Re: Perl's parser and lexer will likely be in Perl (was Re: RFC 334 (v1) I'm {STILL} trying to understand this...)

2000-10-16 Thread Leon Brocard
der what kind of subset would be necessary - surely the most useful constructs are also the most complicated... Leon -- Leon Brocard.http://www.astray.com/ yapc::Europehttp://yapc.org/Europe/ ... Where has all that spare time just come from? ;-)

Re: Perl, the new generation

2001-05-16 Thread Leon Brocard
Nathan Torkington sent the following bits through the ether: > Hmm, it'd be interesting to see a Map of Perl. Would a graph be good enough? I'll see what I can do ;-) Leon -- Leon Brocard.http://www.astray.com/ Iterative Software...http://

Re: Something to hash out

2001-08-29 Thread Leon Brocard
er suggests .pex files - for executables, perhaps? Lucy McWilliam: .rip? HTH, Leon -- Leon Brocard.http://www.astray.com/ Iterative Software...http://www.iterative-software.com/ ... Fascinating, Captain

JavaVM -> ParrotVM

2001-09-11 Thread Leon Brocard
4 I reg 1 is 10 I reg 1 is 5 I reg 1 is 15 I reg 1 is 6 I reg 1 is 21 I reg 1 is 7 I reg 1 is 28 I reg 1 is 8 I reg 1 is 36 I reg 1 is 9 I reg 1 is 45 Cool, huh. Much more on this soon! Leon -- Leon Brocard.http://www.astray.com/ Iterative Software...http://www.i

Re: testers.cpan.org out of sync with search.cpan.org?

2006-01-30 Thread Leon Brocard
On 1/27/06, Tyler MacDonald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Usually this clears up in about a day, but in some cases it's been 3 or 4 > days now and search.cpan.org is telling me that tests have run, but > testers.cpan.org doesn't seem to know anything about them. Sorry, I'll prod testers.cpan.org a

Re: testers.cpan.org out of sync with search.cpan.org?

2006-01-31 Thread Leon Brocard
On 1/30/06, Tyler MacDonald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Awesome, thanks! Is the code that drives testers.cpan.org open > source? I'd really like to learn more about it. Of course! (include subtle dig at non-opensource CPAN websites here) http://search.cpan.org/dist/CPAN-WWW-Testers-Ge

Re: Using Perl in QA departments

2006-06-26 Thread Leon Brocard
On 6/17/06, Gabor Szabo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: http://www.szabgab.com/perl_in_test_automation.html This is really neat. You might want to add a link to Test::Expect too, which makes it almost to easy to test terminal-based programs. Thanks again! Leon

Re: Expect on Windows

2006-06-28 Thread Leon Brocard
On 6/28/06, Gabor Szabo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: As Test::Expect was just mentioned here, I would like to know why Expect and thus Test::Expect does NOT work on Windows? Well, Test::Expect is a wrapper. Test::Expect works on Windows if and only if Expect works on Windows. It has this comment,

Re: CPANDB - was: Module::Dependency 1.84

2006-07-13 Thread Leon Brocard
On 7/14/06, Tels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: afte seeing the recent discussion about CPANDB and CPAN::Index, I don't think I want to work on that project anymore for two reasons: Hey Tels, Please ignore the other people in the thread. Instead spend a little bit of time to do something simple t

BF interpreter

2002-05-30 Thread Leon Brocard
rator (see the patch). A BF compiler would be neat too, of course. Any chance of this going in the languages directory if I provide more docs and examples? Leon ps yes, interpreters for "real" languages on the way -- Leon Brocard.http://www.

Re: BF interpreter

2002-05-30 Thread Leon Brocard
meantime? ;-) Leon -- Leon Brocard.http://www.astray.com/ Nanoware...http://www.nanoware.org/ He who reads many fortunes gets confused

parrotcode.org examples updated

2002-06-06 Thread Leon Brocard
utine that are never called externally you're welcome to optimise away and ignore the calling conventions] Next update will be PMC examples... Leon -- Leon Brocard.http://www.astray.com/ Nanoware...http://www.nanoware.org/ Abando

Re: [PATCH] perlarray strange behaviour

2002-07-02 Thread Leon Brocard
leave references? I really need proper nested datastructures... ;-) Leon -- Leon Brocard.http://www.astray.com/ Nanoware...http://www.nanoware.org/ I have seen the evidence. I want DIFFERENT evidence!

