Re: I need `dir` help

2018-05-10 Thread jerry gay
i'm afraid you didn't read the docs very closely... Returns the contents of a directory as a lazy list of IO::Path objects stringifying an IO::Path object gives you a large string. the examples in the docs take up more room than the description of the routine. here's the first: Examples: > #

Re: need <-[x]> help

2018-05-03 Thread jerry gay
you want a negative lookahead assertion, which are described (with an example) at https://docs.perl6.org/language/regexes#Lookahead_Assertions On Thu, May 3, 2018 at 3:10 AM, Todd Chester wrote: > Hi All, > > What I am trying to do is to replace a quote `"` > with

Re: s:g/T/U/ doesn't work ?

2012-10-24 Thread jerry gay
On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 5:35 AM, Marc Chantreux kha...@phear.org wrote: Cannot assign to a non-container in sub infix:= at src/gen/CORE.setting:11692 in block at /tmp/ZZZ:4 you're attempting to modify a string constant, which cannot be modified. try something like (untested):

Re: How are unrecognized options to built-in pod block types treated?

2010-08-04 Thread jerry gay
On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 15:56, Damian Conway dam...@conway.org wrote: Carl proposed: The other path that seems reasonable to me would be to use the same naming scheme as for the block types, i.e. reserve all-upper and all-lower forms (and die if an unrecognized one of this form is

Re: Radix (base) conversion

2010-07-23 Thread jerry gay
On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 05:17, Jan Ingvoldstad frett...@gmail.com wrote: Hi. I was fiddling about with a small example of how nice radix adverbials are for conversion: my $x = 6*9; say :13($x); rakudo: 69 ($x = 54 in base 10, but 54 in base 13 is 69 in base 10.) Strangely enough, I

Re: Radix (base) conversion

2010-07-23 Thread jerry gay
On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 07:45, Mark J. Reed markjr...@gmail.com wrote: No, 42/13 is 42 over 13, which is 3 + 3/13.  Let's not confuse fractions and bases, please. ha! yet another case of crossed wires too early in the morning. sorry for the confusion, i've been making similar apologies all

Re: Command-line args (weekly contribution to P6)

2010-05-26 Thread jerry gay
On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 00:53, Moritz Lenz mor...@faui2k3.org wrote: The spec doesn't elaborate on how the short args are specified in the signature of MAIN. I see two possible approaches (that don't contradict): 1) one renames them in the signature, so it would like sub MAIN(:name(:$n))

Re: r29129 - docs/Perl6/Spec

2009-11-19 Thread jerry gay
On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 08:17, Thom Boyer t...@boyers.org wrote: I'm curious about the change from blorst to blast. I quickly figured out that blorst was derived from BLock OR STatement (as S04 used to say: In fact, most of these phasers will take either a block or a statement (known as a

Re: S26 - The Next Generation

2009-08-19 Thread jerry gay
On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 11:03, Kyle Hasselbacherkyl...@gmail.com wrote: Perl 5 programmers are sometimes surprised to find that 'perl -c strange.pl' can execute code.  Imagine their surprise to find that 'perl6doc' does too. this is why it's spelled 'perl6 --doc', which should give you some

Re: Embedded comments: two proposed solutions to the comment-whole-lines problem

2009-08-11 Thread jerry gay
for the latest spec changes regarding this item, see http://perlcabal.org/svn/pugs/revision/?rev=27959. is everyone equally miserable now? ;) ~jerry

Re: [perl #65006] mingw32-make realclean doesn't clean everything

2009-04-27 Thread jerry gay
On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 08:02, Patrick R. Michaud pmich...@pobox.com wrote: On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 07:04:28AM -0700, webmas...@cosmicperl.com via RT wrote: Infinoid helped me track the problem down to * being escaped on some of the directories for the cleanup. So things like:-

Re: %ARGH

2009-04-19 Thread jerry gay
On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 18:57, Timothy S. Nelson wayl...@wayland.id.au wrote:        Hi all.  Can we change %*OPTS to %*ARGH ?  By analogy with @ARGS, but a hash of args?  I've always used that, and kind of like the amusement factor :). cute, but please, no. %*OPTS is descriptive and

Re: Logo considerations

2009-03-23 Thread jerry gay
On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 09:22, Richard Hainsworth rich...@rusrating.ru wrote: Hats off to the designer of the gimel symbol - the associations with anarchy are probably right for perl6. But to be honest, a letter didnt quite inspire me. Since, I dont want to criticize without providing other

