Re: [OT] TDD + Pair Programming

2006-04-02 Thread Luke Closs
On Sat, Apr 01, 2006 at 04:04:42PM -0800, Jeffrey Thalhammer wrote: > I have never actually had an opportunity to practice > this, but I've always felt that the most obvious way > to combine test-driven development with pair > programming was to have one person write test code > while the other per

[PATCH] My first patch, for builtins.*

2006-04-02 Thread Andy Lester
I've been spending a lot of time the past 6 months (more?) doing source code cleanup on the Perl 5 source code. I'd like to spend some time doing the same for Parrot, too. I hope that doing the kind of maintenance I'm interested in makes things easier for the core Parrot developers do their jobs.

RE: [OT] TDD + Pair Programming

2006-04-02 Thread leif . eriksen
I have done the "two programmers, one terminal" approach advocated by Beck for XP developments (not just TDD) and it worked well. We delivered on time with all features present and correct (where correct means the application passed the customers Business Acceptance Tests - first time). I should

Re: Module requirements (was: Module::Build and installing in non-standardlocations)

2006-04-02 Thread Sébastien Aperghis-Tramoni
Adam Kennedy wrote: While the code for the distribution might be able to die like this, the INSTALLER should fail in a way that is detectable and automatable. If the Cd warnings.pm module can't be found, it crashes (specifically, dies) and say it can't find warnings. But the problem isn't th

Re: [svn:perl6-synopsis] r8532 - doc/trunk/design/syn

2006-04-02 Thread Dr.Ruud
Uri Guttman schreef: > you might as well attribute the s:g/Into/into/ to dr. ruud. Right, s:g/I/i/ is all that remained. I really was amazed by your new capitalization style. :) -- Affijn, Ruud "Gewoon is een tijger." (posted via news://nntp.perl.org again)

Re: [svn:perl6-synopsis] r8520 - doc/trunk/design/syn

2006-04-02 Thread Dr.Ruud
Larry Wall schreef: > Ruud H.G. van Tol: >> Uri Guttman: >>> When cast into an array, you can access all the positional >>> arguments; Into a hash, all named arguments; Into a scalar, the >>> invocant; Into code, into slurpy nameless block. >> >> The last 'into' should be 'the'. And it has becom

Parrot 0.4.3 "Cold Conure" Released

2006-04-02 Thread Leopold Toetsch
On behalf of the Parrot team I'm proud to announce another monthly release of Parrot. I'd like to thank all involved people as well as our sponsors for supporting us. What is Parrot? Parrot is a virtual machine aimed at running Perl6 and other dynamic languages, see

starting release

2006-04-02 Thread Leopold Toetsch
Please no svn checkins until further notice. leo

Re: Module requirements (was: Module::Build and installing in non-standardlocations)

2006-04-02 Thread Adam Kennedy
demerphq wrote: On 4/2/06, Adam Kennedy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: demerphq wrote: On 4/1/06, Adam Kennedy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Similarly if somebody has an error in their Build.PL or Makefile.PL are you going to say that the "installer" doesnt work? Yes, absolutely. So you would f

Re: [svn:perl6-synopsis] r8532 - doc/trunk/design/syn

2006-04-02 Thread Audrey Tang
Uri Guttman wrote: > one of these days when i have tuits of large circumference, i will do a > nit pass over as much of the A/E/S as i can handle before my brain > explodes. having done tech editing for perl books is good training for > this. in fact it would be a good idea to have several such pas

curly-quotes

2006-04-02 Thread Jonathan Lang
Given perl6's use of unicode as a basis, could we get "curly quotes", both single and double, to do the same things that straight quotes do? That is: "text" does the same thing as "text", and 'text' does the same thing as 'text'. Other than "looks neat", why do this? Because curly-quotes come in

Re: [svn:perl6-synopsis] r8532 - doc/trunk/design/syn

2006-04-02 Thread Uri Guttman
> "AT" == Audrey Tang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: AT> Uri Guttman wrote: >> one of these days when i have tuits of large circumference, i will do a >> nit pass over as much of the A/E/S as i can handle before my brain >> explodes. having done tech editing for perl books is good trainin