Re: Parrot contribution - #parrot stream parser.

2002-07-13 Thread Leon Brocard
on it as everything happens onlist. OK, apart for general "more docs" what in particular does anyone not understand about Parrot? We'll try and help and then add docs or whatever. HTH, Leon ps as it so happens, blogan's question could go into a faq... -- Leon Brocard..

Re: PARROT QUESTIONS: Keyed access

2002-07-22 Thread Leon Brocard
ded it would make an ideal PMC to learn from in future. Any takers? ;-) Leon -- Leon Brocard.http://www.astray.com/ scribot.http://www.scribot.com/ If this were an actual tagline, it would be funny

Re: RFC - Hashing PMC's

2002-07-22 Thread Leon Brocard
Alberto Manuel Brandão Simões sent the following bits through the ether: > This means one more function to the vtable! FWIW every object in Java must implement a hashCode method: http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4/docs/api/java/lang/Object.html#hashCode() Leon -- Leon Broc

Re: pmc RECALL command for preprocessor

2002-07-22 Thread Leon Brocard
it in a little more detail? Cheers, Leon -- Leon Brocard.http://www.astray.com/ scribot.http://www.scribot.com/ This sentence no verb

Re: minitutorial on submitting patches

2002-07-22 Thread Leon Brocard
y I've noticed that there were a couple of patches which appear to have slipped though the gapes. Patch authors - if you follow the Parrot patch procedure we won't forget your patches! Leon -- Leon Brocard.http://www.astray.com/ scribot.

Perl 6 summary for week ending 2002-07-21

2002-07-22 Thread Leon Brocard
=head1 TITLE Perl 6 summary for week ending 2002-07-21 =head1 AUTHOR Leon Brocard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> =head1 DETAILS Another week, another Perl 6 summary. Cunningly this week I have taken over the summary from Piers in order to make it easier for me to namecheck myself. It's been

Targeting Parrot slides

2002-07-30 Thread Leon Brocard
slides up soon. BTW anyone want to work on getting Parrot to use less memory so it can run on palmtops? ;-) Leon -- Leon Brocard.http://www.astray.com/ scribot.http://www.scribot.com/ Try? Try not. Do, or do not. There is no try

Re: [perl #16874] [BUG] Concatenation failing

2002-09-03 Thread Leon Brocard
Leon Brocard sent the following bits through the ether: > I have a weird bug where concatenation is sometimes failing Well, this bug is still here. I saw some patches fly by but which of them is the right patch and can it be applied please? ;-) Leon -- Leon Broc

Re: [perl #17159] imcc / Mac OS X problem

2002-09-12 Thread Leon Brocard
p.o ../../platform.o -lm ld: multiple definitions of symbol _n_spilled imcparser.o definition of _n_spilled in section (__DATA,__common) imc.o definition of _n_spilled in section (__DATA,__common) make: *** [imcc] Error 1 If only I knew more C / linker foo... Cheers, Leon -- Leon Broc

Re: [perl #17159] imcc / Mac OS X problem

2002-09-12 Thread Leon Brocard
icode.o chartypes/usascii.o -lm cc: unrecognized option `-shared' ld: Undefined symbols: _main make[1]: *** [blib/lib/libparrot.so] Error 1 make: *** [all] Error 2 Thanks, Leon -- Leon Brocard.http://www.astray.com/ scribot.http:/

Re: [perl #17159] imcc / Mac OS X problem

2002-09-12 Thread Leon Brocard
Andy Dougherty sent the following bits through the ether: > Yup, That's a long-standing bug. Here, again, is the correct fix for it. Cool, finally imcc works. Now, what's the best way to roll in all the patches? Are they the correct fixes? Leon --

