Re: rakudo Test module: expanding tests considered?

2015-03-24 Thread Tom Browder
On Mar 24, 2015 3:44 AM, Moritz Lenz mor...@faui2k3.org wrote: On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 5:53 PM, Elizabeth Mattijsen l...@dijkmat.nl wrote: On 23 Mar 2015, at 23:50, Tom Browder tom.brow...@gmail.com wrote: Question: Would it be better to submit pull requests for some (or all

Re: rakudo Test module: expanding tests considered?

2015-03-23 Thread Tom Browder
On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 5:53 PM, Elizabeth Mattijsen l...@dijkmat.nl wrote: On 23 Mar 2015, at 23:50, Tom Browder tom.brow...@gmail.com wrote: Question: Would it be better to submit pull requests for some (or all) for the rakudo Test module or start creating a new Test::* module? Good

rakudo Test module: expanding tests considered?

2015-03-23 Thread Tom Browder
I have some tests needed for a Perl 5 module I'm trying to translate from Perl 5 to Perl 6 that aren't available yet. Question: Would it be better to submit pull requests for some (or all) for the rakudo Test module or start creating a new Test::* module? Thanks. Best, -Tom

Re: Announce: Rakudo Perl 6 compiler, Development Release #92 (“Niceville”)

2015-10-23 Thread Tom Browder
On Oct 23, 2015 7:21 AM, "Will Coleda" wrote: > On behalf of the Rakudo development team, I’m very happy to announce the October > 2015 release of Rakudo Perl 6 #92 “Niceville”. As the founder of the Niceville Perl Mongers (one member so far), I presume to speak for our little

Re: [perl #128282] Inconsistent use of snake_case and kebob-case in Test.pm6

2016-05-29 Thread Tom Browder
On Sunday, May 29, 2016, Zoffix Znet wrote: ... > I'm willing to do the work, if the proposal is accepted. The question then > becomes: should the old names stay? > I support your proposal for kebob-casing. -Tom [tbrowder]

Re: Panda failure

2016-06-27 Thread Tom Browder
On Monday, June 27, 2016, The Holy Ghost wrote: > Hello, > > I managed to build the rakudo-star perl6 compiler, I hope I am in the > right place for this : > > How did you build it, with rakudobrew? Or following what instructions? -Tom

Fwd: Panda failure

2016-06-27 Thread Tom Browder
Sent to the wrong person. -- Forwarded message -- From: *Parrot Raiser* <1parr...@gmail.com> Date: Monday, June 27, 2016 Subject: Panda failure To: Tom Browder <tom.brow...@gmail.com> See the attached bash script for an example that works for me. get_rakudo Descrip

[perl #127330] [SLOW] 10_000 lines with 「say ‘a’;」 take 16 seconds to run

2016-02-03 Thread Tom Browder
On Thursday, January 21, 2016, Elizabeth Mattijsen > wrote: > > > On 21 Jan 2016, at 00:42, Alex Jakimenko (via RT) < > perl6-bugs-follo...@perl.org> > ... > As you can see, most of the time is spent parsing the file, and then >

Re: My personal benchmark shows no improvement with Rakudo 2016.02

2016-02-23 Thread Tom Browder
On Tue, Feb 23, 2016 at 2:42 AM, Elizabeth Mattijsen wrote: > Which may not have been a good idea :-) > > I’m afraid it fell through the cracks here. Could you get me on track again? > I promise I’ll look at it today! Sure, Liz (I don't know how you keep up with all you

My personal benchmark shows no improvement with Rakudo 2016.02

2016-02-22 Thread Tom Browder
Note that my read of a 10 Gb file shows no significant speed-up from Rakudo 2016.01 to 2016.02. Best regards, -Tom

Re: My personal benchmark shows no improvement with Rakudo 2016.02

2016-02-22 Thread Tom Browder
I gave my code to Liz. -Tom On Monday, February 22, 2016, Brent Laabs <bsla...@gmail.com> wrote: > Without a code sample or statistics, there's not much we can do about it. > > On Mon, Feb 22, 2016 at 4:56 PM, Tom Browder <tom.brow...@gmail.com > <javascript:_e

