Re: Module/Class Authoritys

2006-08-10 Thread Jonathan Scott Duff
On Thu, Aug 10, 2006 at 10:25:24PM -0700, Darren Duncan wrote: > At 12:35 AM -0400 8/11/06, Stevan Little wrote: > >Quick question for the group. > > > >Can there be more than one authority? > > > >module Foo-0.0.1-cpan:JRANDOM-http://www.foo.org-mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > >S11 would seem to in

Re: underscores in the core lib

2006-08-10 Thread Luke Palmer
On 8/10/06, Larry Wall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Yes, it's a design smell. The point of core is to huffman code common things, so something in core with _ should normally either be shorter or out of the core. I don't think I agree. I've been programming in Ruby, and I appreciate all the nice

Re: Review of current stm branch code

2006-08-10 Thread Chip Salzenberg
On Thu, Aug 10, 2006 at 07:11:15PM -1000, Joshua Hoblitt wrote: > On Thu, Aug 10, 2006 at 07:19:21PM -0700, Chip Salzenberg wrote: > > * useless curlies > >OTGH, the project needs automated filters for more coding standards, > >including one that that notes (and optionally kills) the exces

Re: Review of current stm branch code

2006-08-10 Thread Uri Guttman
> "JH" == Joshua Hoblitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: JH> On Thu, Aug 10, 2006 at 07:19:21PM -0700, Chip Salzenberg wrote: >> * useless curlies >> >> Something I'm hoping to stamp out is the use of curlies for all if/else >> clauses, which makes code taller without making it substant

Re: Module/Class Authoritys

2006-08-10 Thread Darren Duncan
At 12:35 AM -0400 8/11/06, Stevan Little wrote: Quick question for the group. Can there be more than one authority? module Foo-0.0.1-cpan:JRANDOM-http://www.foo.org-mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] S11 would seem to indicate no (it states that names are made up of 3 parts), but I guess I am wondering

Re: Review of current stm branch code

2006-08-10 Thread Joshua Hoblitt
On Thu, Aug 10, 2006 at 07:19:21PM -0700, Chip Salzenberg wrote: > * useless curlies > > -if (PMC_IS_NULL(type_hash)) > +if (PMC_IS_NULL(type_hash)) { > return core_type; > +} > hash = PMC_struct_val(type_hash); > -if (!hash->entries) > +

Re: Review of current stm branch code

2006-08-10 Thread Joshua Hoblitt
On Thu, Aug 10, 2006 at 07:19:21PM -0700, Chip Salzenberg wrote: > * enum trailing commas are not standard > >C89 doesn't allow enum lists to end with a comma. PITA, I know, but we >can't require C99 yet. So e.g. 'thread_state_enum' needs a comma removed. Nor does C++ understand the tr

Module/Class Authoritys

2006-08-10 Thread Stevan Little
Quick question for the group. Can there be more than one authority? module Foo-0.0.1-cpan:JRANDOM-http://www.foo.org-mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] S11 would seem to indicate no (it states that names are made up of 3 parts), but I guess I am wondering if one of those parts can have multiple sub-parts

Re: [svn:perl6-synopsis] r10804 - doc/trunk/design/syn

2006-08-10 Thread Larry Wall
On Thu, Aug 10, 2006 at 10:17:59PM -0500, Jonathan Scott Duff wrote: : On Thu, Aug 10, 2006 at 06:21:31PM -0700, Darren Duncan wrote: : > At 5:11 PM -0700 8/10/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: : > >Log: : > >First whack at defining semantics of MAIN subs. : > : > Congradulations! That is SUCH a great

[svn:perl6-synopsis] r10807 - doc/trunk/design/syn

2006-08-10 Thread larry
Author: larry Date: Thu Aug 10 20:19:02 2006 New Revision: 10807 Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S02.pod Log: Removed last vestige of $?SELF from the spec. Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S02.pod == --- doc/trunk/desig

Re: [svn:perl6-synopsis] r10804 - doc/trunk/design/syn

2006-08-10 Thread Jonathan Scott Duff
On Thu, Aug 10, 2006 at 06:21:31PM -0700, Darren Duncan wrote: > At 5:11 PM -0700 8/10/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >Log: > >First whack at defining semantics of MAIN subs. > > Congradulations! That is SUCH a great idea. I agree! No more caller() tricks to see if we're being required or not b

More review of current stm branch code

2006-08-10 Thread Chip Salzenberg
More on the STM branch: ANSWERS, FOR A CHANGE * A comment asks: /* XXX is it okay to combine flatten/slurpy into one flag? */ The answer is "No": "flat" is an output flag, "slurpy_array" is an input flag, and there's no guarantee that the input and output flags won't conflict wi

Review of current stm branch code

2006-08-10 Thread Chip Salzenberg
I appreciate the quality of the stm code in general. You're being careful, you know what you're doing with C, and you're good at creating abstractions. I hope when STM is done[*] you'll keep hacking on Parrot. [*] As if it will ever be really done. "No work of art is ever finished, only aband

