Re: Revisiting lexicals, part 1

2008-09-26 Thread Stéphane Payrard
On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 11:31 PM, Patrick R. Michaud [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 10:05:25PM +0200, Stéphane Payrard wrote: One of parrot current limitation is that eval is always a closure. When using rakudo interactively, one want to introduce new lexical variable that

[perl #59366] small fix to pod doc and interactive prompt

2008-09-26 Thread Chris Davaz
# New Ticket Created by Chris Davaz # Please include the string: [perl #59366] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # URL: http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=59366 Fixed a bug in the doc where the method name and doc where mismatched. Fixed a

[perl #59374] [BUG] pmc2c produces incorrect code for RETURN(INTVAL -1)

2008-09-26 Thread Patrick R. Michaud (via RT)
# New Ticket Created by Patrick R. Michaud # Please include the string: [perl #59374] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # URL: http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=59374 Summary: pmc2c produces incorrect code for returning negative integer

Re: [perl #59366] small fix to pod doc and interactive prompt

2008-09-26 Thread Patrick R. Michaud
On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 07:25:35AM -0700, Chris Davaz wrote: Fixed a bug in the doc where the method name and doc where mismatched. Thanks. Fixed a small bug where, even if the user sets the prompt, a default prompt ' ' is still printed. Changed it so that a default prompt is only printed

Re: [perl #59374] [BUG] pmc2c produces incorrect code for RETURN(INTVAL -1)

2008-09-26 Thread jerry gay
On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 9:11 AM, Patrick R. Michaud (via RT) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: # New Ticket Created by Patrick R. Michaud # Please include the string: [perl #59374] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # URL:

[perl #59374] [BUG] pmc2c produces incorrect code for RETURN(INTVAL -1)

2008-09-26 Thread Patrick R. Michaud via RT
That fixes it, thanks! Closing ticket, Pm

Re: [svn:parrot] r31385 - trunk/docs/book

2008-09-26 Thread Allison Randal
jerry gay wrote: i believe (without looking) that the pmc pdd calls them vtable functions. i really wish the vtable methods meme would die. they're not methods. they are a collection functions which define the api to access the pmc, parrot's abstract data type. Yup. vtable functions is what

Re: [svn:parrot] r31385 - trunk/docs/book

2008-09-26 Thread Allison Randal
Patrick R. Michaud wrote: I'm not at all arguing that this automatically means we should call them methods, but at a conceptual level they certainly seem a lot like methods, and the vtable implementations contain references to things like SELF and STATICSELF that make them look awfully