Re: Initial feedback on PAST-pm, or Partridge

2006-11-26 Thread Patrick R. Michaud
On Sun, Nov 26, 2006 at 08:30:32PM -0800, Allison Randal wrote: > Overall, the POST implementation is usable and I really like the new HLL > compiler module. I've got Punie working with the new toolchain to the > point that it's generating valid PIR code for many low-level constructs, > but some

Re: Initial feedback on PAST-pm, or Partridge

2006-11-26 Thread Patrick R. Michaud
On Sun, Nov 26, 2006 at 08:30:32PM -0800, Allison Randal wrote: > I had to poke into the guts of HLLCompiler, the new PAST, and the new > POST a fair bit in the process of getting Punie to work with them, so my > comments here are a mixture of user experience and implementation > details. I've g

Initial feedback on PAST-pm, or Partridge

2006-11-26 Thread Allison Randal
Overall, the POST implementation is usable and I really like the new HLL compiler module. I've got Punie working with the new toolchain to the point that it's generating valid PIR code for many low-level constructs, but some of the high-level constructs that worked under the previous toolchain

Re: RFC: Proposal for dynamic binding

2006-11-26 Thread Allison Randal
Bob Rogers wrote: - Overall, I want the implementation of dynamic binding to be tied in more closely with the implementation of globals and lexicals. Particularly lexicals. They're already operating under the same scope constraints as locals. They already have storage for named va

Naming PAST-pm compiler tool chain

2006-11-26 Thread Allison Randal
How about "Partridge"? It starts with 'p', it's a bird, and brings to mind "Partridge in a Pear Tree" which goes with the theme of tree-based compiler tools (PGE outputs trees, TGE munges trees). We can pretend we named it after Kurt Partridge for his work on ZPL or Andrew Partridge for his wor

[perl #40482] [PATCH] Perl::Critic policy for perl -w, and unix-specific shebang lines

2006-11-26 Thread Paul Cochrane via RT
Patches applied as of revisions r15848, r15860, and r15871. Thanks, Paul

[perl #39826] [CAGE] convert C to C

2006-11-26 Thread Paul Cochrane via RT
On Thu Jul 13 11:11:59 2006, particle wrote: > there are many scripts (ack reports 189, below) that contain 'perl > -w'. > > D:\usr\local\parrot\trunk>ack --perl "perl -w" -l | perl > -nle"}END{print $." > 189 > > our minimum required perl version is 5.6.2. it's time these get be > converted

[perl #40990] [BUG] Parrot segfaults in perl6 08-regex.t (GC/pointer bug?)

2006-11-26 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by Patrick R. Michaud # Please include the string: [perl #40990] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=40990 > --- osname= linux osvers= 2.6.16 arch= x86_64-linux-thread-multi cc= cc ---

[perl #40980] [BUG] Infinite loop on lexical declaration

2006-11-26 Thread Leopold Toetsch via RT
thanks, fixed in r15810. leo