Re: Perl 6 Summary for week ending 2002-09-15

2002-09-22 Thread Nicholas Clark
On Wed, Sep 18, 2002 at 04:42:13PM +0100, Piers Cawley wrote: Steve Fink committed his IntList patch, and Josef Höök queried the creation of an intlist.c file in the parrot core, as his matrix patch had been rejected for doing something similar. Nobody has responded to this

Re: Regex query

2002-09-22 Thread Simon Cozens
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jonathan Scott Duff) writes: Why can't perl be smart enough to figure out what we mean? We're talking about lists, the second most fundamental data structure in the language. If we have to resort to much magic to get these right, we're pretty much doomed from the outset. --

Re: Regex query

2002-09-22 Thread Simon Cozens
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Smylers) writes: Does that matter? This example is fairly contrived, and anybody actually concerned about this can always use: $num = @massive.length; I'd be in favour of forcing people to say this if they want the length of the array. But then, it might be that what

Re: Regex query

2002-09-22 Thread Pixel
Chip Salzenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: According to David Whipp: (7,8,9) == 3 # true (7,8) == 2 # true (7) == 1 # false () == 0 # true? Hell, yes, why didn't I think of that? This is exactly the same problem that afflicts Python's tuple syntax! various 1-uple

[perl #17490] Magic is useless unless verifiable.

2002-09-22 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by Simon Cozens # Please include the string: [perl #17490] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # URL: http://rt.perl.org/rt2/Ticket/Display.html?id=17490 The point of having a validifiable magic number at the start of a bytecode file is

[perl #17491] One-queens problem

2002-09-22 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by Simon Cozens # Please include the string: [perl #17491] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # URL: http://rt.perl.org/rt2/Ticket/Display.html?id=17491 % ../../parrot queens.pbc +---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+ 8 | | * | |

[perl #17492] Leaning tower of Hanoi

2002-09-22 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by Simon Cozens # Please include the string: [perl #17492] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # URL: http://rt.perl.org/rt2/Ticket/Display.html?id=17492 I am so not doing well today: simon@deep-dark-truthful-mirror

( .... ) vs { .... }

2002-09-22 Thread Me
In several forms of courier, and some other text fonts I view code in, I find it hard to visually distinguish the pattern element: ( ... ) from: { ... } What about replacing the former syntax with: ? ... ? -- ralph

[perl #17495] [PATCH] for a faster life

2002-09-22 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by Leopold Toetsch # Please include the string: [perl #17495] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # URL: http://rt.perl.org/rt2/Ticket/Display.html?id=17495 Appended patch is somewhat experimental and needs probably a configure test

RE: fingerprinting PBC files

2002-09-22 Thread Brent Dax
Leopold Toetsch: # As PBC files might be built from different core.ops aka # core_ops.c, it # is necessary to add a fingerprint to PBC files, to validate, that the # interpreter uses the very same ops, when running the PBC. Would it be possible to fingerprint based on the CVS version numbers

Re: [perl #17495] [PATCH] for a faster life

2002-09-22 Thread Mike Lambert
Now, trace_system_stack walks a ~1300 entries deeper stack in CGoto run mode, because of the jump table in cg_core. Don't ask me about this difference to 900 ops, gdb says so. Ahh, good observation. (I'm more of a non-cgoto person myself ;). Attached patch now sets interpreter-lo_var_ptr

Re: Backtracking syntax

2002-09-22 Thread Simon Cozens
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Me) writes: 1. It's nice how the ':', '::', and ':::' progression indicates progressively wider scope. But I would be surprised if newbies don't say to themselves, now just how wide a scope am I backtracking when there's three colons?. Why would newbies be writing

Re: Backtracking syntax

2002-09-22 Thread Me
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Me) writes: 1. It's nice how the ':', '::', and ':::' progression indicates progressively wider scope. But I would be surprised if newbies don't say to themselves, now just how wide a scope am I backtracking when there's three colons?. Why would newbies be writing