Static code checker research worth investigating (Communications of the ACM, 03/2016, Vol. 59, No. 03, p. 99)

2016-03-05 Thread Tom Browder
Interesting article in latest issue of subject titled: "A Differential Approach to Undefined Behavior Detection" which may describe procedures not used in other static analysis programs. Article references the authors' website here: http://css.csail.mit.edu/stack which contains more info

Re: [perl #127823] Need ssize_t for Rakudo NativeCall

2016-04-02 Thread Tom Browder
On Saturday, April 2, 2016, Tobias Leich via RT < perl6-bugs-follo...@perl.org> wrote: > You can define them yourself: > > native size_t is Int is ctype("size_t") is unsigned is repr("P6int") { }; > native ssize_t is Int is ctype("size_t") is repr("P6int") { }; Thanks, Tobias!

Re: [BUG] Rakudo docs not converted to man nor installed for "make install"

2016-05-10 Thread Tom Browder
On Tuesday, May 10, 2016, Sam S. via RT wrote: > What docs? > > The ones in the 'docs/' folder in the git repo? > Those seem to be project docs aimed at developers working on Rakudo, not > at users of Rakudo. > I.e. that folder is basically used as a project wiki. >

[perl #128587] [POD] need pod-to-man translator

2016-07-12 Thread Tom Browder
On Monday, July 11, 2016, Will Coleda via RT > wrote: > On Sat Jul 09 13:51:07 2016, tbrowder wrote: > > Need a pod2man translator. > Does this need to be shipped with the rakudo compiler? Since the perl6

Re: Questions on using other "modules" in nqp

2016-08-01 Thread Tom Browder
On Mon, Aug 1, 2016 at 3:05 PM, Patrick R. Michaud wrote: > My short answer would be that there's not a shortcut way in NQP > to avoid the fully-qualified sub names. I'm doubtful that we want > to duplicate Perl 6's import mechanism into NQP. That's all I need to know.

Re: [perl #128587] [POD] need pod-to-man translator

2016-07-12 Thread Tom Browder
On Tuesday, July 12, 2016, Patrick R. Michaud wrote: > I think any pod2man translator program should be separate from Rakudo > itself. > > If --help mentions a man page, it's probably sufficient to ship Rakudo > with an already-translated man page, rather than shipping the

NQP and Pod

2016-06-28 Thread Tom Browder
I am trying to debug a P6 pod problem, and the problem code seems to be in file: rakudo/src/Perl6/Pod.nqp My question is how can I access code in that file? + Can I write an nqp script, use the Perl6::Pod module, and operate that way? + How do I feed a chunk of pod to the routines? Any help

Questions on using other "modules" in nqp

2016-07-07 Thread Tom Browder
I have added a file "DebugPod.nqp" in the directory rakudo/src/Perl6 and want to use it for debugging other files in that directory. Following the format of the "Pod.nqp" file in that directory, I have structured my new file this way: Perl6::DebugPod { our sub debug_rows($desc, @rows)

Re: Questions on using other "modules" in nqp

2016-07-22 Thread Tom Browder
ping On Thu, Jul 7, 2016 at 7:49 AM, Tom Browder <tom.brow...@gmail.com> wrote: > I have added a file "DebugPod.nqp" in the directory rakudo/src/Perl6 > and want to use it for debugging other files in that directory. > > Following the format of the "Pod.nq

Re: Panda failure

2016-06-29 Thread Tom Browder
On Monday, June 27, 2016, The Holy Ghost wrote: > Hello, > > I managed to build the rakudo-star perl6 compiler, I hope I am in the > right place for this : ... Is there any reason you haven't used the rakudobrew method? Especially if you want to keep up with the

Re: NQP and Pod

2016-06-29 Thread Tom Browder
On Wed, Jun 29, 2016 at 9:00 AM, Will Coleda <w...@coleda.com> wrote: > On Tue, Jun 28, 2016 at 5:32 PM, Tom Browder <tom.brow...@gmail.com> wrote: >> I am trying to debug a P6 pod problem, and the problem code seems to be in >> file: >> >> rakudo/src/Per

