RE: TREE IS FEATURE FROZEN (2003-Sep-14)

2003-09-15 Thread Brent Dax
Steve Fink: # On Sep-15, Brent Dax wrote: # > Steve Fink: # > # 2. typedef struct Parrot_Interp stuff. Brent, you're the man -- do you # > # still need some agreement on conventions before you rename our world? # > # > You mean we might actually (gasp!) get this done? Horrors! # # Huh? No, I just

RE: Next Apocalypse

2003-09-15 Thread Gordon Henriksen
(Moving to internals. Definitely not a language discussion.) Nicholas Clark wrote: > Sorry if this is a crack fuelled idea, and sorry that I don't > have a patch handy to implement it, but might the following > work: With the same caveats (coke, no diff), try this strategy on for size: The

RE: cvs commit: parrot/languages/imcc/t/syn pcc.t

2003-09-15 Thread Gordon Henriksen
> * e.g. add_n_i_n => add_n_n_i > * div_n_ic_n => div_n_nc_n > * div_n_i_n => set_n_i ; div_n_n_n > + * ge_n_ic_ic => ge_nc_ic -+-+ | | | | _|_

[perl #23815] [PATCH] Trivial jako Makefile patch

2003-09-15 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by Andy Dougherty # Please include the string: [perl #23815] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # http://rt.perl.org/rt2/Ticket/Display.html?id=23815 > This fixes an apparent obvious typo in the Jako Makefile. I also put in the cd-back-to

Re: This week's summary (off-list-to-protect the names of the young and old)

2003-09-15 Thread Vladimir Lipskiy
> Dan spoke too soon, we have just confirmed that PIERS_C = > 2.04739336492890995260663507109 * BRENT_D Brent isn't adult? Gosh! BRENT_D = 36/2.04739336492890995260663507109 = appr. 17 ages and 296 days

Re: Pondering argument passing

2003-09-15 Thread Steve Fink
On Sep-15, Leopold Toetsch wrote: > Steve Fink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm not sure how to use the current pdd03's calling conventions to > > implement what I want right now. Let's consider Perl6: > > First, that whole stuff definitely needs more clarification. Calling and > return conventi

Re: Problems building perl6 (perl version dependency?)

2003-09-15 Thread Steve Fink
On Sep-15, Andy Dougherty wrote: > > Moreover, Steve Fink's comment just below the line you propose deleting > leads me to believe there's something more to it, but I don't actually > know what the issue was. > > > *** String.pm.~1.6.~Sun Mar 16 01:02:08 2003 > > --- String.pm Mon Se

Re: This week's summary (off-list-to-protect the names of the young and old)

2003-09-15 Thread Piers Cawley
Simon Glover <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, 15 Sep 2003, Melvin Smith wrote: > >> Dan spoke too soon, we have just confirmed that PIERS_C = >> 2.04739336492890995260663507109 * BRENT_D > > They both know their time of birth to the nearest nanosecond? > Impressive. I don't. But I do kno

Re: Parrot reorg

2003-09-15 Thread Dan Sugalski
On Mon, 15 Sep 2003, Leopold Toetsch wrote: > Dan Sugalski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > [ the *big* move around ] > > > Anything I'm missing? This is for *after* 0.0.11, of course. (And > > potentially after a case of really good beer, soda, or dog food is shipped > > off to Robert... :) > >

Re: [perl #23809] [PATCH] Makefile broken

2003-09-15 Thread Leopold Toetsch
Michael Scott (via RT) wrote: Makefile:600: *** missing separator (did you mean TAB instead of 8 spaces?). Stop. This is already fixed. Thanks, leo

Re: Parrot reorg

2003-09-15 Thread Leopold Toetsch
Dan Sugalski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [ the *big* move around ] > Anything I'm missing? This is for *after* 0.0.11, of course. (And > potentially after a case of really good beer, soda, or dog food is shipped > off to Robert... :) I like that. What about subsystems (io, encodings, chartypes, p

Re: perl6/languages/t/compiler/1.t print format errors

2003-09-15 Thread Dan Sugalski
On Mon, 15 Sep 2003, Andy Dougherty wrote: > On Solaris 8, with Sun's compiler and a very very recent perl-5.8.x, I'm > getting several failures in perl6/languages/t/compiler/1.t. Here's a > typical sample. Note that the difference is simply in whether or not to > include the trailing zeros in t

perl6/languages/t/compiler/1.t print format errors

2003-09-15 Thread Andy Dougherty
On Solaris 8, with Sun's compiler and a very very recent perl-5.8.x, I'm getting several failures in perl6/languages/t/compiler/1.t. Here's a typical sample. Note that the difference is simply in whether or not to include the trailing zeros in the print command. Does anyone know which is "right"

Re: Problems building perl6 (perl version dependency?)

