Numeric Semantics

2006-12-29 Thread Luke Palmer
When do we do integer/rational math and when do we do floating point math? That is, is 1 different from 1.0? Should 10**500 be infinity or a 1 with 500 zeroes after it? Should 10**10**6 run out of memory? Should "say (1/3)**500" print a bunch of digits to the screen or print 0? These are just

Fwd: Re: [PATCH] Add note to perltodo.pod about Unicode and file globbing

2006-12-29 Thread chromatic
Here's an interesting note from p5p about string encodings, Unicode, and locales with regard to filenames. -- c -- Forwarded Message -- Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add note to perltodo.pod about Unicode and file globbing Date: Friday 29 December 2006 11:50 From: Jan Dubois <[EMAIL PR

[perl #41152] [PATCH]: config/gen/makefiles/root.in: Add target 'testbuildtools'

2006-12-29 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by James Keenan # Please include the string: [perl #41152] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=41152 > As a follow-up to my patches to pmc2c.pl submitted in RT #41020, I am submitting a pat

[perl #41020] [PATCH] pmc2c.pl functionality extracted into separate package

2006-12-29 Thread James Keenan via RT
Further refinement of new file lib/Parrot/Pmc2c/Utils.pm. Coverage analysis suggested that the following line in gen_parent_list() (approx. line 547): next if exists $class->{has_parent}{$parent}; ... was never reached by my tests in the 'true' case (if exists $$class{'has_parent'}{$paren

[perl #41153] [PATCH]: t/tools/pmc2c.t : Spelling correction

2006-12-29 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by James Keenan # Please include the string: [perl #41153] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=41153 > s/unweildy/unwieldy/ pmc2c.t.patch Description: Binary data kid51