[Oorexx-devel] Fwd: [CMake] Problems resolving PTHREAD_* symbols.

2014-09-23 Thread Rick McGuire
Some information that might help resolve the PTHREAD_* issues. Rick -- Forwarded message -- From: Robert Maynard robert.mayn...@kitware.com Date: Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 11:31 AM Subject: Re: [CMake] Problems resolving PTHREAD_* symbols. To: Rick McGuire object.r...@gmail.com Cc

Re: [Oorexx-devel] [CMake] Problems resolving PTHREAD_* symbols.

2014-09-23 Thread Rick McGuire
I've fixed the other problems and David committed a fix that might fix the Mac build also that is other than the change to REQUIRED_LIBRARIES. I've been able to test that fix on one of the platforms we need to build on and it seemed ok, but I think David will need to check this out using the

Re: [Oorexx-devel] More square brackets

2014-09-24 Thread Rick McGuire
I've started coding this up, and the , syntax for list creation looks very doable. The meaning of the , depends on the context, as already noted, but the contexts are absolutely unambiguous so it is always possible to assign the correct meaning. However, I want to circle back around to the

Re: [Oorexx-devel] DISCUSS: [oorexx:feature-requests] #613 Syntactic sugar for array creation

2014-09-24 Thread Rick McGuire
collections. just my 2p worth Jon On 18 September 2014 14:24, Rick McGuire object.r...@gmail.com wrote: I confess that I've been wanting a shortcut for creating arrays for a long time and have even considered submitting this feature request myself. This is not something difficult to implement

Re: [Oorexx-devel] More square brackets

2014-09-24 Thread Rick McGuire
On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 11:41 AM, Mike Cowlishaw m...@speleotrove.com wrote: However, I want to circle back around to the discussion of the short-circuited AND. We can't eliminate the usage on IF/WHEN, etc., but on the other hand, there are certainly contexts where an and operator that

Re: [Oorexx-devel] More square brackets

2014-09-24 Thread Rick McGuire
-both XOR OTOH, if the ooRexx '' and '|' operators are already defined to short-circuit, how about: = short-circuit AND + = eval-both AND | = short-circuit OR |+ = eval-both OR = eval-both ? -Chip- On 9/24/2014 10:17 AM, Rick McGuire wrote: I've started coding this up

Re: [Oorexx-devel] More square brackets

2014-09-24 Thread Rick McGuire
On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 12:14 PM, Mike Cowlishaw m...@speleotrove.com wrote: However, I want to circle back around to the discussion of the short-circuited AND. We can't eliminate the usage on IF/WHEN, etc., but on the other hand, there are certainly contexts where an and operator that

Re: [Oorexx-devel] More square brackets

2014-09-24 Thread Rick McGuire
On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 1:06 PM, Gil Barmwater gbarmwa...@alum.rpi.edu wrote: Good point! I'm leaning toward - and -| as they kind of imply less than a full or |. So was I, then I hit a small snag on how to implement these, since they would really fall outside of operators are handled in

Re: [Oorexx-devel] More square brackets

2014-09-24 Thread Rick McGuire
problem rather than a hard to implement problem. Sometimes things that are easy to do are still wrong because of other implications. Rick On 9/24/2014 1:17 PM, Rick McGuire wrote: On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 1:06 PM, Gil Barmwater gbarmwa...@alum.rpi.edu wrote: Good point! I'm leaning toward

Re: [Oorexx-devel] Discuss: Embedding data into an ooRexx program.

2014-09-24 Thread Rick McGuire
I have an initial stab at implementing this now. I decide on ::RESOURCE for the directive name. Here's a short sample of how it works now: loop name over .resources~names say name end loop name over .resources~namesToo say name end ::resource names Rick Mike ::END ::resource namesToo end

Re: [Oorexx-devel] When should we consider using C++11 features?

2014-09-24 Thread Rick McGuire
On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 4:39 PM, Michael Lueck mlu...@lueckdatasystems.com wrote: David Ashley wrote: At this point it really looks like we will need to start with a clean slate as far as platforms we support with the ooRexx 5.0 version. I agree. Our last client we were using Mod_Rexx

Re: [Oorexx-devel] Discuss: Embedding data into an ooRexx program.

