Re: [perl #33747]

2005-01-11 Thread Leopold Toetsch
Simon Glover <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ..., but I'm posting it to the list rather than simply applying it > because it is not clear to me that the behaviour described above is > precisely what we want. We have to precisely define what should happen with these corner cases. We should impleme

Re: solution to TODO #32365

2005-01-11 Thread Leopold Toetsch
Peter Christopher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'll check out the build scripts and see what flags will do to compile > the t/src/*.c and put them in. Further, I'll try to determine good > values for --cflags, --include, etc. from the Makefile. Ok. Can you move the build script to F and provide a

Perl 6 Summary for 2004-01-03 through 2004-01-11

2005-01-11 Thread Matt Fowles
Perl 6 Summary for 2004-01-03 through 2004-01-11 Welcome to another Perl 6 summary. In this summary, we will explore such thrilling issues as multi-dimensional slices of Chinese food. After all, the amount of sauce any piece of Chinese food can absorb is proportional to its surface

archive search?

2005-01-11 Thread Peter Christopher
Hi Listers, Last I checked (which was moments ago) it was either (a) impossible to, or (b) I couldn't figure out how to, search the parrot mailing list archive. I.e. I can't search www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl6.internals for key words. Could someone give me the heads up on how to

blib vs. icu

2005-01-11 Thread Peter Christopher
Hi again Listers, Ok it looks like to me that the ./blib directory is associated in some way with the ./icu directory [same header files, vague references to blib from icu README, etc.]. The (installation) MANIFEST never mentions blib but installs icu. BUT cc_inc [of the build process fame

Re: archive search?

2005-01-11 Thread Steve Fink
On Jan-11, Peter Christopher wrote: > > Last I checked (which was moments ago) it was either (a) > impossible to, or (b) I couldn't figure out how to, search the parrot > mailing list archive. I.e. I can't search > www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl6.internals > for key words. Could someo

Re: Dimension of slices; scalars versus 1-element arrays?

2005-01-11 Thread Dave Whipp
Larry Wall wrote: On Sat, Jan 08, 2005 at 11:37:06AM -0700, Craig DeForest wrote: : Is the perl6 expression : @a[4; 0..5]; : a 1x6 array (probably correct)? Or a 6 array (probably not correct)? Certainly the former. I don't think dimensions should ever disappear accidentally. Except when y

Re: Dimension of slices; scalars versus 1-element arrays?

2005-01-11 Thread Craig DeForest
On Tuesday 11 January 2005 10:06 pm, Dave Whipp wrote: > We know that > > @a = (1, 2, 3); > $b = @a[1]; > > Loses the dimension as a DWIM. > > So perhaps we could say that assigning to a lower dimension always gets > rid of a dimension of size 1 -- or error if it can't: > > @c = ( 1,2,3 ; 4,5,6 );