Re: Backtracking syntax

2002-09-22 Thread Markus Laire
Backtracking syntax includes: :, ::, :::, commit, cut 1. It's nice how the ':', '::', and ':::' progression indicates progressively wider scope. But I would be surprised if newbies don't say to themselves, now just how wide a scope am I backtracking when there's three colons?. What

Re: Backtracking syntax

2002-09-22 Thread Simon Cozens
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Markus Laire) writes: While commit and cut don't follow same syntax, I don't really see any better solutions. commit is sufficiently hard that it musn't be confused with the colon series. I wonder if might be usefull instead of commit with proper

Re: Backtracking syntax

2002-09-22 Thread Markus Laire
On 22 Sep 2002 at 21:06, Simon Cozens wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Markus Laire) writes: While commit and cut don't follow same syntax, I don't really see any better solutions. commit is sufficiently hard that it musn't be confused with the colon series. Yes, I didn't think that enough.

Re: Regex query

2002-09-22 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 10:52 AM -0500 9/21/02, Jonathan Scott Duff wrote: So, you expect 7.pow(2) to work? I'd expect it to be an error (this isn't python after all). Sure, why not? I mean, we already use methods on integers all the time--what do you thin 12.5 is anyway, other than calling the 5 method on the

[perl #17502] [PATCH] config/gen/makefiles/classes.in - compiler flag bug

2002-09-22 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by Bruce Gray # Please include the string: [perl #17502] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # URL: http://rt.perl.org/rt2/Ticket/Display.html?id=17502 To specify a rule to build object files from C files, root.in correctly says:

Re: Regex query

2002-09-22 Thread Simon Cozens
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Markus Laire) writes: How do you do C ($a + $b) * $c if parentheses are forbidden for mathematical expressions? I thought that , was actually the list constructor, much as = is the pair constructor. (And hence a = 1, b = 2 would be a list of pairs.) Of course,

Re: Regex query

2002-09-22 Thread Markus Laire
And the one best reason I forgot to include: How do you do C ($a + $b) * $c if parentheses are forbidden for mathematical expressions? -- Markus Laire 'malaire' [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[perl #17506] [PATCH] lib/Parrot/Configure/Step.pm - litterbug

2002-09-22 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by Bruce Gray # Please include the string: [perl #17506] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # URL: http://rt.perl.org/rt2/Ticket/Display.html?id=17506 lib/Parrot/Configure/Step.pm, in sub cc_clean, is trying to clean up its test

[perl #17507] [PATCH] lib/Parrot/Configure/Step.pm - more litter cleanup

2002-09-22 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by Bruce Gray # Please include the string: [perl #17507] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # URL: http://rt.perl.org/rt2/Ticket/Display.html?id=17507 Problem: *.tmp files, especially Makefile.tmp files, not being cleaned up. Cause:

Re: Regex query

2002-09-22 Thread John Williams
On Sat, 21 Sep 2002, Jonathan Scott Duff wrote: Why can't perl be smart enough to figure out what we mean? Something along these lines: (7) # list context (3+4) # numeric context (there's a numeric operator in there) (3+4,5) # list context (comma trumps the numeric

Re: Backtracking syntax

2002-09-22 Thread Steve Fink
On Sun, Sep 22, 2002 at 01:39:29PM -0500, Me wrote: So, how about something like: : # lock in current atom, ie as now :] # lock in surrounding group, currently :: : # lock in surrounding rule, currently ::: :/ # lock in top level rule,

Re: Regex query

2002-09-22 Thread Chip Salzenberg
According to John Williams: On Sat, 21 Sep 2002, Jonathan Scott Duff wrote: (7,) is an abomination. It's one of python's misfeatures that annoys me the most. Of course, _requiring_ the comma is bad [...] Well, I don't know about Jonathan, but requiring the comma is exactly what Python