Re: r25745 - docs/Perl6/Spec

2009-03-09 Thread jerry gay
On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 10:16, Patrick R. Michaud pmich...@pobox.com wrote: On Sun, Mar 08, 2009 at 09:43:17AM +0100, pugs-comm...@feather.perl6.nl wrote: =item * ws Match whitespace between tokens. =item * space Match a single whitespace character. Hence C ws is equivalent to C space+

Re: Google's Summer of Code 2009

2009-03-01 Thread jerry gay
On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 17:26, Hinrik Örn Sigurðsson hinrik@gmail.com wrote: Google has announced this year's Summer of Code[1]. The Perl Foundation accepted one project (mentored by Moritz) related to Perl 6 last year[2]. I was wondering if there are any developers interested in mentoring

Re: Rakudo Perl development release #14 (Vienna)

2009-02-26 Thread jerry gay
On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 22:04, Patrick R. Michaud pmich...@pobox.com wrote: On behalf of the Rakudo development team, I'm pleased to announce the February 2009 development release of Rakudo Perl #14 Vienna. Rakudo is an implementation of Perl 6 on the Parrot Virtual Machine [1]. The tarball

Re: How do the test suites differ?

2009-02-21 Thread jerry gay
On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 12:13, Andy Lester a...@petdance.com wrote: Rakudo has a test suite. It also pulls in the spec test suite. If I work on some tests (as one might expect), where should I put them? What are the criteria for what goes where? if you're testing the innermost internals of

Re: Question about testing perl6, rakudo or pugs online

2009-02-13 Thread jerry gay
On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 06:37, dev.null.box dev.null@gmail.com wrote: Hi... I´m used to test oneliners on the perl6 irc channel when i´m at home... But, at work, latetly i´m having lots of free time (this week has been sooo boring). But, i have irc blocked at my office (and yes, i´ve

Re: [perl #39714] [TODO] Refactor IMCC to remove static globals

2009-02-12 Thread jerry gay
On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 15:53, Will Coleda w...@coleda.com wrote: On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 6:09 PM, kjstol parrotc...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 9:22 PM, Will Coleda via RT parrotbug-follo...@parrotcode.org wrote: On Tue Jul 04 19:30:44 2006, autri...@gmail.com wrote: IMCC

Re: [perl #36330] [TODO] Create a BigNum PMC

2009-02-05 Thread jerry gay
On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 08:26, Andrew Whitworth via RT parrotbug-follo...@parrotcode.org wrote: 1) Are we going to be relying on libraries to handle our BigInt/BigNum implementations, or are we intending to roll our own? we can't rely on external libraries, whether for bignum, unicode, gc, or

Re: [perl #36330] [TODO] Create a BigNum PMC

2009-02-05 Thread jerry gay
On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 08:45, Andrew Whitworth via RT parrotbug-follo...@parrotcode.org wrote: On Thu Feb 05 08:40:47 2009, particle wrote: On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 08:26, Andrew Whitworth via RT parrotbug-follo...@parrotcode.org wrote: 1) Are we going to be relying on libraries to handle our

Re: [perl #37993] [BUG] optimized parrot behaves differently than non-optimized (win32-msvc)

2009-02-05 Thread jerry gay
On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 10:44, Reini Urban via RT parrotbug-follo...@parrotcode.org wrote: On Thu Jan 29 06:05:13 2009, Whiteknight wrote: On Wed Dec 24 05:39:54 2008, Whiteknight wrote: On Tue Dec 23 19:02:17 2008, jk...@verizon.net wrote: On Sat Jun 14 17:15:32 2008, jk...@verizon.net

Re: [perl #36330] [TODO] Create a BigNum PMC

2009-02-05 Thread jerry gay
On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 10:23, Will Coleda w...@coleda.com wrote: On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 1:12 PM, chromatic chroma...@wgz.org wrote: On Thursday 05 February 2009 08:57:18 jerry gay wrote: we will roll our own bignum, and give users the ability to use gmp or another external library

Re: [perl #62974] Signed-zero tests failing on Windows XP

2009-02-01 Thread jerry gay
On Sun, Feb 1, 2009 at 13:07, Will Coleda w...@coleda.com wrote: On Sun, Feb 1, 2009 at 12:29 PM, via RT Alan Rocker parrotbug-follo...@parrotcode.org wrote: # New Ticket Created by Alan Rocker # Please include the string: [perl #62974] # in the subject line of all future correspondence

Re: [perl #59790] t/stm/basic_mt.t #4 hangs on several platforms

2009-01-31 Thread jerry gay
On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 16:06, James Keenan via RT parrotbug-follo...@parrotcode.org wrote: The t/stm/*.t tests have gone away (when or whence I do not know), so I propose we close this ticket. Any objections? the STM subsystem has been removed. close the ticket, and all other STM-related

Re: Rakudo repository -- svn or git?

