Re: Query re: duction and precedence.

2008-03-30 Thread Darren Duncan
Mark J. Reed wrote: You anticipated me. So, is there a core method for foldl/foldr/inject/reduce, or do you have to roll your own as in p5? On 3/29/08, Larry Wall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sat, Mar 29, 2008 at 10:18:53PM -0400, Mark J. Reed wrote: : In general, is : : [op] (p1,p2,p3,p4...)

[perl #52242] perl6 option handling - insufficiently paranoid

2008-03-30 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by Alan Rocker # Please include the string: [perl #52242] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=52242 > Perl 6 does not defend itself against invalid options. Using an invalid option results i

[perl #52276] 0-array and 1-array composer broken

2008-03-30 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by Stephane Payrard # Please include the string: [perl #52276] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=52276 > but n-array composer with n > 1 works correctly $ alias rakudo alias rakudo='./par

[perl #52264] Bug: duplicate directory names in SVN

2008-03-30 Thread Ted Neward
# New Ticket Created by "Ted Neward" # Please include the string: [perl #52264] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=52264 > There appear to be two directories, languages/HQ9plus and languages/hq9plus, which confl

Getting Started - Synopsis

2008-03-30 Thread John M. Dlugosz
I've read copies of the Synopsis documents that I've found on the web somewhere. How do I synchronize with the life copies, and hack on them? --John

Getting Started - What to try?

2008-03-30 Thread John M. Dlugosz
I've installed the Win32 build of Pugs, but is appears to be incomplete. How do I get the "real thing"? I've also heard that Pugs is in stasis, so is this still a good way to write stuff and learn today? Likewise, how do I get synched up with the Parrot implementation? I understand the most

Re: Getting Started - Synopsis

2008-03-30 Thread Agent Zhang
On 30 Mar 2008 10:32:03 -, John M. Dlugosz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've read copies of the Synopsis documents that I've found on the web > somewhere. How do I synchronize with the life copies, and hack on them? > Most of the Synopses are in the "official svn repos", http://svn.perl.org/

RE: [perl #52264] Bug: duplicate directory names in SVN

2008-03-30 Thread Ted Neward
Will do at next chance, maybe later today or tomorrow. Ted Neward Java, .NET, XML Services Consulting, Teaching, Speaking, Writing http://www.tedneward.com > -Original Message- > From: Bernhard Schmalhofer via RT [mailto:parrotbug- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Sunday, March 30, 2008 4:31

Re: Query re: duction and precedence.

2008-03-30 Thread Mark J. Reed
I'm a believer in generalizing where possible, modulo the principles of KISS and YAGNI. The latter essentially means "at least make it general enough that you can extend it later without major retooling if it turns out YNIAA.". It's pretty surprising what can turn out to be useful, so I've never b

Re: Getting Started - Synopsis

2008-03-30 Thread Ryan Richter
On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 07:28:46PM +0800, Agent Zhang wrote: > The latest HTML version of all the Synopses can be found at > http://perlcabal.org/syn/ , which is automatically updated from both > SVN repositories every one hour by a cron job running on feather. Actually, that cron job hasn't been

Re: [perl #52264] Bug: duplicate directory names in SVN

2008-03-30 Thread Andrew Whitworth
Oh, i'm glad this is a bug in the repository, when it happened to me, I assumed that my SVN client was broken. Now I dont need to go through the effort of uninstalling my SVN client, installing a new one, and checking out the entire repository again. --Andrew Whitworth On Sat, Mar 29, 2008 at 11:

Re: Query re: duction and precedence.

2008-03-30 Thread Mark A. Biggar
Mark J. Reed wrote: I'm a believer in generalizing where possible, modulo the principles of KISS and YAGNI. The latter essentially means "at least make it general enough that you can extend it later without major retooling if it turns out YNIAA.". It's pretty surprising what can turn out to be u

S02 questions and comments

2008-03-30 Thread John M. Dlugosz
I'm reading S02.pod with version information: Last Modified: 17 Mar 2008 Number: 2 Version: 130 Meta-question 1: what is the succinct way to report this? Is the "Version 130" enough? Meta-question 2: Does this belong on a different mailing list? I'm also including the documented file ma

Re: [perl #52242] perl6 option handling - insufficiently paranoid

2008-03-30 Thread Patrick R. Michaud
On Sat, Mar 29, 2008 at 12:53:29PM -0700, Alan Rocker wrote: > Perl 6 does not defend itself against invalid options. Using an invalid > option results in an ungraceful death rather than a valid error message. > > E.g. > $ ./perl6 -x "say 'Hi';" > Error: file cannot be read: -x > current instr.: '

Re: Query re: duction and precedence.