2014-09-24 Thread Rick McGuire
included in the array. Rick thanks, Jon On 24 September 2014 21:24, Rick McGuire object.r...@gmail.com wrote: I have an initial stab at implementing this now. I decide on ::RESOURCE for the directive name. Here's a short sample of how it works now: loop name over .resources~names say

Re: [Oorexx-devel] Windows Compile Error

2014-09-25 Thread Rick McGuire
What version of the compiler are you using? I had to add a check to PlatformDefinitions.h to check for the MSC version. We used to have to use map isnan to _isnan, but when I upgraded to VSC 13 it was necessary to add a version check and disable the define. See line 133 in

Re: [Oorexx-devel] Windows Compile Error

2014-09-25 Thread Rick McGuire
w.david.ash...@gmail.com wrote: I use Visual Studio v9.0. The compiler is v15.00.30729.01. On Thu, 2014-09-25 at 20:42 -0400, Rick McGuire wrote: What version of the compiler are you using? I had to add a check to PlatformDefinitions.h to check for the MSC version. We used to have to use

[Oorexx-devel] DISCUSS: #618 Add a class that contains methods for retrieving interpreter information.

2014-09-28 Thread Rick McGuire
The intent of this feature is to gather up all of the disparate pieces of information that might effect the interpretation of a program and put them in one place. This will be a combination of Rexx language information and some platform-specific information. The object will be available in the

Re: [Oorexx-devel] DISCUSS: #618 Add a class that contains methods for retrieving interpreter information.

2014-09-28 Thread Rick McGuire
Decided to also add majorVersion, release, and revision values to this to return the pieces of the version number. Rick On Sun, Sep 28, 2014 at 7:35 AM, Rick McGuire object.r...@gmail.com wrote: The intent of this feature is to gather up all of the disparate pieces of information that might

Re: [Oorexx-devel] Win CMake Build Problem

2014-09-28 Thread Rick McGuire
I take that back, I do not have an installed version. I just unpacked the longstrings version from sourceforge into c:\NSIS and added it to my path. I don't know why this isn't working for you. Rick On Sun, Sep 28, 2014 at 6:26 PM, Rick McGuire object.r...@gmail.com wrote: David, I think

[Oorexx-devel] Need some feedback on a new feature.

2014-09-30 Thread Rick McGuire
One of the features I've been working on is a concept of namespaces that can be used to disambiguate information pulled in from different ::requires files. The basis if this is a new NAMESPACE option on the ::requires directive where you give a simple name to a loaded requires file. ::requires

Re: [Oorexx-devel] Need some feedback on a new feature.

2014-10-01 Thread Rick McGuire
would use x = .array~new On Wed, Oct 1, 2014 at 9:10 AM, David Ashley w.david.ash...@gmail.com wrote: I prefer the namespace:name version. It seems more hierarchical. David Ashley On Tue, 2014-09-30 at 18:52 -0400, Rick McGuire wrote: One of the features I've been working on is a concept

Re: [Oorexx-devel] Need some feedback on a new feature.

2014-10-01 Thread Rick McGuire
you might include. Rick On Wed, Oct 1, 2014 at 9:18 AM, Rick McGuire object.r...@gmail.com wrote: The deeper I get into the details of implementing this, the more I think it needs to be namespace;name too. I'm also going to de-couple this from dot variables because the dot is not really

Re: [Oorexx-devel] Windows Build Environment Problem

2014-10-01 Thread Rick McGuire
is a bit strange environment that tries to emulate a unix system. It would be that it has its own cd command that expects unix file name conventions. This is just a guess. cygwin always makes me nervous because it tries to live in both worlds and does neither well. Rick On Wed, Oct 1, 2014 at

Re: [Oorexx-devel] Windows Build Environment Problem

2014-10-01 Thread Rick McGuire
I think this might be something to ask on the cmake list. I need a few more specifics. When you run this in the foreground, how are you accessing the system? Are you still going via ssh? What is your background access mechanism? Rick On Wed, Oct 1, 2014 at 9:31 AM, David Ashley

Re: [Oorexx-devel] Windows Build Environment Problem

2014-10-01 Thread Rick McGuire
This article might be useful. Perhaps this is a problem with how you have sshd configured...it might not have permission to access that directory. Rick On Wed, Oct 1, 2014 at 9:31 AM, David Ashley w.david.ash...@gmail.com wrote: Rick - This is a strange one. When I run my script(s) that

Re: [Oorexx-devel] ooRexx, Signals, and Classic Rexx converts

2014-10-01 Thread Rick McGuire
This really is the wrong thing to do. This change would essentially mean that the behavior of any program would become dependent upon what code is using it rather than the preferences of the programmer. The 5.0.0 version is offering something for a major cause of these sorts of errors. The

Re: [Oorexx-devel] Windows Build Error

2014-10-02 Thread Rick McGuire
Rats, it appears resource compiler version you are using doesn't support enum symbols in the .rc file. I there any chance you could upgrade the compiler version you are are using? You're already 4 release versions behind what I'm using to build and I suspect problems like this will become more

Re: [Oorexx-devel] Windows Build Error

2014-10-02 Thread Rick McGuire
Ok, this looks like it is easier to fix than I thought. I'll commit the change once I get the stuff I'm working on to build cleanly with this change. Rick On Thu, Oct 2, 2014 at 9:19 AM, Rick McGuire object.r...@gmail.com wrote: Rats, it appears resource compiler version you are using doesn't

