Re: Removing a lexical

2004-03-01 Thread Leopold Toetsch
Will Coleda [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a way to unstore a lexical in a scope? The Scratchpad PMC class has a delete_keyed method, so yes. s. t/pmc/scratchpad.t leo

Re: [perl #27246] [PATCH] Correct ommision in config/gen/makefiles/befunge.in

2004-03-01 Thread Leopold Toetsch
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (via RT) wrote: There was no PERL = ${perl} definition in this file Fixed. leo

Re: Current PLATFORMS

2004-03-01 Thread Paul Cochrane
* Leopold Toetsch ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [040301 18:50]: $ parrot -j examples/assembly/mops.pasm should show huge improvements in execution time, *if* JIT works. $ make testj Well, make testj barfs. Here's the output: rolf:[526]/var/tmp/parrotmake testj perl t/harness --gc-debug

Languages tests

2004-03-01 Thread Dan Sugalski
I think that it's getting to be time to be a bit more aggressive with tests for some of the ancillary stuff in the parrot tree--the languages subdir specifically. Bit Rot's setting in and not all of the languages are working the way they ought to. Or at all. I'd like to get a push in for at

[perl #27272] [PATCH] fix typos in intro.pod

2004-03-01 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by Neil Conway # Please include the string: [perl #27272] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # URL: http://rt.perl.org:80/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=27272 This trivial patch fixes a few typos I noticed while reading through

[PATCH] parrotbug 0.0.1

2004-03-01 Thread Jerome Quelin
Hi there, Following Dan's warnocked demand, here's a first version of parrotbug: - it is very rough - it currently goes in parrot root dir - there is no embedded (pod) doc - it borrows heavily from perlbug - currently bug reports are sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED] - it only accepts -ok / -nok

Re: LANGUAGES.STATUS

2004-03-01 Thread Piers Cawley
Mitchell N Charity [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: (1) LANGUAGES.STATUS is out of date. I found (on linux x86 [1]): These languages failed to build: BASIC/interpreter jako miniperl tcl And these languages were quite broken (bad make test failures): BASIC/compiler [2] m4 ruby

Re: [perl #27246] [PATCH] Correct ommision inconfig/gen/makefiles /befun ge.in

2004-03-01 Thread Stephane Peiry
Done thanks, Stéphane On Mon, Mar 01, 2004 at 11:48:08AM -0500, Gay, Jerry wrote: if this is accepted, please close [perl #27083], as it addresses this bug, but i haven't yet seen it posted to the list. --jerry -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL

Re: Current PLATFORMS

2004-03-01 Thread TJ Anthony
[silent lurker alert] Parrot will build on Cygwin, as long as you configure with: perl Configure.pl --define-inet_aton The tests, however, are a different story. Notably, extend_12 runs away and starts hopelessly consuming memory until manually killed. Here's the testing summary from the end

Re: Exegesis 7: Perl6::Slurp

2004-03-01 Thread Damian Conway
I wrote: [Perl6::Slurp] will most likely appear in the next 36 hours. It's now on the CPAN. Damian

Re: Exegesis 7: Fill Justification

2004-03-01 Thread Richard Nuttall
Damian Conway wrote: Gregor N. Purdy wrote: In the section He doth fill fields... we see an example of Fill Justification where two spaces fit between every word. This doesn't give us an idea of how spaces are distributed if the number of spaces needed does not divide evenly into the number of

Re: Exegesis 7: Perl6::Slurp

2004-03-01 Thread Mark J. Reed
Should Perl6::Slurp be added to Bundle::Perl6? Or is that not being kept up-to-date? -- Mark REED| CNN Internet Technology 1 CNN Center Rm SW0831G | [EMAIL PROTECTED] Atlanta, GA 30348 USA | +1 404 827 4754

Re: Exegesis 7: Perl6::Slurp

2004-03-01 Thread Damian Conway
Mark J. Reed wrote: Should Perl6::Slurp be added to Bundle::Perl6? Probably. Along with: Perl6::Binding Perl6::Classes Perl6::Currying Perl6::Export Perl6::Form Perl6::Interpolators Perl6::Parameters Perl6::Placeholders Perl6::Tokener Or is that not being

Re: Exegesis 7: Fill Justification

2004-03-01 Thread Damian Conway
Richard Nuttall suggested: An alternative is to have fill rightmost gaps and fill leftmost gaps on alternate lines. This produces more balanced looking columns, so they don't all look heavier on the left. That's a *very* interesting idea. What do people think? For example: Now is the

Re: Exegesis 7: Fill Justification

2004-03-01 Thread Rod Adams
Damian Conway wrote: Richard Nuttall suggested: An alternative is to have fill rightmost gaps and fill leftmost gaps on alternate lines. This produces more balanced looking columns, so they don't all look heavier on the left. That's a *very* interesting idea. What do people think? The

Exegesis 7: Why so many field specifiers?