2009-01-27 Thread jerry gay
On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 08:18, Patrick R. Michaud pmich...@pobox.com wrote: I will be making a decision (and possibly starting the migration) tomorrow. If anyone has any strong opinions one way or another, please let them be known quickly. I'd also prefer that we not get into long discussions

Re: [svn:parrot] r36057 - in trunk: . config/auto config/auto/format config/gen/config_h include/parrot src t/compilers/imcc/syn t/op

2009-01-27 Thread jerry gay
On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 10:58, Nicholas Clark nw...@colon.colondot.net wrote: On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 10:24:46AM -0800, parti...@cvs.perl.org wrote: -gen_sprintf_call(tc, info, ch); -ts = cstr2pstr(tc); +/*

Re: RFD: Built-in testing

2009-01-23 Thread jerry gay
On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 12:37, Dave Whipp d...@dave.whipp.name wrote: I could also imagine writing code that reads from an Sqlite database, and imposes that info onto the test. Whatever mechanism is used, I think we need a language-defined mechanism to supply a stable unique identifier for each

Re: RFD: Built-in testing

2009-01-22 Thread jerry gay
On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 09:22, Moritz Lenz mor...@faui2k3.org wrote: Richard Hainsworth wrote: But it is interesting to think about the case where a user wants two different diagnostic test messages (to all the testing gurus out there: do you actually want such a feature?). It shouldn't be too

Re: RFD: Built-in testing

2009-01-21 Thread jerry gay
On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 13:44, Ovid publiustemp-perl6langua...@yahoo.com wrote: - Original Message From: Moritz Lenz mor...@faui2k3.org * the word 'is' is overloaded in Perl 6 * if we export subs is() and ok(), we clutter the namespace with subs with short names *

Re: A Logo design for Rakudo Perl 6

2009-01-16 Thread jerry gay
On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 07:46, Guy Hulbert gwhulb...@eol.ca wrote: On Fri, 2009-16-01 at 09:16 -0600, Patrick R. Michaud wrote: I agree fully about the need for a visual representation; as far as the name goes I'm hoping that people will think of Rakudo Perl in a manner to the way that we

Re: [perl #62116] no interpolation into string of array element

2009-01-09 Thread jerry gay
On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 02:31, via RT Richard Hainsworth perl6-bugs-follo...@perl.org wrote: # New Ticket Created by Richard Hainsworth # Please include the string: [perl #62116] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # URL:

Re: [perl #62116] no interpolation into string of array element

2009-01-09 Thread jerry gay
On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 08:26, Jonathan Scott Duff perlpi...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 9:49 AM, jerry gay jerry@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 02:31, via RT Richard Hainsworth perl6-bugs-follo...@perl.org wrote: # New Ticket Created by Richard Hainsworth # Please

Re: r24846 - docs/Perl6/Spec

2009-01-09 Thread jerry gay
On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 13:16, Eirik Berg Hanssen eirik-berg.hans...@allverden.no wrote: pugs-comm...@feather.perl6.nl writes: +C--prelude=Perl6-autoloop-no-print. Since eager matching is used, if you +need to pass something like: + ++foo -bar ++foo baz ++/foo ++/foo +you'll end up with

Re: r24846 - docs/Perl6/Spec

2009-01-09 Thread jerry gay
On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 14:26, Eirik Berg Hanssen eirik-berg.hans...@allverden.no wrote: jerry gay jerry@gmail.com writes: On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 13:16, Eirik Berg Hanssen eirik-berg.hans...@allverden.no wrote: That doesn't look very eager to me. it's eager for the match to close, which

Re: [perl #62010] [PATCH] fix PARROT_EXPORT visibility=default for gcc other than 4.x

2009-01-08 Thread jerry gay
On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 15:42, Mark Glines m...@glines.org wrote: donald.hun...@gmail.com wrote: I was pretty averse to adding an additional configure step myself. The problem is that warnings.pm checks specifically for supported compiler flags and I didn't want to include other things there.