Perl 6 summary for week beginning 2002-09-30

2002-10-06 Thread Leon Brocard
for proofreading. As Piers says: One more, if you think this summary has value send money to the Perl Foundation <http://donate.perl-foundation.org> and feed back and/or T?iBooks to me, <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. As usual, the fee paid for publication of this summary on perl.com has been donated directly to the Perl Foundation. Enjoy, Leon -- Leon Brocard.http://www.astray.com/ scribot.http://www.scribot.com/ Bioengineers wear designer genes

Re: [INFO] New array base: list.c

2002-10-08 Thread Leon Brocard
st? Or multiarray? Perhaps replacing one of these would be better? Leon -- Leon Brocard.http://www.astray.com/ scribot.http://www.scribot.com/ Useless invention no. 404: Breathable space suit

Re: Hi - Regarding JVM - parrot compatibility

2002-10-14 Thread Leon Brocard
ttp://search.cpan.org/dist/Java-JVM-Classfile/ In the past couple of weeks I've been wondering whether a hybrid scheme a la Inline::Java where we dispatch stuff to a real JVM may be a faster approach to get running. Why, what exactly did you have in mind? Leon -- Leon Brocard..

Re: [perl #17811] [PATCH] create pmcs with pmc initializer

2002-10-14 Thread Leon Brocard
) Oh, I see nobody has replied to this yet. Well, in the past this feature existed in Parrot, but then was taken out again, presumably because there was a better way to do it. However, I'm not sure what that way may be. Can anyone shed some light upon this? Leon

Re: Indeterminate math

2002-10-14 Thread Leon Brocard
n Perl 6? [Or are we not quite there yet?] Cheers, Leon -- Leon Brocard.http://www.astray.com/ scribot.http://www.scribot.com/ Any wire cut to length will be too short

Perl 6 summary for week beginning 2002-10-07

2002-10-15 Thread Leon Brocard
ek. As Piers says: One more, if you think this summary has value send money to the Perl Foundation <http://donate.perl-foundation.org> and feed back and/or T?iBooks to me, <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. As usual, the fee paid for publication of this summary on perl.com has been donated directly to the Perl Foundation. Enjoy, Leon -- Leon Brocard.http://www.astray.com/ scribot.http://www.scribot.com/ f u cn rd ths, u cn gt a gd jb n cmptr prgrmmng

Perl 6 summary for week beginning 2002-10-07

2002-10-23 Thread Leon Brocard
distraction from Super Mario Sunshine and more recognition of the sterling work that Piers does every week. As Piers says: One more, if you think this summary has value send money to the Perl Foundation <http://donate.perl-foundation.org> and feed back and/or T?iBooks to me, <mailto:pdcawley@;bofh.org.uk>. As usual, the fee paid for publication of this summary on perl.com has been donated directly to the Perl Foundation. Enjoy, Leon -- Leon Brocard.http://www.astray.com/ scribot.http://www.scribot.com/ That does not compute

Re: C# and Parrot

2002-10-20 Thread Leon Brocard
Leon Brocard sent the following bits through the ether: > It looks like the DotGNU weekly IRC meeting will be discussing > Parrot. Could be interesting: It was quite interesting. I managed to make it to the early one and Dan to the later one. An "annotated and abridged chatlog&qu

Re: C# and Parrot

2002-10-21 Thread Leon Brocard
n.com/docs/books/vmspec/2nd-edition/html/Concepts.doc.html#33377 HTH, Leon -- Leon Brocard.http://www.astray.com/ scribot.http://www.scribot.com/ Cryptonomicon: The girl's guide to geek guys

Re: C# and Parrot

2002-10-18 Thread Leon Brocard
g both then it should be fairly easy to target Parrot too (still-to-be-developed-features not withstanding. This is quite interesting indeed, especially if you have a good test suite ;-) I'll try and have a look at it over the weekend. Leon -- Leon Brocard.http://www.

Re: C# and Parrot

2002-10-18 Thread Leon Brocard
teresting: http://www.dotgnu.org/pipermail/developers/2002-October/008345.html Leon -- Leon Brocard.http://www.astray.com/ scribot.http://www.scribot.com/ Drive A: format failure, formatting C: instead...

