Re: [svn:parrot-pdd] r24108 - in trunk: . docs/pdds

2007-12-28 Thread Will Coleda
-- Will "Coke" Coleda On Dec 27, 2007, at 1:09 PM, "Patrick R. Michaud" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thu, Dec 27, 2007 at 07:56:35PM +0200, Allison Randal wrote: Patrick R. Michaud wrote: On Thu, Dec 27, 2007 at 07:15:40PM +0200, Allison Randal wrote: With autoboxing/unboxing, there's n

what can I do in perl 6 today?

2007-12-28 Thread Aaron Trevena
Hi all, I was wondering about this - people keep on asking about "when it will be finnished" - I'm more interested in "can I do X in it" where X is something I'm interested in and/or something I can contribute to and/or something that I consider important for production code I want to migrate to p

Re: what can I do in perl 6 today?

2007-12-28 Thread jerry gay
On Dec 28, 2007 5:34 AM, Aaron Trevena <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I was wondering about this - people keep on asking about "when it will > be finnished" - I'm more interested in "can I do X in it" where X is > something I'm interested in and/or something I can contribute to > and/or s

VTABLE_elements

2007-12-28 Thread Andy Lester
Should we be allowing negative in the PMC elements() functions? Seems to me they'd be more appropriate as UINTVALs. xoa -- Andy Lester => [EMAIL PROTECTED] => www.petdance.com => AIM:petdance

[perl #43299] [TODO] config/auto/gc.pm: Write unit tests

2007-12-28 Thread James Keenan via RT
I went ahead and answered my own question by first writing regression tests for auto::gc as it stood, then consolidating all the 'libc'-handling code in one stanza, then re-running the tests. All code is now covered. Refactored module and 6 test files committed in r24248. Resolving ticket. kid5

[perl #43318] [TODO] config/auto/jit.pm: Write unit tests

2007-12-28 Thread James Keenan via RT
A little more refactoring in config/auto/jit.pm, plus one more test file, done in r24249.

Re: VTABLE_elements

2007-12-28 Thread chromatic
On Friday 28 December 2007 07:09:24 Andy Lester wrote: > Should we be allowing negative in the PMC elements() functions? Seems > to me they'd be more appropriate as UINTVALs. I can't think of any reason they could be negative. Can you make a patch to convert them and see if anything breaks? -

Re: VTABLE_elements

2007-12-28 Thread Andy Lester
On Dec 28, 2007, at 12:17 PM, chromatic wrote: Should we be allowing negative in the PMC elements() functions? Seems to me they'd be more appropriate as UINTVALs. I can't think of any reason they could be negative. Can you make a patch to convert them and see if anything breaks? A

Perl 6 and Parrot Wikis (RE: what can I do in perl 6 today?)

2007-12-28 Thread Conrad Schneiker
From: Aaron Trevena > I'm more interested in "can I do X in it" > where X is something I'm interested in > and/or something I can contribute to Just wanted to make sure that you knew about the official Perl 6, Parrot, and Perl 5 wikis: http://www.perlfoundation.org/perl6/index.cgi ht

Re: [svn:parrot-pdd] r24108 - in trunk: . docs/pdds

2007-12-28 Thread chromatic
On Friday 28 December 2007 04:15:03 Will Coleda wrote: > My concern here is HLL interop. I think it would be cleaner to specify > the base types ( or perhaps a does ) to be generic enough to let > another language invoke your multis. With regard to autoboxing situations, you think the compiler sh

Re: [svn:parrot-pdd] r24108 - in trunk: . docs/pdds

2007-12-28 Thread Patrick R. Michaud
On Fri, Dec 28, 2007 at 12:37:56PM -0800, chromatic wrote: > On Friday 28 December 2007 04:15:03 Will Coleda wrote: > > > My concern here is HLL interop. I think it would be cleaner to specify > > the base types ( or perhaps a does ) to be generic enough to let > > another language invoke your mul

[perl #49168] [TODO] create a simplified command interface for perl6

2007-12-28 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by Patrick R. Michaud # Please include the string: [perl #49168] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=49168 > Currently the most frequently asked question (by far) about perl6 is "how can I j

Disassembler enhancement for review

2007-12-28 Thread Bob Rogers
The attached patch adds decoding of call/return registers to the disassembler, and also fixes a segfault; both are byproducts of a long and otherwise fruitless debugging session. Please let me know what you think. -- Bob Rogers