On Nov 29, 2005, at 5:16 PM, Chip Salzenberg wrote:
On Tue, Nov 29, 2005 at 11:13:05PM +0100, Leopold Toetsch wrote:
On Nov 29, 2005, at 21:36, Chip Salzenberg wrote:
I'm planning a flag day sometime in December. I'm also planning to
create a simple "handles most cases" translator.
That's a
On Jan 6, 2006, at 4:11 PM, Alberto Simoes via RT wrote:
[coke - Tue Jan 03 18:03:31 2006]:
OS.pmc should provide both a:
copy(source_file,target)
And a
copy(array_of_source_files,targetDir)
This needs some more discussion. If we look to Perl, for instance, it
doesn't have a built-in copy.
On Jan 10, 2006, at 10:29 PM, Chip Salzenberg wrote:
On Sat, Jan 07, 2006 at 01:04:29PM -1000, Joshua Hoblitt wrote:
... More sophisticated behavior, like metadata replication, should
be left to another method (perhaps syscopy()) that has platform
specific
behavior(s).
My first thought was
On Jan 11, 2006, at 7:02 PM, Chip Salzenberg wrote:
On Wed, Jan 11, 2006 at 04:16:55PM -0500, Joshua Juran wrote:
Since before System 7 (approaching two decades ago), Mac OS has had a
system call that exchanges the contents of two files. The purpose of
this call is to implement a 'safe
On Feb 28, 2006, at 1:59 PM, Nicolas Cannasse wrote:
On Feb 28, 2006, at 12:09, Nicolas Cannasse wrote:
Yesterday I did a quick fib(30) benchmark comparing Parrot Win32
daily
build (using jit core) and NekoVM (http://nekovm.org). The
results are
showing that Parrot is 5 times slower than N
On Jun 7, 2006, at 8:08 AM, Klaas-Jan Stol wrote:
I had a look at this, but I'm not that good at Perl, and regular
expressions. However, I found where things go wrong, so someone who
really groks REs may fix it.
I'm no Abigail, :-) but I'll try to help.
THe problem is (well, at least I thi
On Aug 22, 2006, at 5:52 PM, John Siracusa wrote:
Has anyone looked at LLVM lately?
http://llvm.org/
I discovered it a few years ago. My personal interest is in the
portable C back end, so I can use the g++ compiler front end and send
the output through CodeWarrior or MPW compilers, whos
On Aug 28, 2006, at 12:18 PM, Matt Diephouse wrote:
I would like to add some sort methods as well: quicksort(),
mergesort(), etc. But as methods, there is potential for these to end
up in a user-visible space.
Say for example, that I add a mergesort method to AbstractPMCArray.
Ruby's array clas
On Mar 18, 2007, at 3:59 PM, Mike Mattie wrote:
On Sun, 18 Mar 2007 19:30:35 +
Nicholas Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Sun, Mar 18, 2007 at 03:35:14PM +, Jonathan Worthington wrote:
Mike Mattie (via RT) wrote:
While mucking around in src/library.c I noticed some cut & paste
dupl
On Mar 19, 2007, at 4:17 AM, Nicholas Clark wrote:
On Sun, Mar 18, 2007 at 08:33:25PM -0700, Joshua Juran wrote:
I can't imagine someone else hasn't already come up with
cnv = path->strstart;
while ( (cnv = strchr( cnv, '/' )) )
{
*cnv = '\\';
}
bu
On Mar 19, 2007, at 1:44 AM, chromatic wrote:
On Sunday 18 March 2007 10:14, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Log:
Commenting out old MacOS Classic-specific code so the warnings don't
appear. Does anyone use MacOS Classic anymore?
We can get this code out of Subversion if we need it again; I say
ju
Hello,
On a nostalgic lark I searched Google for "Perl Python Parrot" and was
astonished (and excited) to discover the Parrot project.
The Parrot FAQ states that Parrot must run on all platforms on which
Perl 5 runs, including classic Mac OS. I've been implementing a
POSIX-like environment
On Jun 22, 2005, at 2:25 PM, Klaas-Jan Stol wrote:
I have some trouble indexing hashtables.
