Re: relationship between slurpy parameters and named args?

2005-12-30 Thread Piers Cawley
Stuart Cook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 29/12/05, Austin Frank <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> So, is there a conceptual connection between imposing named argument >> interpretation on pairs in an arg list and slurping up the end of a >> parameter list? Are there other meanings of prefix:<*> t

[perl #38072] [PATCH] TCL - make [string compare] work

2005-12-30 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by Alberto Simoes # Please include the string: [perl #38072] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # https://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=38072 > Note that this patch does not fixes the failing tests added by Coke on last commit,

Re: relationship between slurpy parameters and named args?

2005-12-30 Thread Rob Kinyon
On 12/30/05, Piers Cawley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Stuart Cook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On 29/12/05, Austin Frank <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> So, is there a conceptual connection between imposing named argument > >> interpretation on pairs in an arg list and slurping up the end of

Re: Most Perl6 developers running linux on i386?

2005-12-30 Thread Peter Schwenn
Perl6ers, What is the most commonly used development platform (os and machine) by folks on this group? PeterS Steve Peters wrote: On Wed, Dec 28, 2005 at 09:50:49PM -0500, Peter Schwenn wrote: I've spent a couple of days trying out Cygwin, MinGW, PXPerl, and other Windows based contexts, i

Re: Most Perl6 developers running linux on i386?

2005-12-30 Thread jerry gay
On 12/30/05, Peter Schwenn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What is the most commonly used development platform (os and machine) by > folks on this group? > i can't answer that. i can tell you i use i386-win32-msvc, and sometimes i386-linux-gcc. i know some others are using x86_64-linux-gcc, ppc-darwin

[RFC] Dynamic binding patch

2005-12-30 Thread Bob Rogers
The attached patch is functionally complete, but I still have a few loose ends to nail down, so I thought it would be a good time to post it for review. The issues are as follows: 1. It needs more higher-level documentation. Is compiler_faq.pod the best place for this? 2. Binding 'fo

[perl #38073] [TODO] Tcl - expr methods with <> 1 arg.

2005-12-30 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by Will Coleda # Please include the string: [perl #38073] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # https://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=38073 > $ tclsh % expr atan2(2,3) 0.588002603548 % expr fmod(2.3,.2) 0.1 % expr hypot(3.1,4.1

[perl #38075] [TODO] Tcl - expr ?:

2005-12-30 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by Will Coleda # Please include the string: [perl #38075] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # https://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=38075 > tcl's expr currently only supports unary and binary ops. Adding ternary support can be

[perl #38076] [TODO] - tcl expression compilation

2005-12-30 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by Will Coleda # Please include the string: [perl #38076] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # https://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=38076 > [expr] currently generates quite a bit of code for something like: expr 1*2*3*4*5 Sinc

[perl #38077] [TODO] implement 'pwd' for parrot

2005-12-30 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by Will Coleda # Please include the string: [perl #38077] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # https://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=38077 > There is currently no way to determine your current directory from within parrot. A m

[perl #38078] [TODO] implement 'chdir' for parrot

2005-12-30 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by Will Coleda # Please include the string: [perl #38078] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # https://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=38078 > There is currently no way to change your current directory from within parrot. A meth

[perl #38079] [TODO] Tcl - implement [pwd]

2005-12-30 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by Will Coleda # Please include the string: [perl #38079] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # https://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=38079 > http://www.tcl.tk/man/tcl8.5/TclCmd/pwd.htm

[perl #38080] [TODO] Tcl - implement [cd]

2005-12-30 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by Will Coleda # Please include the string: [perl #38080] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # https://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=38080 > http://www.tcl.tk/man/tcl8.5/TclCmd/cd.htm

[perl #38074] [TODO] Tcl - expr - unknown math functions

2005-12-30 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by Will Coleda # Please include the string: [perl #38074] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # https://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=38074 > $ tclsh # RIGHT % expr fink() unknown math function "fink" $ make tclsh #WRONG % expr

[perl #38081] [TODO] Tcl - add TclComment compiler class

2005-12-30 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by Will Coleda # Please include the string: [perl #38081] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # https://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=38081 > Add compiled TclComment objects, which do nothing other than generate PIR comments with

[perl #38082] [TODO] Tcl - implement [pwd]

2005-12-30 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by Will Coleda # Please include the string: [perl #38082] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # https://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=38082 > http://www.tcl.tk/man/tcl8.5/TclCmd/pwd.htm