Re: Adding new function signatures to parrot's NCI call list

2002-11-28 Thread Leon Brocard
unless I5, OK print "SDL_Init failed!\n" end OK: print "SDL_Init worked just fine\n" end I get: Loaded... dlfunced... ../parrot: relocation error: /usr/lib/libSDL-1.2.so.0: undefined symbol: pthread_mutexattr_init Well, the C code on the page works fine, but of

Re: Adding new function signatures to parrot's NCI call list

2002-12-03 Thread Leon Brocard
Dan Sugalski sent the following bits through the ether: > pthreads tends to want to be part of the initial program load. FYI adding -lpthreads to C_LIBS and rebuilding parrot makes it work for me. Now to get the hand of the signatures... Leon -- Leon Brocard.h

Curses Life

2002-12-05 Thread Leon Brocard
Leon Brocard sent the following bits through the ether: > Now to get the hand of the signatures... Ah, well, I gave up on SDL as it was a little complicated. Instead, I played with curses. Please find attached a cute little curses life program loading and calling curses at runtime with dlf

Re: A work list! (Coming soon)

2002-12-31 Thread Leon Brocard
" which does something sensible Leon -- Leon Brocard.http://www.astray.com/ scribot.http://www.scribot.com/ ... You're in a maze of twisty little Java VMs, all different

Re: [perl #20400] [PATCH] ook.pasm eval

2003-01-19 Thread Leon Brocard
x27;make test' runs with parrot, so it doesn't work. I've attached a patch to config/gen/makefiles/ook.in to make it work with imcc, although I assume we'd want $(IMCC) to work at some point. Leon -- Leon Brocard.http://www.astray.com/ scrib

Re: Compiling to Parrot

2003-01-21 Thread Leon Brocard
://www.gnu.org/software/classpath/classpath.html HTH, Leon -- Leon Brocard.http://www.astray.com/ scribot.http://www.scribot.com/ ... Hmm... How *did* they finally kill Frosty?

Re: Parrot Developer Day(s)?

2003-01-23 Thread Leon Brocard
w.ckdhr.com/dns-loc/finding.html Thanks! Leon -- Leon Brocard.http://www.astray.com/ scribot.http://www.scribot.com/ ... Famous last words - You and what army?

Parrot developer world map

2003-01-28 Thread Leon Brocard
such a thing? A room, at least one computer, an internet connection and a Plan? Are you looking to learn more about Parrot or do you have something more specific in mind? Leon ps feel free to send in your location if you've forgotten to: -- Leon Brocard

Re: A couple easy questions...

2003-02-25 Thread Leon Brocard
P0[2], 123 set P0[3], 456.789 set P1, P0[1] typeof S0, P1 print S0 print "\n" end Leon ps i fixed your code -- Leon Brocard.http://www.astray.com/ scribot.http://www.scribot.com/ ... Useless invention no. 404: Inflatable anchor

0.1.0

2003-02-25 Thread Leon Brocard
ve so many version numbers? It'd be nice to have objects, otherwise we're restricted to toy languages. Leon -- Leon Brocard.http://www.astray.com/ scribot.http://www.scribot.com/ ... Komputors nefer maik erers

Re: 0.1.0

2003-02-25 Thread Leon Brocard
re interested in. Parrot is for dynamic languages, and that gives away the fact that objects would help in their implementation. > Objects are coming, though I've been too pressed for time recently. > String rework first, then objects. Excellent. Leon -- Leon Brocard.

Re: P6ML?

2003-03-26 Thread Leon Brocard
g here now and not really that different. You can play with prototypes and desired syntax now, and get something finished by the release of Perl 6.0.0 ;-) Leon -- Leon Brocard.http://www.astray.com/ scribot.http://www.scribot.com/ ... Are

Re: About RT/Perl

2003-03-31 Thread Leon Brocard
Alberto Sim?es/EPL sent the following bits through the ether: > Anybody can tell me the address for RT/perl software? http://rt.perl.org/ is what you should be using to submit bugs (and patches!) HTH, Leon ps it runs http://www.bestpractical.com/rt/ -- Leon Broc

Re: [perl #22873] gentoo ebuild ... problem..

2003-07-03 Thread Leon Brocard
correct this thanx alot in advance. Thanks for the bug report. I've patched parrot in CVS to use perldoc -U. To be honest, I'm not entirely sure that any of us actually install parrot at the moment, but it is a great area to investigate. Leon -- Leon Brocard...