Re: r24711 - docs/Perl6/Spec

2009-01-02 Thread jerry gay
On Thu, Jan 1, 2009 at 03:30, Darren Duncan dar...@darrenduncan.net wrote: pugs-comm...@feather.perl6.nl wrote: --name :name --name=value:namevalue --name=spacy value:name«'spacy value'» --name='spacy value':name«'spacy

Re: r24737 - docs/Perl6/Spec

2009-01-02 Thread jerry gay
On Fri, Jan 2, 2009 at 09:27, Geoffrey Broadwell ge...@broadwell.org wrote: On Fri, 2009-01-02 at 17:08 +0100, pugs-comm...@feather.perl6.nl wrote: +=head2 Synopsis + + multi sub perl6( +Bool :a($autosplit), +Bool :c($check-syntax), +Bool :$doc, +:e($execute), +

Re: r24737 - docs/Perl6/Spec

2009-01-02 Thread jerry gay
On Fri, Jan 2, 2009 at 11:24, Geoffrey Broadwell ge...@broadwell.org wrote: Thank you for the quick turnaround! On Fri, 2009-01-02 at 10:55 -0800, jerry gay wrote: On Fri, Jan 2, 2009 at 09:27, Geoffrey Broadwell ge...@broadwell.org wrote: It's also not obvious what a boolean named $doc

Re: 6PAN Spec question

2008-12-18 Thread jerry gay
On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 05:45, Mark Overmeer m...@overmeer.net wrote: * Daniel Ruoso (dan...@ruoso.com) [081218 13:39]: Em Qui, 2008-12-18 às 13:08 +1100, Timothy S. Nelson escreveu: My question is, what sort of information actually belongs in a final version of the 6PAN spec? I'm

Re: Perl6's RE(P)L

2008-12-18 Thread jerry gay
On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 11:51, Moritz Lenz mor...@faui2k3.org wrote: Since Perl 5 has no REPL, I'm not sure where such a spec would go. S20, maybe, since the debugger is the closest thing? or maybe S19, because it defines the console interface to the rest of the world. Or just pick a

Re: [perl #61440] Rakudo complains about the wrong thing when matching * ~~ 1

2008-12-18 Thread jerry gay
On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 12:36, via RT Carl Mäsak perl6-bugs-follo...@perl.org wrote: # New Ticket Created by Carl Mäsak # Please include the string: [perl #61440] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # URL: http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=61440

Re: [perl #57492] [CAGE] Explore possible speedups of t/configure/*.t tests

2008-11-23 Thread jerry gay
On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 13:26, James Keenan via RT [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon Sep 08 18:43:49 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue Aug 19 19:28:43 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A net total of 5 t/configure/*.t files were eliminated tonight as part of r30368 (RT 57780). And I've been

Re: [perl #60732] Hash indexes shouldn't work on array refs

2008-11-21 Thread jerry gay
On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 10:43, via RT Moritz Lenz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: # New Ticket Created by Moritz Lenz # Please include the string: [perl #60732] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # URL: http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=60732 From

Re: [perl #60624] [DEPRECATED] PARROT_API changes to PARROT_EXPORT

2008-11-18 Thread jerry gay
On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 05:16, Andrew Whitworth [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 9:50 PM, via RT Jerry Gay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: # New Ticket Created by Jerry Gay # Please include the string: [perl #60624] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about

Re: [perl #60566] Broken link to Debian packages

2008-11-16 Thread jerry gay
On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 23:37, via RT Matt Kraai [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: # New Ticket Created by Matt Kraai # Please include the string: [perl #60566] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # URL: http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=60566 Howdy,

Re: Numify

2008-11-06 Thread jerry gay
On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 23:22, Chris Dolan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In [perl #60350] [TODO] default __get_string method, Patrick added a default Object.Str() that classes can override to get custom stringification. Formerly, you could do that only by defining a method named __get_string().

Re: Why {{}} for regexp closures instead of just {}?

