[perl #37165] [TODO] Documentation keyword tagging

2005-09-14 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by Joshua Hoblitt # Please include the string: [perl #37165] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # https://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=37165 > Add X<> entries to all Parrot docs so they can be index with Pod::Index. http://

[perl #37166] [PATCH] building problem in leo-ctx5 on Win32

2005-09-14 Thread François
# New Ticket Created by François PERRAD # Please include the string: [perl #37166] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # https://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=37166 > [leo-ctx5] This patch solves the following link problem on Win32: perl build_tools

Re: [perl #37166] [PATCH] building problem in leo-ctx5 on Win32

2005-09-14 Thread Jonathan Worthington
"François PERRAD (via RT)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [leo-ctx5] This patch solves the following link problem on Win32: Thanks, applied. Jonathan

Re: [perl #37158] [BUG] building ParTcl on windows

2005-09-14 Thread Jonathan Worthington
"jerry gay (via RT)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: the linker is failing to build ParTcl with MSVC, due to unresolved external symbols. i'm swamped at the moment, and won't have a chance to investigate further. I'm unable to re-produce this, but I haven't checked out the latest Parrot for a while

[perl #37160] [PATCH] Make it easier to use a different compiler

2005-09-14 Thread Bernhard Schmalhofer via RT
> [doughera - Di 13. Sep 2005, 10:05:04]: > > This patch makes it easier to compile parrot with a compiler other > than > the one used to compile perl5. It re-arranges the order in which > various > defaults are set so that the user may override them either with hints > files or interactively, vi

coercion and context

2005-09-14 Thread Juerd
I was asked to { Verb 'p6l' } the idea of types providing context, and well, here it is. (We got at these thoughts from a discussion of a hypothetic lexical pragma to disable automatic coercion, which I thought was a bad idea because that's practically to ignore context, Perl's strongest language

Re: coercion and context

2005-09-14 Thread Luke Palmer
On 9/14/05, Juerd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Instead, if you don't want something to coerce, be explicit: > $foo.does(Blah) or fail;, or even: $foo.isa(Blah) or fail;.) We've been thinking of changing .isa to something longer, or a method on .meta, because it's a notion that is often misused. U

Re: coercion and context

2005-09-14 Thread Juerd
Luke Palmer skribis 2005-09-14 22:21 (+): > (conversely, is ~ just a Str context applicator?)? Yes, the way I think of it is that ~ is short for Str(), + is short for Num(), and ? is short for Bool(). > If a parent class defines a coercion operation, do you get it too > (and what are the imp

Re: kwalitee: drop Acme?

2005-09-14 Thread Peter Kay
David Golden wrote: > Probably could be done with a Build.PL that pulls the full module list > then constructs a massive requires hash. Unless CPANTS scans for > dependencies, in which case you'd need to build the .pm file > dynamically, too. And then run a cron job to rebuild/re-release with > c

Re: Unified prelude, FFI, multiple runtimes

2005-09-14 Thread Yuval Kogman
On Tue, Sep 13, 2005 at 02:08:47 +0300, Yuval Kogman wrote: > A proof of concept is available here: and has been updated here: http://svn.openfoundry.org/pugs/perl5/Blondie/ There's a bit of documentation, and the code is split up into files and ever so slightly refactored. -- () Yuv

Re: coercion and context

2005-09-14 Thread Dave Rolsky
On Wed, 14 Sep 2005, Luke Palmer wrote: my Int $int = $num; Explicit coercion, however, isn't done with context: it is done with the .as() method: $num.as(Int). I think that's weird. Not to mention the fact that you might have put an Int there for typechecking purposes instead of coersion pur