[perl #58070] [PROPOSAL] Disallow .local declarations in long-style call statement

2008-08-19 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by Klaas-Jan Stol # Please include the string: [perl #58070] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # URL: http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=58070 the current implementation for PIR allows one to declare .locals in a

[perl #58068] [TODO] document PAST's :scope('register')

2008-08-19 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by Klaas-Jan Stol # Please include the string: [perl #58068] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # URL: http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=58068 r30260 adds the 'register' scope to PAST::Var. This value for :scope should be

[perl #58076] Configure tests fail with Can't store CODE items

2008-08-19 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by Andy Dougherty # Please include the string: [perl #58076] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # URL: http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=58076 A number of Configure tests are faililng for me on Solaris 8/SPARC. Specifically,

[perl #58078] [PATCH] PLATFORMS update for Solaris 8 (August 2008)

2008-08-19 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by Andy Dougherty # Please include the string: [perl #58078] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # URL: http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=58078 This patch updates the current status for me on Solaris 8. Nearly all of the

[perl #58088] [PATCH] [pdd27mmd] Rename Parrot_mmd_sort_candidate_list

2008-08-19 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by Andrew Whitworth # Please include the string: [perl #58088] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # URL: http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=58088 According to http://www.perlfoundation.org/parrot/index.cgi?pdd27mmd_tasklist

[perl #58090] [PATCH] [pdd27mmd] Deprecate mmd_create_builtin_multi_meth_2

2008-08-19 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by Andrew Whitworth # Please include the string: [perl #58090] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # URL: http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=58090 The attached patch deprecates the function

[svn:parrot-pdd] r30315 - trunk/docs/pdds

2008-08-19 Thread Whiteknight
Author: Whiteknight Date: Mon Aug 18 16:36:57 2008 New Revision: 30315 Modified: trunk/docs/pdds/pdd09_gc.pod Log: [PDD] a few clarifications to PDD09, some better wording, spelling fixes. Expand on some topics that didn't have great coverage before. Modified: trunk/docs/pdds/pdd09_gc.pod

[perl #58094] [PATCH] adding some S02 tests to spectest_regression

2008-08-19 Thread jason switzer
# New Ticket Created by jason switzer # Please include the string: [perl #58094] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # URL: http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=58094 The attached patch adds a few more test files to the spectest_regression. As of

Re: Merged pdd25cx branch

2008-08-19 Thread karol skocik
Hi, so Parrot will have (or already have) a frames for function calls allocated on stack or heap? I would like to implement a language which would allow many threads (millions) on Parrot, using similar design as found in Erlang VM (pool of OS threads which are giving time slices to stackless

Re: [perl #58078] [PATCH] PLATFORMS update for Solaris 8 (August 2008)

2008-08-19 Thread Will Coleda
On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 1:08 PM, via RT Andy Dougherty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: # New Ticket Created by Andy Dougherty # Please include the string: [perl #58078] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # URL: http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=58078

Re: Fwd: [perl #57656] [PROPOSAL][PIR] change PIR sugar for concat into .. (or something else)

2008-08-19 Thread Klaas-Jan Stol
On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 10:31 PM, Allison Randal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Klaas-Jan Stol wrote: On Sat, Aug 16, 2008 at 9:41 AM, Allison Randal [EMAIL PROTECTED]mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Klaas-Jan Stol wrote: On Wed Aug 06 05:53:07 2008, kjs wrote: My

[perl #58108] [BUILD] languages/Makefile 'test' target has too many deps

2008-08-19 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by Will Coleda # Please include the string: [perl #58108] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # URL: http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=58108 The 'test' target in languages/Makefile depends on building -all- the languages, not

Re: [svn:parrot] r30336 - trunk/languages/t

2008-08-19 Thread Will Coleda
On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 9:09 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Author: coke Date: Tue Aug 19 06:09:07 2008 New Revision: 30336 Modified: trunk/languages/t/harness Log: [t] revert r24988; no test harnesses support --master, and at least one was reporting it as an invalid option during

Parrot 0.7.0, Tuesday 19 Aug

2008-08-19 Thread Bob Rogers
From: Bob Rogers [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2008 12:45:56 -0400 On Tuesday around 13:00 UT, I will create a release branch and announce it to the list, after which normal hacking can resume on the trunk . . . The release branch has been created, so feel free to hack

Re: Parrot 0.7.0, Tuesday 19 Aug

2008-08-19 Thread Will Coleda
On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 9:26 AM, Bob Rogers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Bob Rogers [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2008 12:45:56 -0400 On Tuesday around 13:00 UT, I will create a release branch and announce it to the list, after which normal hacking can resume on the