Re: [Oorexx-devel] Windows Build Error

2014-10-02 Thread Rick McGuire
I'm using the full 2013 version right now. Rick On Thu, Oct 2, 2014 at 10:42 AM, David Ashley w.david.ash...@gmail.com wrote: Are you using the 2013 express version? David Ashley On Thu, 2014-10-02 at 09:19 -0400, Rick McGuire wrote: Rats, it appears resource compiler version you

Re: [Oorexx-devel] Windows Build Error

2014-10-02 Thread Rick McGuire
-10-02 at 09:19 -0400, Rick McGuire wrote: Rats, it appears resource compiler version you are using doesn't support enum symbols in the .rc file. I there any chance you could upgrade the compiler version you are are using? You're already 4 release versions behind what I'm using to build

Re: [Oorexx-devel] Testers wanted...

2014-10-05 Thread Rick McGuire
. Is there a tutorial or readily available documentation on the care and feeding of the test framework? Sometimes, getting over the first learning curb is the biggest hurdle. -Chip- On 10/4/2014 5:35 PM, Rick McGuire wrote: We have the build machine issues more or less worked out so that we're

Re: [Oorexx-devel] .supplier methods missing in 5.0.0

2014-10-05 Thread Rick McGuire
:07 PM, Rick McGuire object.r...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for reporting this, I'll take a look at this later today. This slipped through because there are currently no tests in the test suite for the supplier class (hint, hint) Rick On Sun, Oct 5, 2014 at 1:25 PM, Erich Steinböck

Re: [Oorexx-devel] Testing - second step

2014-10-06 Thread Rick McGuire
Jon, For people developing test cases, I really recommend not executing this by running the entire test suite. I don't want to have to deal with other failures or problems they might turn up. Running the test suite is NOT necessary. For me, all I do is add the root of the test tree and the

Re: [Oorexx-devel] Testing - second step

2014-10-06 Thread Rick McGuire
Don't bother adding the directives directory or any other directory you're running tests from to your path. That shouldn't be necessary. You can run any of the tests by either CDing to the directory or directly by specifying the full directory name on the rexx command. The directory you DO need

Re: [Oorexx-devel] W-bug # 1

2014-10-06 Thread Rick McGuire
Definitely not a bug. Error 40 is Invalid call to routine and variants, so having the [] method return that error would be a bug. The error returned looks appropriate for this condition...it is an invalid position argument for a message. I'd like to keep development issues separate from the

Re: [Oorexx-devel] W-bug # 2

2014-10-06 Thread Rick McGuire
The only error here is how this particular test case is just obscuring what is going on. These two are NOT equivalent because of differences in precedence involved. The [] only gets applied to the last term of the expression, so the actual method call is just 699[6.99 - 6.00, 5*2] or after the

Re: [Oorexx-devel] W-bug # 2

2014-10-06 Thread Rick McGuire
...@chello.at wrote: Well, I took the substr testgroup as a base and translate it step by step – learning things along this way Sorry for bothering you Here I learned about precedence… *Von:* Rick McGuire [mailto:object.r...@gmail.com] *Gesendet:* Montag, 06. Oktober 2014 19:13 *An:* Open Object

Re: [Oorexx-devel] W-bug # 3

2014-10-06 Thread Rick McGuire
Ummm, what about the last character on the line. Looks like you are 0 for 3. Rick On Mon, Oct 6, 2014 at 2:58 PM, Walter Pachl christel.u.w.pa...@chello.at wrote: I hope that this is a valid one: 1 *-* Say 'AB BC CD DE EF'['1234567890'[1,2],22]) Error. 37 running.

Re: [Oorexx-devel] W-bug # 3

2014-10-06 Thread Rick McGuire
in case test081 (commented out for the time being) And test087 where I see a matching pair of parens Walter ( still hoping for 1 of 3 ) PS That’s what you get by hiring unskilled testers J *Von:* Rick McGuire [mailto:object.r...@gmail.com] *Gesendet:* Montag, 06. Oktober 2014 21:03

Re: [Oorexx-devel] W-bug # 3

2014-10-06 Thread Rick McGuire
That’s what you get by hiring unskilled testers J *Von:* Rick McGuire [mailto:object.r...@gmail.com] *Gesendet:* Montag, 06. Oktober 2014 21:03 *An:* Open Object Rexx Developer Mailing List *Betreff:* Re: [Oorexx-devel] W-bug # 3 Ummm, what about the last character on the line. Looks

Re: [Oorexx-devel] W-bug # 3

2014-10-06 Thread Rick McGuire
the mutablebuffer from scratch And then one which you delegate (and where you think I might get a 1 after all) Over for today and thanks for all patience Walter *Von:* Rick McGuire [mailto:object.r...@gmail.com] *Gesendet:* Montag, 06. Oktober 2014 21:37 *An:* Open Object Rexx

Re: [Oorexx-devel] Testers wanted...

