This is a more or less random collection of thoughts and questions about
the rakudo testing infrastructure.
First of all I feel that it's in a rather good shape.
I put up a chart of number of tests on http://rakudo.de/ and plan to
update it regularly (via cron job once the admin installs Text::C
On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 11:36:05AM +0200, Moritz Lenz wrote:
> This is a more or less random collection of thoughts and questions about
> the rakudo testing infrastructure.
>
> First of all I feel that it's in a rather good shape.
I agree -- it's looking better all of the time. Many thanks to
yo
Patrick R. Michaud wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 11:36:05AM +0200, Moritz Lenz wrote:
>> [...] it would be useful to have an option that makes localtest more
>> verbose. Specifically if a script dies, it's not obvious after which
>> test it died.
>
> I'm not exactly sure what is meant here --
On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 11:36:05AM +0200, Moritz Lenz wrote:
> There seems to be a thorough confusion about numeric types. for example
> some tests read like this: is (1.1).WHAT, 'Num'; and then in a different
> file is (1.1).WHAT, 'Rat'; That raises two questions for me
> 1) should we test for the
(cross-posting to p6l)
Ryan Richter wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 11:36:05AM +0200, Moritz Lenz wrote:
>> 2) How do we know which numeric type is a class and which is a role? Is
>> there an explicit spec about the types of number literals? That could
>> have some impact on type checking in th
On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 10:23 AM, Moritz Lenz
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> Thanks for the effort, but it also raises new questions. For example:
>> Int is Num
> Rakudo doesn't do it that way, because the 'A is B' relation in OO means
> "Every instance of A is also an Instance of B", which certainly
Moritz Lenz> 3.14 would be a Rat or a Float or whatever
That's a good question, actually. Does the literal "3.14" get turned
into a Float or a Rat? Float is probably simplest, and matches what
e.g. Lisp does, but you could argue either way. Especially since many
exact decimal literals become ap
On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 12:45:39PM -0400, Mark J. Reed wrote:
: Moritz Lenz> 3.14 would be a Rat or a Float or whatever
:
: That's a good question, actually. Does the literal "3.14" get turned
: into a Float or a Rat? Float is probably simplest, and matches what
: e.g. Lisp does, but you could a
On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 09:55:09AM -0700, Larry Wall wrote:
> We could go as far as to guarantee that Nums do rational arithmetic
> out to a certain point, but probably what the financial insitutions
> want is special fixed-point types that assume a divisor anyway.
> Would any financial institution
> "RR" == Ryan Richter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
RR> On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 09:55:09AM -0700, Larry Wall wrote:
>> We could go as far as to guarantee that Nums do rational arithmetic
>> out to a certain point, but probably what the financial insitutions
>> want is special fixed-poin
Most financial institutions don't use float, rational or fixed point, they just
keep integer pennies.
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From: Larry Wall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Would any financial instituti
On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 1:31 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Most financial institutions don't use float, rational or fixed point, they
> just keep integer pennies.
I'm not so sure about that. There are lots of financial transactions
that deal in sub-$0.01 fractions: taxes, currency conversion,
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