2003-09-15 Thread Andy Dougherty
On Mon, 15 Sep 2003, Sean O'Rourke wrote: > > This problem's been around a while -- I know I've reported it before. Is > > it time to give up on 5.00503? I will retest with 5.8.x, but the > > compilation takes a *long* time. > > I'm not personally a fan of 5.005 compatibility, but it looks to me

RE: Pondering argument passing

2003-09-15 Thread Gordon Henriksen
Dan Sugalski wrote: > On Sun, 14 Sep 2003, Steve Fink wrote: > > > I suppose that was a question for the language list. But then I'd have > > to read the language list. > > A fate worse than razor burn, to be sure. Possibly one worse than really > bad Mexican food, but either way I'd not wish i

RE: Pondering argument passing

2003-09-15 Thread Dan Sugalski
On Mon, 15 Sep 2003, Gordon Henriksen wrote: > Dan Sugalski wrote: > > > On Sun, 14 Sep 2003, Steve Fink wrote: > > > > > I suppose that was a question for the language list. But then I'd > have > > > to read the language list. > > > > A fate worse than razor burn, to be sure. Possibly one wors

Re: Problems building perl6 (perl version dependency?)

2003-09-15 Thread Sean O'Rourke
Andy Dougherty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > So the problem is actually a dependency on a module not shipped with > perl5.00503. > > This problem's been around a while -- I know I've reported it before. Is > it time to give up on 5.00503? I will retest with 5.8.x, but the > compilation takes a *l

RE: This week's summary (off-list-to-protect the names of the young and old)

2003-09-15 Thread Simon Glover
On Mon, 15 Sep 2003, Melvin Smith wrote: > Dan spoke too soon, we have just confirmed that PIERS_C = > 2.04739336492890995260663507109 * BRENT_D They both know their time of birth to the nearest nanosecond? Impressive. Simon

Problems building perl6 (perl version dependency?)

2003-09-15 Thread Andy Dougherty
On Solaris 8, with Sun's supplied perl5.00503 and with Sun's cc, I get the following error when trying to build perl6: cd perl6 && make test && cd .. /usr/bin/perl t/harness t/builtins/array# Failed test (t/builtins/array.t at line 27) # got: 'error:imcc:parse error, unexpected EO

RE: This week's summary (off-list-to-protect the names of the young and old)

2003-09-15 Thread Melvin Smith
Dan spoke too soon, we have just confirmed that PIERS_C = 2.04739336492890995260663507109 * BRENT_D -Melvin "Brent Dax" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 09/15/2003 11:43 AM To: Melvin Smith/ATLANTA/Contr/[EMAIL PROTECTED], <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> cc: Subject:RE: This

Problem building jako (perl version dependency?)

2003-09-15 Thread Andy Dougherty
On Solaris 8, with Sun's supplied perl5.00503 and with Sun's cc, I get the following error when trying to build jako: cd jako && make && cd .. /usr/bin/perl -I lib jakoc examples/bench.jako > examples/bench.imc || (rm -f examples/bench.imc && false) Can't modify subroutine entry in scalar assi

RE: This week's summary

2003-09-15 Thread Melvin Smith
Poor guy, I just told him the same thing off-list. Well I come to think of it, I guess that makes me an old fogey too. -Melvin Dan Sugalski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 09/15/2003 11:39 AM To: Brent Dax <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAI

RE: This week's summary

2003-09-15 Thread Brent Dax
Dan Sugalski: # On Mon, 15 Sep 2003, Brent Dax wrote: # > Piers Cawley: # > # Welcome to this week's Perl 6 Summary. And what better way could # > there # > # be of spending the morning of your 36th birthday than by reading # > # through a bunch of old messages in a couple of mailing li

