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

2006-12-18 Thread Paul Cochrane via RT
Thanks! Applied in r16183.

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

2006-12-18 Thread Jonathan Worthington
chromatic via RT wrote: With ICU optional these days, is this still necessary? Since Windows doesn't ship with a C compiler and this toolkit is one of the easiest ways to get hold of one for free, then yes, it's good to have it documented. (It may be *called* the C++ toolkit, but it's also

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

2006-12-18 Thread Ron Blaschke
Jonathan Worthington wrote: > chromatic via RT wrote: >> With ICU optional these days, is this still necessary? >> > Since Windows doesn't ship with a C compiler and this toolkit is one of > the easiest ways to get hold of one for free, then yes, it's good to > have it documented. (It may be *ca

Parrot Bug Summary

2006-12-18 Thread Parrot Bug Summary
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RAII in Perl6/Parrot

2006-12-18 Thread Blair Sutton
Dear all I hope I am sending this to the correct place. I regularly use the RAII idiom in Perl 5 and C++ to automatically clean up resources during object destruction. I recently read a mail thread "Is RAII possible in Python?" at http://www.thescripts.com/forum/thread25072.html and "Perl vs Pyt

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

2006-12-18 Thread Chris Dolan
On Dec 18, 2006, at 1:57 AM, Paul Cochrane wrote: 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 t

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

2006-12-18 Thread Steve Peters via RT
On Sun Dec 17 19:29:46 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > With ICU optional these days, is this still necessary? I have a Visual C++ Toolkit 2003 lying around (I think), so, if I do, I'll give this a try along with my Borland work.

[perl #40950] [PATCH] Compiling Parrot with the new Borland C++

2006-12-18 Thread Steve Peters via RT
> On Mon Nov 20 06:24:00 2006, stmpeters wrote: > > It took some tweaking to get some of the warnings shut off, but the > > attached patch actually gets the files to compile, although it doesn't > > actually build a parrot to test with. Expect a few more patches over > the > > next week to finish

Re: [perl #40816] open opcode creates file if it doesn't exist

2006-12-18 Thread jerry gay
On 12/16/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] via RT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sat Nov 11 11:53:27 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Not sure if this is a bug or not, but I noticed that the open opcode > creates its argument if the desired file doesn't exist. > There are two variants of the open opcode: this

Re: RAII in Perl6/Parrot

2006-12-18 Thread Larry Wall
On Mon, Dec 18, 2006 at 12:02:35PM +, Blair Sutton wrote: : Dear all : I hope I am sending this to the correct place. : I regularly use the RAII idiom in Perl 5 and C++ to automatically clean : up resources during object destruction. : I recently read a mail thread "Is RAII possible in Python?

Re: RAII in Perl6/Parrot

2006-12-18 Thread Blair Sutton
Larry Wall wrote: ... (Perl 6 provides several ways that are much handier than try/finally, and just about as handy as RAII.) But baking such handicaps into every object merely guarantees it will not scale well in the real world. Thanks for the information. I mu

Re: RAII in Perl6/Parrot

2006-12-18 Thread Luke Palmer
On 12/18/06, Blair Sutton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I agree entirely that not all objects need this capability but some certainly do. That is, the capability to execute code once every reference of an object has been removed. Could you point to, or give an example of the Perl 6 way for doing som

take: bug or feature?

2006-12-18 Thread Ovid
A few days ago, Larry posted this on Perlmonks (http://perlmonks.org/?node_id=590147): sub group ([EMAIL PROTECTED] is copy) { gather { while @array { take [ # line 112 gather { my $h = shift @array; ta

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

2006-12-18 Thread Jonathan Worthington
Ron Blaschke wrote: Seems like the old Visual C++ Toolkit 2003 is discontinued. http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/visualc/aa336490.aspx Aha. If you would have a moment to write these latest changes into readme.win32.pod and send in a patch, that'd be awesome; otherwise I'll get to it when I

take: bug or feature?

2006-12-18 Thread Ovid
A few days ago, Larry posted this on Perlmonks (http://perlmonks.org/?node_id=590147): sub group ([EMAIL PROTECTED] is copy) { gather { while @array { take [ # line 112 gather { my $h = shift @array; ta

Re: take: bug or feature?

2006-12-18 Thread Sean O'Rourke
Ovid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Did something break? If so, I'll add a test. Otherwise, what's > wrong with this code? I noticed this as well, and believe it's a bug -- pugs accepts the code if you remove all the newlines. Then again, I'm not sure this is the desired behavior: pugs> grou

Re: take: bug or feature?

2006-12-18 Thread Ovid
--- Sean O'Rourke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I noticed this as well, and believe it's a bug -- pugs accepts > the code if you remove all the newlines. Then again, I'm not > sure this is the desired behavior: > > pugs> group(1..10) > ((1,), (2,), (3,), (4,), (5,), (6,), (7,), (8,), (9,

[svn:perl6-synopsis] r13493 - doc/trunk/design/syn

2006-12-18 Thread larry
Author: larry Date: Mon Dec 18 17:50:54 2006 New Revision: 13493 Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S06.pod Log: Nitty infrastructural routines probably shouldn't rely on multiple dispatch or optional args, so we now have .call, .callc and .callv forms. Also added .goto variants for tail call enfo

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

2006-12-18 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED] via RT
On Sat Dec 16 14:35:24 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Affected files: > > /README.win32.pod > > ... > Applied in r16187, thanks! Jonathan