Assigning and passing $/

2008-10-23 Thread Chris Dolan
I'm learning about Match objects today. I can't assign $/ to a variable or pass it to a method. Is this a bug, or am I just confused? I get the following results. In both cases, $/ gets stringified instead of remaining as a Match instance. % ./perl6 -e 'if ("f" ~~ m/f/) { my Match $m =

Re: [perl #60048] CGP Does Not Work with PCC Runcore Reentry

2008-10-23 Thread Allison Randal
chromatic (via RT) wrote: Several tests fail with the CGP runcore (parrot -C) when multidispatch re-enters bytecode -- in specific, anything that calls into src/pic.c from Parrot_pcc_invoke_sub_from_sig_object causes failures. The problem appears to be that CGP's PIC tries to poke into the b

Re: Parrot on mobile platforms?

2008-10-23 Thread Allison Randal
Ovid wrote: I can't speak for Android, but I know one of the constraints on the iPhone is memory. This, as I recall, is part of the reason why they don't have garbage collection available and force people to manage memory directly (this, I might add, is a pain). Since I generally don't worry a

Re: [perl #60044] [BUG?] rethrow just throwing?

2008-10-23 Thread Allison Randal
Will Coleda (via RT) wrote: I would expect both of these programs to output the same thing, but it looks like rethrow is generating the same output that throw would here. What is the difference supposed to be between these two ops? The two ops are intentionally almost entirely the same. The o

Re: [perl #60070] [BUG] "make opsrenumber" causes build to fail

2008-10-23 Thread Patrick R. Michaud
On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 12:38:36AM -0700, chromatic wrote: > On Wednesday 22 October 2008 22:49:37 Patrick R. Michaud (via RT) wrote: > > This patch fixes things for me, with minimal fuss and without inadvertently > adding back in ops that we explicitly blacklist via src/ops/ops.skip. Patch work

Re: [perl #60060] [BUG] Parrot_readbc() does too many stat()s

2008-10-23 Thread NotFound
On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 1:43 AM, via RT Stephane Payrard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This results in 4 stat()s per pbc. > opening the file and using Parrot_fstat_info_intval() instead of > Parrot_stat_info_intval() will be less costly. > this means retooling readbc() that now stats the file to ve

Re: [perl #48014] [DEPRECATED] PMC union struct

2008-10-23 Thread NotFound
On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 6:28 PM, Bernhard Schmalhofer via RT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Done in r30914: changed name to Parrot__attributes, fixed >> codingstd, changed also pmc in languages lua and perl6, and updated >> pdd17_pmc.pod > Does this mean that this ticket can be closed and the depre

Re: Parrot on mobile platforms?

2008-10-23 Thread NotFound
> Don't you think it would be important to start working in this direction? > Maybe to try to get someone work on this or to get sponsorship > in that direction? I think the easier step towards this goal may be to make cross compiling works with two well-known platforms. For example, targeting min

Re: [perl #57978] Implement last/redo/next/continue control exceptions

2008-10-23 Thread Patrick R. Michaud
On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 08:27:10PM -0700, Tim Nelson via RT wrote: > On Sat Aug 16 07:29:31 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > - Needs last/redo/next/continue exceptions in PCT (PCT) > > > This is done in rakudo; does that mean that this ticket is done? Only 'next' is done in rakudo at the mom

[perl #60060] [BUG] Parrot_readbc() does too many stat()s

2008-10-23 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by Stephane Payrard # Please include the string: [perl #60060] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=60060 > This results in 4 stat()s per pbc. opening the file and using Parrot_fstat_info_intv

[perl #57978] Implement last/redo/next/continue control exceptions

2008-10-23 Thread Tim Nelson via RT
On Sat Aug 16 07:29:31 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > - Needs last/redo/next/continue exceptions in PCT (PCT) This is done in rakudo; does that mean that this ticket is done?

[perl #48014] [DEPRECATED] PMC union struct

2008-10-23 Thread Bernhard Schmalhofer via RT
On Mo. 08. Sep. 2008, 13:59:08, julianalbo wrote: > Done in r30914: changed name to Parrot__attributes, fixed > codingstd, changed also pmc in languages lua and perl6, and updated > pdd17_pmc.pod Does this mean that this ticket can be closed and the deprecation item in DEPRECATED.pod be removed?

[perl #39760] [CAGE] make warnings (r13197 - x86-msvc-7.1)

2008-10-23 Thread Klaas-Jan Stol via RT
The warning of inconsistent dll linkage no longer occurs on microsoft visual studio, which resolves this issue. kjs

Re: Parrot on mobile platforms?

2008-10-23 Thread Ovid
--- On Thu, 23/10/08, Gabor Szabo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Don't you think it would be important to start working > in this direction? > Maybe to try to get someone work on this or to get > sponsorship > in that direction? I can't speak for Android, but I know one of the constraints on the iP

Re: [perl #60070] [BUG] "make opsrenumber" causes build to fail

2008-10-23 Thread chromatic
On Wednesday 22 October 2008 22:49:37 Patrick R. Michaud (via RT) wrote: > Since a number of steps have changed since the last time I worked > with adding/removing opcodes (April 2008), and I have little idea > what might be causing this, I'm filing this ticket in hopes that > someone can clear th

Re: Parrot on mobile platforms?

2008-10-23 Thread chromatic
On Wednesday 22 October 2008 23:47:23 Gabor Szabo wrote: > Thanks for the quick answer. > Then I have another few questions :-) > > Don't you think it would be important to start working in this direction? Sure, but I think a lot of things are important. My top priority is to fix anything that