RE: This week's summary

2003-09-15 Thread Dan Sugalski
On Mon, 15 Sep 2003, Brent Dax wrote: > Piers Cawley: > # Welcome to this week's Perl 6 Summary. And what better way could > there > # be of spending the morning of your 36th birthday than by reading > # through a bunch of old messages in a couple of mailing lists and > # boiling t

RE: This week's summary

2003-09-15 Thread Brent Dax
Piers Cawley: # Welcome to this week's Perl 6 Summary. And what better way could there # be of spending the morning of your 36th birthday than by reading # through a bunch of old messages in a couple of mailing lists and # boiling them down into a summary? Happy birthday, Piers. E

Parrot reorg

2003-09-15 Thread Dan Sugalski
Okay, since we're fighting over what goes where in the tree, we might as well do it right. Leo wants IMCC put in a separate subdirectory, and I can't much disagree, except that none of the rest of the core engine code is in a separate subdirectory. Since we've been threatening for years (litera

Re: TREE IS FEATURE FROZEN (2003-Sep-14)

2003-09-15 Thread Dan Sugalski
On Sun, 14 Sep 2003, Steve Fink wrote: > Time to clean up! How are Windows builds doing these days? Looking at > the tinderbox, it looks like we've got a Debian PPC, a FreeBSD, and an > x86 Linux, but nothing "interesting". And all broken by some jerk who > didn't update the MANIFEST. I'll kick g

Re: Pondering argument passing

2003-09-15 Thread Dan Sugalski
On Sun, 14 Sep 2003, Steve Fink wrote: > I'm not sure how to use the current pdd03's calling conventions to > implement what I want right now. Let's consider Perl6: > > sub f ($a, $b) { ... } > f(1, 2); > &f(1, 2); > > (I'm not sure if that is correct Perl6 code -- what I mean is that I >

[perl #23809] [PATCH] Makefile broken

2003-09-15 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by Michael Scott # Please include the string: [perl #23809] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # http://rt.perl.org/rt2/Ticket/Display.html?id=23809 > I seem to be specializing in minimalist patches. Building the latest checkout from CVS

Re: TREE IS FEATURE FROZEN (2003-Sep-14)

2003-09-15 Thread Vladimir Lipskiy
> 4. Win32. I don't know that it's broken, but I'm assuming it is on > general principle. D:\build\parrot>perl Configure.pl [snip] Probing for C headers...done. Determining some sizes...Linker failed (see test.ldo) at lib/Parrot/Configure/St ep.pm line 170. The code # 'link' needs to be link

This week's summary

2003-09-15 Thread Piers Cawley
The Perl 6 Summary for the week ending 20030914 Welcome to this week's Perl 6 Summary. And what better way could there be of spending the morning of your 36th birthday than by reading through a bunch of old messages in a couple of mailing lists and boiling them down into a summary?

Re: cvs commit: parrot/languages/imcc/t/syn pcc.t

2003-09-15 Thread Leopold Toetsch
Steve Fink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Leo: the seg fault seems bad, > + LOCALS => '.local PerlInt a', adding "a = new PerlInt" here fixed the segfault, the test runs fine. leo

Re: TREE IS FEATURE FROZEN (2003-Sep-14)

2003-09-15 Thread Leopold Toetsch
Steve Fink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 1. languages/imcc move. Last I heard, this was blocked on Dan & Leo > coming to an agreement over where it, and the rest of the source code, > should go. Robert said: "We should probably wait until after 0.0.11 for this, to minimize disruption." I'm fine wi

Re: Pondering argument passing

2003-09-15 Thread Leopold Toetsch
Steve Fink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm not sure how to use the current pdd03's calling conventions to > implement what I want right now. Let's consider Perl6: First, that whole stuff definitely needs more clarification. Calling and return conventions are not symmetrical, C (number of items in

Re: TREE IS FEATURE FROZEN (2003-Sep-14)

2003-09-15 Thread Steve Fink
A couple of other things came to mind. Here's my current view of the laundry list. Additions welcome. 1. languages/imcc move. Last I heard, this was blocked on Dan & Leo coming to an agreement over where it, and the rest of the source code, should go. 2. typedef struct Parrot_Interp stuff. Bre