2014-10-07 Thread Rick McGuire
David, The 5.0.0 interpreter is still compatible with the 4.2.0 daemon because none of the structures used to pass data back and forth have changed. I'm switching back and forth between 5.0.0 and 4.2.0 constantly without needing to kill the rxapi process. Given that you needn't worry about

Re: [Oorexx-devel] V5

2014-10-07 Thread Rick McGuire
Not currently planned for the release. Rick On Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 10:15 AM, r...@ntlworld.com wrote: Will the new version include GTK and/or ncurses? -- Meet PCI DSS 3.0 Compliance Requirements with EventLog

Re: [Oorexx-devel] two questions

2014-10-08 Thread Rick McGuire
On Wed, Oct 8, 2014 at 7:27 AM, Walter Pachl christel.u.w.pa...@chello.at wrote: I have 4 testgroups for mutablebuffer cntains caselessContains containsWord caselessContainsWord should they go with the same names into the class/mutablebuffer as tey are in class/string? yes Do I

Re: [Oorexx-devel] errortext - sanity check

2014-10-08 Thread Rick McGuire
On Wed, Oct 8, 2014 at 6:12 PM, Walter Pachl christel.u.w.pa...@chello.at wrote: There is a testgroup D:\_ooTest\trunk\ooRexx\base\bif\ERRORTEXT.testGroup I had my fingers at THIS as early as 2005 !!! (didn't remember but found my name in it :-) When trying it now it gets many errors

Re: [Oorexx-devel] DISCUSS: #618 Add a class that contains methods for retrieving interpreter information.

2014-10-09 Thread Rick McGuire
)_64-bit 6.05 9 Oct 2014) On Sun, Sep 28, 2014 at 3:18 PM, Rick McGuire object.r...@gmail.com wrote: Decided to also add majorVersion, release, and revision values to this to return the pieces of the version number. Rick On Sun, Sep 28, 2014 at 7:35 AM, Rick McGuire object.r...@gmail.com

Re: [Oorexx-devel] ooRexx Upgrade-without-uninstall-first Warning

2014-10-09 Thread Rick McGuire
That's the same message we've been using for a long time...made necessary by the people who chose to ignore gentler versions. Rick. On Thu, Oct 9, 2014 at 3:56 AM, Erich Steinböck erich.steinbo...@gmail.com wrote: During various 5.0.0 installs I've come across the

Re: [Oorexx-devel] 5.0.0 Issue: Array

2014-10-09 Thread Rick McGuire
Yes, it is. It actually should have always been that way once array had a makestring method added. That was supposed to cause automatic coercion of the object into a string when required. There were some issues with how makestring worked that made this dangerous, so I left the bug in place

Re: [Oorexx-devel] DISCUSS: #158 Add iteration over a supplier to DO/LOOP

2014-10-10 Thread Rick McGuire
with supplier being a subkeyword. That makes it very clear what is happening. David Ashley On Fri, 2014-10-10 at 17:39 -0400, Rick McGuire wrote: Having just coded about 3 supplier loops today where I ended up in an infinite loop because I forgot to code the next method call at the end

[Oorexx-devel] What is the name of an unamed method?

2014-10-11 Thread Rick McGuire
I've been trying to improve the test coverage of some of the classes and am currently working on tests for Object. At the moment, I'm writing some tests for the RUN() method. The RUN method is a private method that allows a method object to be run dynamically on an object instance. Since this

Re: [Oorexx-devel] What is the name of an unamed method?

2014-10-11 Thread Rick McGuire
occurred. I really, really don't expect this is going to ever be a problem, but the behavior still needs to be well defined. Rick On Sat, Oct 11, 2014 at 4:14 PM, Rick McGuire object.r...@gmail.com wrote: I've been trying to improve the test coverage of some of the classes and am currently

Re: [Oorexx-devel] .relation~of bug?