Re: [perl #22873] gentoo ebuild ... problem..

2003-07-04 Thread Leon Brocard
ologies, Leon ps and I was so proud of my first CVS commit too :-( -- Leon Brocard.http://www.astray.com/ scribot.http://www.scribot.com/ ... 668 - Neighbor of the Beast

ponie

2003-07-10 Thread Leon Brocard
I just noticed that nobody had emailed perl6-internals about ponie, which was announced yesterday as OSCON. Ponie is perl 5 on parrot. For more info: http://use.perl.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/09/0237202 Leon -- Leon Brocard.http://www.astray.com/ scribot

Re: [perl #23005] [PATCH] Parrot_sprintf not recognizing 7 in precision

2003-07-16 Thread Leon Brocard
mrnobo1024 sent the following bits through the ether: > Parrot_sprintf isn't recognizing 7 as a number in the precision field, so > trying to use that results in a "'7' is not a valid sprintf format" error. Thanks, patch applied. Leon -- Leon Brocard..

Testers & PASS

2003-07-19 Thread Leon Brocard
tests only for those distributions which have a plan and have failed at least one test. Firstly, is there a reason for this inconsistency? Secondly, who do I need to convince to add the "make test" results for PASSes too? ;-) Leon -- Leon Brocard.

Re: [perl #23085] [PATCH] Off by one error in exceptions.c

2003-07-22 Thread Leon Brocard
J?rgen B?mmels sent the following bits through the ether: > The offending line is exceptions.c:123 > if (m[strlen(m-1)] != '\n') Thanks, applied. Leon -- Leon Brocard.http://www.astray.com/ scribot.http:/

Re: subroutines and python status

2003-08-01 Thread Leon Brocard
more parrot jokes... I don't like things becoming dead-ends. How much work do you think it'd be to extend it some more and update it to latest Lua? Would it be worth checking this into parrot CVS? Leon -- Leon Brocard.http://www.astray.com/ scrib

Re: Testers & PASS

2003-08-03 Thread Leon Brocard
Leon Brocard sent the following bits through the ether: > Secondly, who do I need to convince to add the "make test" results for > PASSes too? ;-) So, does anyone actually have an opinion on this? Leon -- Leon Brocard.http://www.ast

Re: Testers & PASS

2003-08-03 Thread Leon Brocard
rs/96886 This is inconsistent and we're throwing information away. I say put it in all the time. Leon -- Leon Brocard.http://www.astray.com/ scribot.http://www.scribot.com/ ... ASCII and ye shall receive

Re: Testers & PASS

2003-08-04 Thread Leon Brocard
slow. I got annoyed about it and wrote my own as it wasn't open source. It is much much faster. http://search.cpan.org/author/LBROCARD/CPAN-WWW-Testers/ http://testers.astray.com/ Comments welcome, Leon -- Leon Brocard.http://www.ast

Re: Testers & PASS

2003-08-14 Thread Leon Brocard
r.gz BACKPAN/authors/id/A/AL/ALIAN/MIME-Lite-HTML-1.17.tar.gz BACKPAN/authors/id/A/AL/ALIAN/MIME-Lite-HTML-1.18.tar.gz Thanks for answering all these questions, Leon -- Leon Brocard.http://www.astray.com/ scribot.http://www.scribot.c

Re: Testers & PASS

2003-08-14 Thread Leon Brocard
Tels sent the following bits through the ether: > Hm, it generates fast, but wrong results :-) Ooops, the summaries are wrong. Fixed. Leon -- Leon Brocard.http://www.astray.com/ scribot.http://www.scribot.com/ ... For Sale: Sligh

Re: Testers & PASS

2003-08-22 Thread Leon Brocard
is fail". > I need another field like 'detailed_results' who is an url to detailed > report (today http://nntp.x.perl.org/group/perl.cpan.testers/xxx). If you replace the xxx with the ID then you have the correct URL. The next release of CPAN testers will have a report_url k

Re: Testers & PASS

2003-08-22 Thread Leon Brocard
t=dist&dist=Acme-Colour Leon -- Leon Brocard.http://www.astray.com/ scribot.http://www.scribot.com/ ... C program run. C program crash. C programmer quit