2008-10-27 Thread jerry gay
On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 10:45 PM, Chris Dolan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: S05 always uses single curlies for closures, but throughout Parrot, code seems to use double curlies in PGE regexps. Why is that? That is, why this: m/ foo {{ say found foo }} / and not this: m/ foo { say found foo }

Re: [perl #60098] [BUG] load_bytecode couldn't find file 'P6object.pbc'

2008-10-24 Thread jerry gay
On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 8:49 AM, via RT Canol Gökel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: # New Ticket Created by Canol Gökel # Please include the string: [perl #60098] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # URL: http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=60098

Parrot 0.8.0, Pareto Principle released

2008-10-24 Thread jerry gay
On behalf of the Parrot team, I'm proud to announce Parrot 0.8.0 Pareto Principle. Parrot (http://parrotcode.org/) is a virtual machine aimed at running all dynamic languages. Parrot 0.8.0 is available via CPAN, or follow the download instructions at http://parrotcode.org/source.html. For those

Re: Parrot 0.8.0, Pareto Principle released

2008-10-24 Thread jerry gay
/08, Elyse M. Grasso [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 24 October 2008, jerry gay wrote: On behalf of the Parrot team, I'm proud to announce Parrot 0.8.0 Pareto Principle. Parrot (http://parrotcode.org/) is a virtual machine aimed at running all dynamic languages. After an svn update

Re: [perl #60070] [BUG] make opsrenumber causes build to fail

2008-10-23 Thread jerry gay
On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 10:49 PM, Patrick R. Michaud (via RT) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: # New Ticket Created by Patrick R. Michaud # Please include the string: [perl #60070] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # URL:

Re: Fw: Running Perl 6 Tests

2008-10-20 Thread jerry gay
On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 8:55 AM, Ovid [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It would help if I sent this to the correct mailing list. Oops. Cheers, Ovid --- On Mon, 20/10/08, Ovid [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been doing some work integrating Perl 6 into vim and now I'm trying to figure out how to

Re: [perl #48549] [DEPRECATED] [PDD19] Let .namespace (no args) have empty brackets

2008-10-20 Thread jerry gay
On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 6:49 AM, jerry gay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 11:42 AM, Andrew Whitworth via RT [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed Jul 30 11:57:39 2008, coke wrote: PDD19 lists this as deprecated now, changing from an [RFC] to [DEPRECATED], re-opening from stalled

Re: [perl #59940] [patch] convert perl tests to parrot

2008-10-18 Thread jerry gay
On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 4:00 PM, Mark Grimes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The attached patch now includes the pir/pasm_error_output* tests in pir. I have also added t/pmc/complex.t. Couple of issues: 1) I am not sure how to deal with pcc_sub's so I put them into t/pmc/objects-pcc_sub.t 2) There

Re: [perl #48549] [DEPRECATED] [PDD19] Let .namespace (no args) have empty brackets

2008-10-16 Thread jerry gay
On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 11:42 AM, Andrew Whitworth via RT [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed Jul 30 11:57:39 2008, coke wrote: PDD19 lists this as deprecated now, changing from an [RFC] to [DEPRECATED], re-opening from stalled. The big hangup for this ticket is that various parts of PCT and the

Re: [perl #36249] [TODO] Document policy on breakage, er, backward compatibility.

2008-10-16 Thread jerry gay
On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 10:12 AM, Andrew Whitworth via RT [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat Jun 11 13:08:49 2005, chip wrote: Short version: Up through version 0.8 or so, we promise to break everything constantly (but not until we have a good reason). After that, we will establish version

Re: [svn:parrot] r31983 - trunk/languages/perl6/src/parser

2008-10-15 Thread jerry gay
On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 8:15 PM, Patrick R. Michaud [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 01:39:32PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -if $name { +my $name := $name; +if $name { [...] -PAST::Val.new( :value(~$name[0]) ) +

Re: [perl #59658] Build failure in src/pmc/float.c -- non-constant intiializer

2008-10-14 Thread jerry gay
On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 7:23 AM, Andy Dougherty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 11 Oct 2008, Allison Randal via RT wrote: jerry gay wrote: .\src\pmc\float.c(3340) : warning C4204: nonstandard extension used : non-constant aggregate initializer there are now hundreds

Re: [RFC][PATCH] Rename Rakudo's spectest_regression to spectest

2008-10-11 Thread jerry gay
On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 2:24 AM, Allison Randal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Moritz Lenz wrote: jerry gay wrote: A combined harness is much better in terms of reporting. Yes. a combined harness is much easier now that we require T::H 3. anybody with TH3-shaped tuits who could take a look