2014-10-12 Thread Rick McGuire
Grrr, keep forgetting I'm not in SlickEdit when typing emails! On Sun, Oct 12, 2014 at 5:48 AM, Rick McGuire object.r...@gmail.com wrote: Because your loop is not valid. The assignment d=r[c] Is undetermined for relations. You are picking up the same (undetermined) value every time

Re: [Oorexx-devel] 5.0.0 Issue: makeArray slow

2014-10-12 Thread Rick McGuire
Not even going to look at something like this at this time. Rick On Sun, Oct 12, 2014 at 2:05 PM, Erich Steinböck erich.steinbo...@gmail.com wrote: rexx -e A=('word' .endofline)~copies(50)~makeArray() *5.0.0:* 46.78 seconds elapsed time *4.2.0:* 0.14 seconds elapsed time

Re: [Oorexx-devel] DISCUSS: #158 Add iteration over a supplier toDO/LOOP

2014-10-13 Thread Rick McGuire
That's one of the problems with DO OVER. The value assigned to the control variable is not necessarily the value. The semantics here are to send a makearray message to the expression object and then iterate over that. For arrays, this results in iteration over a non-sparse version of the array,

Re: [Oorexx-devel] ooRexx 5.0.0 Support For Older Operating Systems

2014-10-13 Thread Rick McGuire
with something that works on the latest Windows and a handful of Linux versions, if there is an alternative. best regards, René. On 13 okt. 2014, at 16:58, Rick McGuire object.r...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 10:45 AM, René Jansen rvjan...@xs4all.nl wrote: David, I

[Oorexx-devel] DISCUSS: [oorexx:feature-requests] #638 Allow access to the main part of a package object.

2014-10-13 Thread Rick McGuire
message -- From: Rick McGuire bigr...@users.sf.net Date: Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 1:09 PM Subject: [oorexx:feature-requests] #638 Allow access to the main part of a package object. To: Ticket 638 6...@feature-requests.oorexx.p.re.sf.net --- ** [feature-requests:#638] Allow access to the main

Re: [Oorexx-devel] DISCUSS: [oorexx:feature-requests] #245 Allow message objects to be triggered more than once.

2014-10-14 Thread Rick McGuire
in a clean state so that it can be reused, while still returning an object that can be used to track execution. Rick Jon On 14 October 2014 15:01, Rick McGuire object.r...@gmail.com wrote: I've just started pounding on the .Message class and decided to revisit this one. Looking at the code

Re: [Oorexx-devel] DISCUSS: [oorexx:feature-requests] #245 Allow message objects to be triggered more than once.

2014-10-14 Thread Rick McGuire
On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 10:36 AM, Mike Cowlishaw m...@speleotrove.com wrote: I'd like to relax the reuse restriction a bit so that reuse is only forbidden once the message object has been used asynchronously. Send() can be called over and over. Start() can be called only once. However,

Re: [Oorexx-devel] PDcurses and orxncurses on Windows

2014-10-14 Thread Rick McGuire
If the code is truly labeled as public domain, there should be no problem with including it. Rick On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 3:50 PM, David Ashley w.david.ash...@gmail.com wrote: Rick, I guess this is mostly for you. I need advice. PDCurses is a public domain version of the curses library (and

Re: [Oorexx-devel] Conditional compilation

2014-10-15 Thread Rick McGuire
That is something that gets set by a debug build, which is the style the build machine is creating. The release versions will not have this. Rick On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 6:12 AM, Sahananda (Jon) Wolfers sahana...@windhorse.biz wrote: Hi, when testing the 5.0.0 version from the build

Re: [Oorexx-devel] 5.0.0 Issue: rxfuncadd CurlLoadFuncs fails

2014-10-15 Thread Rick McGuire
How recent is your interpreter version? There was a similar issue with SQLLoadFuncs that has already been fixed. Rick On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 7:49 AM, Erich Steinböck erich.steinbo...@gmail.com wrote: 5.0.0. will return 0 (failure) for say

Re: [Oorexx-devel] 5.0.0 Issue: rxfuncadd CurlLoadFuncs fails

2014-10-15 Thread Rick McGuire
recent is your interpreter version? It's most recent: REXX-ooRexx_5.0.0(MT)_64-bit 6.05 15 Oct 2014 Erich On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 1:57 PM, Rick McGuire object.r...@gmail.com wrote: How recent is your interpreter version? There was a similar issue with SQLLoadFuncs that has already been fixed

[Oorexx-devel] Synonyms for canceled...

2014-10-15 Thread Rick McGuire
I was just defining an interface for the alarm class and was adding an method that will be called when an alarm is canceled. As I typed the name alarmCanceled, I was uncertain of the correct spelling of Canceled. It turns out canceled and cancelled are both valid spellings...sigh. For now, I'm

Re: [Oorexx-devel] Synonyms for canceled...

2014-10-15 Thread Rick McGuire
That doesn't really work in this case, because these are methods that get called by the alarm objects, not methods that that the user calls. Rick On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 11:17 AM, Mike Cowlishaw m...@speleotrove.com wrote: I was just defining an interface for the alarm class and was adding

Re: [Oorexx-devel] Synonyms for canceled...

