Re: New Parrot mailing list

2008-09-18 Thread James E Keenan
Allison Randal wrote: The new Parrot mailing list (replacing perl6-internals/parrot-porters) is <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. If you were subscribed to the old list, you're now subscribed to the new list. If you were a digest subscriber to the old list, you're now a digest subscriber to the new list.

Re: [svn:parrot] r31230 - in trunk: compilers/imcc src src/pmc

2008-09-18 Thread chromatic
On Thursday 18 September 2008 12:03:19 NotFound wrote: > On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 8:14 PM, chromatic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The comment helps, but defining these magic numbers as magic constants > > might be even clearer (but please keep the comment). > I think that setting a constant is

Re: [svn:parrot] r31049 - in trunk: include/parrot languages/perl6/src/builtins languages/perl6/src/parser languages/perl6/t

2008-09-18 Thread Geoffrey Broadwell
On Thu, 2008-09-18 at 10:28 -0700, jerry gay wrote: > On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 10:21 AM, Patrick R. Michaud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 09:06:44AM -0700, jerry gay wrote: > >> what some refer to as "traits", perl 6 calls "roles". The Perl 6 name is a better, more natur

Re: [perl #51262] [BUG] Segfault in pdump

2008-09-18 Thread NotFound
Changed in r31328: now string DATA use string_escape_string and delimit with double quotes, avoiding the need to a special case for empty strings and giving less problematic results with non ascii encodings and control characters. -- Salu2

Re: [svn:parrot] r31230 - in trunk: compilers/imcc src src/pmc

2008-09-18 Thread NotFound
On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 8:14 PM, chromatic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> -char* buf = mem_allocate_n_typed(5*n+1, char *); >> +/* Assumptions: >> + * Flags has no more than 3 hex digits >> + * Plus 0x and , gives 6 char for arg >> + * 4 more for: "( , )", and >> +

Re: [svn:parrot] r31230 - in trunk: compilers/imcc src src/pmc

2008-09-18 Thread chromatic
On Thursday 18 September 2008 08:42:46 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Author: julianalbo > Date: Thu Sep 18 08:42:43 2008 > New Revision: 31230 > > Modified: >trunk/compilers/imcc/pcc.c > > Log: > miscellaneous fixes > > Modified: trunk/compilers/imcc/pcc.c > ==

Re: [perl #58726] [PATCH] add the option "encoding" to Configure.pl

2008-09-18 Thread NotFound
>> Can you explain a bit more about the rationale for adding this option to >> Configure.pl? >> > I think I is necessary to tell parrot to work on a computer with utf-8 > encoding > also with the same encoding, so that for example the following PASM-code > works: > > set S0, "Ö123\n" That code i

Re: New Parrot mailing list

2008-09-18 Thread Patrick R. Michaud
On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 11:00:31AM +0200, Allison Randal wrote: > We'll likely end up with messages scattered between both lists for a > little while, but the perl6-internals/parrot-porters addresses are > deprecated and will be disabled after a sensible deprecation cycle (and > after the automa

Re: [svn:parrot] r31049 - in trunk: include/parrot languages/perl6/src/builtins languages/perl6/src/parser languages/perl6/t

2008-09-18 Thread jerry gay
On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 10:21 AM, Patrick R. Michaud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 09:06:44AM -0700, jerry gay wrote: >> On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 8:37 AM, Geoffrey Broadwell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> wrote: >> > On Thu, 2008-09-18 at 07:34 -0500, Patrick R. Michaud wrote: >> >>

Re: [svn:parrot] r31049 - in trunk: include/parrot languages/perl6/src/builtins languages/perl6/src/parser languages/perl6/t

2008-09-18 Thread Patrick R. Michaud
On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 09:06:44AM -0700, jerry gay wrote: > On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 8:37 AM, Geoffrey Broadwell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thu, 2008-09-18 at 07:34 -0500, Patrick R. Michaud wrote: > >> > "Aggregating coroutine" and "aggregating yield" aren't nearly as zippy > >> > as 'gathe

