Re: ICU data file location issues

2004-04-14 Thread Jeff Clites
On Apr 14, 2004, at 10:20 PM, Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote: Finding stuff relative to the executable/DLL would be coolest scheme, but that is admittedly somewhat tricky to get working cross-platform. Excellent idea. Pretty much every single resource in Cocoa applications and frameworks on Mac OS X is

Method Name Truncation in PIR

2004-04-14 Thread chromatic
Hi there, I'm seeing method name truncation when trying to run code of the form: .local pmc app .local int app_type find_type app_type, 'SDL::App' app = new app_type, app_args .local pmc main_screen main_screen = app.'surface'() surface() calls _new() on another object

Re: ICU data file location issues

2004-04-14 Thread Jarkko Hietaniemi
> Just came across an interesting quirk with the current usage of > ICU--if you do it, you can't run parrot unless your current directory > is the base parrot directory. Trying it from elsewhere throws a > "string_set_data_directory: ICU data files not found" error. > > Symlinking parrot's blib

Re: ICU data file location issues

2004-04-14 Thread Jeff Clites
On Apr 14, 2004, at 7:49 AM, Dan Sugalski wrote: Just came across an interesting quirk with the current usage of ICU--if you do it, you can't run parrot unless your current directory is the base parrot directory. Trying it from elsewhere throws a "string_set_data_directory: ICU data files not f

Re: Dynclass issues list please?

2004-04-14 Thread Will Coleda
All of the easy differences are listed in dynclasses/README. The hard difference, Leo summed up - we need a way to deal with dynamic pmcs that depend on each other. If I had a bunch of unrelated pmc's (like the Foo example), I'd be done already. For simple dependencies, you could just force the

Re: Attribute questions

2004-04-14 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 7:42 AM +0100 4/13/04, Piers Cawley wrote: Dan Sugalski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: At 6:53 PM +0100 4/8/04, Mark Sparshatt wrote: I've got a couple of questions about Atrributes in Parrot. PDD15 says that both classes and objects have a list of attributes and it is possible to add or remov

Dynclass issues list please?

2004-04-14 Thread Dan Sugalski
Seems we've some issues with static vs dynamic pmcs. Could someone take a few minutes (nudge, nudge, Will :) and list out the issues? I'd like to have the build process for static and dynamic PMCs be identical which we're not at yet, so this'd seem to be a good time to do what we have to to mak

Re: Plans for string processing

2004-04-14 Thread Aaron Sherman
On Tue, 2004-04-13 at 18:23, Leopold Toetsch wrote: > Aaron Sherman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > For example, in Perl5/Ponie: > > > @names=; > > print "Phone Book: ", sort(@names), "\n"; > > > In this example, I don't see why I would care that NAMES might be a > > pseudo-handle

Re: Plans for string processing

2004-04-14 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 1:39 PM +0200 4/14/04, Michael Scott wrote: On 13 Apr 2004, at 23:43, Dan Sugalski wrote: I've been assuming it's a left-side wins, as you're tacking onto an existing string, so you'd get English in all cases. Alternately you could get an exception. The end result of a mixed-language operati

Re: Plans for string processing

2004-04-14 Thread Larry Wall
On Wed, Apr 14, 2004 at 01:39:17PM +0200, Michael Scott wrote: : : On 13 Apr 2004, at 23:43, Dan Sugalski wrote: : : >I've been assuming it's a left-side wins, as you're tacking onto an : >existing string, so you'd get English in all cases. Alternately you : >could get an exception. The end res

Re: [perl #28531] [PATCH] C++ comment fix

2004-04-14 Thread Leopold Toetsch
Adam Thomason <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A handful of // comments are lingering around the tree. Patch fixes > them to use /* ... */. Thanks, applied. leo

Re: [perl #28426] Failed test on Fedora linux

2004-04-14 Thread Leopold Toetsch
Walter G <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > t/pmc/object-meths..dubious > Test returned status 1 (wstat 256, 0x100) > Scalar found where operator expected at (eval 157) > line 1, near "'int' $__val" > (Missing operator before $__val?) > DIED. FAILED test 17 Strange. This is AFAIK

Re: Plans for string processing

2004-04-14 Thread Michael Scott
On 13 Apr 2004, at 23:43, Dan Sugalski wrote: I've been assuming it's a left-side wins, as you're tacking onto an existing string, so you'd get English in all cases. Alternately you could get an exception. The end result of a mixed-language operation could certainly be the Dunno language or the

ICU data file location issues

2004-04-14 Thread Dan Sugalski
Just came across an interesting quirk with the current usage of ICU--if you do it, you can't run parrot unless your current directory is the base parrot directory. Trying it from elsewhere throws a "string_set_data_directory: ICU data files not found" error. Symlinking parrot's blib/ dir into t

Re: new libraries

2004-04-14 Thread Jarkko Hietaniemi
Tim Bunce wrote: > On Sat, Apr 10, 2004 at 01:49:37PM +0300, Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote: > >>>(We've learnt the hard way with Perl5 modules names that more words are good. >> >>And more words that mean something... "Data" ranks right up there as the >>worst possible names for anything. > > > (Nah,

Re: new libraries

2004-04-14 Thread Jens Rieks
On Saturday 10 April 2004 12:42, Tim Bunce wrote: > Perhaps Data::DeepReplacePMC What do you think about: PMC::DeepReplace (Data::Replace) PMC::Printable (Data::Escape) PMC::Sort (Data::Sort) PMC::Dumper (Data::Dumper) > (We've learnt the hard way with Perl5 modules names that more words are > go