Weekly Perl 6 mailing list summary for 10-16 December, 2006

This week on the Perl 6 mailing lists "With the little sense of smell I have left, this smells like INTERCAL's 'COME FROM' statement to me..." -- Larry Wall, who has a cold, in 'supertyping ' Language supertyping In this thread, TS

[perl #41099] [PATCH] root.in Makefile and CREDITS

Added make reallyinstall target Added help text for make reallyinstall target Fixed make install target root.new | 16 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) Eric Lubow E: [EMAIL PROTECTED] W: http://eric.lubow.org/ root.patch Description: root.patch

[perl #41102] [PATCH] On Win32 with Visual C++, nmake was not automatically selected if mingw was also found on the system

# New Ticket Created by David Woldrich # Please include the string: [perl #41102] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=41102 > Affected files: config/init/hints/mswin32.pm config/inter/make.pm The Parrot config

[perl #41104] [PATCH] Building on MinGW is disrupted by the presense of /bin/sh.exe on the PATH, docs explain required environment change

# New Ticket Created by David Woldrich # Please include the string: [perl #41104] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=41104 > Affected files: /README.win32.pod Description: On Win32, backslashes are generated

[perl #41102] [PATCH] On Win32 with Visual C++, nmake was not automatically selected if mingw was also found on the system

On Sat Dec 16 13:38:53 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Affected files: > > config/init/hints/mswin32.pm > config/inter/make.pm > > The Parrot configuration scripts were not incorporating the cues given > by the user when --cc=cl to use the microsoft build environment when > mingw was also pre

RE: [perl #41099] [PATCH] root.in Makefile and CREDITS

Added make reallyinstall target Added help text for make reallyinstall target Fixed make install target Eric Lubow E: [EMAIL PROTECTED] W: http://eric.lubow.org/ root.patch Description: root.patch

[perl #41099] [PATCH] root.in Makefile and CREDITS

On Sat Dec 16 10:29:32 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Ensured the makefile doesn't allow a make install and added myself to > the CREDITS file. Thanks! Applied in r16140 and r16141 Paul

[perl #41099] [PATCH] root.in Makefile and CREDITS

Eric, > Added make reallyinstall target > Added help text for make reallyinstall target > Fixed make install target It seems that you've provided two different patches to do this (the first looks like an svn diff, and the second a plain normal diff), which one do you want applied? Paul

Generated .pm files in MANIFEST

Hi all, The files languages/regex/lib/Regex/Grammar.pm and languages/lua/Lua/parser.pm are autogenerated, so shouldn't they be mentioned in MANIFEST.generated instead of MANIFEST? If so, I'll move the entries across to MANIFEST.generated and this will reduce the size of the coding standards hamm

Re: [perl #41064] [BUG]: Not-so-new 'make' failures on Darwin

Will Coleda wrote: Here's my shell script for running config: #!/bin/sh CC="ccache gcc-4.0" CX="ccache g++-4.0" /usr/bin/perl Configure.pl --cc="$CC" --cxx="$CX" --link="$CX" -- ld="$CX" --without-icu $@ Following further discussion with Coke on #parrot, I ran this slight variation o

Re: [perl #40361] [PATCH] #40278 [CAGE] perl coding standards coda. (cont.)

On Dec 16, 2006, at 12:41 PM, Paul Cochrane via RT wrote: Hi all, We could close this ticket if a decision were made as to whether or not the emacs/vim formatting information can be put at the *beginning* of a file in the case where __END__ or __DATA__ blocks are used within a perl source

Re: [perl #40361] [PATCH] #40278 [CAGE] perl coding standards coda. (cont.)

From: Chris Dolan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2006 13:22:53 -0600 On Dec 16, 2006, at 12:41 PM, Paul Cochrane via RT wrote: > Hi all, > > We could close this ticket if a decision were made as to whether or > not > the emacs/vim formatting information can be put

RE: [perl #41099] [PATCH] root.in Makefile and CREDITS

Paul, Use the one that is the newest. It has the reallyinstall target in the make help and in the actual make process. Eric -Original Message- From: Paul Cochrane via RT [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, December 17, 2006 7:51 AM To: Eric B. Lubow Subject: [perl #41099] [PATC

RE: [perl #41099] [PATCH] root.in Makefile and CREDITS

Paul, I just checked the RT queue. I didn't realize they came in at the same time. Use the one that's 1.4k and is CC'd perl6internals. Eric -Original Message- From: Paul Cochrane via RT [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, December 17, 2006 7:51 AM To: Eric B. Lubow Subject: [per

[perl #33962] readline returns one too many lines

On Sat Jan 29 06:17:10 2005, leo wrote: > Matt Diephouse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I already use that workaround in some of my code, but that sorta > > defeats the purpose of testing the filehandle itself. The filehandle > > should become false after it returns the last line of the file - not

Re: [perl #40361] [PATCH] #40278 [CAGE] perl coding standards coda. (cont.)

From: Bob Rogers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2006 15:03:10 -0500 From: Chris Dolan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2006 13:22:53 -0600 . . . Be aware that you cannot use the verbose form of Emacs settings at the beginning of a file, unless th

Unwanted scalar references

Hi all, Thanks for the answers to my previous questions. I do appreciate it. Today's stumper is this: sub decode([EMAIL PROTECTED]) returns Array { gather { for @list -> $elem { take $elem.isa(Array) ?? $elem[1] xx $elem[0] !! $elem; } } } dec

hello, does anybody who knows the svn respo of synopsis docs?

we are trying to translate them into Chinese. so I just wonder where can I get the .pod source? Thanks.

Re: hello, does anybody who knows the svn respo of synopsis docs?

在 Dec 18, 2006 5:52 AM 時，Fayland Lam 寫到： we are trying to translate them into Chinese. so I just wonder where can I get the .pod source? http://svn.perl.org/perl6/doc/trunk/design/syn/ Cheers, Audrey

Re: hello, does anybody who knows the svn respo of synopsis docs?

Audrey Tang wrote: > > 在 Dec 18, 2006 5:52 AM 時，Fayland Lam 寫到： > >> we are trying to translate them into Chinese. so I just wonder where >> can I get the .pod source? > > http://svn.perl.org/perl6/doc/trunk/design/syn/ Thanks. > > Cheers, > Audrey > >

Re: [perl #41105] [PATCH] Silence a warning on Cygwin

On Saturday 16 December 2006 19:29, Steve Peters via RT wrote: > Actually, no, not the previous patch. Try the following instead. Thanks, applied as 16177. -- c

[perl #31652] [TODO] Win32 - Microsoft Visual C++ Toolkit 2003

With ICU optional these days, is this still necessary?

Re: Side effect between exit & .HLL

At 08:46 12/12/2006 +0100, François PERRAD wrote: With the following code : .sub main print "reached\n" exit 1 print "not reached\n" .end I obtain : reached But after adding a .HLL directive .HLL 'Lua', 'lua_group' .sub main print "reached\n" exit

Re: [perl #40361] [PATCH] #40278 [CAGE] perl coding standards coda. (cont.)

Be aware that you cannot use the verbose form of Emacs settings at the beginning of a file, unless the file is shorter than 3000 bytes. See Perl::Critic::Policy::Editor::RequireEmacsFileVariables policy for more details: So this means we need to put the emacs and vim settings at the end of the f