Re: How to create a function that returns nothing

2003-10-14 Thread Luke Palmer
Joe Gottman writes: > How do you declare a function that doesn't return anything? For instance, a > C++ swap function might be declared >template > void swap(X &x, X &y); > > It would be nice to declare the corresponding Perl6 function as > sub swap ($x is rw, $y is rw) returns nothing {.

How to create a function that returns nothing

2003-10-14 Thread Joe Gottman
How do you declare a function that doesn't return anything? For instance, a C++ swap function might be declared template void swap(X &x, X &y); It would be nice to declare the corresponding Perl6 function as sub swap ($x is rw, $y is rw) returns nothing {...} or something similar. This wo

[perl #24211] sub.t test failure

2003-10-14 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by Simon Glover # Please include the string: [perl #24211] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # http://rt.perl.org/rt2/Ticket/Display.html?id=24211 > The last test in t/pmc/sub.t is failing for me with the message: Can't exec "parro

Re: Phalanx / CPANTS / Kwalitee

2003-10-14 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
> "Richard" == Richard Clamp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Richard> It pulls out the name, synopsis and author info from the main module, Richard> mixes in the dependencies from META.yml, and then sprinkles on the Richard> last few entries from Changes for good measure. I'm not even sure that t

This Week's Summary

2003-10-14 Thread Piers Cawley
The Perl 6 Summary of the week ending 20031012 Good afternoon readers. You find me sitting comfortably and tired after a vaguely frantic week involving large amounts of new (and huge) equipment, the delivery of a new Mini Cooper, and four days offline at a large format photography w

[perl #24208] [PATCH] pmc2c2 Makefile

2003-10-14 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by Leopold Toetsch # Please include the string: [perl #24208] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # http://rt.perl.org/rt2/Ticket/Display.html?id=24208 > This is an updated version of #24155 and another one I can't find now. The patch ena

Re: Phalanx / CPANTS / Kwalitee

2003-10-14 Thread Richard Clamp
On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 11:49:44AM -0400, Darren Chamberlain wrote: > I'll concede that they are useless duplication if someone simply does: > > perldoc -t Module.pm > README I find them to be useful duplication, but I truly hate doing that myself, so this is what I use: http://unixbeard.net/

Re: Phalanx / CPANTS / Kwalitee

2003-10-14 Thread darren chamberlain
* Michael G Schwern [2003-10-14 08:27]: > On Mon, Oct 13, 2003 at 10:28:29AM +0200, Thomas Klausner wrote: > > * README > > Personally, I find READMEs useless duplication. Even more so now that > search.cpan.org works so well. I'll concede that they are useless duplication if someone simply d

Re: Oplibs, pmc libs, and function libs

2003-10-14 Thread Leopold Toetsch
Dan Sugalski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ... We'd also rather not have to have separate .so/.dll/.exe files A small utility, that combines dynamic resources and emits a common load routine, which calls the individual load routines could be enough for this to achieve (modulo the same for init).

Unified testing

2003-10-14 Thread Dan Sugalski
I've noticed that we've got multiple test suites that run with a make test now. While this is a Good Thing (I like tests, I just hate writing them :) it's confusing the tinderboxen and, potentially, misleading people with small screens. For example, when doing a make test, t/pmc/sub.t fails test 45

Oplibs, pmc libs, and function libs

2003-10-14 Thread Dan Sugalski
This has been pending for a few days, but since Leo's been digging into things it's time to address it. We need parrot to be able to load in shared libraries, of course -- both to get access to system libraries and to load up our own library code on the fly. We'd also rather not have to have separ

Re: [perl #24205] [PATCH] removing -mno-accumulate-outgoing-args for non x86 arch

2003-10-14 Thread Dan Sugalski
On Tue, 14 Oct 2003, Aldo Calpini wrote: > currently Configure.pl insists on passing a > -mno-accumulate-outgoing-args option to GCC 3.x. > > a trustworthy source (Nicholas :-) told me that this should only be > available on x86 and x86-64, and in fact my ia64 complains that the > option is invali

[perl #24205] [PATCH] removing -mno-accumulate-outgoing-args for non x86 arch

2003-10-14 Thread Aldo Calpini
# New Ticket Created by "Aldo Calpini" # Please include the string: [perl #24205] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # http://rt.perl.org/rt2/Ticket/Display.html?id=24205 > hello, currently Configure.pl insists on passing a -mno-accumulate-outgoing-args opt

[CVS ci] dynamic oplibs - plain core

2003-10-14 Thread Leopold Toetsch
from dynoplibs/test.pasm: # now the fun can start print "the answer is: " fortytwo I0 print I0 what_do_you_get_if_you_multiply_six_by_nine S0 print " aka " print S0 print "\n" end $ parrot dynoplibs/test.pasm in test loaded myops_ops loaded foo loaded libnci fo

Re: FreeBSD (4.8) can't build imcc

2003-10-14 Thread Juergen Boemmels
"Nick Kostirya" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > - Original Message - > From: "Juergen Boemmels" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Nick Kostirya" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: "Nicholas Clark" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Monday, October 13, 2003 6:29 PM > Subject: Re: FreeBSD (4.8)