Re: Testers & PASS

2003-08-14 Thread Leon Brocard
it does. Graham? Now maybe I should ignore the version numbers and instead sort using the dates that the module was uploaded to CPAN, but that's external information, bah. Leon -- Leon Brocard.http://www.astray.com/ scribot.http://www.scribot.com/ ... Blueness is a way of life

Re: Testers & PASS

2003-08-14 Thread Leon Brocard
that's like a 100x speedup. Can you speed up http://testers.cpan.org/search?request=by-dist&letter=M too? ;-) Leon -- Leon Brocard.http://www.astray.com/ scribot.http://www.scribot.com/ ... "1001 Things To Do With Whipped Cream", LGLB (1995)

Re: Scrutinizing CPAN distributions (was Testing for valid path names...)

2003-08-18 Thread Leon Brocard
contains a number of metric finding functions. It's great that somebody else thinks that metrics is a good idea. I thought it was just Schwern, Thomas and I! ;-) Leon -- Leon Brocard.http://www.astray.com/ scribot.http://www.scribot.com/ ... Hi-ho, hi-ho, it's hand grenades I throw...

Re: Approaching m4

2003-08-14 Thread Leon Brocard
Parrot projects ;-) We've used the Perl testing framework (Test::Harness, eg: 1..1\nok 1) in the main parrot test suite. It's working well for Perl and a Parrot version of it might be nice idea... Leon -- Leon Brocard.http://www.astray.com/ scribot...

Module::Packaged vs Phalanx 100

2005-02-05 Thread Leon Brocard
(pass in the source of http://qa.perl.org/phalanx/100/) There might be bugs, patches welcome, Leon -- Leon Brocard.http://www.astray.com/ scribot.http://www.scribot.com/ ... A living example of Artificial Intelligence

Re: Module::Packaged vs Phalanx 100

2005-02-05 Thread Leon Brocard
Johan Vromans sent the following bits through the ether: > Definitely. I'm quite sure Getopt::Long is in _every_ distribution... Of course, this only notices individually-packaged CPAN dists (ignores the core). Leon -- Leon Brocard.http://www.astray.com/

Re: Module::Packaged vs Phalanx 100

2005-02-06 Thread Leon Brocard
Leon Brocard sent the following bits through the ether: > http://astray.com/tmp/phalanx.html This now mentions core modules and notices Mandrake contrib (Module-Packaged 0.79 just hit CPAN), so Mandrake jumps from 28 -> 87. Leon -- Leon Brocard...

Test::Expect

2005-04-14 Thread Leon Brocard
, but I like it. Leon -- Leon Brocard.http://www.astray.com/ scribot.http://www.scribot.com/ ... Look out! Behind you!

Re: ICU Outdated - Ideas

2004-08-03 Thread Leon Brocard
Apart from license issues, this might be an interesting thing to look at. Leon -- Leon Brocard.http://www.astray.com/ scribot.http://www.scribot.com/ ... Better to understand a little than to misunderstand a lot

Re: The new Perl 6 compiler pumpking

2004-08-04 Thread Leon Brocard
Dan Sugalski sent the following bits through the ether: > I'd like everyone to give a welcome to Patrick Michaud, who's > volunteered to officially take charge of getting the Perl 6 compiler > module written. Welcome Patrick! What's your plan of attack

Re: Redoing the Phalanx 100

2004-08-08 Thread Leon Brocard
ilable in a computer-readable format. A module on CPAN, perhaps. Leon -- Leon Brocard.http://www.astray.com/ scribot.http://www.scribot.com/ ... That must be wonderful! I don't understand it at all

Re: Redoing the Phalanx 100

2004-08-08 Thread Leon Brocard
Steve Peters sent the following bits through the ether: > I've got Bundle::Phalanx100 out there right now. Once the list is > updated, I can get the module updated. And a link to this module, then ;-) -- Leon Brocard.http://www.astray.c

Re: Fwd: CPAN Upload: D/DO/DOMM/Module-CPANTS-Generator-0.22.tar.gz

2004-09-08 Thread Leon Brocard
a bit of pain in renaming. However, it is your module ;-) Leon -- Leon Brocard.http://www.astray.com/ scribot.http://www.scribot.com/ ... But my little voice TOLD me to do it!