Re: [RFC][PATCH] Rename Rakudo's spectest_regression to spectest

2008-10-10 Thread jerry gay
On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 5:26 AM, Moritz Lenz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Many people who try out Rakudo want to inform us about hanging or failing make spectest - which is expected to fail until we implement all of Perl 6 that is currently tested. Therefore I'd like to rename

Re: [svn:parrot] r31791 - trunk/t/pmc

2008-10-08 Thread jerry gay
On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 1:59 PM, Nicholas Clark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Oct 08, 2008 at 01:48:17PM -0700, chromatic wrote: In general, filesystems are case-insensitive, not platforms. I believe Mac OS X's Hateful File System Plus is one offender, though you can use UFS instead.

Re: [perl #59658] Build failure in src/pmc/float.c -- non-constant intiializer

2008-10-07 Thread jerry gay
On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 12:00 PM, via RT Andy Dougherty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: # New Ticket Created by Andy Dougherty # Please include the string: [perl #59658] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # URL: http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=59658

Re: Practical Considerations

2008-10-06 Thread jerry gay
On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 5:49 AM, Elyse M. Grasso [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My company sells an application that links a bugtracking tool with an SCM tool so that, for example, the files changed for each bug are recorded in the bugtracking tool. It is currently written in (mostly)

Re: [svn:parrot] r31606 - in trunk/languages/perl6: . src/parser

2008-10-04 Thread jerry gay
On Sat, Oct 4, 2008 at 8:01 AM, Patrick R. Michaud [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Oct 03, 2008 at 07:22:28PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Log: [rakudo] implement 'package' package declarator Modified: trunk/languages/perl6/perl6.pir

Re: [perl #59374] [BUG] pmc2c produces incorrect code for RETURN(INTVAL -1)

2008-09-26 Thread jerry gay
On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 9:11 AM, Patrick R. Michaud (via RT) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: # New Ticket Created by Patrick R. Michaud # Please include the string: [perl #59374] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # URL:

Re: [svn:parrot] r31385 - trunk/docs/book

2008-09-24 Thread jerry gay
On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 4:31 PM, chromatic [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 24 September 2008 11:22:22 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Modified: trunk/docs/book/ch04_pir_subroutines.pod trunk/docs/book/ch09_hlls.pod Log: [Book] Add some basic info about VTables and HLL namespaces.

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 audience, which may

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: Aggregating

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

2008-09-17 Thread jerry gay
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, the question is: why does it segfault at 206 parameters?

Re: [perl #58742] [TODO] Marker for RTs re SmartLinks

2008-09-16 Thread jerry gay
On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 5:14 AM, James Keenan via RT [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue Sep 16 00:08:29 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 15 September 2008 20:06:11 James Keenan via RT wrote: See patch attached. The patch eliminates smartlink-related code from Parrot, but does not

Re: [perl #58934] [CAGE] 'make fulltest' says PASS at the end, although some tests failed

2008-09-16 Thread jerry gay
On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 12:27 PM, via RT Moritz Lenz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: # New Ticket Created by Moritz Lenz # Please include the string: [perl #58934] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # URL: http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=58934

Re: [perl #43857] [TODO] Refactor config probes that are used only by language implementation

2008-09-11 Thread jerry gay
On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 4:47 PM, James Keenan via RT [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to see if we can move this ticket toward resolution. I think that it has remained unresolved for so long because the original post originally called for two steps: (a) removal from Configure.pl of

Re: Why Some MMD Tests Fail

2008-09-08 Thread jerry gay
On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 1:09 AM, Allison Randal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: a) Do abstract base classes as currently implemented in Parrot serve any useful purpose? If not, eliminate them. can they be replaced by roles? ~jerry

Re: [perl #39117] [TODO] Using v?snprintf/strlcpy/strlcat when useful

2008-09-07 Thread jerry gay
On Sun, Sep 7, 2008 at 2:07 PM, Andy Dougherty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 6 Sep 2008, Christoph Otto via RT wrote: On Wed May 10 11:01:34 2006, stmpeters wrote: I'm taking a look at it. I should have something working this evening for the configs. Adding the HAS_BLAH's will take

Re: [perl #56382] [RFC] Making Test::Harness 3 available without including it in core parrot.