Re: unified languages-test

2008-08-19 Thread Will Coleda
On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 2:18 PM, Will Coleda [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 2:12 PM, Will Coleda [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: cd languages make test Had a LOT of failures recently. I just: - fixed up some APL that was using crufty parrot (that I myself broke but never noticed

Re: Parrot 0.7.0, Tuesday 19 Aug

2008-08-19 Thread Bob Rogers
From: Will Coleda [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2008 09:28:10 -0400 You probably want to include my latest un-revert to languages/t/harness which I had hoped to get in under the wire. Regards. -- Will Coke Coleda You mean the following? 2008-08-19 09:09:07:

Re: Parrot 0.7.0, Tuesday 19 Aug

2008-08-19 Thread Will Coleda
On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 9:48 AM, Bob Rogers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Will Coleda [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2008 09:28:10 -0400 You probably want to include my latest un-revert to languages/t/harness which I had hoped to get in under the wire. Regards. --

Re: unified languages-test

2008-08-19 Thread Bob Rogers
From: Will Coleda [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2008 09:34:18 -0400 Which is slightly more difficult than it looks: A patch doing this to the 2 affected tests is available here: http://nopaste.snit.ch/13830 The short term goal is to have a relatively clean

Re: Parrot 0.7.0, Tuesday 19 Aug

2008-08-19 Thread Bob Rogers
From: Will Coleda [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2008 09:49:04 -0400 No. the one just after it, which un-reverted that revert. OK, I will re-un-revert it in the branch. -- Bob

[perl #57006] [PATCH] add cygwin opengl config quirks

2008-08-19 Thread Reini Urban via RT
One more fix on this issue on parsing the headers. X freeglut only if DISPLAY is set, otherwise use native w32api GLUT -- Reini Urban difforig config/auto/opengl.pm lib/Parrot/Configure/Step/Methods.pm header parsing: need to match the linker logic. On cygwin without DISPLAY leave out

Re: codingstd tests should pass in every release

2008-08-19 Thread Bob Rogers
From: Bernhard Schmalhofer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2008 14:28:47 +0200 On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 4:39 AM, Patrick R. Michaud [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Perhaps make fulltest should run the make codetest target instead of make codingstd_tests? Thumbs up from

Re: arrayref/hashref in spectest suite

2008-08-19 Thread Moritz Lenz
Patrick R. Michaud wrote: There are quite a few tests in the spectest suite that make mention of arrayref and hashref, and that expect things to work like references do in Perl 5. I'd like to get some confirmation/clarification on them. Here's one example: my $foo = [ 42 ]; my

Re: [svn:parrot] r30286 - in trunk: src/pmc t/pmc

2008-08-19 Thread chromatic
On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 04:49:59PM -0400, Will Coleda wrote: I'm pretty sure that Rakudo and Tcl want different things from NameSpaces. This code has a strong smell. Can you be more specific as to the odor? Do namespaces nest? Can you access them with String keys? How about Key keys?

Re: [svn:parrot] r30286 - in trunk: src/pmc t/pmc

2008-08-19 Thread Will Coleda
On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 1:47 PM, chromatic [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 04:49:59PM -0400, Will Coleda wrote: I'm pretty sure that Rakudo and Tcl want different things from NameSpaces. This code has a strong smell. For those playing at home: This code is taking a string

Re: [perl #58044] Segfault in t/op/exceptions.t:30 with CGP core

2008-08-19 Thread NotFound
On Sun, Aug 17, 2008 at 9:35 PM, via RT Bob Rogers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here's another curious test failure: Using the CGP core, t/op/exceptions.t:30 (the new on for Resumable exceptions, r30123) fails with a segfault, but only if invoked through t/harness (i.e. it works for prove).

Re: [perl #58054] t/op/exceptions.t:30 segfaults in switched core

2008-08-19 Thread NotFound
On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 1:33 AM, via RT Bob Rogers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Running t/op/exceptions.t:30 segfaults using the switched core (parrot -S). The same test fails in the CGP core [see RT#58044], but in a different place. The assertion I added for RT#58044 also catches this. --

[svn:perl6-synopsis] r14575 - doc/trunk/design/syn

2008-08-19 Thread larry
Author: larry Date: Tue Aug 19 12:03:51 2008 New Revision: 14575 Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S02.pod Log: P5ism noted by moritz++ Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S02.pod == --- doc/trunk/design/syn/S02.pod

Parrot 0.7.0 Severe Macaw

2008-08-19 Thread Bob Rogers
On behalf of the Parrot team, I'm proud to announce Parrot 0.7.0 Severe Macaw. Parrot (http://parrotcode.org/) is a virtual machine aimed at running all dynamic languages. Parrot 0.7.0 is available via CPAN (soon), or follow the download instructions at http://parrotcode.org/source.html. For