Re: [perl #129252] routines sprintf and printf need auto newline capability

2016-09-11 Thread Tom Browder
On Sun, Sep 11, 2016 at 3:54 PM, Elizabeth Mattijsen wrote: > Just curious, but what is wrong with "say fmt()" ? Liz, one reason, i'm ashamed to say, is lack of familiarity with fmt() (too many years of C/C++ and Perl 5, I guess). The printf family I am very aware of and am

Re: [perl #129252] routines sprintf and printf need auto newline capability

2016-09-11 Thread Tom Browder
On Sun, Sep 11, 2016 at 5:08 PM, Zoffix Znet via RT wrote: > On Sun Sep 11 13:48:04 2016, tbrowder wrote: >> Both routines need an alias (or adverb) so that a newline is ... > I'd prefer to avoid adding two new subs and two new methods for the sake of > saving a

Re: [perl #129252] routines sprintf and printf need auto newline capability

2016-09-11 Thread Tom Browder
On Sunday, September 11, 2016, Zoffix Znet via RT < perl6-bugs-follo...@perl.org> wrote: > On Sun Sep 11 15:29:45 2016, tbrowder wrote: > > Uh, say "what?" :) Just a little humour. Someone thought thought it was worth it to not have to explicitly add the newline on print, and I feel the same

Re: [perl #129252] [RFC] routines sprintf and printf need auto newline capability

2016-09-12 Thread Tom Browder
On Sun, Sep 11, 2016 at 6:49 PM, Zoffix Znet via RT wrote: > On Sun Sep 11 15:29:45 2016, tbrowder wrote: >> Uh, say "what?" :) > > I don't think that works as a justification. The put() is used much more > frequently than printf(), > so it makes sense to have it as

Re: [perl #129862] [BUG][POD] Pod::To::Text failing on uneven row lengths

2016-10-12 Thread Tom Browder
On Wed, Oct 12, 2016 at 3:22 PM, David Warring wrote: > # New Ticket Created by David Warring > # Please include the string: [perl #129862] > # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. > # https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=129862

Re: [perl #129862] [BUG][POD] Pod::To::Text failing on uneven row lengths

2016-10-14 Thread Tom Browder
On Thu, Oct 13, 2016 at 8:32 PM, Zoffix Znet via RT wrote: > > PR merged[^1]; tests needed. > > [1] > https://github.com/rakudo/rakudo/commit/7af9ec9d90d4ec8e9732e979729df85a80f7ec11 See perl/roast PR 168.

Re: [BUG] Perl 6 text file line read is much slower than Perl 5

2016-10-22 Thread Tom Browder
On Saturday, October 22, 2016, Elizabeth Mattijsen via RT < perl6-bugs-follo...@perl.org> wrote: > Would you believe it used to be a lot slower still? > > Anyways, what does P6/P5 mean?? If it’s the runtimes divided, I get > values between 9 and 10 or so. Which would be less surprising to me.

Re: [perl #130207] [RESOLVED] [SITE] directory "/downloads/rakudo" needs a "latest" entry to ease automating installation procedures

2016-11-30 Thread Tom Browder
On Wed, Nov 30, 2016 at 12:21 PM, Zoffix Znet via RT wrote: > According to our records, your request regarding > "[SITE] directory "/downloads/rakudo" needs a "latest" entry to ease > automating installation procedures" > has been resolved. > > If you have any

Re: [perl #131543] [FEATURE_REQUEST] Add line number method to IO::Handle

2017-06-09 Thread Tom Browder
On Fri, Jun 9, 2017 at 07:45 Zoffix Znet via RT < perl6-bugs-follo...@perl.org> wrote: > ution to me, ... > but if you really want the `.ln` > method, create a module that mixes it in. IO::CatHandle::AutoLines does > what you want for cat > handles, so you should be able to re-use a lot of its

Re: [perl #129941] [PERF] [IO] Perl 6 text file line read is much slower than Perl 5

2017-09-12 Thread Tom Browder
On Tue, Sep 12, 2017 at 09:23 jn...@jnthn.net via RT < perl6-bugs-follo...@perl.org> wrote: > On Mon, 24 Oct 2016 03:27:55 -0700, tbrowder wrote: > > On Sat Oct 22 04:24:15 2016, tbrowder wrote: > > > See for a suite > > > of tests that show

Re: [perl #132195] Feature request: Have Test.pm6 tests accept an optional second description.

