Re: Interfaces

2002-09-30 Thread Michael G Schwern
On Mon, Sep 30, 2002 at 06:04:28PM -0700, David Whipp wrote: > On a slightly different note, if we have interfaces then I'd really > like to follow the Eiffel model: features such as renaming methods > in the derived class may seem a bit strange; but they can be useful > if you have have name-conf

Subject-Oriented Programming

2002-09-30 Thread Michael G Schwern
Last year at JAOO I stumbled on this thing called Subject-Oriented Programming which looked interesting. I dug up some papers on the subject and tried to make an implementation but found I really didn't properly understand it and the papers were too bogged down in C++ implementation details to re

Re: Interface lists (was Re: Interfaces)

2002-09-30 Thread Frank Wojcik
On Mon, Sep 30, 2002 at 11:16:20PM -0400, Michael G Schwern wrote: > How about seperated by commas, like any other list? > > method foo is fungible, private, integer { Well, if we're going to use a /list/, how about method foo ($param) ^is (fungible, private, integer) { ? :)

[perl #17702] [PATCH] resources.c - growing allocations

2002-09-30 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by Leopold Toetsch # Please include the string: [perl #17702] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # http://rt.perl.org/rt2/Ticket/Display.html?id=17702 > This patch stops parrot from permanently allocating increasing amounts of memory:

[perl #17703] [PATCH] string.c

2002-09-30 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by Leopold Toetsch # Please include the string: [perl #17703] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # http://rt.perl.org/rt2/Ticket/Display.html?id=17703 > Description of patch by chunks: - remove outdated comment/ifdef - use Parrot_allocat

[perl #17704] [PATCH] imcc 0.0.9.4

2002-09-30 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by Leopold Toetsch # Please include the string: [perl #17704] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # http://rt.perl.org/rt2/Ticket/Display.html?id=17704 > This patch corrects the reported parser error in imcc/samples.imc. (After .eom, one

[perl #17705] [PATCH] examples/life*.p6

2002-09-30 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by Leopold Toetsch # Please include the string: [perl #17705] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # http://rt.perl.org/rt2/Ticket/Display.html?id=17705 > This patch corrects an old bug (cut&paste typos) in life.p6 and adds stats of gener