[perl #61282] 'make fulltest' failures

2008-12-11 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by Moritz Lenz # Please include the string: [perl #61282] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=61282 > Parrot r33793 has has two failures in 'make fulltest', in the last bunch of the test runs

[perl #61286] [PATCH][PROPOSAL] box complements

2008-12-11 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by François PERRAD # Please include the string: [perl #61286] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=61286 > The new opcode 'box' is limited by its 3 signatures that target Float, Integer & Stri

[perl #61278] perl6 build errors on Debian stable "Etch" (parrot svn trunk rev 33776 and before)

2008-12-11 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by Jochen Plumeyer # Please include the string: [perl #61278] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=61278 > Hi folks, in the last days I tried several times with the respective latest svn trun

What does a Pair numify to?

2008-12-11 Thread Carl Mäsak
Pugs and Elf currently numify a Pair object to 2, and Rakudo currently dies of despair. My guess is that the semantics of Pugs and Elf falls out naturally form a pair being treated as a list of two elements, or something. The question still deserves to be raised whether always-2 is a good semantic

Re: What does a Pair numify to?

2008-12-11 Thread TSa
HaloO, Carl Mäsak wrote: Pugs and Elf currently numify a Pair object to 2, and Rakudo currently dies of despair. My guess is that the semantics of Pugs and Elf falls out naturally form a pair being treated as a list of two elements, or something. The question still deserves to be raised whether

[svn:parrot-pdd] r33798 - trunk/docs/pdds

2008-12-11 Thread kjs
Author: kjs Date: Thu Dec 11 05:39:13 2008 New Revision: 33798 Modified: trunk/docs/pdds/pdd19_pir.pod Log: [pdd19] removed deprecated and removed stuff. Modified: trunk/docs/pdds/pdd19_pir.pod == --- trunk/docs/pdds/

[svn:parrot-pdd] r33799 - trunk/docs/pdds

2008-12-11 Thread kjs
Author: kjs Date: Thu Dec 11 05:43:56 2008 New Revision: 33799 Modified: trunk/docs/pdds/pdd19_pir.pod Log: [pdd19] add bits on implementation Modified: trunk/docs/pdds/pdd19_pir.pod == --- trunk/docs/pdds/pdd19_pir.p

[perl #61290] [BIG] can't peek on stdin

2008-12-11 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by François PERRAD # Please include the string: [perl #61290] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=61290 > Since the merge of the branch ppd22io, the mode of the stdin stream has changed. Curr

Re: [perl #61286] [PATCH][PROPOSAL] box complements

2008-12-11 Thread François Perrad
2008/12/11 Will Coleda via RT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Thu Dec 11 01:51:23 2008, fperrad wrote: >> The new opcode 'box' is limited by its 3 signatures that target Float, >> Integer & String. >> I propose the 3 following new opcodes : > >> - true >> - false > > These can be approximated with: > >

Re: [perl #61242] [FTBFS] build fails with --optimize on 64bit linux

2008-12-11 Thread Nicholas Clark
On Tue, Dec 09, 2008 at 03:43:59PM -0800, Moritz Lenz wrote: > After a 'make realclean' I ran 'perl Configure --optimize && make'. It > dies like this: > > ../../parrot -o PGE.pbc --output-pbc PGE.pir > ../../parrot ../../runtime/parrot/library/PGE/Perl6Grammar.pir > --output=PGE/bui > ltins_gen.

Re: [perl #61286] [PATCH][PROPOSAL] box complements

2008-12-11 Thread Will Coleda
On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 11:10 AM, François Perrad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 2008/12/11 Will Coleda via RT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> On Thu Dec 11 01:51:23 2008, fperrad wrote: >>> The new opcode 'box' is limited by its 3 signatures that target Float, >>> Integer & String. >>> I propose the 3 follo

Re: Smooth numeric upgrades?

2008-12-11 Thread TSa
HaloO, Darren Duncan wrote: Michael G Schwern wrote: TSa (Thomas Sandlaß) wrote: I want to stress this last point. We have the three types Int, Rat and Num. What exactly is the purpose of Num? The IEEE formats will be handled by num64 and the like. Is it just there for holding properties? Or d

Re: [perl #61282] 'make fulltest' failures

2008-12-11 Thread chromatic
On Wednesday 10 December 2008 23:20:22 Moritz Lenz wrote: > Parrot r33793 has has two failures in 'make fulltest', in the last bunch > of the test runs. (I don't see how to find out which runcore that is). It's the run-from-PBC runcore. > Test Summary Report > --- > t/op/pushacti

Re: [perl #61286] [PATCH][PROPOSAL] box complements

2008-12-11 Thread chromatic
On Thursday 11 December 2008 08:20:06 Will Coleda wrote: > As I understand it, box is designed to deal /only/ with promoting the > 3 basic register types (SIN) to PMCs of the appropriate HLL type (just > like autoboxing in PCC), not to provide a way to promote literal > values for arbitrary core P

Re: [svn:parrot-pdd] r33751 - trunk/docs/pdds/draft

2008-12-11 Thread Nicholas Clark
On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 12:58:54AM -0800, chroma...@cvs.perl.org wrote: > Log: > [PDD] Reviewed Numbers PDD; minor edits to formatting and phrasing. Sadly, > IBM's Standard Decimal Arithmetic Standard is no longer available from IBM's > site. It's unclear how to include this within Parrot as it

Roles and IO?

2008-12-11 Thread Leon Timmermans
Hi all, I've been thinking about how the IO interface should be organized in perl6. It seems that part of S16 has received little attention so far. One main problem with filehandles is that are rather diverse. The only operation that all of them have in common is close. Reading versus writing is

Re: Roles and IO?

2008-12-11 Thread Jon Lang
Leon Timmermans wrote: > What I propose is using role composition for *everything*. Most > importantly that includes the roles Readable and Writable, but also > things like Seekable, Mapable, Pollable, Statable, Ownable, Buffered > (does Readable), Socket, Acceptable (does Pollable), and more. > >

Re: Roles and IO?

2008-12-11 Thread Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH
On 2008 Dec 11, at 20:16, Leon Timmermans wrote: One main problem with filehandles is that are rather diverse. The only operation that all of them have in common is close. Reading versus Be glad Xenix is dead. There were filehandles which didn't even support close() (they were actually handl

Re: Roles and IO?

2008-12-11 Thread Mark J. Reed
On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 8:16 PM, Leon Timmermans wrote: > What I propose is using role composition for *everything*. Most > importantly that includes the roles Readable and Writable, but also > things like Seekable, Mapable, Pollable, Statable, Ownable, Buffered > (does Readable), Socket, Accepta

Perl as a better web language ?

2008-12-11 Thread howard chen
Hello, I love perl for its rich set of modules but PHP is a better template language for web developments. Wouldn't it be great to see if Perl6 support it? E.g. as contrast to Howard

Re: Perl as a better web language ?

2008-12-11 Thread Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH
On 2008 Dec 11, at 23:55, howard chen wrote: Hello, I love perl for its rich set of modules but PHP is a better template language for web developments. Wouldn't it be great to see if Perl6 support it? It can be done as a library, take a look at Perl6 grammars. -- brandon s. allbery [solaris,

Re: Perl as a better web language ?

2008-12-11 Thread Henk van Oers
On Thu, 11 Dec 2008, Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH wrote: On 2008 Dec 11, at 23:55, howard chen wrote: Hello, I love perl for its rich set of modules but PHP is a better template language for web developments. Wouldn't it be great to see if Perl6 support it? It can be done as a library, take a l