Re: [svn:parrot] r31049 - in trunk: include/parrot languages/perl6/src/builtins languages/perl6/src/parser languages/perl6/t

2008-09-18 Thread jerry gay
On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 8:37 AM, Geoffrey Broadwell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 2008-09-18 at 07:34 -0500, Patrick R. Michaud wrote: >> > "Aggregating coroutine" and "aggregating yield" aren't nearly as zippy >> > as 'gather' and 'take', but they're more meaningful to a broader >> > audien

Re: [perl #58866] calling a PIR sub with 206 params segfaults parrot

2008-09-18 Thread NotFound
I changed the fix in r31230 to allocate char instead of char *, adjusted the formula for buffer size and added a comment explaining it to lower the level of black magic, and added a check for each item, dropping the XXX comment that asked for it. I hope this is enough understanding of the error ;)

Re: [svn:parrot] r31049 - in trunk: include/parrot languages/perl6/src/builtins languages/perl6/src/parser languages/perl6/t

2008-09-18 Thread Geoffrey Broadwell
On Thu, 2008-09-18 at 07:34 -0500, Patrick R. Michaud wrote: > > "Aggregating coroutine" and "aggregating yield" aren't nearly as zippy > > as 'gather' and 'take', but they're more meaningful to a broader > > audience, which may help the feature spread. I don't buy this. The Perl 6 terms are

Re: [perl #59006] stringifying Floats into PIR literals loses (a lot of) precision

2008-09-18 Thread Will Coleda
On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 9:13 AM, Patrick R. Michaud (via RT) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > # New Ticket Created by Patrick R. Michaud > # Please include the string: [perl #59006] > # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. > # http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?i

Re: throw oddities in pdd23

2008-09-18 Thread Stephen Weeks
Not long ago, Allison Randal proclaimed... > Stephen Weeks wrote: > > > >This has now been committed to trunk. I'm pretty sure that I updated > >every exception handler in the tree. > > Apologies if my comments on this thread and update to the exceptions PDD > weren't clear. The resume continua

[perl #59006] stringifying Floats into PIR literals loses (a lot of) precision

2008-09-18 Thread Patrick R. Michaud (via RT)
# New Ticket Created by Patrick R. Michaud # Please include the string: [perl #59006] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=59006 > When generating PIR output (e.g., from the compiler tools), we often need to conve

Re: [svn:parrot] r31049 - in trunk: include/parrot languages/perl6/src/builtins languages/perl6/src/parser languages/perl6/t

2008-09-18 Thread Patrick R. Michaud
On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 09:23:50AM +0200, Allison Randal wrote: >> >> What's the language-agnostic term for this, then? > > Well, 'gather' is basically a clever use of a coroutine, and 'take' is > basically a 'yield'. But, what's unique about the construct is that it > aggregates the results. S

[perl #45909] [TODO] Replace quadratic search with something linear in find_exception_handler()

2008-09-18 Thread Christoph Otto via RT
On Mon Oct 01 10:40:33 2007, pcoch wrote: > In src/exceptions.c there is the todo comment: [TODO: replace > quadratic search with something linear, hopefully without trashing > abstraction layers I can't find this comment any more, nor any occurrence of this ticket's number. I'll do some digging

New Parrot mailing list

2008-09-18 Thread Allison Randal
The new Parrot mailing list (replacing perl6-internals/parrot-porters) is <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. If you were subscribed to the old list, you're now subscribed to the new list. If you were a digest subscriber to the old list, you're now a digest subscriber to the new list. More information about

[svn:parrot-pdd] r31223 - in trunk: compilers/bcg/t compilers/pct/src/PAST compilers/pct/src/PCT docs docs/pdds languages/APL/src/parser languages/WMLScript languages/WMLScript/src languages/dotnet/bu

2008-09-18 Thread tene
Author: tene Date: Thu Sep 18 01:47:46 2008 New Revision: 31223 Modified: trunk/docs/pdds/pdd19_pir.pod trunk/docs/pdds/pdd23_exceptions.pod Changes in other areas also in this revision: Modified: trunk/compilers/bcg/t/BCG.t trunk/compilers/pct/src/PAST/Compiler.pir trunk/compilers

