Re: NCI 'v' vs '' in function parameter signatures

2006-02-14 Thread Leopold Toetsch
Tim Bunce wrote: What's the difference between 'v' and '' for NCI function parameters? There isn't any, except the extra 'v' char. I ask because both 'fv' and 'f' are in src/call_list.txt Yeah. In fact there are several 'duplicated' signatures: [ ... ] I'd say, we should drop all the '

Re: NCI 'v' vs '' in function parameter signatures

2006-02-14 Thread Tim Bunce
On Tue, Feb 14, 2006 at 02:48:41PM +0100, Leopold Toetsch wrote: > Tim Bunce wrote: > >What's the difference between 'v' and '' for NCI function parameters? > > There isn't any, except the extra 'v' char. > > >I ask because both 'fv' and 'f' are in src/call_list.txt > > Yeah. > > >In fact there

Re: NCI 'v' vs '' in function parameter signatures

2006-02-14 Thread chromatic
On Tuesday 14 February 2006 05:48, Leopold Toetsch wrote: > I'd say, we should drop all the '?v' variants. The extra 'v' doesn't > cover any information, it's just causing an init call to the argument > passing code. To avoid confusion, I suggest requiring that functions returning void always us

Re: NCI 'v' vs '' in function parameter signatures

2006-02-14 Thread Leopold Toetsch
On Feb 14, 2006, at 18:29, Tim Bunce wrote: I'll aim to work up a patch this week. Great, thanks. The runtime dlfunc code will need to be altered to normalize away the trailing v so old code won't break. Should it warn about that? Yes, a warning please. Tim. leo

Re: NCI 'v' vs '' in function parameter signatures

2006-02-14 Thread Leopold Toetsch
On Feb 14, 2006, at 21:45, chromatic wrote: To avoid confusion, I suggest requiring that functions returning void always use 'v' and disallowing the signature ''. Exactly my thoughts too. leo

This week's summary. Part 1

2006-02-14 Thread The Perl 6 Summarizer
The Perl 6 summary for the week ending 2006-02-12 Welcome to part one of this week's summary. Owning to chronic problems with deadlines I've only got time to summarize perl6-compiler and perl6-internals tonight; I'll do perl6-language when I get back from $paying_job on Thursday nig

[perl #38549] pod check test checks wrong files

2006-02-14 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by Will Coleda # Please include the string: [perl #38549] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # https://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=38549 > t/doc/pod.t currently: 1) starts checking from the current directory. It should start