2008-09-07 Thread jerry gay
On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 7:17 AM, Will Coleda via RT [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu Jun 26 11:01:00 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: chromatic wrote: T::H 3 is only a requirement for people who want to type 'make smolder' (and eventually I hope 'make smoke'), so probing for it without

Re: [svn:parrot-pdd] r30569 - trunk/docs/pdds

2008-09-05 Thread jerry gay
On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 2:36 AM, Klaas-Jan Stol [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 12:43 PM, Allison Randal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Klaas-Jan Stol wrote: This must make the following syntax rule illegal: target = null because if null is declared as a .local, you can't know

Re: [perl #58610] [ PATCH ] Broken link on parrotcode.org dev page - list item Parrot Testing Status

2008-09-05 Thread jerry gay
On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 9:59 AM, via RT Ronald Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: # New Ticket Created by Ronald Schmidt # Please include the string: [perl #58610] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # URL: http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=58610

Re: My Parrot 0.7.0 patches (cygwin)

2008-08-26 Thread jerry gay
On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 2:34 AM, Reini Urban [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'll go now for something like #IF(key1|key2(key3!key4)) #IFNOT(key1|key2(key3!key4)) And probably a shortcut for the negative else clause, like #IF(cygwin): #ELSE: #+ and #- is lisp so I don't want to destroy #+ the

Re: 57548-CONDITIONED_LINE_enh

2008-08-26 Thread jerry gay
On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 9:16 AM, Reini Urban [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: jerry gay schrieb: On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 2:34 AM, Reini Urban [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'll go now for something like #IF(key1|key2(key3!key4)) #IFNOT(key1|key2(key3!key4)) I went for #UNLESS(expr): here. Also

Re: My Parrot 0.7.0 patches (cygwin)

2008-08-26 Thread jerry gay
On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 11:00 AM, Allison Randal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: jerry gay wrote: #+ and #- is lisp so I don't want to destroy #+ the syntax rules. #IF(): is quite short and easy to read. i know it was all caps before, but do we need to continue that trend? i find it ugly. All

Re: [perl #53976] [PATCH] Remove tools/dev/ops_renum.mak

2008-08-22 Thread jerry gay
On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 7:20 PM, Will Coleda [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Aug 16, 2008 at 11:39 PM, James Keenan via RT 4. Parrot::OpsRenumber::renum_op_map_file() has been revised so that it will behave properly before Parrot 1.0 -- when deletion of opcodes is still permitted -- and

Re: [CAGE] clean up stray test files

2008-08-20 Thread jerry gay
On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 2:32 PM, Allison Randal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Running 'make test' now fills the main directory of the repository with junk files like: test_98093.out test_37653.c test_98093.ldo test_97159.c The offending tests need to be modified to clean up

Re: Parrot 0.7.0 Severe Macaw - permissions

2008-08-19 Thread jerry gay
On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 1:13 PM, Jesse Vincent [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [List-CC changed] On Aug 19, 2008, at 4:10 PM, Reini Urban wrote: Bob Rogers schrieb: On behalf of the Parrot team, I'm proud to announce Parrot 0.7.0 Severe Macaw. Parrot (http://parrotcode.org/) is a virtual machine

Re: unified languages-test

2008-08-18 Thread jerry gay
On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 11:41 AM, Will Coleda [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 2:29 PM, Michael Peters [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Will Coleda wrote: The eventual goal of this cleanup is to get these tests running via smolder to give core developers more feedback on their

Re: unified languages-test

2008-08-18 Thread jerry gay
On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 11:51 AM, Will Coleda [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 2:50 PM, jerry gay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 11:41 AM, Will Coleda [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 2:29 PM, Michael Peters [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Will Coleda

Re: [perl #57942] [BUG] Smolder failure [linelength, compilers/pirc]

2008-08-15 Thread jerry gay
On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 9:39 AM, Bob Rogers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Geoffrey Broadwell [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2008 09:07:46 -0700 . . . It seems then that we have two remaining options: 1. Don't run codingstd as part of smolder. 2. Differentiate a

Re: [perl #53976] [PATCH] Remove tools/dev/ops_renum.mak

2008-08-10 Thread jerry gay
On Sat, Aug 9, 2008 at 3:50 PM, James Keenan via RT [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat Aug 09 10:31:37 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 09 August 2008 06:33:46 James Keenan via RT wrote: What purpose remains, then, for either tools/dev/ops_renum.mak or my alternative,