Re: Parrot 0.7.0 Severe Macaw - permissions

2008-08-19 Thread Jesse Vincent
[List-CC changed] On Aug 19, 2008, at 4:10 PM, Reini Urban wrote: Bob Rogers schrieb: On behalf of the Parrot team, I'm proud to announce Parrot 0.7.0 Severe Macaw. Parrot (http://parrotcode.org/) is a virtual machine aimed at running all dynamic languages. There are several module

Re: Parrot 0.7.0 Severe Macaw - permissions

2008-08-19 Thread jerry gay
On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 1:13 PM, Jesse Vincent [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [List-CC changed] On Aug 19, 2008, at 4:10 PM, Reini Urban wrote: Bob Rogers schrieb: On behalf of the Parrot team, I'm proud to announce Parrot 0.7.0 Severe Macaw. Parrot (http://parrotcode.org/) is a virtual machine

Re: Parrot 0.7.0 Severe Macaw - permissions

2008-08-19 Thread Will Coleda
On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 4:22 PM, jerry gay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 1:13 PM, Jesse Vincent [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [List-CC changed] On Aug 19, 2008, at 4:10 PM, Reini Urban wrote: Bob Rogers schrieb: On behalf of the Parrot team, I'm proud to announce Parrot 0.7.0

[svn:parrot-pdd] r30355 - trunk/docs/pdds

2008-08-19 Thread allison
Author: allison Date: Tue Aug 19 14:10:34 2008 New Revision: 30355 Modified: trunk/docs/pdds/pdd27_multiple_dispatch.pod Log: [pdd] Adding more details on signatures and the find next feature to the multi dispatch PDD. Modified: trunk/docs/pdds/pdd27_multiple_dispatch.pod

Re: Allowing '-' in identifiers: what's the motivation?

2008-08-19 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
* Peter Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2008-08-13 19:20]: If we allow operator symbols in identifiers then the world will divide into those people who look at Perl 6 programs only through syntax-highlighting editors and don't know what all the fuss is about naming a variable $e*trade since it is

[svn:parrot-pdd] r30360 - trunk/docs/pdds

2008-08-19 Thread rgrjr
Author: rgrjr Date: Tue Aug 19 16:04:46 2008 New Revision: 30360 Modified: trunk/docs/pdds/pdd27_multiple_dispatch.pod Log: Add missing =over. Modified: trunk/docs/pdds/pdd27_multiple_dispatch.pod == ---

Moving GC MS

2008-08-19 Thread Andrew Whitworth
I created a new branch tonight, /branches/pdd09gc to try to continue some of my GC work from the summer with a blank slate. I have a few cleanup jobs I want to do first, so that it should be easier to add in a new GC without having so many problems as I had. One thing I've wanted to do is to

[perl #57958] [BUG] [PATCH] config/auto/attributes.pm not cleaning up after itself properly

2008-08-19 Thread James Keenan via RT
There have been no complaints and no Smolder failures due to this patch. Marking ticket resolved.

[perl #58036] [BUG] [PATCH] config/auto/warnings.pm not cleaning up after itself properly

2008-08-19 Thread James Keenan via RT
There have been no complaints and no Smolder failures due to this patch. Marking ticket resolved.

[perl #57956] [BUG] [PATCH] config/auto/sizes.pm not cleaning up after itself

2008-08-19 Thread James Keenan via RT
This is the sort of patch where I suspect I won't get any feedback until it breaks something. And since it's not breaking anything on the OSes at my disposal and it's DWIMming, I applied it in r30366. I'll resolve ticket in a few days if there are no complaints. Thank you very much. kid51

Parrot 0.7.0 publicity

2008-08-19 Thread Bob Rogers
The release is done, all but the publicity phase. These are the last bits, with which I'd appreciate some (more) help and/or advice: 1. I have yet to be able to create a use Perl; account. I think use.perl.org hates me; I keep getting timeouts and odd errors, but no password email.

Parrot 0.7.0 publicity

2008-08-19 Thread Bob Rogers
From: Bob Rogers [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2008 22:00:50 -0400 1. I have yet to be able to create a use Perl; account. I think use.perl.org hates me; I keep getting timeouts and odd errors, but no password email. I take that back; I did eventually conquer

[perl #57492] [CAGE] Explore possible speedups of t/configure/*.t tests

2008-08-19 Thread James Keenan via RT
A net total of 5 t/configure/*.t files were eliminated tonight as part of r30368 (RT 57780).

Re: Parrot 0.7.0 publicity

2008-08-19 Thread James E Keenan
Bob Rogers wrote: I take that back; I did eventually conquer use.perl.org, but forgot to tick it off my list. I just submitted to use.perl.org, so if yours doesn't get through perhaps mine will. kid51