Q on Calling conventions; parameter order

2007-02-05 Thread Klaas-Jan Stol
hello, Some details of the Parrot calling conventions are a bit unclear. For the languages/PIR parser implementation, I'd like to check on this order, instead of postponing the check this in a later phase. My guess is that the actual checking for mismatches is done in Parrot during runtime, b

Parrot Bug Summary

2007-02-05 Thread Parrot Bug Summary
Parrot Bug Summary http://rt.perl.org/rt3/NoAuth/parrot/Overview.html Generated at Mon Feb 5 14:00:06 2007 GMT --- * Numbers * New Issues * Overview of Open Issues * Ticket Status By Version * Requestors with mo

[PATCH] update docs/imcc/calling_conventions.pod

2007-02-05 Thread Klaas-Jan Stol
hi, I noticed the file calling_conventions.pod misses the sub pragmas :postcomp (and I understood this is the same as :immediate) and :outer(sub). This patch adds these pragmas. regards, kjs Index: docs/imcc/calling_conventions.pod ===

Re: [svn:perl6-synopsis] r13551 - doc/trunk/design/syn

2007-02-05 Thread Robert Wilkinson
On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 12:31:17PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Author: larry > Date: Tue Jan 30 12:31:16 2007 > New Revision: 13551 > > Modified: >doc/trunk/design/syn/S09.pod > > Log: > Braino spotted by TSa++ > > > Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S09.pod > ===

[svn:perl6-synopsis] r13570 - doc/trunk/design/syn

2007-02-05 Thread larry
Author: larry Date: Mon Feb 5 14:26:23 2007 New Revision: 13570 Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S03.pod doc/trunk/design/syn/S05.pod Log: categories now allow multiple dispatch via longest-token rule added : syntax to rules and tokens seems a bit odd to call list-associative operators "bina

Re: [svn:perl6-synopsis] r13570 - doc/trunk/design/syn

2007-02-05 Thread Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH
On Feb 5, 2007, at 17:26 , [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: +This can be viewed as a form of multiple dispatch, except that it's +based on longest-token matching rather than signature matcing. The "matcing"? -- brandon s. allbery[linux,solaris,freebsd,perl] [EMAIL PROTECTED] system administ

[svn:perl6-synopsis] r13571 - doc/trunk/design/syn

2007-02-05 Thread larry
Author: larry Date: Mon Feb 5 14:41:04 2007 New Revision: 13571 Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S05.pod Log: typo from albery_b++ Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S05.pod == --- doc/trunk/design/syn/S05.pod(ori

Re: [svn:perl6-synopsis] r13571 - doc/trunk/design/syn

2007-02-05 Thread Larry Wall
On Mon, Feb 05, 2007 at 02:41:06PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: : typo from albery_b++ Figured I'd start in on all the possible misspellings now... O_o Larry

[svn:perl6-synopsis] r13572 - doc/trunk/design/syn

2007-02-05 Thread larry
Author: larry Date: Mon Feb 5 15:07:01 2007 New Revision: 13572 Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S03.pod Log: $obj.Foo::bar is also okay syntax if Foo declared Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S03.pod == --- doc/trunk/d

Negative array subscripts

2007-02-05 Thread David Green
On 1/30/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in "[svn:perl6-synopsis] r13549 - doc/trunk/design/syn": +It has become the custom to use negative subscripts to indicate counting +from the end of an array. This is still supported, but only for unshaped +arrays: +For shaped arrays you must explicitly refer t

Re: Negative array subscripts

2007-02-05 Thread David Green
On 2/5/07, David Green wrote: Then we wouldn't need * to count backwards, although it's still useful to allow us to count past the end of an array. There are all sorts of variations on this scheme, such as whether * is the last element or the one after that, etc., or whether 0 should be the fi

[perl #41453] [BUG] Test failure in t/pmc/object-meths.t

2007-02-05 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by James Keenan # Please include the string: [perl #41453] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=41453 > Running 'make test' tonight, for the first time I experienced a failure in a test *oth

[perl #41185] [BUG]: examples/shootout/regexdna.pir.input: Persistently failing test

2007-02-05 Thread James Keenan via RT
This test continues to fail on Darwin. Here's a result from tonight: [parrot] 535 $ perl t/harness t/examples/shootout.t t/examples/shootoutok 8/20 # Failed test (t/examples/shootout.t at line 99) # got: 'agggtaaa|tttaccct 0 # [cgt]g

[perl #41453] [BUG] Test failure in t/pmc/object-meths.t

2007-02-05 Thread James Keenan via RT
Should have included 'myconfig' with the original report. It is now attached. kid51 myconfig Description: Binary data

dpkg-buildpacke fails due to outdated 10smoke patch

2007-02-05 Thread Moritz Lenz
Hi, on my Debian Etch system the current (rev. 15185) pugs fails to compile when invoked with dpkg-buildpackage because the 10smoke patch can't be applied. Full build log here: http://moritz.faui2k3.org/tmp/pugs-dpkg-buildlog If I remove debian/patches/ the build still fails with the following me

Prototype object model for Parrot

2007-02-05 Thread Allison Randal
I spent yesterday pair programming with Sam Vilain on a prototype object model written in PIR. We actually wrote two prototypes. The first one had 2 levels of meta objects and the system was getting pretty convoluted, so we scrapped it and started over. I just checked in the second prototype t

[svn:parrot-pdd] r16905 - trunk/docs/pdds/draft

2007-02-05 Thread allison
Author: allison Date: Mon Feb 5 21:42:00 2007 New Revision: 16905 Modified: trunk/docs/pdds/draft/pddXX_cstruct.pod Log: Fix a few typos in the CStruct proposal. Modified: trunk/docs/pdds/draft/pddXX_cstruct.pod ==