I have the following code snippet:
x["y;a"] = $P10 # (1) this does not work with the code below
y["a"] = $P10 # (2) this does work with the code below
x.y.a = 1;
print(x.y.a);
x and y
On Jun 24, 2005, at 8:07 AM, Chip Salzenberg wrote:
On Fri, Jun 24, 2005 at 08:21:25AM +0200, Leopold Toetsch wrote:
The plan is to move these methods to classes/scalar.pmc
Last I remember, I asked for a number.pmc for Integer and Float to
derive from. A Number isa Scalar. Is there some pro
On Jun 24, 2005, at 11:02 PM, Bob Rogers wrote:
Since Complex could also be considered a Number, but of a very
different
sort, it might be worth constructing the type hierarchy to reflect
this:
Scalar
Number
Real
Integer
Float
On Jul 7, 2005, at 11:28 PM, Larry Wall wrote:
On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 09:28:04PM -0400, Michal Wallace wrote:
: What I'd want is to be able to download the language
: specific extensions as a library from cpan. Better
: yet if users can do it themselves without having
: to bug me.
Hmm...
My ne
On Aug 3, 2005, at 2:58 PM, Will Coleda (via RT) wrote:
With r8787, the following tcl code:
puts \u666
causes a segfault in the substr opcode (from tcl's lib/tclconst.pir),
and forces a few tcl-unicode escape tests into TODOs.
Duh, because it's *evil*.
:-)
Josh
On Aug 24, 2005, at 7:42 PM, Andrew Rodland wrote:
On Wednesday 24 August 2005 04:26 pm, Amir Karger wrote:
Several people pointed out that I didn't perldoc -f system. Sorry!
Btw, even after reading the docs, I still don't understand why Perl
would pass a cd command to a piece of the shell tha
On Sep 23, 2005, at 3:47 AM, Leopold Toetsch wrote:
On Sep 23, 2005, at 7:51, Ross McFarland wrote:
i was planning on playing around with gtk+ bindings and parrot and
went about looking around for the work that had already been done and
didn't turn anything up. if anyone knows where i can fin
On Oct 5, 2005, at 12:11 AM, Joshua Hoblitt via RT wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] - Tue Jun 07 02:29:24 2005]:
A 'make test' of parrot failed some tests on Linux/m68k.
Here is the contents of myconfig:
Summary of my parrot 0.2.1 (r8279) configuration:
configdate='Mon Jun 6 03:37:27 2005'
Woul
On Nov 5, 2005, at 4:27 PM, Joshua Hoblitt via RT wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] - Tue Nov 01 04:52:22 2005]:
This patch fixes two classes of issue.
* Don't assign -1 to an unsigned variable; use ~0U instead as it
makes it clear that the value is intended to be out-of-band (g++
warned about this,
On Apr 24, 2007, at 11:21 PM, chromatic wrote:
On Tuesday 24 April 2007 15:31, Nikolay Ananiev wrote:
Why would the developers use Parrot instead of JVM/CLR/Mono?
Parrot is open source today, not *mumble* down the road like the
JVM will be.
Parrot is also widely portable, much like perl
On Apr 25, 2007, at 2:06 AM, Nicholas Clark wrote:
On Tue, Apr 24, 2007 at 11:43:48PM -0700, Joshua Juran wrote:
Parrot is also widely portable, much like perl is. This one's
especially important to me, as I still work with Mac OS 9.
Parrot builds on Mac OS 9? Cool
It's not
ot to mention: With Parrot, you have the Perl
community's legendary sense of humor.
Hey, at least Mac OS 9 uses ASCII... *ducks*
Josh
On Apr 25, 2007, at 4:06 AM, Nicholas Clark wrote:
On Tue, Apr 24, 2007 at 11:43:48PM -0700, Joshua Juran wrote:
Parrot is also widely portable,
On Jun 19, 2007, at 12:13 AM, chromatic wrote:
I hate seeing repeated code structures. We could simplify the mark
() entry in
plenty of PMCs with a macro something like:
#define MARK_UNLESS_NULL(interp, struct, name) \
if (struct->name) \
pobject_lives(interp, (PObj *)struct->name
On Aug 10, 2007, at 4:21 PM, Colin Kuskie (via RT) wrote:
+=item Numbers
+
+0.0 is false, all other numbers are true.
