hyper variables/references?

2004-05-23 Thread Chris
I may have missed an obvious answer to this question, but has any thought been given to allowing for variables which behave as though ever operation on them is the hyper version of that operation? Sort of an automagical way of redefining a LOT of operators. --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus

Questions about Embedding Parrot / mod_parrot

2004-05-23 Thread Paul Querna
Hello, I just started hacking on Parrot Yesterday, so if some of these questions have easy answers, please point me in the right direction.(I have read most of the PDDS / fair ammount of the other PODs). I have started work on building a new Apache 2.0 Module to run Parrot. The

.NET suitable for dynamic languages?

2004-05-23 Thread Joshua Hoblitt
Hi Folks, I stumbled across a Slashdot story this morning titled Super-Fast Python Implementation for .NET and Mono. With the Pie-thon just a couple of months away, I thought that this might be of interest (at least to Dan :).

Re: hyper variables/references?

2004-05-23 Thread Larry Wall
On Sun, May 23, 2004 at 11:54:23AM -0700, Chris wrote: : I may have missed an obvious answer to this question, but has any thought : been given to allowing for variables which behave as though ever operation : on them is the hyper version of that operation? Sort of an automagical way : of

Re: .NET suitable for dynamic languages?

2004-05-23 Thread chromatic
On Sun, 2004-05-23 at 17:01, Joshua Hoblitt wrote: After reading the PyCON paper I'm not sure if this is a glowing endorsement for .NET or if it simply shows that the C implementation of the Python interpreter needs some optimization work. I was hoping that there might be some optimizations

Configure.pl warnings

2004-05-23 Thread Joshua Hoblitt
Hi Folks, Configure.pl is giving me warnings about undef values being passed to Csplit on my platform. -- $ perl Configure.pl . . Generating build filesdone. Moving platform files into place..Use of

Re: PARROT_API, compiler and linker flags (was TODO: Linker magic step for configure)

2004-05-23 Thread Steve Fink
On May-15, Jeff Clites wrote: When linking against (using) a static library version of ICU, we need a C++-aware linker (because ICU contains C++ code); with a dynamic-library version of ICU presumably we wouldn't. I don't know if this applies here, but there is a good reason to use a

bug #29268

2004-05-23 Thread Joshua Hoblitt
Can someone close bug #29268 failures in t/pmc/float.t on amd64? It seems to have resolved itself. :) -J --

Mapping test cases to bug databases

2004-05-23 Thread Andrew Savige
Suppose I fix a bug with a unique bug ID in a bug tracking system. I start by dutifully adding 15 new asserts, say, to an existing unit test program, to duplicate the bug before I fix it. What if I later want some way to map the bug ID back to the these 15 new asserts? Should I somehow assign