2014-10-15 Thread Rick McGuire
-- *From:* Rick McGuire [mailto:object.r...@gmail.com] *Sent:* 15 October 2014 16:43 *To:* Open Object Rexx Developer Mailing List *Subject:* Re: [Oorexx-devel] Synonyms for canceled... It is a case where people provide an object that implements a particular

Re: [Oorexx-devel] Questions ad RexxPackageEntry fields for 5.0

2014-10-20 Thread Rick McGuire
Nothing is currently planned in 5.0.0 for making any of that information available. That stuff is the purposes of the interpreter to determine if the package can be loaded. Rick On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 5:40 AM, Rony G. Flatscher rony.flatsc...@wu.ac.at wrote: The RexxPackageEntry structure

Re: [Oorexx-devel] Question ad annotations ...

2014-10-20 Thread Rick McGuire
The annotations must consist of name/value pairs, and that is the only thing that is going to be provided. Rick On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 5:45 AM, Rony G. Flatscher rony.flatsc...@wu.ac.at wrote: It is really great that annotations get added to the language! It may be conceivable that there

Re: [Oorexx-devel] Ad [] to call a routine

2014-10-20 Thread Rick McGuire
Square brackets are just a method, not restricted to just collection classes. Any class can choose to implement that method, so this problem is no different than determining the effect of any method call. Rick On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 5:57 AM, Rony G. Flatscher rony.flatsc...@wu.ac.at wrote:

Re: [Oorexx-devel] Maybe an Odd Question

2014-10-21 Thread Rick McGuire
Use SendMessage and send the appropriate operator message. For example, result = context-SendMessage1(anObject, +, context-RexxTrue); On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 4:30 PM, David Ashley w.david.ash...@gmail.com wrote: Rick - If I am writing a C++ method for ooRexx and I want to perform an

Re: [Oorexx-devel] Maybe an Odd Question

2014-10-21 Thread Rick McGuire
grumble...gmail...grumble...not slickedit...grumble. Anyway, that would add 1 to the object and return a new object. Rick On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 4:47 PM, Rick McGuire object.r...@gmail.com wrote: Use SendMessage and send the appropriate operator message. For example, result = context

[Oorexx-devel] What needs installing to get ncurses to build?

2014-10-28 Thread Rick McGuire
Just did my first Linux build in a while, and I'm getting a compile error because it can't find ncurses.h. What do I need to install to get this to build? Rick -- ___

Re: [Oorexx-devel] Nightly Build Failed

2014-10-30 Thread Rick McGuire
Oops, forgot to do the svn add before committing. Rick On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 9:05 AM, David Ashley w.david.ash...@gmail.com wrote: Rick - All the nightly builds failed withe the following error: -- Looking for usersec.h -- Looking for usersec.h - not found -- Looking for ncurses.h --

Re: [Oorexx-devel] Windows CMake Error

2014-10-31 Thread Rick McGuire
What phase are you getting this? During the initial build, or when trying to build the installer? Rick On Fri, Oct 31, 2014 at 6:09 PM, David Ashley w.david.ash...@gmail.com wrote: Rick - I am now getting the following Windows build error: CMake Error at cmake_install.cmake:394 (file):

Re: [Oorexx-devel] ooRexx Compiled on Mac 10.10.1

2014-12-06 Thread Rick McGuire
Just committed a fix for the one warning in Token.hpp and also a potential fix for the compile error. Rick On Sat, Dec 6, 2014 at 3:35 PM, David Ashley w.david.ash...@gmail.com wrote: I got my used Mac Mini last Friday. It was pretty easy to set up. I updated it to OSX 10.10.1 and then

Re: [Oorexx-devel] ooRexx Compiled on Mac 10.10.1

2014-12-06 Thread Rick McGuire
The best way to make something like this available would be go generate an SVN patch file and open a patch tracker item. Rick On Sat, Dec 6, 2014 at 5:28 PM, Enrico Sorichetti enricosoriche...@mac.com wrote: Hello, I have had oorexx 5 built and working on Mavericks and Yosemite for a while

Re: [Oorexx-devel] Making ooRexx a managed language

2014-12-11 Thread Rick McGuire
Lueck mlu...@lueckdatasystems.com wrote: Greetings Rick, Thank you for engaging in my question. Rick McGuire wrote: The resulting interpreter would be a Windows-only thing, something I have no interest in writing. Well since Java is able to be managed, and Java is cross-platform

Re: [Oorexx-devel] OOREXX on z/OS

2015-01-09 Thread Rick McGuire
I'd really prefer that access be kept to a small core group at first. If additional people start to get really involved, understand the rules for what sort of changes are permitted, and appear to be trustworthy, they can be easily added later. I'm starting to think that maybe we should create a

Re: [Oorexx-devel] 200**4

2015-01-06 Thread Rick McGuire
Section 10.2.1, Power Operator. On Tue, Jan 6, 2015 at 7:44 PM, Walter Pachl christel.u.w.pa...@chello.at wrote: Thank you very much! Unfortunately I have TRL2 only (incompletely) in my head I guess this cannot be found in the ooRexx Reference, can it? Walter *Von:* Rick McGuire

