Documenting Perl6

2007-07-02 Thread Mark Overmeer
=begin INTRO Mongers, I must say, I am a bit disappointed that the discussions about the future of documentation in Perl has died. Or was everyone fully occupied by YAPC::NA? I spent last week with my family on a stormy island, without sufficient internet access, so was unable to stirr things

Parrot Bug Summary

2007-07-02 Thread Parrot Bug Summary
Parrot Bug Summary http://rt.perl.org/rt3/NoAuth/parrot/Overview.html Generated at Mon Jul 2 13:00:02 2007 GMT --- * Numbers * New Issues * Overview of Open Issues * Ticket Status By Version * Requestors with mo

[perl #43463] [BUG] Parrot Bug Summary "Requestors with most open tickets" doesn't DWIM

2007-07-02 Thread Will Coleda via RT
Need to strip out the HTML comment on the link; the url for you is actually: http://rt.perl.org/rt3/NoAuth/parrot/List.html?Field=Requestor&[EMAIL PROTECTED] Not the given: http://rt.perl.org/rt3/NoAuth/parrot/List.html?Field=Requestor&Value=jkeen%20%3C!--%20x%20--%3E%20at%20verizon.net

Re: [perl #43463] [BUG] Parrot Bug Summary "Requestors with most open tickets" doesn't DWIM

2007-07-02 Thread Will Coleda
... I thought I had cut and paste-o'd this reply, but something is helpfully obfuscating the email address, making it hard to send the appropriate URL. You figure it out.

Re: [perl #41497] [TODO] config - profiling options are specific to gcc in config/init/defaults.pm

2007-07-02 Thread Andy Dougherty
On Sun, 24 Jun 2007, James Keenan via RT wrote: > On Tue Feb 13 08:06:53 2007, ptc wrote: > > The profiling options used in config/init/defaults.pm are specific to > > gcc. This should probably be specified in the relevant hints file. > > The profiling options code in config/init/defaults.pm rea

Re: [svn:parrot] r19533 - trunk/docs

2007-07-02 Thread bob
On Sun, Jul 01, 2007 at 08:55:31PM -0500, Andy Lester wrote: > > On Jul 1, 2007, at 8:53 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >-You can either do so with an interger type id: > >+You can do so either with an integer type id: > > While we're going down the cleanup road, I'd really like to see ID >

Re: Documenting Perl6

2007-07-02 Thread Jasmine Pues
This may be unnecessary, but if anyone needs help with stylistic parts of the documentation (I can cross-check for accuracy) for a target audience (i.e., is it documentation for beginners, or those already familiar with Perl5? Is it aimed toward other programmers who are switching languages or usi

Re: [perl #41353] [PATCH] Extended very limited PIO_unix_pipe() function in src/io/io_unix.c

2007-07-02 Thread Kay-Uwe Hüll
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 chromatic via RT wrote: > I can't quite get this to apply cleanly, and I have some concern that > the memory allocated for argv doesn't get freed appropriately. If you > can make the patch apply cleanly, I'm happy to work on the memory parts. Hi chro

Re: Documenting Perl6

2007-07-02 Thread Richard Hainsworth
Having read this posting, I find it VERY hard to understand exactly how Damian and Mark differ fundamentally. They both seem to be after the same thing in the end. A rhetorical question of my own and an answer. Q) what is the real difference between comments and documentation? - Syntactically

Re: [perl #43463] [BUG] Parrot Bug Summary "Requestors with most open tickets" d

2007-07-02 Thread Jim Keenan
>From: Will Coleda via RT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Date: 2007/07/02 Mon AM 08:28:11 CDT >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: [perl #43463] [BUG] Parrot Bug Summary "Requestors with most open >tickets" doesn't DWIM >Need to strip out the HTML comment on the link; the url for >you is actually: > >http://r

[perl #43463] [BUG] Parrot Bug Summary "Requestors with most open tickets" doesn't DWIM

2007-07-02 Thread James Keenan via RT
Coke showed me the light! Resolving ticket.

Re: Documenting Perl6

2007-07-02 Thread Mark Overmeer
* Richard Hainsworth ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [070702 17:06]: > Having read this posting, I find it VERY hard to understand exactly how > Damian and Mark differ fundamentally. They both seem to be after the > same thing in the end. Damain defines a markup language, and says that "tools" (to be define

[perl #43462] [PATCH] some clearups, illegal memory accessing

2007-07-02 Thread Bram Geron
Bob Rogers wrote: > . . . > > I think you will have to send me your test case, or at least a more > detailed recipe. I do not see how the above sequence of events can lead > to a dangling reference to a deleted sub -- unless there is also a GC > bug, in which case I am unlikely to be able to repr

Re: [svn:parrot] r19533 - trunk/docs

2007-07-02 Thread James E Keenan
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd prefer to see it spelled "identifier" - which I think fits well in context, and may be less ambiguous than either "ID" or "id". Implemented in r19545.

[perl #43462] [PATCH] some clearups, illegal memory accessing

2007-07-02 Thread Bob Rogers
From: Bram Geron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Mon, 02 Jul 2007 23:19:39 +0200 I'm sorry -- I wrongly assumed that marking a context doesn't mark its current_sub, but it does. I thought it wasn't necessary (lexpad holds all the info we'd need). The segfault I got must have been a sympto

Re: [perl #43462] [PATCH] some clearups, illegal memory accessing

2007-07-02 Thread Bram Geron
Bob Rogers via RT wrote: >From: Bram Geron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Date: Mon, 02 Jul 2007 23:19:39 +0200 > >I'm sorry -- I wrongly assumed that marking a context doesn't mark its >current_sub, but it does. I thought it wasn't necessary (lexpad holds >all the info we'd need). The s

Re: [perl #43481] t/examples/shootout.t (shootout_16.pir) fails on gentoo/x86

2007-07-02 Thread Mark Glines
On Mon, 02 Jul 2007 16:46:54 -0700 Mark Glines (via RT) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~/parrot $ ./parrot > "/home/paranoid/parrot/t/examples/shootout_16.pir" > [cgt]gggtaaa|tttaccc[acg] 3 a[act]ggtaaa|tttacc[agt]t 9 > ag[act]gtaaa|tttac[agt]ct 8 > agg[act]taaa|ttta[agt]cct 10 > a

[perl #43481] t/examples/shootout.t (shootout_16.pir) fails on gentoo/x86

2007-07-02 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by Mark Glines # Please include the string: [perl #43481] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=43481 > Failed Test Stat Wstat Total Fail List of Failed --

[perl #43485] Null Key Strings Make Hashes Cry

2007-07-02 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by chromatic # Please include the string: [perl #43485] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=43485 > I don't have a good test case for this, but I've triggered the problem with some code that