2004-03-01 Thread Rick Delaney
[I'm resending this because I think it was lost since I wasn't subscribed from this address. Apologies if it appears twice.] We essentially have Single-line Block === = {} {[[[} {} {]]]} {|||} {III} {'''} {} or

Re: Exegesis 7: Fill Justification

2004-03-01 Thread Larry Wall
On Tue, Mar 02, 2004 at 10:01:11AM +1100, Damian Conway wrote: : That's a *very* interesting idea. What do people think? I think anyone who does full justification without proportional spacing and hyphenation is severely lacking in empathy for the reader. Ragged right is much easier on the

Re: Exegesis 7: Fill Justification

2004-03-01 Thread Tom Christiansen
On Tue, Mar 02, 2004 at 10:01:11AM +1100, Damian Conway wrote: : That's a *very* interesting idea. What do people think? I think anyone who does full justification without proportional spacing and hyphenation is severely lacking in empathy for the reader. Ragged right is much easier on the

Re: Exegesis 7: Fill Justification

2004-03-01 Thread Damian Conway
Larry observed: I think anyone who does full justification without proportional spacing and hyphenation is severely lacking in empathy for the reader. Well, it really depends on how neatly one is able to write. It really isn't that hard to create a fully justified text that doesn't inflict pain

Re: Exegesis 7: Fill Justification

2004-03-01 Thread Larry Wall
On Tue, Mar 02, 2004 at 12:42:28PM +1100, Damian Conway wrote: : Well, it really depends on how neatly : one is able to write. It really isn't : that hard to create a fully justified : text that doesn't inflict pain on the : reader. English is especially good in : that regard, offering such a

This week's summary

2004-03-01 Thread The Perl 6 Summarizer
The Perl 6 Summary for the week ending 20040229 Welcome to the leapday summary. We'll crack straight on with perl6-internals Running up to release time As Leapday had been chosen as the release date for Parrot 0.1.0, the week was mostly spent getting things ready for release. A

Re: Distributed testing idea

2004-03-01 Thread Philippe 'BooK' Bruhat
Le lundi 23 février 2004 à 14:06, Michael G Schwern écrivait: I'm going with just straight, unsecured socket communications and an ad hoc protocol. At this point, encryption is not necessary. There's nothing worth encrypting. To see why, look at the example protocol conversation at

Re: Distributed testing idea

2004-03-01 Thread Michael G Schwern
On Mon, Mar 01, 2004 at 05:37:39PM +0100, Philippe 'BooK' Bruhat wrote: I'm going with just straight, unsecured socket communications and an ad hoc protocol. At this point, encryption is not necessary. There's nothing worth encrypting. To see why, look at the example protocol conversation

Re: Distributed testing idea

2004-03-01 Thread Leon Brocard
Michael G Schwern sent the following bits through the ether: So what I need is some way to set up a network of test servers such that I can say test this module for me and my testing client would ship it to as many test servers as it can find and get the results back all in just a few

Re: Distributed testing idea

2004-03-01 Thread Philippe 'BooK' Bruhat
Le lundi 01 mars 2004 à 16:53, Leon Brocard écrivait: Michael G Schwern sent the following bits through the ether: So what I need is some way to set up a network of test servers such that I can say test this module for me and my testing client would ship it to as many test servers as it

Re: Distributed testing idea

2004-03-01 Thread David Wheeler
On Mar 1, 2004, at 9:12 AM, Philippe 'BooK' Bruhat wrote: Which means the server and client could communicate as IRC bots, with Net::IRC or a similar module? Jabber. David

Re: Exegesis 7: Why so many field specifiers?

2004-03-01 Thread Damian Conway
Rick Delaney wrote: Why not something like Single-line Block === = [] {} [] {} [|||] {|||} ['''] {'''} which distinguishes the 2 main field types and gives us only the 4 justifiers we need? I can

Re: Distributing traits / Rule-matching group properties

2004-03-01 Thread Damian Conway
Larry noted: There's a lot to be said for being able to write things like: [ ident ascii+ ] Now I'm supposing that binds tighter than | as usual, so the brackets wouldn't always be necessary: ident french+ | ident swahili+ FWIW, I'm strongly in favour of adding to rules.

Re: Distributing traits / Rule-matching group properties

2004-03-01 Thread Larry Wall
On Tue, Mar 02, 2004 at 04:58:38PM +1100, Damian Conway wrote: : FWIW, I'm strongly in favour of adding to rules. : : Indeed, if Larry were to give the word, I'd be delighted to add support for : it to the Perl6::Rules module. Execute! (I hope that's the right word...) Larry

Re: [PATCH] parrotbug 0.0.1

2004-03-01 Thread Robert Spier
- it only accepts -ok / -nok flags (no *real* bug reports to be edited) This may or may not be good. We need a new processing system (for perl5 too) to deal with the -ok reports. - I'm not sure about the reporting address (Robert, I need your advice on this one) I suppose, it should

www.parrotcode.org/ points to 0.0.10

2004-03-01 Thread Mitchell N Charity
The parrot homepage http://www.parrotcode.org/ currently says Periodic releases will appear on CPAN; the current release is version 0.0.10, and can be found in the CPAN source directory. And source directory is a link to parrot-0.0.10.tar.gz The similarity in release numbers is particularly