Re: Parrot 0.7.1 "Manu Aloha" released

2008-09-18 Thread Reini Urban
2008/9/17 Patrick R. Michaud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 08:08:47PM +0200, Reini Urban wrote: >> http://www.parrotcode.org/release/devel still points to 0.7.0 > > I sent the appropriate patch to the webmaster, but it hasn't > been applied yet (and I lack a commit bit for the parr

[perl #58988] [RFC] Parrot_get_runtime_prefix function

2008-09-18 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by NotFound # Please include the string: [perl #58988] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=58988 > The Parrot_get_runtime_prefix in src/library.c return a char *, forcing the places that curr

[svn:parrot-pdd] r31218 - in trunk: compilers/bcg/t compilers/pct/src/PAST compilers/pct/src/PCT docs/pdds languages/APL/src/parser languages/WMLScript languages/WMLScript/src languages/dotnet/build l

2008-09-18 Thread tene
Author: tene Date: Wed Sep 17 20:34:19 2008 New Revision: 31218 Modified: trunk/docs/pdds/pdd19_pir.pod trunk/docs/pdds/pdd23_exceptions.pod Changes in other areas also in this revision: Modified: trunk/compilers/bcg/t/BCG.t trunk/compilers/pct/src/PAST/Compiler.pir trunk/compilers

Re: throw oddities in pdd23

2008-09-18 Thread Allison Randal
Stephen Weeks wrote: This has now been committed to trunk. I'm pretty sure that I updated every exception handler in the tree. Apologies if my comments on this thread and update to the exceptions PDD weren't clear. The resume continuation should continue to live within the exception object

[perl #58866] calling a PIR sub with 206 params segfaults parrot

2008-09-18 Thread Christoph Otto via RT
On Wed Sep 17 08:31:26 2008, particle wrote: > On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 11:45 PM, Christoph Otto via RT > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue Sep 16 15:00:24 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> On Tuesday 16 September 2008 14:47:58 NotFound wrote: > >> > >> > > It certainly shouldn't segfault. But

Re: throw oddities in pdd23

2008-09-18 Thread Stephen Weeks
Not long ago, Stephen Weeks proclaimed... > Not long ago, Patrick R. Michaud proclaimed... > > Personally I like the idea that "any PMC can be thrown as an > > exception", which would seem to argue against forcing resume > > continuations into the thrown PMC (which might not have a slot > > for the

[perl #54110] [BUG] segfault in infix/n_infix with string arguments

2008-09-18 Thread Christoph Otto via RT
On Tue Sep 09 15:06:38 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Patrick R. Michaud wrote: > > > > Just for clarification: IIUC, the n_* opcodes and their semantics > > aren't really "going away" -- they're simply being renamed to not > > have the leading "n_" prefix. It's the existing "add", "sub", >

[perl #41291] [RFC] Can't use null PMC with :multi sub

2008-09-18 Thread Christoph Otto via RT
On Thu Jan 18 14:14:30 2007, mdiep wrote: > On Thu Jan 18 13:52:33 2007, leo wrote: > > While that was never actually specced, I do consider a NULL PMC as > > something > > like a null pointer in C. Any access (except testing for NULL-ness) > to > > it is > > an error. Above example tests, that som

[perl #58982] Bug -- make per6 unexpected dot

2008-09-18 Thread Kamil Ku�aga
# New Ticket Created by "Kamil Kułaga" # Please include the string: [perl #58982] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=58982 > $ make perl6 make -C compilers/pct make[1]: Wejście do katalogu `/usr/local/src/parr

Re: [svn:parrot] r31049 - in trunk: include/parrot languages/perl6/src/builtins languages/perl6/src/parser languages/perl6/t

2008-09-18 Thread Allison Randal
Patrick R. Michaud wrote: What's the language-agnostic term for this, then? Well, 'gather' is basically a clever use of a coroutine, and 'take' is basically a 'yield'. But, what's unique about the construct is that it aggregates the results. So, 'gather' is an "aggregating coroutine" and 't