[PUGS][PATCH] Tests for anon subs and blocks

2005-02-22 Thread Stevan Little
Hello, Another new test. This one just tests that basic anon subs and blocks work correctly. Nothing all that special really, just 3 simple tests. Again, if there are any issues, let me know. Thanks, - Stevan anon_block.t Description: Binary data

[PUGS][PATCH] Patch for t/op/join.t

2005-02-22 Thread Stevan Little
Hello all, I have attached a patch for t/op/join.t, it adds 2 failing (TODO) tests and 3 passing tests (for a total of 6). It attempts to cover all of the basic variants of using join(). Let me know if there is any issues. Thanks, - Stevan t_op_join.patch Description: Binary data

Re: Sets vs Junctions

2005-02-22 Thread Jonathan Lang
Michele Dondi wrote: > OTOH all these discussions seem to imply that there is some demand (by > me, for one!) for a "set-like" builtin data-type as well as for the > already existing hashes and junctions and of course for > interoperability between any two of them, e.g. in terms of automatic > c

Re: Junctions, Sets, and Threading.

2005-02-22 Thread Rod Adams
Damian Conway wrote: Rod Adams wrote: This is my major point of the post. In my opinion, your example of: # Print a list of substrings... my $substring = substr("junctions", any(1..3), any(3..6)); say $substring.values(); Is a perfect example of a place where saying: # Print a list of s

[OT] Yet Another Perl Conference North America 2005 announces call-for-papers

2005-02-22 Thread glim
YAPC::NA 2005 (Yet Another Perl Conference, North America) has just released its call-for-papers; potential and aspiring speakers can submit a presentation proposal via: http://yapc.org/America/cfp-2005.shtml The dates of the conference are Monday - Wednesday 27-29 June 2005.

Re: Parenthasized not in Perl 6 -> not()

2005-02-22 Thread Larry Wall
On Tue, Feb 22, 2005 at 10:21:00PM -0600, Steve Peters wrote: : A recent bug that showed up in Perl 5 caused a few people to wonder what : the purpose of C. It worked up to Perl 5.6 and returned the same : value as C. Starting with 5.6, it just core dumped. This has been : fixed it in the cur

Parenthasized not in Perl 6 -> not()

2005-02-22 Thread Steve Peters
A recent bug that showed up in Perl 5 caused a few people to wonder what the purpose of C. It worked up to Perl 5.6 and returned the same value as C. Starting with 5.6, it just core dumped. This has been fixed it in the current bleadperl to go back to its original functionality of behaving li

[PUGS][PATCH] Patch for t/op/not.t

2005-02-22 Thread Steve Peters
Attached is a patch for t/op/not.t. This is a nearly direct port of the t/op/not.t in bleadperl. Missing though is a comparison against a boolianized undef, which I don't know if it exists in Perl 6 or not. Enjoy! Steve Peters [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- /dev/null 2005-02-19 03:47:20.626125536 -0

Parrot_get_runtime_prefix

2005-02-22 Thread William Coleda
in src/library.c (main branch), I find: const char* Parrot_get_runtime_prefix(Interp *interpreter, STRING **prefix_str) { static STRING *s; static int init_done; static const char *prefix; int free_env; char *env; if (!*runtime_prefix) return NULL; if (!init_done) {

Re: Release 0.1.2 ?

2005-02-22 Thread William Coleda
After some distractions I got back to this today. After doing the merge and resolving all the conflicts (of which there really weren't that many), I get it to build, and then get a: 0x0002c3b0 in string_index (interpreter=0xd001a0, s=0x3002fd8, idx=0) at src/string.c:747 747 return (INTVA

Re: Test comments

2005-02-22 Thread Michael G Schwern
On Tue, Feb 22, 2005 at 03:40:55PM -0500, Peter Kay wrote: > Chromatic wrote: > >1) an optional description of a test, which occurs after the test number > >but precedes an optional '#' character and anything following until the > >newline character, having no effect on parsing > > Summary? Summa

Re: Whither the perl-qa wiki ?