Re: [perl #57768] Negative-smartmatching on a regexp produces a Null PMC access in rakudo

2008-08-10 Thread jerry gay
On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 6:38 AM, via RT Carl Mäsak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I added two tests in t/operators/smartmatch.t to exercise the correct behaviour. thanks for the tests, but remember rakudo won't run these until they're moved to t/spec/. ~jerry

Re: [svn:perl6-synopsis] r14574 - doc/trunk/design/syn

2008-08-08 Thread jerry gay
On Fri, Aug 8, 2008 at 12:57 PM, Jon Lang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But are 'twas and -x valid identifiers? IMHO, they should not be. no, indeed they are not, because they don't start with underscore or alpha. that's why they won't work. ~jerry

Re: [perl #57636] [TODO][PDD19] Document the reason for :unique_reg flag

2008-08-07 Thread jerry gay
On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 5:44 AM, Jonathan Worthington [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Klaas-Jan Stol wrote: I think basically the question remans; is there any way we could do without the :unique_reg? Yes: 1) Add the reference-taking op and register reference PMC to the Parrot core. 2) Make

Re: Reason for attributes.t fail

2008-08-07 Thread jerry gay
On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 3:26 AM, Jonathan Worthington [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Rakudo is currently failing t\spec\S12-class\attributes.t. This turns out not to be an issue with attributes, but rather exceptions. The test does: my $c = Counter.new(); try { $c.x } ok($!, 'no public

Re: time op inconsistent on Win32

2008-08-07 Thread jerry gay
On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 12:40 PM, Ron Blaschke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jonathan Worthington wrote: Hi, I've just been looking at the time op, and what it returns is somewhat platform specific. * On Win32, it's the number of seconds since January 1, 1601 If I remember correctly, some

Re: Catching exceptions with the // operator

2008-08-06 Thread jerry gay
On Wed, Aug 6, 2008 at 8:58 AM, Yaakov Belch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a little language that I wrote some time ago, I found it very useful to let the // operator catch exceptions: f(x) // g(y) does: * If f(x) returns a defined value, use this value. * If f(x) returns an undefined value,

Re: Branching

2008-08-05 Thread jerry gay
On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 1:47 PM, Geoffrey Broadwell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 2008-08-05 at 16:19 -0400, Michael Peters wrote: We also need to think about deprecation cycles. If you deprecate a feature in 1 version and then it disappears in the next then the time between when my code

Re: [perl #56716] [TODO]: speed up the configure tests

2008-07-30 Thread jerry gay
On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 4:25 PM, James Keenan via RT [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue Jul 29 11:01:12 2008, particle wrote: the failing test: t/steps/auto_ctags-01ok 1/31 # Failed test 'Got expected result' # at t/steps/auto_ctags-01.t line 65.

Re: [perl #56716] [TODO]: speed up the configure tests

2008-07-29 Thread jerry gay
On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 4:28 AM, James Keenan via RT [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have prepared a patch which represents an 'svn diff' between trunk and the 'parallel' branch at the point of the branch's inception. Rather than swamp your inboxes, I'm posting it here:

Re: [perl #57358] Enable parallel testing

2008-07-28 Thread jerry gay
On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 10:27 AM, Eric Wilhelm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: # from Moritz Lenz # on Monday 28 July 2008 09:52: That's not -just- with the patch, though, is it? I presume you've set TEST_JOBS to be something other than '1' ... I've set it to 2, and obeserve the errors below. With

Re: [perl #57344] [TODO] Change runtime/parrot/* to runtime/*

2008-07-27 Thread jerry gay
On Sun, Jul 27, 2008 at 1:56 PM, Patrick R. Michaud [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Jul 27, 2008 at 10:08:06AM -0700, Geoffrey Broadwell wrote: In the source repository, the 'parrot' in runtime/parrot/foo is pointless. It's a singleton directory, and it's redundant. I think that the point

Re: [perl #46681] [TODO] [C] Use strerror_r instead of strerror

2008-07-18 Thread jerry gay
On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 7:44 PM, Christoph Otto via RT [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu Jul 17 15:53:12 2008, julianalbo wrote: On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 9:59 PM, Christoph Otto via RT [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: With this patch, the new tests still pass on Linux/x86. The patch uses

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