Re: Vocabulary

2003-12-18 Thread David Wheeler
On Dec 16, 2003, at 10:20 PM, Rafael Garcia-Suarez wrote: There's a need (more or less) for special blocks that can be run at the end of the compilation phase of any arbitrary compilation unit. This would be especially useful in an environment such as mod_perl, where CHECK and INIT blocks

Re: Vocabulary

2003-12-18 Thread David Wheeler
On Dec 17, 2003, at 1:39 AM, Simon Cozens wrote: The desire to optimize the hell out of Perl 6 is a good one, but surely you optimize when there is a problem, not when before. Is there a problem with the speed you're getting from Perl 6 at the moment? Yes, it's taking too long to be released!

Re: Vocabulary

2003-12-18 Thread Larry Wall
On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 06:20:22AM -, Rafael Garcia-Suarez wrote: : Larry Wall wrote in perl.perl6.language : : On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 12:11:59AM +, Piers Cawley wrote: : : When you say CHECK time, do you mean there'll be a CHECK phase for : : code that gets required at run time? : :

Re: remarks WRT clone

2003-12-18 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 10:59 PM +0100 12/17/03, Leopold Toetsch wrote: In former days and before YAPC::EU I changed the original clone vtable, which was IIRC: PMC* clone() # return new clone of pmc to the now existing form, which gets an uninitialized destination PMC. This change was at that time necessary

Re: pdd03 and method calls

2003-12-18 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 10:42 PM +0100 12/17/03, Leopold Toetsch wrote: While playing with calling threaded subs, I came along a thing which I think might be suboptimal: pdd03 states that the method PMC should go into P2. This doesn't really play with Perl5 - Perl6 interoperbility IMHO. Perl5 methods are plain

How to raise an exception inside a PMC?

2003-12-18 Thread Juergen Boemmels
Hi, I'm just wondering how I should raise an exception inside a vtable function. I found the function real_exception, but I don't know what to put into the *dest argument. bye boe -- Juergen Boemmels[EMAIL PROTECTED] Fachbereich Physik Tel:

Re: pdd03 and method calls

2003-12-18 Thread Juergen Boemmels
Leopold Toetsch [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: While playing with calling threaded subs, I came along a thing which I think might be suboptimal: pdd03 states that the method PMC should go into P2. This doesn't really play with Perl5 - Perl6 interoperbility IMHO. Perl5 methods are plain subs,

Re: pdd03 and method calls

2003-12-18 Thread Juergen Boemmels
Dan Sugalski [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: PDD 03 states that the *object* goes in P2. This works out just fine with perl 5 style method calls, where the argument list doesn't distinguish the object other than by position. What happens is that when a perl 5 sub is called, @_ is a combination of

Re: pdd03 and method calls

2003-12-18 Thread Melvin Smith
At 10:42 PM 12/17/2003 +0100, Leopold Toetsch wrote: While playing with calling threaded subs, I came along a thing which I think might be suboptimal: pdd03 states that the method PMC should go into P2. This doesn't really play with Perl5 - Perl6 interoperbility IMHO. Perl5 methods are plain

Re: [perl #24682] [BUG] parrot compile fails on MacOS 10.3.1 - possibly dynaloading patch?

2003-12-18 Thread Allison Randal
Leo wrote: Very likely that SIGFPE isn't defined. Does Fruntime/parrot/include/signal.pasm have an entry for SIGFPE? (line 14) .constant SIGFPE8 Is PARROT_HAS_HEADER_SIGNAL defined? (Finclude/parrot/has_header.h: line 46) define PARROT_HAS_HEADER_SIGNAL 1 Allison

testing File::Finder

2003-12-18 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
In my recently released File::Finder module, I have the basic tests to ensure that the find options are grabbed correctly, and that the core and/or/not/parens logic is clean, along with the easy test to ensure that eval() works. However, to test the file operations, like files named moe, I have

Re: testing File::Finder

2003-12-18 Thread Michael G Schwern
On Thu, Dec 18, 2003 at 01:28:57PM -0800, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: In my recently released File::Finder module, I have the basic tests to ensure that the find options are grabbed correctly, and that the core and/or/not/parens logic is clean, along with the easy test to ensure that eval()

Re: testing File::Finder

2003-12-18 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
Michael == Michael G Schwern [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Michael If you're not planning on your tests modifying the test tree at all, Michael you can probably just get away with having t/tree/... as a bunch of Michael normal files and directorys in the tarball. Don't ship a seperate Michael tar

Re: testing File::Finder

2003-12-18 Thread Abe Timmerman
Op een winterige herfstdag (Thursday 18 December 2003 22:44), schreef Randal L. Schwartz: Michael == Michael G Schwern [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Michael If you're not planning on your tests modifying the test tree at all, Michael you can probably just get away with having t/tree/... as a

Re: More object stuff

2003-12-18 Thread Harry Jackson
Dan Sugalski wrote: It's util/ncidef2pasm.pl, actually. build_nativecall builds the stub routines for the interpreter if a JIT isn't available. The definitions of the characters are the same, but ncidef2pasm's a bit better documented. (There's embedded POD) Invocation is: perl

[perl #24692] Re: NJZPUXCJ, and the little

2003-12-18 Thread Tanya
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[ANNOUNCE] Devel::Cover 0.29

2003-12-18 Thread Paul Johnson
On Mon, Dec 01, 2003 at 01:45:22AM +0100, Paul Johnson wrote: People seem to be using this module. I keep getting bug reports, suggestions and even patches ;-) Changes in this release: - Merge data from files with identical MD5 checksums (Arthur Bergman). - Add do test. - Handle $x ||