returning one or several values from a routine

2008-12-27 Thread Daniel Ruoso
Hi, As smop and mildew now support ControlExceptionReturn (see v6/mildew/t/return_function.t), an important question raised: sub plural { return 1,2 } sub singular { return 1 } my @a = plural(); my $b = plural(); my @c = singular(); my $d = singular(); What should @a, $b, @c and $d

The care and feeding of S29 (Re: Better sort spec?)

2008-12-27 Thread Carl Mäsak
Carl (): S29 needs a lot of care and feeding of this type. I've made a long list of things that need attention -- might return to this thread early next week and paste that list, so that more hands can help. Here is that list: http://use.perl.org/~masak/journal/38170 People can help by

Re: 12 hackers hacking...

2008-12-27 Thread Mark J. Reed
On Fri, Dec 26, 2008 at 1:45 PM, Stephen Weeks t...@allalone.org wrote: Looks like you found a regression. This has been fixed since r34393. Confirmed fixed in r34454. Thanks! -- Mark J. Reed markjr...@gmail.com

r24656 - docs/Perl6/Spec

2008-12-27 Thread pugs-commits
Author: lwall Date: 2008-12-28 04:17:03 +0100 (Sun, 28 Dec 2008) New Revision: 24656 Modified: docs/Perl6/Spec/S02-bits.pod docs/Perl6/Spec/S06-routines.pod docs/Perl6/Spec/S13-overloading.pod Log: [Spec] get rid of some fossil uses of * spotted by masak++ Modified:

r24657 - docs/Perl6/Spec

2008-12-27 Thread pugs-commits
Author: lwall Date: 2008-12-28 04:30:13 +0100 (Sun, 28 Dec 2008) New Revision: 24657 Modified: docs/Perl6/Spec/S02-bits.pod docs/Perl6/Spec/S04-control.pod Log: [Spec] differentiate $*ARGFILES from the $*ARGS capture, noticed by zev++ Modified: docs/Perl6/Spec/S02-bits.pod

r24658 - docs/Perl6/Spec

2008-12-27 Thread pugs-commits
Author: lwall Date: 2008-12-28 04:36:24 +0100 (Sun, 28 Dec 2008) New Revision: 24658 Modified: docs/Perl6/Spec/S02-bits.pod Log: [Spec] remove fossil typecast noticed by masak++ Modified: docs/Perl6/Spec/S02-bits.pod === ---

use semantics

2008-12-27 Thread Jeff Horwitz
i opened RT #61742 because the semantics of the use statement in rakudo changed in such a way that i could no longer precompile mod_perl6 modules. use statements are now being invoked during PAST generation, which requires any used modules to be in the @INC path and error-free. moritz