Re: [perl #38076] [TODO] - tcl expression compilation

2005-12-30 Thread Leopold Toetsch
On Dec 30, 2005, at 20:54, Will Coleda (via RT) wrote: [expr] currently generates quite a bit of code for something like: expr 1*2*3*4*5 Since all of those operators are constant, it should be possible to have that expr call be distilled to: .sub foo :anon $P0 = new TclInt $P0 = 120

[perl #38084] [TODO] Tcl - inline [proc]

2005-12-30 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by Will Coleda # Please include the string: [perl #38084] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # https://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=38084 > proc already does compile, but immediately executes the sub. should instead pass along

[perl #38086] [TODO] Tcl - inline [expr]

2005-12-30 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by Will Coleda # Please include the string: [perl #38086] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # https://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=38086 > While expr is already acting as a compiler, it immediately executes the generated PIR

[perl #38087] [TODO] Tcl -inline [puts]

2005-12-30 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by Will Coleda # Please include the string: [perl #38087] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # https://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=38087 > convert [puts] to an inlined variant. This would be a good inline to experiment with s

[perl #38063] [TODO] Tcl: Correctly convert to a number or string in [expr]

2005-12-30 Thread Matt Diephouse via RT
This is done as of r10803.

[perl #38088] [TODO] Tcl - Format PIR output from --pir

2005-12-30 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by Matt Diephouse # Please include the string: [perl #38088] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # https://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=38088 > While not necessary, it'd be nice from a debugging standpoint to generate nicely for

[perl #38089] Tcl - Fix makefile dependencies

2005-12-30 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by Matt Diephouse # Please include the string: [perl #38089] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # https://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=38089 > The PMC dependencies in the makefile should be more explicit. *something* is causing

[perl #38090] [TODO] Tcl - Use new argument handling from inside [proc]s

2005-12-30 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by Matt Diephouse # Please include the string: [perl #38090] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # https://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=38090 > Most builtins take a varying number of arguments, so it's hard to use this there, bu

Re: [RFC] Dynamic binding patch

2005-12-30 Thread Leopold Toetsch
On Dec 30, 2005, at 17:50, Bob Rogers wrote: The attached patch is functionally complete, but I still have a few loose ends to nail down, so I thought it would be a good time to post it for review. The issues are as follows: 1. It needs more higher-level documentation. Is compiler_f

[FYI] smoke testing

2005-12-30 Thread Leopold Toetsch
Please have a look at http://ali.as/pita/ [PITA - The Perl Image Testing Architecture] and how we can use this for further/additional Parrot platform testing. Thanks, leo

Building the documentation that will ship with Perl 6 and Pugs

2005-12-30 Thread Andrew Savige
[Note: Posted to both perl6-language and perl6-documentation. Since perl6-documentation is no longer advertised, I assume follow ups should be posted to perl6-language only]. When Audrey gave a recent talk to Sydney.pm, she pointed out some deficiencies in the current Pugs/Perl 6 documentation and

[perl #38083] [TODO] adjust parrot test harness to fill I/N registers with garbage by default

2005-12-30 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by jerry gay # Please include the string: [perl #38083] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # https://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=38083 > adjust the parrot test harness to fill I/N registers with garbage by default. in other wor

[perl #38085] [TODO] Tcl - inline [set]

2005-12-30 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by Will Coleda # Please include the string: [perl #38085] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # https://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=38085 >

[perl #38098] [TODO] Tcl - expr - new in and ni operators

2005-12-30 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by Matt Diephouse # Please include the string: [perl #38098] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # https://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=38098 > There are two new [expr] operators in Tcl 8.5 that need to be added to partcl: in an

Re: [RFC] Dynamic binding patch

2005-12-30 Thread Bob Rogers
From: Leopold Toetsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sat, 31 Dec 2005 01:17:39 +0100 On Dec 30, 2005, at 17:50, Bob Rogers wrote: >The attached patch is functionally complete, but I still have a few > loose ends to nail down, so I thought it would be a good time to post > it

Re: A couple of questions

2005-12-30 Thread Steve Gunnell
On Mon, 2005-12-26 at 00:40 +0100, Leopold Toetsch wrote: > On Dec 25, 2005, at 23:48, Steve Gunnell wrote: [snip] > > > When using the Read/Readline opcodes how do we specify what encoding is > > to be assumed for the incoming string? > > There is one output encoding filter currently: > >po