2017-10-01 Thread Tom Browder
On Sun, Oct 1, 2017 at 17:23 Zoffix Znet via RT wrote: > On Sun, 01 Oct 2017 10:10:55 -0700, tbrowder wrote: ... > My vote on this feature is a most definite -1. I see no reason to > over-engineer a core module to support some fringe usecase. > The tests routines

Re: [perl #132377] [BUG][POD] tables inside =begin/=end comment pairs cause exception

2017-10-30 Thread Tom Browder
On Mon, Oct 30, 2017 at 09:53 Elizabeth Mattijsen wrote: > A —ll-exception stacktrace would be useful in such a case :-) WILCO!

[perl #128221] [BUG] Weird internal error when parsing some very simple Pod with '-' in the first column of a table in Rakudo

2016-07-01 Thread Tom Browder via RT
I am working on this issue and would like ownership of it.

[perl #127305] EXPORT ignored when unit module/package is used

2016-10-25 Thread Tom Browder via RT
In a conversation about this issue on IRC channel #perl6 on 25 Oct 2016 starting at approx 06:24, module authors and users express concern about modules polluting the user's namespace. Several main desires IMHO: User: 1. Selective import by object name(s) or tag(s). 2. Selective import by

Re: [perl #131543] [FEATURE_REQUEST] Add line number method to IO::Handle

2017-06-09 Thread Tom Browder via RT
On Fri, Jun 9, 2017 at 07:45 Zoffix Znet via RT < perl6-bugs-follo...@perl.org> wrote: > ution to me, ... > but if you really want the `.ln` > method, create a module that mixes it in. IO::CatHandle::AutoLines does > what you want for cat > handles, so you should be able to re-use a lot of its

Re: [perl #129941] [PERF] [IO] Perl 6 text file line read is much slower than Perl 5

2017-09-12 Thread Tom Browder via RT
On Tue, Sep 12, 2017 at 09:23 jn...@jnthn.net via RT < perl6-bugs-follo...@perl.org> wrote: > On Mon, 24 Oct 2016 03:27:55 -0700, tbrowder wrote: > > On Sat Oct 22 04:24:15 2016, tbrowder wrote: > > > See for a suite > > > of tests that show

Re: [perl #132195] Feature request: Have Test.pm6 tests accept an optional second description.

2017-10-01 Thread Tom Browder via RT
On Sun, Oct 1, 2017 at 17:23 Zoffix Znet via RT wrote: > On Sun, 01 Oct 2017 10:10:55 -0700, tbrowder wrote: ... > My vote on this feature is a most definite -1. I see no reason to > over-engineer a core module to support some fringe usecase. > The tests routines

[perl #132195] Feature request: Have Test.pm6 tests accept an optional second description.

2017-10-02 Thread Tom Browder via RT
On Sun, 01 Oct 2017 18:16:34 -0700, tbrowder wrote: > On Sun, Oct 1, 2017 at 17:23 Zoffix Znet via RT > wrote: > > On Sun, 01 Oct 2017 10:10:55 -0700, tbrowder wrote: > ... > > My vote on this feature is a most definite -1. I see no reason to > > over-engineer a core

[perl #132156] [LTA] Suggest polymod for bases > 36 (9123607.base(37))

2017-09-25 Thread Tom Browder via RT
On Mon, 25 Sep 2017 02:01:55 -0700, elizabeth wrote: > > > On 25 Sep 2017, at 08:21, Aleks-Daniel Jakimenko-Aleksejev (via RT) > > wrote: > > > > # New Ticket Created by Aleks-Daniel Jakimenko-Aleksejev > > # Please include the string: [perl #132156] > > # in the

