Perl 6 Summary for 2005-02-22 though 2005-03-07

2005-03-07 Thread Matt Fowles
Perl 6 Summary for 2005-02-22 though 2005-03-07 All~ Welcome to yet another fortnight summary. Once again brought to you by chocolate chips. This does have the distinction of being the first summary written on a mac. So if I break into random swear words, just bear with me.

Re: [Parrot 0.1.2] examples/assembly/ncurses_life.imc error

2005-03-07 Thread chromatic
On Mon, 2005-03-07 at 20:43 +0100, Uwe Voelker wrote: > if I try the ncurses_life.imc demo I get the error "Null PMC access in > invoke()". > I'm sure it has problems with the ncurses NCI. How can I solve the problem? Apply this patch, then let me know if it fixes it for you so that I can check

[perl #34366] [PATCH] Sun's compiler needs -xlibmieee for atan2

2005-03-07 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by Andy Dougherty # Please include the string: [perl #34366] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # https://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=34366 > t/op/trans.t tests the atan2() function for some "exceptional" cases involving negat

Re: [RELEASE] Parrot 0.1.2 "Phoenix" Released!

2005-03-07 Thread Michal Jurosz
MS Windows XP SP2, MinGW non-professional build http://wiki.kn.vutbr.cz/mj/index.cgi?Build%20Parrot%20with%20MinGW Failed TestStatus Wstat Total Fail Failed List of Failed imcc/t/imcpasm/opt1.t 1 2

Re: dynclasses OS X test failures - a Perl task

2005-03-07 Thread Andy Dougherty
On Mon, 7 Mar 2005, Andy Dougherty wrote: On Sat, 5 Mar 2005, Leopold Toetsch wrote: Andy Dougherty wrote: make: *** No rule to make target `blib/include/unicode/ucnv.h', needed by `src/string_primitives.o'. Stop. This was fixed by Bernhard yesterday. Thanks. I must have missed his fix by ju

[Parrot 0.1.2] examples/assembly/ncurses_life.imc error

2005-03-07 Thread Uwe Voelker
Hello, if I try the ncurses_life.imc demo I get the error "Null PMC access in invoke()". This is the debug output: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/tmp/parrot/examples/assembly> parrot -d ncurses_life.imc *** Parrot VM: Setting stack top. *** *** Parrot VM: Slow core *** *** Parrot VM: Setting up ARGV array

Re: [RELEASE] Parrot 0.1.2 "Phoenix" Released!

2005-03-07 Thread Leopold Toetsch
David Storrs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > First: Congratulations to everyone for this release! Thank you. > Second: What will it take before Parrot moves to a 0.2 (0.3, 0.4...) > release? See subject: Proposed steps towards the next release 0.2 and beyond. It also depends on the progress we m

Re: [RELEASE] Parrot 0.1.2 "Phoenix" Released!

2005-03-07 Thread David Storrs
On Sun, Mar 06, 2005 at 04:57:38PM +0100, Leopold Toetsch wrote: > On behalf of the Parrot team I'm proud to announce the release of > Parrot 0.1.2. First: Congratulations to everyone for this release! Second: What will it take before Parrot moves to a 0.2 (0.3, 0.4...) release? --Dks

Re: .HL_language pragma

2005-03-07 Thread Leopold Toetsch
MrJoltCola <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 07:50 AM 3/7/2005, Leopold Toetsch wrote: >> >> >> >> .HL_language Python > Sounds good to me except that I would prefer you remove the HL_ > and just call it .language to be consistent with other directives. I don't care much about the actual keyword

Re: Return a varying number of values in IMCC?

2005-03-07 Thread Leopold Toetsch
Bob Rogers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I don't see a way to do this at present. What I would like is an > equivalent to .flatten_arg for a PCC return, e.g.: > .pcc_begin_return > .flatten_arg array_of_results > .pcc_end_return > Of course, ".flatten_

Re: .HL_language pragma (was: Proposed steps towards the next release 0.2 and beyond.)

2005-03-07 Thread MrJoltCola
At 07:50 AM 3/7/2005, Leopold Toetsch wrote: Roger Browne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 2005-03-07 at 11:01 +0100, Leopold Toetsch wrote: >> 4.1.1) implement a language pragma in assembler, e.g.: >> >> .HL_language Python Sounds good to me except that I would prefer you remove the HL_ and

Re: dynclasses OS X test failures - a Perl task

2005-03-07 Thread Andy Dougherty
On Sat, 5 Mar 2005, Leopold Toetsch wrote: Andy Dougherty wrote: make: *** No rule to make target `blib/include/unicode/ucnv.h', needed by `src/string_primitives.o'. Stop. This was fixed by Bernhard yesterday. Thanks. I must have missed his fix by just a few hours. I'll check today that th

Re: Tinderbox

2005-03-07 Thread Steve Peters
On Mon, Mar 07, 2005 at 09:54:36AM +0100, Leopold Toetsch wrote: > It would be very useful if tinderboxen could be revived. > > Thanks, > leo > Do we need a separate tinderbox, or do you think it might be helpful to integrate parrot somehow into the current perl smoke reporting process? There

Re: [perl #34356] Module to query parrot-config

2005-03-07 Thread Leopold Toetsch
Adrian Lambeck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [ please don't top post ] > I will try it out to see if it works for me. Now I know how to get the > data but how can I include this into a Makfile. If this were Perl-code > I could use MakeMaker but this way I need to do it somehow different. There's a

.HL_language pragma (was: Proposed steps towards the next release 0.2 and beyond.)

