Re: Perl 6 Summary for 2005-09-26 through 2005-10-02

2005-10-05 Thread Leopold Toetsch 


On Oct 5, 2005, at 1:17, Matt Fowles wrote:


   Here Doc in PIR
Will Coleda revived a thread from February about PIR here doc 
syntax.

Looks like the syntax is ok.


Jonathan Worthington has already implemented here doc syntax.


   Data::Escape::String Dislikes Unicode
Will noticed that Data::Escape::String doesn't work on Unicode 
strings.


This is fixed.


   Calling Vtable Functions from PIR
Roger Browne found he can no longer call vtable functions from PIR
directly. Leo felt that it was no longer necessary,


The 'Vtable' function actually was a MMD infix function (__add) - I 
should have mentioned this in the first place. 'is no longer necessary' 
isn't quite correct. Usually there is no need to call any of these 
builtins directly, as Parrot's MMD system handles operator overloading.

And finally: the bug is fixed.

Thanks for the summary,
leo

Perl 6 Summary for 2005-09-26 through 2005-10-02

2005-10-04 Thread Matt Fowles 
Perl 6 Summary for 2005-09-26 through 2005-10-02
All~

Welcome to another summary, this time a day late because I was in Philly
for Serenity. If you haven't seen Serenity yet you should stop reading
this summary and go see it. The summary will be here when you get back.
I promise.

  Perl 6 Compiler
No postings this week. I blame Piers for scaring them off last week.

  Parrot
   Summary Links
Last weeks load lib thread morphed into a conversation about the life
span of the shortened links that appear in summaries. Piers pointed out
that, although the short links expire, the long links are archived at
perl.org.

<http://xrl.us/hvbn>

   RT Cleanup
Joshua Hoblitt has been continuing his massive clean up of RT. It makes
me glad of two things: that someone is doing it and that I am not doing
it. I won't post all of the links for these messages, but much work is
getting done.

   debug segments
Jonathan Worthington posted an RFC of his design for debug and source
segments in Parrot's packfiles. People seem to like it generally.
Hopefully the design will be implemented soon.

<http://xrl.us/hvbo>

   Leo's Context Branch Hits the Mainline
After a few more reviews from Chip, Leo's context branch has been dubbed
ready and has been moved to the mainline. This marks the culmination of
quite a bit of hard work from many people (especially Leo). Nice work
all.

<http://xrl.us/hvbp> -- bit of review

<http://xrl.us/hvbq> -- merge

   Amber PMCs
Roger Browne wondered how he should include Amber PMCs. Leo and Will
suggested he put the pmcs into the languages directory similar to the
way Tcl does it.

<http://xrl.us/hvbr>

   Data::Escape Needs Tests
Jerry Gay added a TODO for tests for Data::Escape. This would be a great
thing for an eager lurker to cut his or her teeth on.

<http://xrl.us/hvbs>

   Magic Numbers Bad, Magic Strings Good
Last weeks magic thread ended down with the conclusion that Parrot would
use a magic string instead of a magic number.

<http://xrl.us/hvbt>

   Tests fail on win32
Jerry Gay opened a new RT ticket for some failing tests on Windows.

<http://xrl.us/hvbu>

   Here Doc in PIR
Will Coleda revived a thread from February about PIR here doc syntax.
Looks like the syntax is ok.

<http://xrl.us/hvbv>

   Win32 PCRE
François Perrad enabled PCRE on Win32. Jerry Gay applied the patch.

<http://xrl.us/hvbw>

   PLATFORMS and MinGW
François Perrad updated the PLATFORMS file for MinGW.

<http://xrl.us/hvbx>

   parrot_config dependency
Nick Glencross provided a patch (for comment only) that eases the
dependency on parrot_config. I am not sure that he got many comments.

<http://xrl.us/hvby>

   Data::Escape::String Dislikes Unicode
Will noticed that Data::Escape::String doesn't work on Unicode strings.

<http://xrl.us/hvbz>

   Make Cleanup
Joshua Hoblitt started RT tickets for several things that are part of a
general make system clean up.

<http://xrl.us/hvb2>

<http://xrl.us/hvb3>

<http://xrl.us/hvb4>

   Parrot Leaves Crumbs
Nick Glencross rediscovered the core files that parrot leaves around.
This is a known problem.

<http://xrl.us/hvb5>

   Parrot Threads
Dave Frost wondered what the plan for Parrot Threading was going to be.
The answer (provided by Leo with more details from Jonathan Worthington)
was OS threads.

<http://xrl.us/hvb6>

   Once deprecation's lost its fun...
Leo went on a bit of fall cleaning adding things to the deprecated list.
He even threatened to resolve some of them soon.

<http://xrl.us/hvb7>

<http://xrl.us/hvb8>

<http://xrl.us/hvb9>

<http://xrl.us/hvca>

   Lexical and Variable Sized Register Frames
With the calling conventions having been redone, Leo has plans to move
to system of dynamically sized registers frames with static lexicals
stored directly in them. Chip should produce details soon.

<http://xrl.us/hvcb>

   Exception Handling Bug
Roger Browne found a bug with exception handlers in the new scheme. Leo
fixed it. I wonder if anyone made a test out of it...

<http://xrl.us/hvcc>

   Config missing output
Will Coleda noticed that Configure.pl was not outputting a response to a
step on his platform.

<http://xrl.us/hvcd>

   Parrot 0.3.0 TODO
Robert J Eaglestone wondered what would be a good way of chipping in.
Will Coleda, predictably, tried to turn him towards working for the good
of Tcl.

<http://xrl.us/hvce>

   Tru64 Issues
Jarkko Hietaniemi appears to have recently come into some time with a
Tru64 machine. He found lots of problems, which he