[perl #132348] [POD] tables should accept an inline comment (Z)

2017-11-30 Thread Tom Browder via RT
tests added in roast PR #353

[perl #132348] [POD] tables should accept an inline comment (Z)

2017-11-30 Thread Tom Browder via RT
tests added in roast PR #353

[perl #124403] [POD] Table parsing broken in rakudo

2017-11-30 Thread Tom Browder via RT
tests added in roast PR #353

[perl #128221] [BUG] Weird internal error when parsing some very simple Pod with '-' in the first column of a table in Rakudo

2017-11-30 Thread Tom Browder via RT
tests added in roast PR #353

[perl #132341] [POD] table handling should ensure table rows have the same number of cells even if they are empty

2017-11-30 Thread Tom Browder via RT
Fixed by PR #1240.

[perl #129862] Pod::To::Text failing on uneven row lengths

2017-11-30 Thread Tom Browder via RT
Root problem is fixed by PR #1240.

[perl #124403] [POD] Table parsing broken in rakudo

2017-11-30 Thread Tom Browder via RT
Fixed by PR #1240.

[perl #128221] [BUG] Weird internal error when parsing some very simple Pod with '-' in the first column of a table in Rakudo

2017-11-30 Thread Tom Browder via RT
Fixed by PR #1240.

[perl #132348] [POD] tables should accept an inline comment (Z)

2017-11-30 Thread Tom Browder via RT
Fixed by PR #1240.

Re: [perl #132377] [BUG][POD] tables inside =begin/=end comment pairs cause exception

2017-10-30 Thread Tom Browder via RT
On Mon, Oct 30, 2017 at 09:53 Elizabeth Mattijsen wrote: > A —ll-exception stacktrace would be useful in such a case :-) WILCO!

[perl #132377] [BUG][POD] tables inside =begin/=end comment pairs cause exception

2017-10-30 Thread Tom Browder via RT
On Mon, 30 Oct 2017 08:21:04 -0700, tbrowder wrote: > On Mon, Oct 30, 2017 at 09:53 Elizabeth Mattijsen wrote: > > > A —ll-exception stacktrace would be useful in such a case :-) > > > WILCO! Expected "=end comment" to terminate "=begin comment"; found "=end table"

[perl #132377] [BUG][POD] tables inside =begin/=end comment pairs cause exception

2017-10-30 Thread Tom Browder via RT
On Mon, 30 Oct 2017 09:16:23 -0700, tbrowder wrote: > On Mon, 30 Oct 2017 08:21:04 -0700, tbrowder wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 30, 2017 at 09:53 Elizabeth Mattijsen wrote: > > > > > A —ll-exception stacktrace would be useful in such a case :-) > > > > > > WILCO! $ cat prob.p6 use

[perl #124281] colonpairs in [POD] config options always produce strings

2018-01-18 Thread Tom Browder via RT
closed by merge of rakudo PR #1339

[perl #126742] [POD] config items should not include quotes for string values

2018-01-18 Thread Tom Browder via RT
closed by merge of rakudo PR #1339

[perl #130477] [BUG][POD] Pod config parses colopairs but simply stringifies whatever it matched

2018-01-18 Thread Tom Browder via RT
closed by merge of rakudo PR #1339

[perl #132632] [POD][NYI]. List and hash configuration value formats are not yet implemented (NYI)

2018-01-18 Thread Tom Browder via RT
closed by merge of rakudo PR #1339

[perl #132632] [POD][NYI]. List and hash configuration value formats are not yet implemented (NYI)

2018-01-19 Thread Tom Browder via RT
closed also with tests in merged roast PR #371

[perl #126742] [POD] config items should not include quotes for string values

2018-01-19 Thread Tom Browder via RT
closed also with tests in merged roast PR #371

[perl #124281] colonpairs in [POD] config options always produce strings

2018-01-19 Thread Tom Browder via RT
closed also with tests in merged roast PR #371