Re: Missing Ops

2003-09-08 Thread Leon Brocard
e a good idea. We can always move the logic into the assembler later if we decide to prune ops. ObLeonBrocard: he just be restin', arrr -- Leon Brocard.http://www.astray.com/ scribot.http://www.scribot.com/ ... I was young, I needed the money

Re: The Great Renaming

2003-09-21 Thread Leon Brocard
Brent Dax sent the following bits through the ether: > Are there any objections to this? Sounds good. For embedding (eg Ponie), we're going to have to make sure that all symbols start with parrot_ / Parrot_... Leon -- Leon Brocard.http://www.astray.com/

Re: Phalanx / CPANTS / Kwalitee

2003-10-15 Thread Leon Brocard
ut this. It either needs stealing buildd from Debian, having a box we don't mind destroying every so often, or having a VMware virtual machine we can undo easily. What we need is more free time ;-) Leon -- Leon Brocard.http://www.astray.com/ scribot

Smoking CPAN

2004-02-10 Thread Leon Brocard
erl. Oh, and Module::Depends rocks. Comments? Leon -- Leon Brocard.http://www.astray.com/ scribot.http://www.scribot.com/ ... Useless invention no. 404: Caffeine-free Diet Coke install.pl Description: Perl program Installing Compres

Re: Objects and time

2004-02-23 Thread Leon Brocard
Dan Sugalski sent the following bits through the ether: > So, the question--shall we do objects and maybe miss the Feb 29th > release, or do the Feb 29th release and do objects for the next > release? Objects please! Leon -- Leon Brocard.http://www.a

Re: Distributed testing idea

2004-03-01 Thread Leon Brocard
all in > just a few minutes. The scheme that you propose sounds awfully like a messaging system. Leon -- Leon Brocard.http://www.astray.com/ scribot.http://www.scribot.com/ ... But I don't *like* ponies!

testers.cpan.org ideas

2004-03-09 Thread Leon Brocard
. Cheers, Leon -- Leon Brocard.http://www.astray.com/ scribot.http://www.scribot.com/ ... I love it when a plan comes together!

Re: testers.cpan.org ideas

2004-03-09 Thread Leon Brocard
So now I want an RSS feed per author, so I don't have to subscribe to 30 RSS feeds ;-) Leon -- Leon Brocard.http://www.astray.com/ scribot.http://www.scribot.com/ ... $$$ not found -- (A)bort (R)efinance (B)ankrupt

Re: [PATCH] signals under x86_64

2004-04-02 Thread Leon Brocard
Adam Thomason sent the following bits through the ether: > No troubles here (see the palaeodictyoptera tinderbox). Is procps > up-to-date? Is NPTL causing different PIDs to show up? OK, chalk it up to dodgy Fedora in that case. Please do not apply patch. Leon -- Leon B

[PATCH] remove unused parameter from pbc.c

2004-04-01 Thread Leon Brocard
Removes a warning. Leon -- Leon Brocard.http://www.astray.com/ scribot.http://www.scribot.com/ ... We're not worthy! We're not worthy! Index: imcc/pbc.c === RCS

[PATCH] longness in pf_items.c

2004-04-01 Thread Leon Brocard
On our shiny 64-bit Opteron box I get a warning here. This silences the warning. Leon -- Leon Brocard.http://www.astray.com/ scribot.http://www.scribot.com/ ... Borg? Where? I don't se*(#$#..NO CARRIER Index: pf/pf_it

[PATCH] signals under x86_64

2004-04-01 Thread Leon Brocard
Signals no worky under x86_64. I don't really understand why. Seeing as we're skipping on lots of platforms anyway, I've added it to the list of skipped platforms. Leon -- Leon Brocard.http://www.astray.com/ scribot..

