Re: [perl #34625] [PATCH] make setup on MSWin32

2005-04-03 Thread Ron Blaschke
Leopold Toetsch wrote: > Ron Blaschke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Or even: >> nmake win32-installer >> ? >> The Windows equivalent of "rpm" would be "msi". > Maybe then: > nmake win32-inno-installer > nmake win32-msi-installer > ... > (which make the win32 prefix rather superfluent) I

Re: S28ish [was: [Pugs] A couple of string interpolation edge cases]

2005-04-03 Thread Rod Adams
Larry Wall wrote: On Thu, Mar 31, 2005 at 03:03:09PM +0200, Thomas Sandlaß wrote: : BTW, will bidirectionality be supported? Does it make sense to reflect : it in the StrPos type such that $pos_start < $pos_end means a non-empty : left to right string, $pos_start > $pos_end is a non-empty right to

Re: Pugs Bug

2005-04-03 Thread Autrijus Tang
On Sat, Apr 02, 2005 at 09:32:12PM -0500, Stevan Little wrote: > I was writing tests for split(, ) and I stumbled upon this > bug: > > pugs -e 'split(rx:perl5//, "not good")' > > Will go into an infinite loop. I also tried the empty regexp in a match > on it's own, and it was not a problem. >

Re: Parrot under Subversion / ICU

2005-04-03 Thread Leopold Toetsch
Jens Rieks wrote: On Thursday 31 March 2005 12:01, Leopold Toetsch wrote: 4) Makefile cleanups to remove in-tree icu build stuff Patch ready. When should I commit it? This was the 4th step in the plan. First we need: 1) patches are very welcome that $ perl Configure.pl --without-icu then we verif

Re: [PROPOSAL] calling convention abstraction

2005-04-03 Thread Roger Hale
Leopold Toetsch wrote: Below inline attached is a scheme for an abstraction layer around calling conventions. Comments welcome, leo > 2.5) return context > > Yesterdays conversation on IRC (yes!) has clearly shown that the > current calling conventions are lacking information about scalar vs > li

design docs on dev.perl.org -- Re: +<< or +

2005-04-03 Thread Robert Spier
> The definitive answer is +< -- the pod document at > http://dev.perl.org/perl6/synopsis/S03.html is out of date. > This has been corrected in the perl6 svn repository for some time > (http://svn.perl.org/perl6/doc/trunk/design/syn/S03.pod), but I don't > know the magic for getting updates in the

Re: Apocalypse docs cvs/svn?

2005-04-03 Thread Nicholas Clark
On Sat, Apr 02, 2005 at 11:57:44PM +0200, Steven Schubiger wrote: > > I've found a subtle spelling error in A03.html alias > Apocalypse 3: Operators, kept at dev.perl.org. > > As I couldn't find neither an according cvs nor svn, http://svn.perl.org/perl6/doc/trunk/design > I'm wondering, where

_temp_mmd_init size error

2005-04-03 Thread Ron Blaschke
Parrot currently doesn't compile on Windows, b/c of the following in F. const MMD_init _temp_mmd_init[] = { }; error C2059: syntax error : '}' There's gotta be at least one element in the array. Not sure why this compiles on other platforms, though. Ron

Re: Parrot under Subversion / ICU

2005-04-03 Thread Jens Rieks
On Sunday 03 April 2005 10:06, Leopold Toetsch wrote: > Jens Rieks wrote: > > On Thursday 31 March 2005 12:01, Leopold Toetsch wrote: > >>4) Makefile cleanups to remove in-tree icu build stuff > > > > Patch ready. When should I commit it? > > This was the 4th step in the plan. First we need: > > 1)

Re: Parrot under Subversion / ICU

2005-04-03 Thread Ron Blaschke
Jens Rieks wrote: > On Sunday 03 April 2005 10:06, Leopold Toetsch wrote: >> Jens Rieks wrote: [snip] >> then we verify that we can build with a system ICU or without. Then we >> can move over to SVN and procede with step 4). > Why don't we remove the support for the bundled ICU prior to the move?

[PATCH] --without-icu (was: Re: Parrot under Subversion / ICU)

2005-04-03 Thread Jens Rieks
On Sunday 03 April 2005 14:06, Ron Blaschke wrote: > I'd reckon once C<--without-icu> is in place, one should be able to > run > > $rm -rf icu > $perl Configure --without-icu --nomanicheck > > So it shouldn't really matter when exactly F is removed. Hmm, okay. Thats indeed true. I've attac

Re: _temp_mmd_init size error

2005-04-03 Thread Leopold Toetsch
Ron Blaschke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Parrot currently doesn't compile on Windows, b/c of the following in > F. > const MMD_init _temp_mmd_init[] = { > }; Thanks, fixed. > There's gotta be at least one element in the array. Not sure why this > compiles on other platforms, though.