2005-02-22 Thread Michael G Schwern
On Tue, Feb 22, 2005 at 12:50:01PM -0500, Peter Kay wrote: > >And it appears to be mostly intact from how I remembered it a year or so > >ago. > > > >Steve Peters > > The formatting seems a bit off ( =head2 as opposed to == ... == ). Is > this easier to fix progromatically, or should I be editi

Perl 6 Summary for 2005-02-08 through 2005-02-22

2005-02-22 Thread Matt Fowles
Perl 6 Summary for 2005-02-08 through 2005-02-22 All~ Welcome to yet another fortnight summary. Lately p6l has been out stripping p6i in volume. While this used to be the norm, lately it has become a rare occurrence. Strange... Anyway, this summary would be brought to you buy c

Re: Junctions, Sets, and Threading.

2005-02-22 Thread Uri Guttman
> "DC" == Damian Conway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: DC> my %seen is shape(IO) of Bool; # %seen maps IO objects to boolean values DC> while get_next_input_stream() -> $in { DC> next if %seen{$in}; DC> $text ~= slurp $in; DC> %seen{$in} = 1; DC

[PATCH] set of tests for 'for'

2005-02-22 Thread Stevan Little
Hello all & Autrijus, I managed to get some time today to hack out some tests for PUGS. The attached file contains a number of test for 'for'. I based these test on what I read in the Exegesis 4 (http://www.perl.com/lpt/a/2002/04/01/exegesis4.html) about how 'for' should work. A number of the t

Re: Junctions, Sets, and Threading.

2005-02-22 Thread Damian Conway
Rod Adams wrote: This is my major point of the post. In my opinion, your example of: # Print a list of substrings... my $substring = substr("junctions", any(1..3), any(3..6)); say $substring.values(); Is a perfect example of a place where saying: # Print a list of substrings... my @s

Re: Junctions, Sets, and Threading.

2005-02-22 Thread Damian Conway
Aldo Calpini wrote: Damian Conway wrote: >@s = 'item' _ [EMAIL PROTECTED]; That's: @s = 'item »_« @x; (just checking that my unerstanding is correct, don't want to be nitpicking :-) assuming that you meant to prepend the string "item" to each element of @x, isn't that: @s = 'i

Re: Whither the perl-qa wiki ?

2005-02-22 Thread Peter Kay
Peter Kay wrote: The formatting seems a bit off ( =head2 as opposed to == ... == ). Is this easier to fix progromatically, or should I be editing as I read? Too late, I changed it! --Peter

[PUGS] [PATCH] Tests for closure bug, and die bugs

2005-02-22 Thread Benjamin Smith
This patch adds a test to t/06sub.t to check that a closure returned by a subroutine can find the variable that it is closed on. But in writing this test I found that "if (die 'foo') { }" doesn't die, so a test for that has been added to t/base/if.t. And finally "my $foo; eval '$foo = die "bool"'

Re: Octals

2005-02-22 Thread Mark J. Reed
On 2005-02-22 at 15:47:08, Larry Wall wrote: >Maybe \x is short for \0x and that also gives us \0o, \0d and \0b, >plus any other radix we come up with, assuming we decide it isn't >overly ambiguous with bare \0. Works for me. So when you really do want a \0 in the middle of a string f

Re: Octals

2005-02-22 Thread Larry Wall
On Tue, Feb 22, 2005 at 02:47:53PM -0500, Mark J. Reed wrote: : Incidentally, will \o, \x, and the hypothetical \d still work without : curlies for a certain number of digits but require curlies for larger : numbers? I'd rather see consistency there. Well, we switched to square brackets for those

Re: Test comments

2005-02-22 Thread Peter Kay
Chromatic wrote: 1) an optional description of a test, which occurs after the test number but precedes an optional '#' character and anything following until the newline character, having no effect on parsing Summary? That's what the one line short description in Bugzilla is called. --Peter

Re: Octals

2005-02-22 Thread Mark J. Reed
On 2005-02-22 at 14:26:04, Juerd wrote: >I think \777 should be chr(777). As should \0d777, should you want to >document that it's really not octal. (Important mostly the first year >after the first release.) I don't think you can assume it'll only be confusing for a year. For one thi

Re: Octals

2005-02-22 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Tue, 22 Feb 2005 11:37:21 -0800, "Larry Wall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > or our great-grandchildren > will curse our lack of foresight. > > Larry It won't matter then anyway...Perl 25 code will come straight from our brainwaves: _ __...---'-`---...__ _===

Re: Test::Harness::HTML (was Test::Unit, ::Class, or ::Inline?)

2005-02-22 Thread Peter Kay
Ian Langworth wrote: On Jan 26, 2005, at 3:48p, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My main gripe is that the infrastructure for it is less OO friendly. The example with the HTML output was awesome..until i looked at how it was done. The inability to get a data structure back for the test results is v

Re: Whither the perl-qa wiki ?