[svn:perl6-synopsis] r10805 - doc/trunk/design/syn

2006-08-10 Thread audreyt
Author: audreyt Date: Thu Aug 10 19:18:48 2006 New Revision: 10805 Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S02.pod doc/trunk/design/syn/S03.pod Log: * Two small typo fix: "value-bases comparison" -> "value-based comparison" "Storeable" -> "Storable" Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S02.pod =

Re: [svn:perl6-synopsis] r10804 - doc/trunk/design/syn

2006-08-10 Thread Darren Duncan
At 5:11 PM -0700 8/10/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Log: First whack at defining semantics of MAIN subs. Congradulations! That is SUCH a great idea. Since Perl didn't have the concept of an explicit 'main' before like many other languages, I had been doing this for a long while in my non-tin

[svn:perl6-synopsis] r10804 - doc/trunk/design/syn

2006-08-10 Thread larry
Author: larry Date: Thu Aug 10 17:11:54 2006 New Revision: 10804 Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S02.pod doc/trunk/design/syn/S06.pod Log: First whack at defining semantics of MAIN subs. Typo from Aaron Crane++. Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S02.pod ===

Re: [perl #40145] [PATCH] t/compilers/imcc/syn/macro.t segfault

2006-08-10 Thread Leopold Toetsch
Am Donnerstag, 10. August 2006 03:13 schrieb Autrijus Tang: > The segfault (exhibited in 0.4.6) was caused by a missing str_dup in   > dan's r4236; passing yytext to other functions would need to preserve   > its content first. Which segfault - I didn't see one? Anyway, applied - r13984, with a li

Re: underscores in the core lib

2006-08-10 Thread Larry Wall
On Thu, Aug 10, 2006 at 07:02:13PM +0200, Juerd wrote: : Eric skribis 2006-08-10 10:22 (-0600): : > I think .valid is an excellent argument for underscores all by itself. : : I think it's an argument for reconsidering the name of that method. : "valueid" is only 2 characters more. Okay, I'll just

Re: underscores in the core lib

2006-08-10 Thread Juerd
Eric skribis 2006-08-10 10:22 (-0600): > I think .valid is an excellent argument for underscores all by itself. I think it's an argument for reconsidering the name of that method. "valueid" is only 2 characters more. I'm personally against non-prefix underscores in any core identifier. I agree t

[svn:perl6-synopsis] r10783 - doc/trunk/design/syn

2006-08-10 Thread audreyt
Author: audreyt Date: Thu Aug 10 09:40:48 2006 New Revision: 10783 Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S03.pod doc/trunk/design/syn/S06.pod Log: * S03: Signature ~~ Signature now tests for compatibility, i.e. whether if anything that can bind to LHS can also bind to RHS. * S06: The "want" f

[svn:perl6-synopsis] r10782 - doc/trunk/design/syn

2006-08-10 Thread audreyt
Author: audreyt Date: Thu Aug 10 09:35:52 2006 New Revision: 10782 Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S04.pod Log: * S04: Clarify that the following forms are hash composers: $h = {}; $h = {%h}; * Also change the archaic $coderef etc in examples to simply $code. Modified: doc/trunk/d

Re: underscores in the core lib

2006-08-10 Thread Eric
I think .valid is an excellent argument for underscores all by itself. Unless you already know what it means you don't have any clue that its not actualy the word valid instead of val_id. I don't know of any other problems like this, but at very least that should be changed. Don't we still try an

[svn:perl6-synopsis] r10780 - doc/trunk/design/syn

2006-08-10 Thread audreyt
Author: audreyt Date: Thu Aug 10 09:16:15 2006 New Revision: 10780 Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S02.pod Log: * S02: Add a infix_prefix_meta_operator grammatical category to carry the generic chain-associative negation modifier "!". Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S02.pod ==

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20060810-7462.html

2006-08-10 Thread Will Coleda
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20060810-7462.html : .NET and J2EE to get better dynamic language support To partially quote: "Many dynamic language enthusiasts are also interested in Parrot, an open source virtual machine designed specifically for dynamic languages. Init

[perl #40145] [PATCH] t/compilers/imcc/syn/macro.t segfault

2006-08-10 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by Autrijus Tang # Please include the string: [perl #40145] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=40145 > The segfault (exhibited in 0.4.6) was caused by a missing str_dup in dan's r4236; pas

Re: [svn:perl6-synopsis] r10758 - doc/trunk/design/syn

2006-08-10 Thread Aaron Crane
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S02.pod > +Some object types can behave as value types. Every object can produce > +a "safe key identifier" (C for short) that uniquely identifies the > +object for hashing and other value-base comparisons. Normal objects Is that meant t

Re: [perl #39860] [TODO] build - Configure.pl should accept --libdir, etc.

2006-08-10 Thread Joshua Hoblitt
On Tue, Jul 18, 2006 at 02:09:26AM -0700, Joshua Hoblitt wrote: > # New Ticket Created by Joshua Hoblitt > # Please include the string: [perl #39860] > # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. > # http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=39860 > > > > LIB_DIR