Re: [perl #24683] [PATCH] P6C update concat and bitwise operators

2003-12-20 Thread Piers Cawley
Allison Randal [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Leo wrote: I've added two test files, bitwise.t and concat.t, which go in t/op/ (the op/ directory doesn't exist yet) Missing? The directory needs to be added. We're gradually moving our way toward the test hierarchy planned on p6d: p6d?

spam leakage

2003-12-20 Thread Robert Spier
apologies for the recent spam leakage.. it looks like I need to do my bi-monthly tuning. I'll try and get to it as soon as I can. -R

Re: [perl #24683] [PATCH] P6C update concat and bitwise operators

2003-12-20 Thread Leopold Toetsch
Allison Randal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Leo wrote: I've added two test files, bitwise.t and concat.t, which go in t/op/ (the op/ directory doesn't exist yet) Missing? The directory needs to be added. We're gradually moving our way toward the test hierarchy planned on p6d: t/var t/op

Re: [perl #24682] [BUG] parrot compile fails on MacOS 10.3.1 - possibly dynaloading patch?

2003-12-20 Thread Leopold Toetsch
Jeff Clites [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The issue turns out to be that SIGFPE isn't raised on Mac OS X on divide by zero. If I hack src/core_ops.c to explicitly raise(SIGFPE) in the case of zero divisor then the tests pass, so the exception handling code seems to be working correctly. Ah, good

Re: [perl #24701] [PATCH] Build core_ops.c etc in ops dir instead of src

2003-12-20 Thread Leopold Toetsch
JüRgen BöMmels [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: the *.ops files are lying in the ops/ directory, but the generated c-files go to the src/ directory. This is completly different from classes/, imcc/ etc. where the generated c-files go to the same directory. Is this difference intentional? Sounds

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2003-12-20 Thread Seymour Medeiros
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Re: [perl #24682] [BUG] parrot compile fails on MacOS 10.3.1 - possibly dynaloading patch?

2003-12-20 Thread Jeff Clites
On Dec 20, 2003, at 1:54 AM, Leopold Toetsch wrote: Jeff Clites [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The issue turns out to be that SIGFPE isn't raised on Mac OS X on divide by zero. If I hack src/core_ops.c to explicitly raise(SIGFPE) in the case of zero divisor then the tests pass, so the exception

Re: [perl #24683] [PATCH] P6C update concat and bitwise operators

2003-12-20 Thread Allison Randal
Piers wrote: p6d? The perl6-documentation list. Started around Nov. 2002, it had about 3 months of heavy traffic and not much since. But, we did get a good plan for the direction of p6 testing out of it. Allison

Re: [perl #24683] [PATCH] P6C update concat and bitwise operators

2003-12-20 Thread Allison Randal
Leo wrote: I had a short look at the subdir hierarchy, looks good. Excellent. (perl6:run_tests, Makefile, and t/harness have to learn how to deal with differently deep nested test files though). Yeah, that's on my Todo list. Hmmm... I should probably add the list to the repository. If

Re: but true

2003-12-20 Thread Jonathan Lang
Larry Wall wrote: Maybe there's an intermediate syntactic form like: $x but subclass MyClass does FooBar[bar] { } IMHO, Cbut should be defined as generating a singleton class that derives from the variable's class and composes a specified role - but not neccessarily a Ipre-existing role.

Re: Object Order of Precedence (Was: Vocabulary)

2003-12-20 Thread Larry Wall
On Sat, Dec 20, 2003 at 12:41:10PM -0800, Jonathan Lang wrote: : So what happens if more than one of the candidates is tagged as the : default? The same thing as if none of them was? This could happen if : both Predator and Pet have declared their 'feed' methods as the default. Could blow up,

Re: but true

2003-12-20 Thread Simon Cozens
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Larry Wall) writes: is classof($x) Ouch. $x's class isn't a property or trait of it? class AnonClass is classof($x) does FooBar { }.bless($x, foobar = bar) I don't understand what the bit at the end is doing. This is calling .bless on the overriden method? And I'm not

[ANNOUNCE] Test::Benchmark 0.002

2003-12-20 Thread Fergal Daly
Main changes added is_fastest() comparison was broken (but not completely broken so it still passed the tests) available soon on CPAN and now on http://www.fergaldaly.com/computer/Test-Benchmark/ F

Unreading characters from input streams

2003-12-20 Thread Cory Spencer
Is it possible to unread characters from an input stream in Parrot? (ie. if I do a read char, 1, decide later than I don't want the character so I push it back on the stream) Failing that, is it possible to peek ahead at a character without necessarily taking it off the stream?

dispatching (was: Object Order of Precedence)

2003-12-20 Thread Jonathan Lang
Larry Wall wrote: Jonathan Lang wrote: : Arguably, the role's might be required to declare their methods : multi if they want to participate in this, but that's one of those : things that feel like they ought to be declared by the user rather : than the definer. On the other hand, maybe

Re: dispatching (was: Object Order of Precedence)

2003-12-20 Thread Larry Wall
On Sat, Dec 20, 2003 at 03:12:53PM -0800, Jonathan Lang wrote: : Naming in what way? As a descriptive term for discussing them in general, : or naming individual collections for reference purposes in the code? I meant naming primarily as in how you select a particular group of them. They don't

trait declarations (was: Object Order of Precedence)

2003-12-20 Thread Jonathan Lang
Larry Wall wrote: Jonathan Lang wrote: : It also occurs to me that traits can be thought of : as adjectives (thus the is trait vs. is a class distinction) - : another way to attach an adjective to a noun in English is to prepend : it to the noun: : : my Dog $Spot is red; : my black

junctive classes (was: Object Order of Precedence)

2003-12-20 Thread Jonathan Lang
Larry Wall wrote: Jonathan Lang wrote: : In a similar vein, what about making a disjunction of classes in an : Cis or Cisa clause synonymous with a sequence of appropriate : clauses? Ditto with traits and Cis, roles and Cdoes, attributes : and Chas, etc.; thus: : : class DangerousPet

Re: dispatching (was: Object Order of Precedence)

2003-12-20 Thread Larry Wall
On Sat, Dec 20, 2003 at 03:21:10PM -0800, Larry Wall wrote: : On Sat, Dec 20, 2003 at 03:12:53PM -0800, Jonathan Lang wrote: : : Why not do it the same way that namespace scoping collisions are resolved: : : the local scope trumps the caller's scope. Rinse, lather, repeat. Actually, I didn't

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Re: [perl] Re: Object Order of Precedence (Was: Vocabulary)

2003-12-20 Thread Joe Gottman
- Original Message - From: Jonathan Lang [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, December 20, 2003 3:41 PM Subject: [perl] Re: Object Order of Precedence (Was: Vocabulary) Larry Wall wrote: If DangerousPet doesn't define a feed method at all, then we might dispatch

Re: [perl] Re: Object Order of Precedence (Was: Vocabulary)

2003-12-20 Thread Luke Palmer
Joe Gottman writes: - Original Message - From: Jonathan Lang [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, December 20, 2003 3:41 PM Subject: [perl] Re: Object Order of Precedence (Was: Vocabulary) Larry Wall wrote: If DangerousPet doesn't define a feed method at

Re: [perl] Re: Object Order of Precedence (Was: Vocabulary)

2003-12-20 Thread Rod Adams
Luke Palmer wrote: Joe Gottman writes: - Original Message - From: Jonathan Lang [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, December 20, 2003 3:41 PM Subject: [perl] Re: Object Order of Precedence (Was: Vocabulary) Larry Wall wrote: If DangerousPet doesn't define a feed