2005-02-22 Thread Peter Kay
And it appears to be mostly intact from how I remembered it a year or so ago. Steve Peters The formatting seems a bit off ( =head2 as opposed to == ... == ). Is this easier to fix progromatically, or should I be editing as I read? --WikiGnome

Re: Octals

2005-02-22 Thread Juerd
Uri Guttman skribis 2005-02-22 14:41 (-0500): > in a regex \d is a digit, so that isn't a good idea In a rule, whitespace is a very good disambiguator. > it would be better to require \0d. I think nullbyte-d is rather likely to occur. > why would we need 0d123 as a literal? Symmetry. 0x10

Re: Octals

2005-02-22 Thread Uri Guttman
> "J" == Juerd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: J> And for symmetry, can we get 0d and \d for decimal, for those cases J> where you want to be explicit? in a regex \d is a digit, so that isn't a good idea. it would be better to require \0d. the others also need a base designator character so

Re: Octals

2005-02-22 Thread Larry Wall
On Tue, Feb 22, 2005 at 11:40:23AM -0700, Luke Palmer wrote: : Some time ago on perl6-documentation (when it existed) we decided that : octals would now be represented as 0o777 and, in strings, \o777. Should : 0777 and, in particular, \777 come with warnings? What, exactly, does : \777 mean in a

Re: Octals

2005-02-22 Thread Juerd
Luke Palmer skribis 2005-02-22 11:40 (-0700): > Some time ago on perl6-documentation (when it existed) we decided that > octals would now be represented as 0o777 and, in strings, \o777. Should > 0777 and, in particular, \777 come with warnings? What, exactly, does > \777 mean in a string? And fo

Re: Junctions, Sets, and Threading.

2005-02-22 Thread Rod Adams
Damian Conway wrote: Rod Adams wrote: > The purpose of a junction is to allow for performing several tests at a > given time, with the testing code needing no knowledge of that junctions > are present. While a junction can represent several values at the same > time, such notions as "hold" and "co

Octals

2005-02-22 Thread Luke Palmer
Some time ago on perl6-documentation (when it existed) we decided that octals would now be represented as 0o777 and, in strings, \o777. Should 0777 and, in particular, \777 come with warnings? What, exactly, does \777 mean in a string? Luke

Re: Junctions, Sets, and Threading.

2005-02-22 Thread Luke Palmer
Juerd writes: > Damian Conway skribis 2005-02-22 22:13 (+1100): > > >@x = func($a, [EMAIL PROTECTED]); > > That's: > > @x = ÂfuncÂ($a, @y); > > But, y'know, this one almost convinces me. Especially when you consider: > > sub func ($i, $j, $k) {...} > > @x = func($a, [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: Environment variables

2005-02-22 Thread Autrijus Tang
On Tue, Feb 22, 2005 at 04:17:53PM +0100, Rafael Garcia-Suarez wrote: > Here's a patch to add this. It's heavily cargo-culted, I need to read > some docs about haskell some day. As I wasn't able to get FiniteMaps to > work I implemented my own kludgy function to flatten pairs for the hash. > Also I

Re: Question about pairs

2005-02-22 Thread Larry Wall
On Tue, Feb 22, 2005 at 09:07:27PM +0800, Autrijus Tang wrote: : On Tue, Feb 22, 2005 at 12:20:35AM -0800, Larry Wall wrote: : > That seems right to me. Or at least right associative. :-) : > : > In any event, right associativity seems more useful in this case. : : Okay, implemented as such. :

Re: Sets vs Junctions

2005-02-22 Thread Michele Dondi
On Tue, 22 Feb 2005, Larry Wall wrote: On Mon, Feb 21, 2005 at 10:32:15PM -0800, Jonathan Lang wrote: : ...then you've got the notion of Fuzzy Logic Sets, where the key would be [snip] But using values for degree of membership is an interesting idea. On the other hand, if we ever have numeric datat

Re: Environment variables

2005-02-22 Thread Rafael Garcia-Suarez
Autrijus Tang wrote: > jn Tue, Feb 22, 2005 at 10:54:26AM -, Rafael Garcia-Suarez wrote: > > I had this silly idea, to try to add %ENV to pugs. That would be an > > interesting exercise. So I can write CGI scripts. Maybe. But I don't > > know what's the Right way to do it in Perl 6. Any hints ?

