Re: Interactive Perl 6 shell

2009-12-29 Thread Shawn H Corey
Juan Madrigal wrote: > Does Perl6/Rakudo have an interactive perl shell like ruby does with irb? $ perl -ple '$_=eval' (In Windows: perl -ple "$_=eval" ) Enter the command `exit` to end the session. -- Just my 0.0002 million dollars worth, Shawn Programming is as much about organizatio

Re: underscores vs hyphens (was Re: A new era for Temporal)

2010-04-11 Thread Shawn H Corey
Damian Conway wrote: Well, if we're not going to try to implement linguistically based hyphenation/underscoriation rules (and I'd still argue that hyphenating adjectives to nouns and underscoring everything else isn't exactly rocket science), then I'd suggest we reconsider a radically different p

Re: underscores vs hyphens (was Re: A new era for Temporal)

2010-04-12 Thread Shawn H Corey
Darren Duncan wrote: See http://perlcabal.org/syn/S02.html#Names for your answers. Thanks for the link but nowhere in it does it state tha Perl 6 names are case sensitive. The best the do is this, which implies it is but doesn't state it. "Other all-caps names are semi-reserved. We may add

Re: Documentaion Details (was: underscores vs hyphens)

2010-04-13 Thread Shawn H Corey
Matthew Walton wrote: On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 1:22 PM, Shawn H Corey wrote: So, I'll ask again: Where in the official documentation does it state that Perl 6 names are case sensitive? I think it's more important to ask where it says that they aren't. 1) Perl 5 is case sen

Problems Installing Parrot

2006-07-21 Thread Mr. Shawn H. Corey
Hi, I am trying to install Parrot and the README file has this: You'll need a C compiler, a linker and a make program of course. If you will be linking with the ICU library you have to download and install it before configuring Parrot. Get it from http://www-306.ibm.com/software/globalization/ic

Re: FAQ Questions (WAS: ICU advantages? was Re: Problems Installing Parrot)

2006-07-21 Thread Mr. Shawn H. Corey
Chris Dolan wrote: > On Jul 21, 2006, at 9:48 AM, Jonathan Rockway wrote: > >>> I have downloaded the icu4j_3_4_4.jar but have no idea what to do with >>> it. Could someone please help? >>> >> You'll want to get icu4c (icu for C), not icu4j (for java). If you >> get the tgz C version, just tar xz

Help Understanding Configure.pl Output

2006-07-21 Thread Mr. Shawn H. Corey
Hi, I ran `perl Configure.pl` and I have some questions about its output. First: Determining if your C compiler is actually gcc.yes. Determining if your C compiler is actually Visual C++...no. Enabling optimization..

Additions to docs/glossary.pod

2006-07-22 Thread Mr. Shawn H. Corey
I've been reading thru the docs and have come across the following terms which are not in docs/glossary.pod =head2 AST Abstract Syntax Tree. =head2 HLL High-Level Language. =head2 PGE Parrot Grammar Engine. =head2 PIL Pugs' Intermediate Language. =head2 POST Parrot Opcode Syntax Tree. =

Re: parrot compile error

2006-08-08 Thread Mr. Shawn H. Corey
Ben. B. wrote: > I have been getting the same error on my laptop for several weeks also. > Have you tried? make realclean perl Configure.pl make I got a compiler error earlier that went away when I did this. -- __END__ Just my 0.0002 million dollars worth, --- Shawn "For the t

Re: End the Hollerith Tyranny? (linelength.t)

2006-08-21 Thread Mr. Shawn H. Corey
jerry gay wrote: > On 8/21/06, Leopold Toetsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> My preference: soft limit 80 - keep lines shorter, if it's easy >>hard limit ~100 - you SHALL not exceed it >> > coding standards are quite helpful, but cannot be applied absolutely. > there are good reas

Re: End the Hollerith Tyranny? (linelength.t)

2006-08-21 Thread Mr. Shawn H. Corey
Chip Salzenberg wrote: > On Mon, Aug 21, 2006 at 06:05:08PM -0400, Mr. Shawn H. Corey wrote: >> Don't forget that some programs, like mailers, wrap at 80 characters. > > I don't know of any mailer that is hard-coded at any given column width. > Do you? Thunderbird,

Re: Shootout Tests 14 &15 Failing on PPC (Linux, at least)

2006-09-23 Thread Mr. Shawn H. Corey
chromatic wrote: > Tests 14 and 15 in t/examples/shootout.t fail on Linux/PPC because > jit_set_args_pc does not handle floating point arguments correctly. I poked > at the code a little bit, but PPC is different enough with its relative > wealth of registers that I couldn't fix things triviall

Re: [perl #40513] [CAGE] add flex/bison files to c coding standard tests

2006-10-11 Thread Mr. Shawn H. Corey
Jerry Gay (via RT) wrote: > *.l and *.y are c files, and must meet the coding standards for this filetype. > ~jerry > By "this filetype" I assume you mean the C standard. Although these files contain C code and that code should be written to the C standard, they are not C files. Each should have

Too many errors

2006-10-13 Thread Mr. Shawn H. Corey
Just reload parrot. Ran: make realclean perl Configure.pl make make test The result: 11 tests and 579 subtests skipped. Failed 14/254 test scripts, 94.49% okay. 176/6439 subtests failed, 97.27% okay. make: *** [test] Error 1 And no, I'm not going to open 176 tickets on this! -- __END__ Just

Re: Coding Standard Questions

2006-10-17 Thread Mr. Shawn H. Corey
Kevin Tew wrote: > 1) *s should go right next to the type in function declarations and > definitions > > /* incorrect */ > do_thaw(Parrot_Interp interpreter, PMC * pmc, visit_info *info) > /* correct */ > do_thaw(Parrot_Interp interpreter, PMC* pmc, visit_info* info) Disagree. Consider: char* fo