Re: [Oorexx-devel] Class Exists Query

2015-03-11 Thread Rick McGuire
Ashley w.david.ash...@gmail.com wrote: So why doesn't Jon's method throw an error? Are you not invoking a method on a class that does not exist (the isa method)? Why does that not throw an error? David Ashley On 03/11/2015 10:12 AM, Rick McGuire wrote: Jon's method doesn't throw an error

Re: [Oorexx-devel] Class Exists Query

2015-03-12 Thread Rick McGuire
On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 10:55 AM, David Ashley w.david.ash...@gmail.com wrote: That works for builtin classes, but not for user defined classes. I want something that can query both. That method works just fine for any class that is visible in the environment. It is not just restricted to

Re: [Oorexx-devel] Class Exists Query

2015-03-12 Thread Rick McGuire
or not the class actually exists. Your .context method does that. David Ashley On 03/11/2015 09:58 AM, Rick McGuire wrote: On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 10:55 AM, David Ashley w.david.ash...@gmail.com wrote: That works for builtin classes, but not for user defined classes. I want something that can

Re: [Oorexx-devel] Class Exists Query

2015-03-12 Thread Rick McGuire
...@gmail.com wrote: Just what I was looking for. Just could not find the correct place to look. David Ashley On 03/11/2015 09:57 AM, Rick McGuire wrote: On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 10:48 AM, David Ashley w.david.ash...@gmail.com wrote: Rick - Is there a way to query ooRexx to discover if a class

Re: [Oorexx-devel] init() method doesn't see all args supplied to new() class method

2015-03-30 Thread Rick McGuire
The arguments passed to the init() method depends on the implementation of the new method for the class. In the case of array, the new() method needs to use the arguments to construct the array instance before init() is called, so none of the arguments are passed along. Rick On Mon, Mar 30,

Re: [Oorexx-devel] Looking Forwards...

2015-04-14 Thread Rick McGuire
- Windows expert - D - Project Lifecycle administrator - E - Installer expert - F - Builds - G - The test framework - H - The test suite (the actual tests written using the test framework) - I - The documentation processing (Docbook). Jon On 13 April 2015 at 10:48, Rick

Re: [Oorexx-devel] Looking Forwards...

2015-04-21 Thread Rick McGuire
Jon, There's one additional important role that needs to be filled, that of the language architect. That person's role is to be the final decision maker on what language features get added to ooRexx. The architect's role is largely to be the person who says no to features and is responsible

Re: [Oorexx-devel] An Update from Jon - me, skills, builds, Lead Architect

2015-04-27 Thread Rick McGuire
Jon, This looks like it is a pretty good structure for handling details. I might be willing to be included in the ARB for the arbitration process since the current structure is a bit light on actual ooRexx skills. Rick On Sun, Apr 26, 2015 at 1:42 PM, Jon Wolfers sahana...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: [Oorexx-devel] Looking Forwards...

2015-04-13 Thread Rick McGuire
Some additional major areas: The test framework The test suite (the actual tests written using the test framework) The documentation processing (Docbook). Rick On Mon, Apr 13, 2015 at 3:43 AM, Jon Wolfers sahana...@gmail.com wrote: BCC: RexxLa Board Dear Developers, whilst I in no way

Re: [Oorexx-devel] DISCUSS: #618 Add a class that contains methods for retrieving interpreter information.

2015-06-04 Thread Rick McGuire
and would just cause grief to any developers who were wishing to make the transition to 64-bitand they would get a crippled implementation that would not be fully capable of exploiting the 64-bit addressing. Rick best regards, René. On 29 mei 2015, at 13:30, Rick McGuire object.r

Re: [Oorexx-devel] building ooRexx 5 on the Raspberry Pi fails - notes

2015-06-04 Thread Rick McGuire
It looks like you are using the GCC version with the namespace linker bug. Rick On Thu, Jun 4, 2015 at 3:23 PM, René Jansen rvjan...@xs4all.nl wrote: Hi Enrico, thanks for the pointer. Did that, downloaded source and built cmake 3.2.3. Let it generate a new makefile in a clean directory.

Re: [Oorexx-devel] DISCUSS: #618 Add a class that contains methods for retrieving interpreter information.

