Re: Should the Length of string_substr() Ever Be Negative?

2008-10-05 Thread Ronald Schmidt
NotFound wrote: But if you talk about perl6, this is not applicable, the perl6 function can have any wanted signature, it will never call the function directly, it emits the opcode that will call it and can insert any check or change of his argument. If the sub implementation allows accidental

[ PATCH ] Broken link on parrotcode.org dev page - list item Parrot Testing Status

2008-09-05 Thread Ronald Schmidt
I applied for an account and built what seems to me to be an appropriate Parrot Testing Status page. My proposed link target is http://www.parrot.org/wiki/some-testing-status-tools . If someone wants to set me up as a site editor I will fix the link myself otherwise the page is available for

Re: Beta of web services to fulfill smoke Queryability requirements.

2008-08-05 Thread Ronald Schmidt
Michael Peters wrote: Ronald Schmidt wrote: I've been meaning to update that wiki page to point to the progress we're making toward this. I should also write up how Smolder already accomplishes those goals (well, the ones it does accomplish). Thanks. If I had noticed that smolder

Beta of web services to fulfill smoke Queryability requirements.

2008-08-04 Thread Ronald Schmidt
I am posting this message to one more mailing list for a few reasons, but mostly to request that some notice of the work be placed on the project’s request page, RFP: Parrot needs better smoke reports, if the results are found to make an adequate contribution the Queryability of smoke reports.

Re: [perl #55304] [PATCH] eval_(dies|lives)_ok methods for rakudo's Test.pm, and more tests

2008-06-08 Thread Ronald Schmidt
Vasily Chekalkin wrote: This is wrong patch. eval() shouldn't throws any exceptions. Correct patch for 'eval()' and Test.pm attached. As Mr Lenz wrote with respect to eval exceptions and this patch: Are there any exceptions that are not caught by eval? Currently rakudo seems to catch