Re: Perl's internal time (was: Re: r25445 - docs/Perl6/Spec/S32-setting-library)

2009-02-19 Thread Chris Dolan
On Feb 19, 2009, at 10:17 PM, Timothy S. Nelson wrote: On Thu, 19 Feb 2009, Larry Wall wrote: Well, leaving that rant aside, I'm still tempted to say that times in Perl 6 are TAI seconds since 2000. Standard TAI would work too. I've wondered sometimes about the idea of having a dual/moving

Re: Perl's internal time (was: Re: r25445 - docs/Perl6/Spec/S32-setting-library)

2009-02-20 Thread Chris Dolan
> Considering time scales, there are three that significantly > interrelate, and no matter what Perl 6 uses internally, it needs to be > able to convert to and from these: > > TAI: continuous count of time using SI seconds as measured by atomic > clocks, 60 seconds in every minute, 60 minutes in ev

Re: Perl's internal time (was: Re: r25445 - docs/Perl6/Spec/S32-setting-library)

2009-02-22 Thread Chris Dolan
On Feb 22, 2009, at 12:39 AM, Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH wrote: On 2009 Feb 20, at 14:36, Chris Dolan wrote: UTC: TAI with an offset, as corrected for the actual revolution of the Earth: usually 60 seconds in a minute, but occasionally 59 or 61. 60 minutes in every hour (so 3599, 3600, or

$*DEFOUT vs. $*OUT

2009-02-22 Thread Chris Dolan
Smack me down if this has already been discussed to death, please... S16 (and now S28) say that $*DEFOUT, $*DEFIN and $*DEFERR are what most programs should use instead of $*OUT, $*IN and $*ERR. That seems anti-huffman to me, and I'll bet many programmers will use $*OUT when they should be

Re: [perl #63384] [BUG] actions.pm calling setting.pm methods by mistake

2009-02-23 Thread Chris Dolan
On Feb 23, 2009, at 4:23 AM, Jonathan Worthington wrote: Chris Dolan (via RT) wrote: gen_actions.pir and gen_setting.pir both have ":subid("16")" and the wrong one is being called during compilation. I'm using parrot 0.9.1, compiled from svn tag RELEASE_0_9_1 a

Re: Comparing inexact values (was "Re: Temporal changes")

2009-02-23 Thread Chris Dolan
On Feb 23, 2009, at 11:16 PM, Larry Wall wrote: if $x ~~ $y ± $epsilon {...} where infix:<±> turns the single value into a range for the smartmatch. That's very cool. However, my first impression is that "$y ± $epsilon" maps more naturally to "any($y-$epsilon, $y+$epsilon)" than t

Re: Rakudo's fork queue on GitHub

2009-02-28 Thread Chris Dolan
On Feb 28, 2009, at 11:07 AM, Patrick R. Michaud wrote: On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 10:46:10AM -0600, Andy Lester wrote: On Feb 28, 2009, at 10:29 AM, Patrick R. Michaud wrote: So, for the time being Rakudo's official policy will be to accept patch submissions via RT. I've now cleared the fork

Re: Rakudo's fork queue on GitHub

2009-03-01 Thread Chris Dolan
On Mar 1, 2009, at 11:06 AM, Andy Lester wrote: So how about this for the workflow, Patrick: 1) Developer creates a branch to work on a feature or cleanup or whatever 2) Developer commits to dev/rakudo work branch however much she wants. 3) Developer merges back to dev/rakudo master branch

Re: Help re-building rakudo

2009-03-01 Thread Chris Dolan
On Feb 26, 2009, at 3:06 PM, Moritz Lenz wrote: But after that please do a 'make clean; perl Configure.pl' to make sure that the fallout of the previous build don't affect the new one. Time to update tools/rebase-rakudo.pl! Chris

Re: $?OS change

2009-03-02 Thread Chris Dolan
On Mar 2, 2009, at 12:04 AM, Timothy S. Nelson wrote: Hi. I note that we have $?OS, $?VM, and $?DISTRO (and their $* counterparts). I'd like to recommend that we eliminate $?OS, and replace it with $?KERNEL (ie. Linux) and maybe $?ARCH (ie. i386). Thoughts? I disagree. User-space cod

Re: [perl #63626] Re: bouncing parrot...@parrotcode.org

2009-03-04 Thread Chris Dolan
On Mar 4, 2009, at 10:58 PM, Geoffrey Broadwell wrote: Out of curiosity, why don't we allow emails to create tickets in Trac? -'f "trac2email is still not fully functional. In the meantime, please continue to use the web interface. Once trac2email is fixed, you'll be able to open and

Re: [perl #53548] [PATCH] fix for auto-generation of runtime/parrot/include/interpflags.pasm

2008-05-11 Thread Chris Dolan
On May 10, 2008, at 7:38 PM, chromatic via RT wrote: I tried this patch, and I'm getting warnings: Generating runtime/parrot/include...Use of uninitialized value in hash element at config/gen/parrot_include.pm line 105, <$fh> line 32. Use of uninitialized value in pattern match (m//) at config/g

Re: Dallas.p6m

2009-04-05 Thread Chris Dolan
On Mar 19, 2009, at 2:35 PM, Andy Lester wrote: I love love LOVE starting to get people together to talk about Perl 6. It's a crucial step in letting people know that Perl 6 is real. However, starting social groups that say they are specifically about Perl 6 makes me uncomfortable. I th

[perl #57990] Implement prefix:<\> operator

2008-11-11 Thread Chris Dolan via RT
On Sat Aug 16 07:30:22 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > - Need some clarity in spec and spectests for Capture objects Perhaps more clarity is needed, but the basics seems to work. I propose this ticket should be closed.

[perl #57980] Fix bugs with nested ?? !!

2008-11-11 Thread Chris Dolan via RT
On Sat Aug 16 07:29:36 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > - Awaiting parser improvements (PGE) A simple, failing test: say True ?? 1 !! False ?? 2 !! 3; (says 2, should say 1)

[perl #57980] Fix bugs with nested ?? !!

2008-11-13 Thread Chris Dolan via RT
Attached is a very simple patch that solves the problem, but I've only tested lightly. ternary.patch Description: Binary data

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