Re: Threads on Cygwin

2004-09-30 Thread Leopold Toetsch
Joshua Gatcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Up until a couple of weeks ago, all the threads tests were passing on Cygwin. I had submitted a patch some time ago that never got applied enabling tests for threads, timer, and extend_13 that never got applied. I figured there was good reason ...

Re: Real/internal Exceptions

2004-09-30 Thread Leopold Toetsch
Kj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, Just wondering (again), in order to be able to follow discussion on matters: What is the difference between an internal exception and a real exception (as if the first one isn't a real exception...). The internal ones are mostly unclassified real

Re: Parakeet 0.3

2004-09-30 Thread Leopold Toetsch
Michel Pelletier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Parakeet is an object-oriented Forth-like stack language for the Parrot VM. It is written in PIR and compiled its code directly to PIR. Should it go into CVS abd being included in 0.1.1? -Michel leo

Re: Namespaces, part 1 (new bits)

2004-09-30 Thread Leopold Toetsch
Jeff Clites [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: First off, Perl5 doesn't describe itself that way. The Camel states, Note that we can use the same name for $days, @days, and %days without Perl getting confused. While that's fine for Perl it doesn't help, if you want to access one distinct days from

Re: Namespaces

2004-09-30 Thread Dan Hursh
Jeff Clites wrote: That's it. No typing, no classification, no nothing. By postpending a null character, below, you _are_ doing typing/classification, of course. And, what about subs? I was kind of inspired here. Just stick with me. As Larry said, it's best to prepend it. And then we can call

[perl #31771] [PATCH] Fix EXEC object writing

2004-09-30 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by Adam Thomason # Please include the string: [perl #31771] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # URL: http://rt.perl.org:80/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=31771 Sometime recently the 'testexec' Makefile target stopped working. It turns

Re: Namespaces again

2004-09-30 Thread Chip Salzenberg
According to Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon: Chip Salzenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: parrot_alias(a, 'b', # dest: Python is unified, no need for a category here a, 'b', 'scalar') # src: Perl is not unified, so source category is required It seems to me

Re: cvs commit: parrot/t/library streams.t

2004-09-30 Thread Leopold Toetsch
Jens Rieks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Log: marked test #13 and #19 as TODO - they are failing due to a GC problem I'm still fighting with these two. I've a stripped down version of _13 using all the constructs like in the test + library - no GC error - strange. leo

Re: cvs commit: parrot/t/library streams.t

2004-09-30 Thread Jens Rieks
On Thursday 30 September 2004 11:16, Leopold Toetsch wrote: Jens Rieks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Log: marked test #13 and #19 as TODO - they are failing due to a GC problem I'm still fighting with these two. I've a stripped down version of _13 using all the constructs like in the test +

Re: cvs commit: parrot/t/library streams.t

2004-09-30 Thread Leopold Toetsch
Leopold Toetsch wrote: Jens Rieks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Log: marked test #13 and #19 as TODO - they are failing due to a GC problem I'm still fighting with these two. I've a stripped down version of _13 using all the constructs like in the test + library - no GC error - strange. Have it

Re: Parakeet 0.3

2004-09-30 Thread Michel Pelletier
On Thu, 2004-09-30 at 01:10, Leopold Toetsch wrote: Michel Pelletier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Parakeet is an object-oriented Forth-like stack language for the Parrot VM. It is written in PIR and compiled its code directly to PIR. Should it go into CVS abd being included in 0.1.1? If no

Re: Threads on Cygwin

2004-09-30 Thread Joshua Gatcomb
--- Leopold Toetsch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Joshua Gatcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I had submitted a patch some time ago that never got applied enabling tests for threads, timer, and extend_13. Overlooked? Please rediff and resend. I will do - likely tomorrow. It says at the

Re: cvs commit: parrot/t/library streams.t

2004-09-30 Thread Joshua Gatcomb
--- Jens Rieks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On cygwin, test 21 fails too: t/library/streams..ok 20/21# Failed test (t/library/streams.t at line 1447) t/library/streams..NOK 21 To be honest, I have not been following this thread so I don't know if there is

Re: Namespaces again

2004-09-30 Thread Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon
Chip Salzenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: According to Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon: (This does pose a problem going the other way, but I suspect Perl could simply mark its own packages in some way, and fall back to a simpler scheme, such as ignore the sigil, when it's munging another

Re: Namespaces again

2004-09-30 Thread TOGoS
No no no. You've all got it all wrong. Except for the Dans. :) Namespaces are going to be *simple*. They do two things, and only two things. 1) They provide a hierarchy for other namespaces 2) They bind names to PMCs And that's all good. Here's what Perl can do: $foo becomes

Re: Namespaces again

2004-09-30 Thread Thomas Seiler
Chip Salzenberg wrote: According to Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon: Chip Salzenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: parrot_alias(a, 'b', # dest: Python is unified, no need for a category here a, 'b', 'scalar') # src: Perl is not unified, so source category is required It seems