Re: Recommended Perl 6 best practices?

2008-10-01 Thread TSa
HaloO, Martin D Kealey wrote: Surely it is more important that ($a ne $b) should be equivalent to not( $a eq $b ) regardless of whether either variable contains a junction? IIRC, ne is just an abbreviation of !eq where ! in turn as a meta operator means to pull the negation to the front. Are j

Re: Recommended Perl 6 best practices?

2008-10-01 Thread TSa
HaloO, one nifty thing could be negation propagation in chained comparisons: ($a ne $b ne $c) === !($a eq $b || $b eq $c). This again insures some sanity if any of $a, $b or $c are junctions. BTW, the boolean connectives &&, || and ^^ shouldn't be auto-threaded through junctions. Regards, TSa.

[svn:perl6-synopsis] r14583 - doc/trunk/design/syn

2008-10-01 Thread larry
Author: larry Date: Wed Oct 1 09:55:35 2008 New Revision: 14583 Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S03.pod Log: Describe how assignment metaoperators initialize undefined lvalues. Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S03.pod

[svn:perl6-synopsis] r14584 - doc/trunk/design/syn

2008-10-01 Thread larry
Author: larry Date: Wed Oct 1 10:17:47 2008 New Revision: 14584 Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S03.pod Log: typo from Bob Rogers++ Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S03.pod == --- doc/trunk/design/syn/S03.pod(o

[perl #59112] Failing test in t/examples/library.t

2008-10-01 Thread James Keenan via RT
On Tue Sep 30 16:48:32 2008, masak wrote: > James (>): > > Let's start with an elementary question: What does Configure.pl say > for > > you at this step: > > > > auto::pcre - Does your platform support pcre > > auto::pcre - Does your platform support > pcreyes,

[svn:perl6-synopsis] r14585 - doc/trunk/design/syn

2008-10-01 Thread larry
Author: larry Date: Wed Oct 1 12:54:11 2008 New Revision: 14585 Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S03.pod Log: Revision to accumulator semantics so that -= dwims Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S03.pod == --- doc/trunk/

Re: [perl #59112] Failing test in t/examples/library.t

2008-10-01 Thread NotFound
> auto::pcre - Does your platform support > pcreyes, 6.7. > > With this version installed, I could not reproduce the error you > reported. See: > http://smolder.plusthree.com/app/public_projects/tap_stream/5784/392 > > So could this be a problem with PCRE 7.7, or how it in

Re: [perl #59112] Failing test in t/examples/library.t

2008-10-01 Thread chromatic
On Wednesday 01 October 2008 13:43:37 NotFound wrote: > > auto::pcre - Does your platform support > > pcreyes, 6.7. > > > > With this version installed, I could not reproduce the error you > > reported. See: > > http://smolder.plusthree.com/app/public_projects/tap_stream/

[perl #59112] Failing test in t/examples/library.t

2008-10-01 Thread James Keenan via RT
On Wed Oct 01 13:58:32 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Wednesday 01 October 2008 13:43:37 NotFound wrote: > > > > > The config test for pcre try to compile a test program. The pcre.pir > > dynamically loads the pcre library. So if, for example, you have only > > a static pcre lib, it will dete

Re: [perl #59112] Failing test in t/examples/library.t

2008-10-01 Thread NotFound
>> > The config test for pcre try to compile a test program. The pcre.pir >> > dynamically loads the pcre library. So if, for example, you have only >> > a static pcre lib, it will detect it but fails to use. >> >> That makes sense. Can we change the config test to link against a > dynamic >> pcre

[perl #59410] [PATCH] CONTROL_LOOP_NEXT support for pct. Rakudo won't build, though.

2008-10-01 Thread Patrick R. Michaud via RT
Patch applied in r31547 (by avoiding a push_eh/pop_eh mismatch). The problems with imcc hanging will be entered in a separate ticket. Thanks! Pm

globs and trees in Perl6

2008-10-01 Thread Timothy S. Nelson
Hi all. I've enjoyed(?) reading over the February/March thread entitled "Musings on operator overloading". I've brought a few thoughts along; if they're old news, please tell me where to do more reading on it :). Over the last year or two, I've discovered XPath. I've always thought XML a

Re: globs and trees in Perl6

2008-10-01 Thread Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH
On 2008 Oct 1, at 22:14, Timothy S. Nelson wrote: Hi all. I've enjoyed(?) reading over the February/March thread entitled "Musings on operator overloading". I've brought a few thoughts along; if they're old news, please tell me here to do more reading on it :). The Perl6 way to do this i

[perl #59538] [BUG] imcc freezes (compute_dominance_frontiers)

2008-10-01 Thread Patrick R. Michaud (via RT)
# New Ticket Created by Patrick R. Michaud # Please include the string: [perl #59538] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=59538 > The attached hang.pir file causes imcc to freeze while compiling it. The code itse

Re: globs and trees in Perl6

2008-10-01 Thread Timothy S. Nelson
On Wed, 1 Oct 2008, Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH wrote: On 2008 Oct 1, at 22:14, Timothy S. Nelson wrote: Hi all. I've enjoyed(?) reading over the February/March thread entitled "Musings on operator overloading". I've brought a few thoughts along; if they're old news, please tell me here to do

Re: globs and trees in Perl6

2008-10-01 Thread Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH
On 2008 Oct 1, at 22:23, Timothy S. Nelson wrote: On Wed, 1 Oct 2008, Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH wrote: On 2008 Oct 1, at 22:14, Timothy S. Nelson wrote: Hi all. I've enjoyed(?) reading over the February/March thread entitled "Musings on operator overloading". I've brought a few thoughts al