Including -0.0 and NaN?
Either way, that should be documented explicitly.
Josh
On Sep 10, 2007, at 6:52 PM, James Keenan via RT wrote:
On Mon Sep 10 10:53:43 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Is the chance that $prefix ends in slash-newline sufficiently rare
that the $
anchor is better than \z?
Can we get some tests on Win32 as well? And how about that Mac OS 9?
I'm go
On Sep 21, 2007, at 1:15 AM, Joshua Isom wrote:
-Werror -Wdeclaration-after-statement
Should work according to the manpage. But just one little problem.
src/string.c
In file included from src/string.c:26:
src/string_private_cstring.h:21: warning: size of 'parrot_cstrings'
is 7560 bytes
***
On Oct 7, 2007, at 12:43 PM, Paul Cochrane (via RT) wrote:
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# Please include the string: [perl #46223]
# in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue.
# http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=46223 >
Coverity Prevent mentions t
On Oct 8, 2007, at 4:36 AM, Paul Cochrane wrote:
On 08/10/2007, Joshua Juran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Oct 7, 2007, at 12:43 PM, Paul Cochrane (via RT) wrote:
# New Ticket Created by Paul Cochrane
# Please include the string: [perl #46223]
# in the subject line of all
On Oct 16, 2007, at 6:33 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Modified: trunk/docs/pdds/draft/pdd19_pir.pod
==
--- trunk/docs/pdds/draft/pdd19_pir.pod (original)
+++ trunk/docs/pdds/draft/pdd19_pir.pod Tue Oct 16 06:33:21 200
On Oct 16, 2007, at 10:52 AM, Paul Cochrane wrote:
The minimum requirements for filenames should be:
- Any character in the set: a-zA-Z0-9,.-_
- Should we make a rule about multiple dots?
- Should there be a maximum length? 1024 chars? 100 chars? 12
chars?
I would like to see a maximum
On Oct 16, 2007, at 8:23 PM, Patrick R. Michaud wrote:
On Tue, Oct 16, 2007 at 10:45:29PM -0400, James E Keenan wrote:
Joshua Juran wrote:
On Oct 16, 2007, at 10:52 AM, Paul Cochrane wrote:
The minimum requirements for filenames should be:
- Any character in the set: a-zA-Z0-9,.-_
- Should
On Oct 28, 2007, at 8:28 AM, Klaas-Jan Stol wrote:
hi, when building parrot it reported a warning about some variable
"string"
in string.c
When checking out, I saw this:
static const char *
nonnull_encoding_name(STRING *s)
{
char *string;
if (!s)
strcpy(string, "null string");
On Dec 5, 2007, at 5:57 PM, chromatic wrote:
Everything looks reasonable to me, except q{} versus q{ } which are
barely
discernable and offers (to my mind) only disadvantages over ''
versus ' '
which is much more distinguishable.
Would "" vs. " " be a further improvement?
Josh
On Dec 11, 2008, at 5:07 PM, Allison Randal via RT wrote:
The way to check if the byte after the last requested byte is the
end of
the file is to read ahead. Perl (at least 5.10) does this by actually
reading the next character and then putting it back with 'ungetc'. Not
the best solution. Any
On Dec 31, 2007, at 11:57 AM, chromatic wrote:
On Monday 31 December 2007 05:50:47 Allison Randal wrote:
In the concurrency work I'm about to check in, I have some tests that
fail intermittently because they test for something like:
1
alarm1
2
alarm2
3
alarm3
alarm1
alarm3
4
alarm3
alarm3
ala
On Jan 16, 2008, at 7:39 PM, Geoffrey Broadwell wrote:
I am starting to implement a GLUT and OpenGL binding for Parrot. GLUT
is extremely callback-oriented.
Unfortunately, none of the GLUT callbacks fall within the current
limitations on Parrot NCI callbacks.
As you've discovered, callbacks
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