Re: "Unicode in 'NFG' formation" ?

Larry Wall wrote: On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 11:11:32AM +0200, Helmut Wollmersdorfer wrote: 2) Can I use Unicode property matching safely with graphemes? If yes, who or what maintains the necessary tables? Good question. My assumption is that adding marks to a character doesn't change its

Re: Perl6 won't compile on Cygwin/Win (configure.pl won't run)

On Tuesday 19 May 2009 08:29:39 Patrick R. Michaud wrote: > On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 02:54:55PM -0700, chromatic wrote: > > I have an SVK checkout of Parrot, so Parrot's configuration process > > cannot determine the Parrot SVN revision. The problem here may be > > similar. > Indeed -- I may simp

[perl #63180] Null PMC access when the word 'scalar' is mentioned in Rakudo

On Thu Feb 12 06:05:34 2009, masak wrote: > Rakudo b2e7ac: > > $ perl6 -e 'scalar' > Null PMC access in getprop() > [...] Now we're running our own .HLL, this is no longer an issue... > scalar Could not find non-existent sub scalar So resolving. Thanks, Jonathan

[perl #64594] You can push strings to attribute arrays typed with Int in Rakudo

On Thu Apr 23 09:44:12 2009, moritz wrote: > On Thu Apr 09 01:12:40 2009, masak wrote: > > rakudo: class A { has Int @.a is rw }; my $x=A.new; $x.a = > > (2, 3, 4); say $x.a.perl > > rakudo e05aff: OUTPUT«[2, 3, 4]␤» > > rakudo: class A { has Int @.a is rw }; my $x=A.new; $x.a = > > (2, 3, 4); $

[perl #65346] [BUG] has initializers should be methods with 'self'

On Mon May 04 14:07:56 2009, pmichaud wrote: > 21:00 pmichaud: note that for the self ticket, the phrase in > question is a has initializer, which runs in BUILD context, and hence > does have an obvious instance self, so this isn't really about binding > self to the class > 21:04 TimToady: okay,

[perl #63404] MMD error with Bool named parameters

On Sun Feb 22 13:37:39 2009, cspencer wrote: > > [1:19pm] cspencer:rakudo: multi foo(Bool :$baz = Bool::False, *...@vals) > { say "foo" }; foo(:baz(Bool::True), 1, 2, 3); > [1:19pm] p6eval:rakudo 2a9382: OUTPUT«No applicable candidates found > to dispatch to for 'foo'␤current instr.: '_block14

[perl #64882] Dispatch fails to multi with a named and a slurpy in Rakudo

On Mon Apr 20 00:38:43 2009, masak wrote: > rakudo: multi foo(Int $x, Bool :$flag, *...@vals) { say "bar > 1" }; foo(1) > rakudo 0d5515: OUTPUT«bar 1␤» > rakudo: multi foo(Int $x, Bool :$flag, *...@vals) { say "bar > 1" }; foo(1, 2, 3, 4, 5) > rakudo 0d5515: OUTPUT«No applicable candidates fo

[perl #64270] Cannot call private &!a variables in a class in Rakudo

On Sun Mar 29 09:40:06 2009, masak wrote: > rakudo: class A { has &!a = { say "OH HAI" }; method foo { > &!a() } };A.new.foo > rakudo 7af829: OUTPUT«No such attribute '!a' [...] > * masak submits rakudobug > > The error message is contradictory, since there obviously is an > attribute '!a'. Usin

[perl #64650] Calling anonymous methods stored in public & attributes in Rakudo

On Sat Apr 11 14:56:36 2009, masak wrote: > rakudo: class Foo { has @.body; has &.writer = method ($x) { > @!body.push($x) }; }; my $x = Foo.new; $x.writer("oh"); > $x.writer("hai"); .say for $x.body; > rakudo 5b679a: OUTPUT«Could not locate a method 'writer' to > invoke on lass 'Foo'. > * masak

Parrot 1.2.0 "Bird Brain" released!

On behalf of the Parrot team, I'm proud to announce Parrot 1.2.0 "Bird Brain." Parrot (http://parrot.org/) is a virtual machine aimed at running all dynamic languages. Parrot 1.2.0 is available on Parrot's FTP site, or follow the download instructions at http://parrot.org/download. For those who

[perl #43713] [TODO] Items should only contain paths

Rejected, and ticket resolved, in r38996. kid51

[perl #43709] [TODO] Groups should only contain items or paths

Rejected, and ticket resolved, in r38997. kid51

[perl #43687] [TODO] combine abstract search with other search in lib/Parrot/Docs/File.pm

On Sat May 09 19:40:51 2009, jk...@verizon.net wrote: > > In the course of working on RT 43683, I came across the inline comment > which was the pretext for creating this ticket in the first place. It > was not removed when the ticket was rejected. And since I was doing > some refactoring for t

[perl #65660] [TODO] Recognize meta-op forms of user-defined ops in Rakudo

On Thu May 14 09:23:14 2009, masak wrote: > rakudo: sub infix:<ö>($x, $y) { say "flyyy" }; (1,2,3) »ö« (4,5,6) > rakudo 612bcf: OUTPUT«Statement not terminated properly at > line 1, near "\x{bb}\x{f6}\x{ab} (4,5,6" [...] > aww. > is that a new bug? > Yes. No. > jnthn: I think meta-ops are pre

Re: "Unicode in 'NFG' formation" ?

Larry Wall larry-at-wall.org |Perl 6| wrote: On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 11:11:32AM +0200, Helmut Wollmersdorfer wrote: [1] Open questions: 1) Will graphemes have an unique charname? e.g. GRAPHEME LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH DOT BELOW AND DOT ABOVE Yes, presumably that comes with the "no

Meditations on a Loop

If you would be so kind, please take a look at . I spent a couple days on this, and besides needing it checked for correctness, found a few issues as well as more food for thought. --John P.S. contains some humor.

Re: Meditations on a Loop

You write: > I’m not sure what the heart of Perl 6 would be, but I think we’ve identified the spleen > with the |Capture|. In the human body, most people have no idea what the spleen does. > It sits there out of the way doing its thing, and we can’t live without it. I, along with a host of o

Re: Meditations on a Loop

On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 07:55:55PM -0500, John M. Dlugosz wrote: > If you would be so kind, please take a look at > . The page currently says: "The reason this [.prime] works is because the method-call syntax will call an ordinary non-m

Re: Meditations on a Loop

On Wed, 20 May 2009, John M. Dlugosz wrote: If you would be so kind, please take a look at . I spent a couple days on this, and besides needing it checked for correctness, found a few issues as well as more food for thought. John, I ve