Re: [PATCH] signals under x86_64

2004-04-01 Thread Leon Brocard
Leopold Toetsch sent the following bits through the ether: > Is this available on e.g. Windows? Possibly, it's just POSIX. I have no way to test this however. Leon -- Leon Brocard.http://www.astray.com/ scribot.http://www.scr

Re: [PATCH] remove unused parameter from pbc.c

2004-04-01 Thread Leon Brocard
Leopold Toetsch sent the following bits through the ether: > Both interpreter and unit aren't unused, if JIT is enabled. Changed a > bit. Ooh. Oops. Anyway, warnings bad. Leon -- Leon Brocard.http://www.astray.com/ scribot..

Re: Fwd: TALK:4-5-04 "A (Grand?) Unified Theory of Storage Reclamation"

2004-03-31 Thread Leon Brocard
Dan Sugalski sent the following bits through the ether: > "A (Grand?) Unified Theory of Storage Reclamation" Slides here: http://www.research.ibm.com/people/d/dfb/talks/Bacon04Grand.ppt Leon -- Leon Brocard.http://www.astray

Re: RFC: Bytecode file format

2001-09-15 Thread Leon Brocard
a look, although we may want to generalise a bit more: http://java.sun.com/docs/books/vmspec/html/ClassFile.doc.html Leon [1] No, attributes aren't limited to four characters. Let's be modern about this... -- Leon Brocard.http://www.astray.com/ Iterativ

Microbenchmark JVM<->PVM

2001-09-15 Thread Leon Brocard
oh, and are we calling it pvm? parrotvm? -- Leon Brocard.http://www.astray.com/ Iterative Software...http://www.iterative-software.com/ ... I am serious. And don't call me Shirley class Bench { public static void main (String args[]) { int q =

Example assembler code (primes.pasm)

2001-09-19 Thread Leon Brocard
te of some sort, although Simon's recent article on perl.com was damn good. Leon ps the assembler doesn't grok "if I5, NEXT4, NEXT3" or comments on lines which just have labels -- Leon Brocard.http://www.astray.com/ Nanoware...

Re: Op documentation versus implementation

2001-09-16 Thread Leon Brocard
ut again ;-)? Leon -- Leon Brocard.http://www.astray.com/ Iterative Software...http://www.iterative-software.com/ ... With a rubber duck, one's never alone

Re: [patch] First cut at TODO "allow add I4, I4, 3 instead of add_i_ic ..."

2001-09-14 Thread Leon Brocard
tuff for far too long. I'm interested in converting between languages. At the moment I expect to do that using pasm, but the second we have a bytecode-writing module... Look at all these programming languages for the JVM. s/JVM/ParrotVM/ perhaps? http://grunge.cs.tu-berlin.de/~tolk/vmlanguage

Re: Fibonaci

2001-09-14 Thread Leon Brocard
-- Leon Brocard.http://www.astray.com/ Iterative Software...http://www.iterative-software.com/ ... # Some simple code to print some Fibonacci numbers # Leon Brocard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> print "The first 20 fibonacci numbers are:\n&quo

Re: [PATCH] Fixes logical ops in Parrot Scheme compiler

2001-10-21 Thread Leon Brocard
t so I can play with translation ideas and not have to worry about static type inference... Errr, so not yet. But I'll be updating the parrotcode.org examples rsn, honest... Leon -- Leon Brocard.http://www.astray.com/ Nanoware...http://www

Re: AOP

2001-10-24 Thread Leon Brocard
o enable AOP: http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=Aspect http://lists.perl.org/showlist.cgi?name=perl-aspects Leon -- Leon Brocard.http://www.astray.com/ Nanoware...http://www.nanoware.org/ ... There's someone in my head, but its not me

[PATCH] mops.pasm

2001-11-10 Thread Leon Brocard
mops.pasm: 11.713909 ./mops: 108.442655 with -O3: mops.pasm: 17.030964 ./mops: 240.719673 NEW LOOP mops.pasm: 10.647256 ./mops: 73.574232 with -O3: mops.pasm: 15.141514 ./mops: 150.416772 Of course, the benchmark could be improved, but I suggest we should at least change it to be good,

Re: Rounding?

2001-11-05 Thread Leon Brocard
I0, N3 print I0 # prints 4 print "\n" set I0, 2 set I1, 2 add I2, I0, I1 print I2 # prints 4 print "\n" end Hope this helps, Leon -- Leon Brocard.http://www.astray.com/

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