2015-05-29 Thread Rick McGuire
Big Endian is also known as network order in some contexts, but the network order usage does seem to include a term for non-network order. Rick On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 7:06 AM, René Jansen rvjan...@xs4all.nl wrote: 2) Also not sure I like the architecture name, since this is not really a

Re: [Oorexx-devel] Some answers for Michael Leuck

2015-05-27 Thread Rick McGuire
wrote: Where did Sam Detweiler fit in? Didn't he write the original OS/2 Rexx? Rick McGuire object.r...@gmail.com wrote the following on 27/05/15 14:41:35: Posting this information here in response to Michael's questions since I don't have posting access to the RexxLA list: On Wed

Re: [Oorexx-devel] Some answers for Michael Lueck

2015-05-28 Thread Rick McGuire
On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 7:55 AM, Michael Lueck mlu...@lueckdatasystems.com wrote: Rick McGuire wrote: Simon developed the initial object-oriented concepts and the original prototype code. He began working with the development group in Endicott starting in 1989. There was a lot of work

Re: [Oorexx-devel] DISCUSS: #618 Add a class that contains methods for retrieving interpreter information.

2015-05-27 Thread Rick McGuire
the environment just to make it similar. Rick Erich On Thu, Oct 9, 2014 at 1:46 PM, Rick McGuire object.r...@gmail.com wrote: Oops, the method was implemented but I missed adding to the method table. Its in now. Rick On Thu, Oct 9, 2014 at 5:39 AM, Erich Steinböck erich.steinbo

Re: [Oorexx-devel] Fwd: [oorexx:feature-requests] #654 Add an instruction that is the inverse of EXPOSE

2015-05-24 Thread Rick McGuire
On Sun, May 24, 2015 at 2:54 AM, Mike Cowlishaw m...@speleotrove.com wrote: . That is the default situation for a method unless an EXPOSE is used. Basically, all variables are local unless identified as object scope on the EXPOSE instruction. USE LOCAL is intended to give you the opposite

Re: [Oorexx-devel] stem assignment

2015-05-25 Thread Rick McGuire
It most certainly IS an assignment. The stem variable rr. is set to contain a reference to the same stem object referenced by the stem variable r. ooRexx does not have a concept of variable aliasing. This is the same assignment mechanism that allows USE ARG to work or returning a stem object

Re: [Oorexx-devel] Recent 5.0.0 windows build (x86_32)

2015-05-26 Thread Rick McGuire
How much from scratch? What do you have installed already (svn, cmake, visual studio of some flavor, nsis, etc.)? I tend to build things without building the installer and just run things from the build directory using a simple batch file that sets up paths appropriately. That might be simpler

Re: [Oorexx-devel] Fwd: [oorexx:feature-requests] #654 Add an instruction that is the inverse of EXPOSE

2015-05-22 Thread Rick McGuire
? (I have set a few ones to closed after my commit) Yes I would. Among other things, it makes it easier to gather up the list of changes when a new release is cut. Rick Erich On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 8:34 PM, Rick McGuire object.r...@gmail.com wrote: Erich, You might not want to make

Re: [Oorexx-devel] Fwd: [oorexx:feature-requests] #654 Add an instruction that is the inverse of EXPOSE

2015-05-22 Thread Rick McGuire
On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 4:04 PM, Mike Cowlishaw m...@speleotrove.com wrote: ::method init USE LOCAL x y z The variable list should be optional to specify that everything is an object variable. ::method init use local -- everything is an object variable. Slightly concerned

Re: [Oorexx-devel] Fwd: [oorexx:feature-requests] #654 Add an instruction that is the inverse of EXPOSE

2015-05-23 Thread Rick McGuire
On Sat, May 23, 2015 at 3:24 AM, Mike Cowlishaw m...@speleotrove.com wrote: ::method init USE LOCAL x y z The variable list should be optional to specify that everything is an object variable. ::method init use local -- everything is an object variable. Slightly concerned

[Oorexx-devel] Fwd: [oorexx:feature-requests] #654 Add an instruction that is the inverse of EXPOSE

2015-05-22 Thread Rick McGuire
that is the inverse of EXPOSE To: [oorexx:feature-requests] 6...@feature-requests.oorexx.p.re.sf.net - **status**: accepted -- closed --- ** [feature-requests:#654] Add an instruction that is the inverse of EXPOSE** **Status:** closed **Milestone:** 5.0.0 **Created:** Wed Oct 29, 2014 01:02 PM UTC by Rick

Re: [Oorexx-devel] Recent 5.0.0 windows build (x86_32)

2015-05-26 Thread Rick McGuire
I needed to build the docs or just relied on David's build machine. David had some instructions for how to setup a machine, but I'm not finding it right now. Maybe David can chip in with some comments here. Erich On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 2:50 PM, Rick McGuire object.r...@gmail.com wrote

Re: [Oorexx-devel] Recent 5.0.0 windows build (x86_32)

2015-05-26 Thread Rick McGuire
it could not choose a suitable overload for the reportException call. Erich, this looks like your change 10916 for setMethod exception reporting. Do you need help with this? Jon On 26 May 2015 at 16:02, Rick McGuire object.r...@gmail.com wrote: Jon, no. When you do the checkout, all

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