2008-03-30 Thread Patrick R. Michaud
On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 08:21:39AM -0700, Mark A. Biggar wrote: > The reduce meta-operator over - in APL gives alternating sum, similarly > alternating quotient for /, which only works if you right associate > things. > > [-] 1,2,3,4,5,6 => 1-2+3-4+5-6 # pseudo-apl > > [/] 1,2,3,4,5,6 => (1*3*5

Re: Query re: duction and precedence.

2008-03-30 Thread Luke Palmer
On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 12:56 PM, Mark J. Reed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm a believer in generalizing where possible, modulo the principles > of KISS and YAGNI. The latter essentially means "at least make it > general enough that you can extend it later without major retooling if > it turns

S02 questions and comments - unspace

2008-03-30 Thread John M. Dlugosz
"Any contiguous whitespace (including comments) may be hidden from the parser by prefixing it with \. ... using unspace lets you line up postfix operators:" %hash\ .{$key} @array\ .[$ix] $subref\.($arg) What does the dotted form have to do with this? It just confuses the example.

[BUG] static build not working?

2008-03-30 Thread Leopold Toetsch
Hi, while I wanted to help Infinoid finding `make -jn` bugs, I had an idea: build a static parrot and compare nm symbols for diffs [1]. But the static build failed. I used to do: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/svn/parrot/leo> cat doits perl Configure.pl --maintainer --parrot_is_shared=0 "$@" 2>&1 | tee ma

[perl #52202] [BUG]: Rakudo build attempted on Win32 but couldn't get to Hello World

2008-03-30 Thread James Keenan via RT
On Sat Mar 29 14:46:28 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Friday 28 March 2008 11:14:03 James Keenan wrote: > > > This is one of a series of tickets reporting issues encountered at a > > Parrot/Rakudo buildfest held at Toronto Perlmongers on March 27, > 2008. > > > > On the same Win32 box mention

Re: [perl #52242] perl6 option handling - insufficiently paranoid

2008-03-30 Thread ajr
> and so we've been holding off on argument processing until that's resolved a > bit more. > Should it matter what's in the "allowed" class? From the beginning, there ought to be a default "if I don't know what this is, spit it back" action. What happens before that point is irrelevant. > P.S.:

Re: Getting Started - Synopsis

2008-03-30 Thread Agent Zhang
On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 9:23 PM, Ryan Richter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Actually, that cron job hasn't been working for a long time... > I've just checked the cronjob mails and it seems to me that the update-syn script is working fine. So the Synopses are still fresh :) I think you meant th

Re: S02 questions and comments

2008-03-30 Thread Agent Zhang
On 30 Mar 2008 16:35:56 -, John M. Dlugosz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm reading S02.pod with version information: > Last Modified: 17 Mar 2008 > Number: 2 > Version: 130 > > Meta-question 1: what is the succinct way to report this? Is the "Version > 130" enough? The SVN revision n

[perl #52280] [PATCH] HLLCompiler: fix overriding default prompt using $commandline_prompt

2008-03-30 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by mmcleric2 # Please include the string: [perl #52280] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=52280 > HLLCompiler allows to set commandline_parser to any value, but prints default '> ' prompt

RE: [perl #52264] Bug: duplicate directory names in SVN

2008-03-30 Thread ajr
>> This should be fixed in r26641. >> >> Could you confirm? >> -- Checkout on Windows XP now works. -- Email and shopping with the feelgood factor! 55% of income to good causes. http://www.ippimail.com

[perl #48008] build broken on windows.

2008-03-30 Thread Will Coleda via RT
On Mon Mar 10 20:06:36 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Sat Dec 01 10:49:24 2007, coke wrote: > > I don't normally build on windows, but tried today to verify some code > for > > kid51; started by doing a basic build against trunk: > > > > winxp, visual studio 2005, r23314 > > > > Build end

[perl #43048] [BUG] imcc constant folding div by zero

2008-03-30 Thread Will Coleda via RT
On Thu May 24 14:45:02 2007, coke wrote: > ... or so I think: > > This works: > > .sub zero_check > >push_eh one > $N0 = 0.0 > $N1 = 3 / $N0 >clear_eh > > one: >print "ok\n" > .end > > > This doesn't: > > .sub zero_check > >push_eh one > $N1 = 3 / 0.0 >cle