[svn:perl6-synopsis] r7832 - doc/trunk/design/syn

2006-02-24 Thread luqui
Author: luqui Date: Thu Feb 23 18:50:18 2006 New Revision: 7832 Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S06.pod Log: Answered Joe Gottman's question. Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S06.pod == --- doc/trunk/design/syn/S06.pod

[svn:perl6-synopsis] r7819 - doc/trunk/design/syn

2006-02-24 Thread larry
Author: larry Date: Thu Feb 23 15:04:02 2006 New Revision: 7819 Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S11.pod Log: fix typo and date++, rev++ Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S11.pod == --- doc/trunk/design/syn/S11.pod

[svn:perl6-synopsis] r7821 - doc/trunk/design/syn

2006-02-24 Thread larry
Author: larry Date: Thu Feb 23 15:05:58 2006 New Revision: 7821 Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S12.pod Log: another typo Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S12.pod == --- doc/trunk/design/syn/S12.pod(original) +++

Re: Named Subroutine return values

2006-02-24 Thread Larry Wall
On Fri, Feb 24, 2006 at 04:56:40AM +, Luke Palmer wrote: : On 2/24/06, Damian Conway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: : > No. One of the available TRAITS is C. So you can always : > specify a "postfix" return type, even without a declarator: : > : > sub data() returns Str {...} : > : > The de

Re: Named Subroutine return values

2006-02-24 Thread Larry Wall
On Fri, Feb 24, 2006 at 04:56:40AM +, Luke Palmer wrote: : Come to think of it, that seems backwards. After all, aren't: : : my Foo $x; : my $x of Foo; : : Equivalent? Didn't answer this part... If --> and returns are different, than "of" probably sets the --> type rather than the

Re: [svn:perl6-synopsis] r7795 - doc/trunk/design/syn

2006-02-24 Thread Larry Wall
On Thu, Feb 23, 2006 at 02:48:46PM +, Nicholas Clark wrote: : Would it be better to do that automatically with svn tag expansion? Yes, it would. Feel free, I'm not very svn-tag-expansion-aware yet. Larry

Re: S02: reserved namespace ops

2006-02-24 Thread Larry Wall
On Thu, Feb 23, 2006 at 09:26:49AM +0100, TSa wrote: : HaloO, : : Larry Wall wrote: : >Um, I always thought that "is reserved" in a spec means "we don't have : >the foggiest idea what we'll do with this, but we have a suspicion : >that if we let people use this particular thing right now, we'll :

[svn:perl6-synopsis] r7839 - doc/trunk/design/syn

2006-02-24 Thread autrijus
Author: autrijus Date: Fri Feb 24 05:49:02 2006 New Revision: 7839 Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S02.pod doc/trunk/design/syn/S04.pod doc/trunk/design/syn/S06.pod Log: * Textual cleanup of S2/4/6. No functional changes. - Change sentences like "Perl 6 will support" to "Perl 6 support

Re: [svn:perl6-synopsis] r7795 - doc/trunk/design/syn

2006-02-24 Thread Nicholas Clark
On Fri, Feb 24, 2006 at 05:05:03AM -0800, Larry Wall wrote: > On Thu, Feb 23, 2006 at 02:48:46PM +, Nicholas Clark wrote: > : Would it be better to do that automatically with svn tag expansion? > > Yes, it would. Feel free, I'm not very svn-tag-expansion-aware yet. Well, there's this slight

[svn:perl6-synopsis] r7849 - doc/trunk/design/syn

2006-02-24 Thread autrijus
Author: autrijus Date: Fri Feb 24 10:58:18 2006 New Revision: 7849 Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S06.pod doc/trunk/design/syn/S10.pod doc/trunk/design/syn/S13.pod Log: * more A*->S* changes. Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S06.pod =

[svn:perl6-synopsis] r7853 - doc/trunk/design/syn

2006-02-24 Thread autrijus
Author: autrijus Date: Fri Feb 24 12:21:45 2006 New Revision: 7853 Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S04.pod Log: * S04: The "If a curly occurs by a line by itself, then it stands for end of statement" rule from A04 is brought foward and further generalized -- now it only has to be at the en

[perl #38627] [TODO] fill Parrot_register_move() with code

2006-02-24 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by Leopold Toetsch # Please include the string: [perl #38627] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # https://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=38627 > Here is a simple job for a C programmer with some math/algorithmical brain: fill t

META.yml feature for autotesters?

2006-02-24 Thread Tyler MacDonald
I've been thinking about automated testing again. I know this is a bad habit and I should stop it and just get on with my work, but here's where I'm at: Sometimes it's beneficial for an automated tester to install additional packages (in software I'm releasing, Test::CPANpm and sql

Re: Subversion Server Downtime

2006-02-24 Thread Robert Spier
Upgrade complete. You shouldn't notice anything different, except some operations might be faster. -R At Tue, 21 Feb 2006 22:25:22 -0800, Robert Spier wrote: > > > FYI - > > At some point later this week, or maybe this weekend, I will be taking > the perl.org Subversion server down to move

[svn:perl6-synopsis] r7858 - doc/trunk/design/syn

2006-02-24 Thread autrijus
Author: autrijus Date: Fri Feb 24 14:16:49 2006 New Revision: 7858 Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S09.pod Log: * S09: Autovivification no longer happens under rvalue context. Suggested and contributed by Yuval Kogman. Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S09.pod ==

[svn:perl6-synopsis] r7856 - doc/trunk/design/syn

2006-02-24 Thread larry
Author: larry Date: Fri Feb 24 13:06:51 2006 New Revision: 7856 Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S06.pod Log: Revamped quasiquoting for visual, nestable, non-code-interfering unquoting. Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S06.pod ==

[svn:perl6-synopsis] r7859 - doc/trunk/design/syn

2006-02-24 Thread autrijus
Author: autrijus Date: Fri Feb 24 15:05:03 2006 New Revision: 7859 Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S05.pod Log: * returning from within a rule sets the "result object", which can be accessed with the .() dereferencer. Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S05.pod ===

Re: META.yml feature for autotesters?

2006-02-24 Thread Adam Kennedy
Tyler MacDonald wrote: How does everybody feel about making this a defined "feature" in the META.yml spec? Something like: optional_features: - automated_testing: description: Automated testing of all of this package's features requires: DBD::SQLite2: 0 If

Re: META.yml feature for autotesters?

2006-02-24 Thread Adam Kennedy
While a META.yml file provides a good description of what is required, the dependencies WILL change once the Metafile.PL runs. Actually, that should read "will often change, 90% of the time not turning on the dynamic_config flag in the process". So while we are on the subject of META.yml, I t

Re: META.yml feature for autotesters?

2006-02-24 Thread Tyler MacDonald
Adam Kennedy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So while we are on the subject of META.yml, I think the dynamic_config > approach is horrible, because it defaults to an efficient error case and > relies on the author to fix the error, rather than defaulting to the > inefficient correct case, and givin

Re: META.yml feature for autotesters?

2006-02-24 Thread Randy W. Sims
Adam Kennedy wrote: To give you some more data points, imagine the automated testing additions applied only on Win32. How would you then specify the deps? #187 on the TODO list for M::B is to implement the dEx[1] (Dependency EXpression) language for inserting complicated requirements in META.y

Re: META.yml feature for autotesters?

2006-02-24 Thread Adam Kennedy
Randy W. Sims wrote: Adam Kennedy wrote: To give you some more data points, imagine the automated testing additions applied only on Win32. How would you then specify the deps? #187 on the TODO list for M::B is to implement the dEx[1] (Dependency EXpression) language for inserting complicated