[perl #78652] Patches to fix some Parrot deprecations

2010-10-28 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by Nick Wellnhofer # Please include the string: [perl #78652] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # URL: http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=78652 Here is a set of patches that fix some Parrot deprecations. They should be

Re: Tweaking junctions

2010-10-28 Thread Martin D Kealey
I have to admit to feeling uneasy about the whole action-at-a-distance effect that junctions are capable of producing. They sit around pretending to be a scalar, only to pop up and wreak havoc with ones expectations of linearity when you're not expecting it. That unexpected-action-at-a-distance

Re: [perl #78626] Patch: support higher arity in reduce()

2010-10-28 Thread Patrick R. Michaud
On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 08:55:36PM -0700, Darren Duncan wrote: Stephen Mosher (via RT) wrote: Attached is a diff against rakudo/src/core/Any-list.pm which adds support to reduce() for higher-arity functions. It ensures arity-list agreement and is generally safe. Other than the test, the

Announce: Rakudo Star 2010.10 released

2010-10-28 Thread Patrick R. Michaud
On behalf of the Rakudo and Perl 6 development teams, I'm happy to announce the October 2010 release of Rakudo Star, a useful and usable distribution of Perl 6. The tarball for the October 2010 release is available from http://github.com/rakudo/star/downloads. Rakudo Star is aimed at early

[perl #78670] [BUG] LTA error message for multi-dispatch failures could use the capture on which binding failed in Rakudo

2010-10-28 Thread Carl Mäsak
# New Ticket Created by Carl Mäsak # Please include the string: [perl #78670] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # URL: http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=78670 PerlJam It would be nice if multi-dispatch errors has a little more awesomeness.

Re: [perl #78626] Patch: support higher arity in reduce()

2010-10-28 Thread Darren Duncan
Patrick R. Michaud wrote: On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 08:55:36PM -0700, Darren Duncan wrote: Stephen Mosher (via RT) wrote: Attached is a diff against rakudo/src/core/Any-list.pm which adds support to reduce() for higher-arity functions. It ensures arity-list agreement and is generally safe. Other

[perl #78676] [BUG] Using the special ClassName{ :key($value) } syntax inside .new doesn't work in Rakudo

2010-10-28 Thread Carl Mäsak
# New Ticket Created by Carl Mäsak # Please include the string: [perl #78676] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # URL: http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=78676 masak rakudo: class A { has $.x; method foo { say $!x } }; class B is A { has $.x;