[perl #63004] A literal array with eight elements gives an imcc parsing error in Rakudo

2009-02-05 Thread Bruce Gray via RT
This is caused by a Parrot bug introduced in r36165, and resolved in r36340. The example you gave exactly matches the reduced form of the problem that I arrived at, before I traced the problem out of Rakudo and into Parrot. See TT#256 at https://trac.parrot.org/parrot/ticket/256 . If you cannot upd

[perl #63036] [PATCH] Fixed typos in docs

2009-02-05 Thread Saleem A. Ansari (via RT)
# New Ticket Created by Saleem A. Ansari # Please include the string: [perl #63036] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=63036 > Fixed typos in docs/book ch09_pct.pod |2 +- ch11_pmcs.pod|2 +- c

[perl #63034] Make failure on Windows

2009-02-05 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by Alan Rocker # Please include the string: [perl #63034] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=63034 > Somewhere around Rev. # 36330, perl6 stopped making on Windows. The last few lines of mi

[perl #63042] Fwd: Failed spectests

2009-02-05 Thread Ifejinelo Onyiah
# New Ticket Created by "Ifejinelo Onyiah" # Please include the string: [perl #63042] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=63042 > Hi all, just updated parrot and rakudo: shell% perl6 -v This is Rakudo Perl 6, re

[perl #63038] Test.pm eats the "Use of uninitialized value" warnings

2009-02-05 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by Gabor Szabo # Please include the string: [perl #63038] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=63038 > the following code prints a warning "Use of uninitialized value" use v6

Re: r25200 - docs/Perl6/Spec t/spec

2009-02-05 Thread Dave Whipp
Jon Lang wrote: Pattern to split on (used with -a). Substitutes an expression for the default split function, which is C<{split ' '}>. Accepts unicode strings (as long as Should the default pattern be ' ', or should it be something more like /\s+/? // ?

Re: [perl #36330] [TODO] Create a BigNum PMC

2009-02-05 Thread jerry gay
On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 08:26, Andrew Whitworth via RT wrote: > 1) Are we going to be relying on libraries to handle our BigInt/BigNum > implementations, or are we intending to roll our own? we can't rely on external libraries, whether for bignum, unicode, gc, or anything else. we can detect and u

Re: [perl #36330] [TODO] Create a BigNum PMC

2009-02-05 Thread jerry gay
On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 08:45, Andrew Whitworth via RT wrote: > On Thu Feb 05 08:40:47 2009, particle wrote: >> On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 08:26, Andrew Whitworth via RT >> wrote: >> > 1) Are we going to be relying on libraries to handle our BigInt/BigNum >> > implementations, or are we intending to r

Re: r25200 - docs/Perl6/Spec t/spec

2009-02-05 Thread Larry Wall
On Thu, Feb 05, 2009 at 07:47:01AM -0800, Dave Whipp wrote: > Jon Lang wrote: >>> Pattern to split on (used with -a). Substitutes an expression for the >>> default >>> split function, which is C<{split ' '}>. Accepts unicode strings (as long >>> as >> >> Should the default pattern be ' ', or

Re: [perl #36330] [TODO] Create a BigNum PMC

2009-02-05 Thread chromatic
On Thursday 05 February 2009 08:57:18 jerry gay wrote: > we will roll our own bignum, and give users the ability to use gmp or > another external library at configure time. That sounds like a fantastic recipe for hard-to-debug configuration problems and all of the joys of fixing copious amounts

Re: [perl #36330] [TODO] Create a BigNum PMC

2009-02-05 Thread Will Coleda
On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 1:12 PM, chromatic wrote: > On Thursday 05 February 2009 08:57:18 jerry gay wrote: > >> we will roll our own bignum, and give users the ability to use gmp or >> another external library at configure time. > > That sounds like a fantastic recipe for hard-to-debug configuratio

Re: r25200 - docs/Perl6/Spec t/spec

2009-02-05 Thread Jon Lang
On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 9:21 AM, Larry Wall wrote: > On Thu, Feb 05, 2009 at 07:47:01AM -0800, Dave Whipp wrote: >> Jon Lang wrote: Pattern to split on (used with -a). Substitutes an expression for the default split function, which is C<{split ' '}>. Accepts unicode strings (as

Re: r25200 - docs/Perl6/Spec t/spec

2009-02-05 Thread Larry Wall
On Thu, Feb 05, 2009 at 10:43:35AM -0800, Jon Lang wrote: : On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 9:21 AM, Larry Wall wrote: : > On Thu, Feb 05, 2009 at 07:47:01AM -0800, Dave Whipp wrote: : >> Jon Lang wrote: : Pattern to split on (used with -a). Substitutes an expression for the default : split f

