Re: Precompilation to PIR

2008-10-27 Thread Carl Mäsak
Chris (): How safe is it today to pre-compile Rakudo code to PIR and expect that to behave identically to as if I compiled from .pm at runtime? I believe PCT is just generating PIR anyway, so my initial guess is that there should be no differences. Are there any gotchas, like compile-time

Re: Why {{}} for regexp closures instead of just {}?

2008-10-27 Thread jerry gay
On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 10:45 PM, Chris Dolan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: S05 always uses single curlies for closures, but throughout Parrot, code seems to use double curlies in PGE regexps. Why is that? That is, why this: m/ foo {{ say found foo }} / and not this: m/ foo { say found foo }

Re: Argument scoping error or bug?

2008-10-27 Thread Patrick R. Michaud
On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 10:52:13AM +0200, Moritz Lenz wrote: Chris Dolan wrote: I stumbled across this issue while descending into a recursive Match structure. Consider the following reentrant subroutine: You have just experienced this bug: