Patch for S06 (and also S03)

2006-08-07 Thread Agent Zhang
Hi, there~ I've been reading S06 in the past few days. it almost killed me due to its difficulties. ;-) The patch to S06 (as well as S03) is given at the end of the mail. I've also included several fixes from TreyHarris++ and spinclad++. I really appreciate the help from #perl6. :D There's one

Re: [perl #40102] [BUG] Using splice with an out-of-range array index gives bad error

2006-08-07 Thread Leopold Toetsch
Am Montag, 7. August 2006 05:43 schrieb Matt Diephouse: >      splice $P0, $P1, 20, 0 >    mini:~/Projects/parrot mdiep$ parrot test.pir >    list structure chaos! > > That's an awful error. It should say "Array index out of bounds" or   > anything more useful than "list structure chaos!". Well,

Parrot Bug Summary

2006-08-07 Thread Parrot Bug Summary
Parrot Bug Summary http://rt.perl.org/rt3/NoAuth/parrot/Overview.html Generated at Mon Aug 7 13:15:01 2006 GMT --- * Numbers * New Issues * Overview of Open Issues * Ticket Status By Version * Requestors with mo

Re: Patch for S06 (and also S03)

2006-08-07 Thread Daniel Hulme
Sorry to patch the patch, but in > -Other sigils binds only to the I argument with that name: > +Other sigil binds only to the I argument with that name: the replacement makes no more sense than the original. "Other sigils bind" or "Any other sigil binds" would work here. Also, I believe the origi

Re: Patch for S06 (and also S03)

2006-08-07 Thread Trey Harris
In a message dated Mon, 7 Aug 2006, Daniel Hulme writes: Sorry to patch the patch, but in -Other sigils binds only to the I argument with that name: +Other sigil binds only to the I argument with that name: the replacement makes no more sense than the original. "Other sigils bind" or "Any othe

[svn:perl6-synopsis] r10676 - doc/trunk/design/syn

2006-08-07 Thread larry
Author: larry Date: Mon Aug 7 11:01:23 2006 New Revision: 10676 Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S02.pod Log: Clarified unspace ramifications. Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S02.pod == --- doc/trunk/design/syn/S02.pod

Re: Patch for S06 (and also S03)

2006-08-07 Thread Agent Zhang
On 8/8/06, Daniel Hulme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Sorry to patch the patch, but in > -Other sigils binds only to the I argument with that name: > +Other sigil binds only to the I argument with that name: the replacement makes no more sense than the original. "Other sigils bind" or "Any other sig

Re: Patch for S06 (and also S03)

2006-08-07 Thread Agent Zhang
(Please ignore the previous mail. I was writing that in sleepy mode. Sorry.) On 8/8/06, Daniel Hulme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Sorry to patch the patch, but in > -Other sigils binds only to the I argument with that name: > +Other sigil binds only to the I argument with that name: the replacemen

Re: Patch for S06 (and also S03)

2006-08-07 Thread Daniel Hulme
> Oh, thank you very much for correcting this. I didn't even read the > sentence after I made the change. ;-) I should be more careful the > next time. Bah, you don't need to with an army of attentive proof-readers. > I'm sorry that I disagree with this one since I am following Audrey's > changes

[svn:perl6-synopsis] r10677 - doc/trunk/design/syn

2006-08-07 Thread larry
Author: larry Date: Mon Aug 7 12:17:22 2006 New Revision: 10677 Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S02.pod Log: Also exempted initial # rule from unspaciness so that you can block comment even unspacey code. Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S02.pod

[svn:perl6-synopsis] r10678 - doc/trunk/design/syn

2006-08-07 Thread larry
Author: larry Date: Mon Aug 7 12:38:13 2006 New Revision: 10678 Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S02.pod Log: Gah, would help if I actually thought about these things before committing... Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S02.pod ==

Re: [perl #40058] Disambiguate usage of class PMCs from class name lookup (pdd15, pdd06, pdd19)

2006-08-07 Thread Martin Kealey
On Sun, 6 Aug 2006, chromatic wrote: > If my code depends on the undefinedness of certain symbols, and those symbols > may or may not appear in some namespace somewhere due to something totally > unrelated to my code, I have a problem. Ah. I thought we were considering the namespace which the lang

[svn:perl6-synopsis] r10679 - doc/trunk/design/syn

2006-08-07 Thread larry
Author: larry Date: Mon Aug 7 13:12:33 2006 New Revision: 10679 Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S03.pod doc/trunk/design/syn/S05.pod doc/trunk/design/syn/S06.pod Log: Editing from agentzh++ and others++. Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S03.pod ===

RE: [svn:perl6-synopsis] r10678 - doc/trunk/design/syn

2006-08-07 Thread Reed, Mark \(TBS\)
> You may interpolate a string into a package or variable name using ::($expr) where you'd ordinarily put a package or > variable name. The string is allowed to contain additional instances of ::, which will be interpreted as package > nesting. You may only interpolate entire names, since the cons

[svn:perl6-synopsis] r10680 - doc/trunk/design/syn

2006-08-07 Thread larry
Author: larry Date: Mon Aug 7 13:37:03 2006 New Revision: 10680 Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S02.pod Log: Interesting fossil discovered by Mark.Reed++. Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S02.pod == --- doc/trunk/desig

RE: [svn:perl6-synopsis] r10680 - doc/trunk/design/syn

2006-08-07 Thread Reed, Mark \(TBS\)
> Log: > Interesting fossil discovered by Mark.Reed++. Fossil, eh? Hm. Mark "Indiana" Reed, Documentational Archaeologist. I should get cards made up... Thanks for the fix...

RE: [svn:perl6-synopsis] r10678 - doc/trunk/design/syn

2006-08-07 Thread Reed, Mark \(TBS\)
Sorry, over-trimmage. That's in S02. -Original Message- From: Reed, Mark (TBS) Sent: Monday, August 07, 2006 4:28 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'; 'perl6-language@perl.org' Subject: RE: [svn:perl6-synopsis] r10678 - doc/trunk/design/syn > You may interpolate a string into a package or varia

Re: [svn:perl6-synopsis] r10679 - doc/trunk/design/syn

2006-08-07 Thread Darren Duncan
At 1:12 PM -0700 8/7/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S06.pod == @@ -1265,10 +1266,10 @@ :(\Any(Dog)) -and match a function taking a single value of type Dog. +and match a function taking

weak roles

2006-08-07 Thread Yuval Kogman
The CPAN has many reinvented wheels. This happened since we have so many authors (== opinions) over so many years. For example, we have Mail::Message to Email::Simple, to Mail::Internet to They all do the same thing differently. Then there is Email::Abstract, which provides a simplified API f

Failing t//tools/pbc_merge.t

2006-08-07 Thread chromatic
Only one test file fails for me on Linux/PPC. I have the attached patch applied locally to show off what seems odd. My output is: $ perl -Ilib t/tools/pbc_merge.t 1..4 directory_pack segment 'MERGED_DB' used size 22 but reported 24 (Ret: 2142551472, Cursor: 270128576) Parrot VM: Can't stat