2005-03-07 Thread Leopold Toetsch
Roger Browne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 2005-03-07 at 11:01 +0100, Leopold Toetsch wrote: >> 4.1.1) implement a language pragma in assembler, e.g.: >> >> .HL_language Python > A pragma like that seems to split high-level languages into two groups: > those that are specially known to p

Re: [RELEASE] Parrot 0.1.2 "Phoenix" Released!

2005-03-07 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Leo, you (or someone) might want to: s/Poicephalus/Phoenix/ on parrotcode.org etc. When you get a spare minute ;-) -- Ciao Richard Foley Ciao - shorter than aufwiedersehen http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/perldebugpr/ -Original Message- > Date: Sun, 6 Mar 2005 16:57:38 +0100 > Su

Re: [perl #34356] Module to query parrot-config

2005-03-07 Thread Adrian Lambeck
I will try it out to see if it works for me. Now I know how to get the data but how can I include this into a Makfile. If this were Perl-code I could use MakeMaker but this way I need to do it somehow different. By the way - in which file did you find this example. Adrian Am Montag, 7. MÃrz

Re: Proposed steps towards the next release 0.2 and beyond.

2005-03-07 Thread Roger Browne
On Mon, 2005-03-07 at 11:01 +0100, Leopold Toetsch wrote: > 4.1.1) implement a language pragma in assembler, e.g.: > > .HL_language Python A pragma like that seems to split high-level languages into two groups: those that are specially known to parrot, and those that are not. I'd like it to be

Re: [perl #34351] [PATCH] garbage characters in a comment

2005-03-07 Thread Nicholas Clark
On Sun, Mar 06, 2005 at 03:18:05PM +0200, Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote: > Leopold Toetsch via RT wrote: > > Jarkko Hietaniemi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > >>Extra 0xA0 characters (Latin-1 no-break-spaces?) in the comments of > >>a header file. Non-fatal but probably not intended, either. Pat

Re: [RELEASE] Parrot 0.1.2 "Phoenix" Released!

2005-03-07 Thread Leopold Toetsch
Hi Richard, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Leo, you (or someone) might want to: s/Poicephalus/Phoenix/ on parrotcode.org etc. Yep, thanks. It's being worked on. Greetinx to Germany, leo

Proposed steps towards the next release 0.2 and beyond.

2005-03-07 Thread Leopold Toetsch
Below inline/attached is a proposal for Parrot core changes. I'll post a more detailed proposal for 1) objects in a minute. leo Proposed steps towards the next release 0.2 and beyond. These are numbered just for reference but are else in no particular order. A lot can be done in parallel. A lot

1) objects - (was: Proposed vtable changes WRT method lookup)

2005-03-07 Thread Leopold Toetsch
Below is mainly a repost of the old proposal. Two additions: 7) all object opcodes should go through the vtable. From there the implementation can either call into Parrot's default (src/objects.c) or do whatever the class system needs. 8) attribute access We currently have: 8.1) via classoffset

Re: Current MSWin32 (WinXP, VC++ 7.1) Test Results

2005-03-07 Thread Ron Blaschke
Leopold Toetsch wrote: > Ron Blaschke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Here are the current test results on my WinXP, VC++ 7.1 box. > [ dynclasses failing ] >> PS: Should I keep posting them from time to time, or are they of no >> interest to anyone? > Yes please / no. It shows current state and can

Re: [perl #34351] [PATCH] garbage characters in a comment

2005-03-07 Thread Leopold Toetsch
Jarkko Hietaniemi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>>Extra 0xA0 characters (Latin-1 no-break-spaces?) > Curious. Reattached. Thanks, applied. leo

Tinderbox

2005-03-07 Thread Leopold Toetsch
It would be very useful if tinderboxen could be revived. Thanks, leo

Re: [RELEASE] Parrot 0.1.2 "Phoenix" Released!

2005-03-07 Thread Leopold Toetsch
Alberto Manuel Brandao Simoes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ok, this might be useless, but maybe you like to know: > All tests successful, 1 test and 64 subtests skipped. Good news and feedback is never useless. Thanks, leo

Re: Current MSWin32 (WinXP, VC++ 7.1) Test Results

2005-03-07 Thread Leopold Toetsch
Ron Blaschke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Here are the current test results on my WinXP, VC++ 7.1 box. [ dynclasses failing ] > Ron > PS: Should I keep posting them from time to time, or are they of no > interest to anyone? Yes please / no. It shows current state and can serve as a reminder to