Devel::Cover failure?

2005-01-06 Thread Randy W. Sims
The test file below is pared down from Module::Build. The warning from C comes up in several tests, not always causing test failures. The same warning appears if you run MakeMaker as shown in the Devel::Cover docs--it's not specific to Module::Build. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/projects$ module-starter

Re: Key question

2005-01-06 Thread Leopold Toetsch
Simon Glover <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Or rather, a question about keys: what should the following two code > snippets do? > 1) new P0, .Key > set P0, "1" > set N0, P0 > print N0 > end > 2) new P0, .Key > set P0, "1" > set I0, P0 > print I0 > end

Re: question about TODO improve parrot-config.imc

2005-01-06 Thread Leopold Toetsch
Peter Christopher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi there, > I have a question on the todo item #32365 "TODO improve > parrot-config.imc". I include the text of the TODO at the bottom of this > message. My understanding of this request is this: > a) There is a frozen pmc hash of configuration

Re: Key question

2005-01-06 Thread Sam Ruby
Leopold Toetsch wrote: But we should generalize keys eventually. Keys can provide an index for aggregates and allow chaining of indices for nested aggregates. Arrays are simple: the key is an integer. But hashes currently don't support non-string keys easily. We should be able to use arbitrary PMCs

thoughts about types, and possible syntax for code as comment

2005-01-06 Thread Stéphane Payrard
I expect Perl6 to be a language with a mix of dynamically typed and statically typed variables. In a purely statically typed language like OCAML, you generally don't need to declare the type of variables when it can be inferred. So one can benefit from the speed of static typing (no type info must

Re: Devel::Cover failure?

2005-01-06 Thread Randy W. Sims
Randy W. Sims wrote: The test file below is pared down from Module::Build. The warning from C comes up in several tests, not always causing test failures. The same warning appears if you run MakeMaker as shown in the Devel::Cover docs--it's not specific to Module::Build. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/pro