Re: Some feedbacks from Lua experience

2007-10-03 Thread chromatic
On Wednesday 03 October 2007 12:55:54 François PERRAD wrote: > 3) garbage collection > How write code without GC problems ? > How track down and fix GC problems ? I'm happy to help, but I have difficulty running Lua programs from the command line. I notice that the test harness chdirs out of la

Some feedbacks from Lua experience

2007-10-03 Thread François PERRAD
I try to summarize all my feedback after this work. I hope give you some subjects for next parrot sketches. I) ISSUES 1) Closure & lexical scoping rules This is the biggest issue versus Lua specifications. The TODO test in languages/lua/t/closure.t (line 73) shows it (see also http://www.lua.o

Re: [svn:parrot] r21807 - in branches/reconfigure: . t/configure

2007-10-03 Thread chromatic
On Wednesday 03 October 2007 22:12:36 jerry gay wrote: > hrmm. now that you mention it, i believe autoflush is on by default in > perls since 5.6.1, and since we require a minimum of 5.8.0 for parrot, > i believe that requirement renders this test moot. It *shouldn't* be on by default in any vers

Re: [svn:parrot] r21807 - in branches/reconfigure: . t/configure

2007-10-03 Thread jerry gay
On 10/3/07, chromatic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wednesday 03 October 2007 20:06:01 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > +$| = 1; > > +is($|, 1, "output autoflush is set"); > > I keep seeing this code, and I'm not sure why it's there. Why do you need to > enable autoflush in the tests? You're not

Re: [svn:parrot] r21807 - in branches/reconfigure: . t/configure

2007-10-03 Thread chromatic
On Wednesday 03 October 2007 20:06:01 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > +$| = 1; > +is($|, 1, "output autoflush is set"); I keep seeing this code, and I'm not sure why it's there. Why do you need to enable autoflush in the tests? You're not printing anything (Test::Builder uses very different fileha

PGE::P6Regex and pdd15oo

2007-10-03 Thread Patrick R. Michaud
Slowly PGE and PGE::Perl6Regex are being updated to work with pdd15oo. Several existing tools and languages in the repo still make use of PGE::P6Regex, which uses the regex syntax that was in Synopsis 5 prior to February 2007. Rather than spend the time converting the P6Regex to work with pdd15

Re: [perl #46007] [CAGE] licensing cleanup

2007-10-03 Thread Allison Randal
Bernhard Schmalhofer via RT wrote: languages/m4/README:15 What is the legal situation for Parrot m4? Personally I would like to put 'languages/m4' under Artistic 2.0. But I'm not sure whether this isn't a derived work. I implemented Parrot m4 by: i. Looking at the GNU m4 source code ii.

Re: [svn:parrot] r21796 - branches/unified_testing

2007-10-03 Thread chromatic
On Wednesday 03 October 2007 10:26:14 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Author: colink > Date: Wed Oct 3 10:26:13 2007 > New Revision: 21796 > > Modified: >branches/unified_testing/BRANCH_TODO > > Log: > [unified testing] > Update BRANCH_TODO, moving coding standard items down (and maybe removed > l

Re: wrapping up the OO implementation

2007-10-03 Thread Jerome Quelin
On 07/10/02 19:05 -0700, Allison Randal wrote: > Jerome Quelin wrote: >> other question: which directory has the higher priority for you? > > They all need to be fixed before we roll the branch back into the trunk, so > they're all equally important. committed some find_type removals: r21771, r21

Re: [perl #46007] [CAGE] licensing cleanup

2007-10-03 Thread Bernhard Schmalhofer
Allison Randal (via RT) schrieb: Review these languages and decide whether to update the license or move them to the google-code repository for Parrot languages: languages/m4/README:15 What is the legal situation for Parrot m4? Personally I would like to put 'languages/m4' under Artisti

[perl #46007] [CAGE] licensing cleanup

2007-10-03 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by Allison Randal # Please include the string: [perl #46007] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=46007 > Parrot is no longer licensed under the GPL directly (though it is available under the

[perl #45935] [TODO][IMCC] syntax for assignment/creating objects

2007-10-03 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by Klaas-Jan Stol # Please include the string: [perl #45935] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=45935 > hi, a code snippet like this: the_value = new 'Type' the_value = 42 is in my eyes n