Parrot Smoke Dec 3 20:00:03 2001 UTC hpux 11.00

2001-12-04 Thread H . Merijn Brand
Automated smoke report for patch Dec 3 20:00:03 2001 UTC v0.02 on hpux - 11.00 using cc version B.11.11.02 O = OK F = Failure(s), extended report at the bottom ? = still running or test results not (yet) available Build failures during: - = unknown c = Configure, m =

Re: SAPI (Was RE: args, argv in parrot?)

2001-12-04 Thread Michael L Maraist
On Tuesday 04 December 2001 12:21 am, David M. Lloyd wrote: He was telling me about the way PHP seperates the interpreter from the OS-specific stuff via a SAPI layer. Facinating, but perl is, afterall a scripting language first. perl -e '' is very essential; though I could see a

RE: SAPI (Was RE: args, argv in parrot?)

2001-12-04 Thread Wizard
perl -e '' is very essential; though I could see a compatibility mode being enabled by default with '-e' if necessary. But perl is not parrot, and parrot doesn't need -e (unless we expect people to write one-liners in actual bytecode). Perl will be sitting on top of parrot, so it will

Re: cvs commit: parrot/include/parrot encoding.h

2001-12-04 Thread Alex Gough
[Tue, Dec 04, 2001 at 01:28:40PM +: Simon Cozens] On Tue, Dec 04, 2001 at 01:31:34AM -, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Added length parameter to extract_num and extract_int string vtables, without this it would be impossible to have strings with nulls in while still knowing

Re: All aflame, but not a fire.

2001-12-04 Thread Andy Dougherty
On Tue, 4 Dec 2001, Alex Gough wrote: The tinderbox is getting warm as a result of my number from string commit. I'm not able to reproduce the failures on either FreeBSD4.4 or Irix or even on the Tru64 machine which is currently claiming to be orange. So I suspect that something odd is

Re: All aflame, but not a fire.

2001-12-04 Thread Alex Gough
[Tue, Dec 04, 2001 at 08:37:36AM -0500: Andy Dougherty] My cvs repository contained a file t/op/pmc.t. However, that files isn't included in MANIFEST. Is it supposed to be there? It should be in MANIFEST, and now is. I don't know if that will quiet the tinderclients though. Alex --

FP constants

2001-12-04 Thread Dan Sugalski
Okay, here's the decree. FP constants in the bytecode file constants section will be 64-bit IEEE floats. The QA as to why. (This'll be a new feature for all the declarations of arbitrary decisions) - Q: Why? A: Gotta have

Re: FP constants

2001-12-04 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 01:32 PM 12/4/2001 -0500, Andy Dougherty wrote: On Tue, 4 Dec 2001, Dan Sugalski wrote: Okay, here's the decree. FP constants in the bytecode file constants section will be 64-bit IEEE floats. You mean something like this? Nope. :) The floating-point tyoe can be larger than 64 bit,

Re: FP constants

2001-12-04 Thread Bryan C. Warnock
On Tuesday 04 December 2001 01:32 pm, Andy Dougherty wrote: On Tue, 4 Dec 2001, Dan Sugalski wrote: Okay, here's the decree. FP constants in the bytecode file constants section will be 64-bit IEEE floats. You mean something like this? -prompt(And your floats?, 'nv'); +prompt(And

Licensing and source. READ ME, DAMMIT!

2001-12-04 Thread Dan Sugalski
Folks, We're nailing down the license finally for Parrot, and should have things set. Until then... DO NOT SUBMIT CODE THAT ISN'T YOURS! This *includes* from perl 5. (Like, say, the code in utf8.[ch]) If you didn't write it, or did but don't want to abide by the bits about licensing in the

Parrot FAQ

2001-12-04 Thread Adam Turoff
The beginnings of a Parrot FAQ can be found here: http://www.panix.com/~ziggy/parrot.html It'll be moved to dev.perl.org shortly, when there's more meat to it. Contents: 1 General Questions 1. What is Parrot? 2. Why Parrot? 3. Is Parrot the

Re: Parrot FAQ

2001-12-04 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 03:26 PM 12/4/2001 -0500, Adam Turoff wrote: The beginnings of a Parrot FAQ can be found here: Here's some more: Q: What language is Parrot written in? A: C Q: For the love of god, man, why?!?!?!? A: Because it's the best we've got. Q: That's sad A: So true. Regardless, C's available

Re: Parrot FAQ

2001-12-04 Thread Nguon Hao Ching
Here's one more: Q: How does Dan know so much? A: Quiet, You. -Hao

Re: Parrot FAQ

2001-12-04 Thread Jonathan Scott Duff
On Tue, Dec 04, 2001 at 04:11:58PM -0500, Dan Sugalski wrote: Seriously, there are real answers to a whole lot of design questions. Ask 'em and I'll get FAQable answers to 'em once and for all. Could the FAQ be made a wiki so that others can play too? -Scott -- Jonathan Scott Duff [EMAIL

Re: Parrot FAQ

2001-12-04 Thread Adam Turoff
On Tue, Dec 04, 2001 at 03:20:46PM -0600, Jonathan Scott Duff wrote: On Tue, Dec 04, 2001 at 04:11:58PM -0500, Dan Sugalski wrote: Seriously, there are real answers to a whole lot of design questions. Ask 'em and I'll get FAQable answers to 'em once and for all. Could the FAQ be made a

Re: Parrot FAQ

2001-12-04 Thread Adam Turoff
On Tue, Dec 04, 2001 at 03:26:25PM -0500, Adam Turoff wrote: Expect another update tonight or tomorrow. Here ya go. Same place as last time. 1 General Questions 1. What is Parrot? 2. Why Parrot? 3. Is Parrot the same thing as Perl6? 4.

Re: Parrot FAQ

2001-12-04 Thread Michael G Schwern
On Tue, Dec 04, 2001 at 04:27:22PM -0500, Adam Turoff wrote: Besides, Schwern is having no end of problems with the Perl QA wiki. I'd much rather put the docs in CVS later this week. Actually, I make a lot more noise than I'm actually having trouble. With the exception of that one big glitch

Re: Parrot FAQ

2001-12-04 Thread Steve Fink
On Tue, Dec 04, 2001 at 04:11:58PM -0500, Dan Sugalski wrote: Seriously, there are real answers to a whole lot of design questions. Ask 'em and I'll get FAQable answers to 'em once and for all. Whee! Ok. Some of these are probably duplicates, and some inappropriate for a Parrot FAQ, but: Q:

Re: Parrot FAQ

2001-12-04 Thread Adam Turoff
On Tue, Dec 04, 2001 at 06:29:34PM -0800, Steve Fink wrote: On Tue, Dec 04, 2001 at 04:11:58PM -0500, Dan Sugalski wrote: Seriously, there are real answers to a whole lot of design questions. Ask 'em and I'll get FAQable answers to 'em once and for all. Whee! Ok. Some of these are

Re: Parrot FAQ

2001-12-04 Thread Steve Fink
On Tue, Dec 04, 2001 at 10:45:53PM -0500, Adam Turoff wrote: On Tue, Dec 04, 2001 at 06:29:34PM -0800, Steve Fink wrote: On Tue, Dec 04, 2001 at 04:11:58PM -0500, Dan Sugalski wrote: Seriously, there are real answers to a whole lot of design questions. Ask 'em and I'll get FAQable

Re: Key stuff for aggregates

2001-12-04 Thread Jeff G
Dan Sugalski wrote: 'Kay, here's the preliminary assembly-level docs for keys, which is how we're going to be accessing entries in aggregates. --Snip here--- =head2 Key operations Keys are used to get access to individual elements of an aggregate variable.