Re: [perl #37993] [BUG] optimized parrot behaves differently than non-optimized (win32-msvc)

2009-02-05 Thread jerry gay
On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 10:44, Reini Urban via RT wrote: > On Thu Jan 29 06:05:13 2009, Whiteknight wrote: >> On Wed Dec 24 05:39:54 2008, Whiteknight wrote: >> > On Tue Dec 23 19:02:17 2008, jk...@verizon.net wrote: >> > > On Sat Jun 14 17:15:32 2008, jk...@verizon.net wrote: >> > > > Would it be

Re: [perl #36330] [TODO] Create a BigNum PMC

2009-02-05 Thread jerry gay
On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 10:23, Will Coleda wrote: > On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 1:12 PM, chromatic wrote: >> On Thursday 05 February 2009 08:57:18 jerry gay wrote: >> >>> we will roll our own bignum, and give users the ability to use gmp or >>> another external library at configure time. >> >> That sou

[perl #63034] Make failure on Windows

2009-02-05 Thread Carl Mäsak via RT
ajr (>): > Somewhere around Rev. # 36330, perl6 stopped making on Windows. The last > few lines of mingw32-make perl6: > > perl6multisub.o: In function `do_dispatch': > C:/parrot/languages/perl6/src/pmc/perl6multisub.pmc:665: undefined > reference to > `string_from_cstring' > C:/parrot/languages/p

[perl #63048] Omitted typed named params cause errors in Rakudo

2009-02-05 Thread Carl Mäsak
# New Ticket Created by "Carl Mäsak" # Please include the string: [perl #63048] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=63048 > moritz_: is it a known gotcha that named parameters cause errors if they are typed and

Re: [perl #56262] [RFC] chr opcode

2009-02-05 Thread NotFound
> I'll apply this patch in two days if I hear no objection -- or sooner if > the other contributors to this thread approve. +1 -- Salu2

Re: [perl #56186] [TODO] Add --target=bytecode to HLLCompiler

2009-02-05 Thread Patrick R. Michaud
On Thu, Feb 05, 2009 at 04:45:50PM -0800, James Keenan via RT wrote: > On Sat Jun 21 07:39:32 2008, pmichaud wrote: > > Jonathan says that it's possible to generate and save > > bytecode within PIR -- see languages/dotnet/src/net2pbc.pir > > as an example. > > > > Pm > > Jonathan, Patrick: Are w

Re: [perl #54478] [RFE] trace should be a number that can be decremented and incremented

2009-02-05 Thread Patrick R. Michaud
On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 07:42:18PM -0800, James Keenan via RT wrote: > On Thu May 22 17:02:41 2008, coke wrote: > > Allison, can you weigh in on this RFE? > > Have there been any developments on the issues raised in this ticket? Not really; I don't expect there to be any before 1.0. I vote that

Re: [perl #37578] [TODO] PIR - simple register allocation

2009-02-05 Thread Patrick R. Michaud
On Thu, Feb 05, 2009 at 08:36:53AM -0800, Andrew Whitworth via RT wrote: > On Tue Nov 01 09:03:54 2005, pmichaud wrote: > > From a discussion earlier today on #irc... > > > > It would be nice if the PIR compiler had a way to use > > a very basic register allocation algorithm for .subs that > > use

Re: [perl #55544] [BUG] Dynpmcs Don't Depend on Parrot::Pmc2c::*

2009-02-05 Thread chromatic
On Thursday 05 February 2009 17:51:34 James Keenan via RT wrote: > On Mon Jun 09 17:34:09 2008, chroma...@wgz.org wrote: > > This should be an easy fix for a Makefile hacker. > We have 'make' target dynpmc-clean which is included in 'clean'. So if > you called 'make clean' before reconfiguring,

Re: r25182 - docs/Perl6/Spec

2009-02-05 Thread Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH
On 2009 Feb 4, at 11:45, Aaron Crane wrote: FWIW, I prefer the traditional spelling, "writable". Google suggests that "writeable" is more common on the web, though; 4.8 versus 3.7 Mghits. I have to admit that "writable" suggests to me that you can serve a writ on it; an unlikely case for eve

Re: r25182 - docs/Perl6/Spec

2009-02-05 Thread Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH
On 2009 Feb 4, at 12:56, Leon Timmermans wrote: On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 4:37 PM, wrote: +=item method IO dup() Do we really want that? POSIX' dup does something different from what many will expect. In particular, the new file descriptors share the offset, which can result in some really con