Re: Definitive and Complete Perl 6 Operator List

2005-04-03 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
> "Larry" == Larry Wall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Larry> The shifts are all X< rather than X<< to avoid confusion with Texas Quotes. I've been staring too much at POD lately. I saw both of those as very broken pod-start marks. :) -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, I

Re: _temp_mmd_init size error

2005-04-03 Thread Ron Blaschke
Leopold Toetsch wrote: > Ron Blaschke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Parrot currently doesn't compile on Windows, b/c of the following in >> F. >> const MMD_init _temp_mmd_init[] = { >> }; > Thanks, fixed. Great, thanks! >> There's gotta be at least one element in the array. Not sure why

Re: [PROPOSAL] calling convention abstraction

2005-04-03 Thread Leopold Toetsch
Roger Hale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Leopold Toetsch wrote: > > sub foo { want.List ?? (1,2,3) :: 1 } # or some such > > > > This information could also be attached to @ARGS. E.g. > > > > @ARGS."return_list"(1) > Would it be possible to attach it to the continuation? Then in the > cours

Current MSWin32 (WinXP, VC++ 7.1) Test Results

2005-04-03 Thread Ron Blaschke
Failed TestStat Wstat Total Fail Failed List of Failed --- t\dynclass\foo.t 1 256 11 100.00% 1 t\dynclass\gdbmhash.t13 332813 13 100.00% 1-13 t\dynclass\pybuiltin.t6 1536

Re: Current MSWin32 (WinXP, VC++ 7.1) Test Results

2005-04-03 Thread Ron Blaschke
Ron Blaschke wrote: > mmd failure is new, test 18 fails with the following message. > t\pmc\mmdNOK 18# got: 'Method '__add' not found [snip] Forget about this, Leo just fixed it. Ron

[perl #34659] [BUG] Unicode Issues

2005-04-03 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by Will Coleda # Please include the string: [perl #34659] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # https://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=34659 > In my test bed, I've switched tcl over to using unicode for most of its strings, so tha

[perl #34660] [TODO] Unicode hash keys

2005-04-03 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by Will Coleda # Please include the string: [perl #34660] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # https://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=34660 > In my test bed, I've switched tcl over to using unicode for most of its strings, so tha

[perl #34661] [BUG] Unicode String Literal, assert failure

2005-04-03 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by Will Coleda # Please include the string: [perl #34661] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # https://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=34661 > Tripped over this while implementing unicode support for Tcl: .sub main @MAIN $S0 = u

Re: [PROPOSAL] calling convention abstraction

2005-04-03 Thread Roger Hale
Leopold Toetsch wrote: Roger Hale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Leopold Toetsch wrote: sub foo { want.List ?? (1,2,3) :: 1 } # or some such This information could also be attached to @ARGS. E.g. @ARGS."return_list"(1) Would it be possible to attach it to the continuation? Then in the course of

Re: [PROPOSAL] infix MMD operators

2005-04-03 Thread Bob Rogers
From: Leopold Toetsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Fri, 1 Apr 2005 08:42:53 +0200 Bob Rogers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >From: Leopold Toetsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > . . . >$ python >>>> 1+2j >(1+2j) > That is a good point, but subclassing isn't the only w

Re: Kwalitee and has_test_*

2005-04-03 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
On Fri, Apr 01, 2005 at 09:00:17PM +0200, Thomas Klausner wrote: > Well, kwalitee != quality. Currently, kwalitee basically only says how > well-formed a distribution is. For my definition of well-formed :-) But I'm > always open to suggestion etc. Since you ask... An important part of kwalitee t

Re: Why a scoreboard?

2005-04-03 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
On Sat, Apr 02, 2005 at 10:43:57AM -0500, Ricardo SIGNES wrote: > * "David A. Golden" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-04-02T05:27:18] > > Andy Lester wrote: > > >Why is there a scoreboard? Why do we care about rankings? Why is it > > >necessary to compare one measure to another? What purpose is being

Testing Book Reviewers Wanted!

2005-04-03 Thread chromatic
Hi everyone, lurkers and all, I'm looking for five or six people to participate in a technical book review this week, reviewing eight chapters of a book about software testing with Perl. You don't have to be a testing guru or a Perl guru, but you need to have at least some desire to learn more ab

Re: Kwalitee and has_test_*

2005-04-03 Thread Michael G Schwern
On Sun, Apr 03, 2005 at 03:09:17PM -0700, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote: > Since you ask... > > An important part of kwalitee to me is that Makefile.PL / Build.PL run > successfully with stdin redirected to /dev/null (that is, that any > user interaction be optional). > > Another is that a bug-r

Pugs 6.0.14 released!

2005-04-03 Thread Autrijus Tang
I'm happy to report that Pugs 6.0.14 has now been released, soon available to a CPAN mirror near you. :-) Much thanks to all lambdacamels who helped to make this release happen! Thanks, /Autrijus/ == Changed for 6.0.14 - April 4, 2005 === Pugs Internals * We now require GHC 6.4 on all platform