Re: Calling conventions, invocations, and suchlike things

2005-01-19 Thread Leopold Toetsch
Dan Sugalski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi folks. The lost son is back, welcome. The easy one first -- why the object is out-of-band, rather than one of the parameters. Parrot's got the interesting, and somewhat unfortunate, requirement of having to allow all subroutines behave as methods

Re: Name of parrot executable

2005-01-19 Thread Leopold Toetsch
Will Coleda [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To implement tcl's [info nameofexecutable] I need to get the name of the exectuable parrot was invoked with. I would have expected to live in interpinfo, but don't see it there. The executable name (and all interpreter arguments) are swallowed by

Re: Name of parrot executable

2005-01-19 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 10:14 AM -0800 1/18/05, Will Coleda wrote: To implement tcl's [info nameofexecutable] I need to get the name of the exectuable parrot was invoked with. I would have expected to live in interpinfo, but don't see it there. Anyone have a pointer to where this is? (If it's not in yet, I'll add a

Re: Name of parrot executable

2005-01-19 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 4:02 PM + 1/19/05, Nicholas Clark wrote: On Wed, Jan 19, 2005 at 10:54:53AM -0500, Dan Sugalski wrote: parrot. If, on the other hand, we were invoked as: parrot foo.pbc then both fullname and basename would be parrot. Unix hashbang (and Windows file association) invocation may give

Re: Name of parrot executable

2005-01-19 Thread Jonathan Worthington
Nicholas Clark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Jan 19, 2005 at 10:54:53AM -0500, Dan Sugalski wrote: parrot. If, on the other hand, we were invoked as: parrot foo.pbc then both fullname and basename would be parrot. Unix hashbang (and Windows file association) invocation may give us

Re: Name of parrot executable

2005-01-19 Thread Matt Diephouse
On Wed, 19 Jan 2005 11:09:19 -0500, Dan Sugalski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Good point--we should. That'd mean we'd want to have three sets of data: the invoked full/base name, the 'program' full/base name, and the interpreter full/base name. Then we can use this to have parrot look for

Roadmap, RT, TODO...

2005-01-19 Thread William Coleda
Now that Dan's back, I'd like to make sure we have a roadmap in place for moving forward. I had great plans to flesh it out more than I have, but work has intruded. I've checked in what I have so far in docs/ROADMAP. I would like to eventually have every single outstanding task documented in RT,

RT Hall of Shame [perl #15308]

2005-01-19 Thread William Coleda
This week's Hall of Shame ticket is [perl #15308] http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=15308 Originally submitted in July of 2002 by Scott Walters, the only activity on the warnocked ticket was a ping to the list in April of 2004 asking if someone could rule on the patch. No followups