Re: Junctions, Sets, and Threading.

2005-02-22 Thread Aldo Calpini
Damian Conway wrote: >@s = 'item' _ [EMAIL PROTECTED]; That's: @s = 'item »_« @x; (just checking that my unerstanding is correct, don't want to be nitpicking :-) assuming that you meant to prepend the string "item" to each element of @x, isn't that: @s = 'item' »~« @x; ? furthe

Re: Question about pairs

2005-02-22 Thread Autrijus Tang
On Tue, Feb 22, 2005 at 12:20:35AM -0800, Larry Wall wrote: > That seems right to me. Or at least right associative. :-) > > In any event, right associativity seems more useful in this case. Okay, implemented as such. Of the "non-chaining binaries" in S06: => but does cmp <=> .. ^.. ..^ ^

Re: [PATCH] Additional tests for t/op/pair.t

2005-02-22 Thread Autrijus Tang
On Mon, Feb 21, 2005 at 11:05:34PM -0600, Steve Peters wrote: > I was hoping I had a bit more time tonight to work on tests, but house-hacking > projects took precedence. Attached is a patch to t/op/pair.t to add some > additional tests to make sure values of numbers and pairs can be handled as >

Re: Environment variables

2005-02-22 Thread Autrijus Tang
On Tue, Feb 22, 2005 at 06:51:24AM -0600, Patrick R. Michaud wrote: > This might initially work for read-only access/testing, but in > the long run I suspect that %*ENV will be tied directly to the > C putenv/getenv calls or their Parrot/other equivalents. > Assigning to %*ENV should change the e

Re: Environment variables

2005-02-22 Thread Patrick R. Michaud
On Tue, Feb 22, 2005 at 08:35:49PM +0800, Autrijus Tang wrote: > jn Tue, Feb 22, 2005 at 10:54:26AM -, Rafael Garcia-Suarez wrote: > > I had this silly idea, to try to add %ENV to pugs. That would be an > > interesting exercise. So I can write CGI scripts. Maybe. But I don't > > know what's the

Re: Environment variables

2005-02-22 Thread Autrijus Tang
jn Tue, Feb 22, 2005 at 10:54:26AM -, Rafael Garcia-Suarez wrote: > I had this silly idea, to try to add %ENV to pugs. That would be an > interesting exercise. So I can write CGI scripts. Maybe. But I don't > know what's the Right way to do it in Perl 6. Any hints ? In Perl6 I think you do it

[PATCH] Additional tests for t/op/pair.t

2005-02-22 Thread Steve Peters
Hi all, I was hoping I had a bit more time tonight to work on tests, but house-hacking projects took precedence. Attached is a patch to t/op/pair.t to add some additional tests to make sure values of numbers and pairs can be handled as well as using a pair as a key for a pair. The test script a

Environment variables

2005-02-22 Thread Rafael Garcia-Suarez
I had this silly idea, to try to add %ENV to pugs. That would be an interesting exercise. So I can write CGI scripts. Maybe. But I don't know what's the Right way to do it in Perl 6. Any hints ? -- #!/usr/bin/pugs say "Just another Pugs hacker";

Re: Slurpy nullary vs nonslurpy nullary

2005-02-22 Thread Autrijus Tang
On Tue, Feb 22, 2005 at 10:38:04PM +1100, Damian Conway wrote: > >So, even if the clash is Num vs Str context, we still run it > >under List context? Or is it their common ancestor, "Scalar"? > > Yes. When I said "indeterminate contexts" I meant List vs Scalar. After > all, the whole point of mu

Re: Slurpy nullary vs nonslurpy nullary

2005-02-22 Thread Damian Conway
Autrijus wrote: Personally, I think the only reasonable way of resolving this is to assume (as in the last paragraph above) that function calls in these kinds of indeterminate contexts are always in list context. So, even if the clash is Num vs Str context, we still run it under List context? Or i

Re: Junctions, Sets, and Threading.

2005-02-22 Thread Damian Conway
Juerd wrote: Naievely, I'd expect my @a = @b = 1..3; »foo«(@a, @b) to result in foo(@a[0], @b[0]), foo(@a[1], @b[1]), foo(@a[2], @b[2]); but foo([EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]) with the same arrays in foo(@a[0], @b[0]), foo(@a[0], @b[1]), foo(@a[0], @b[2]),

Re: Junctions, Sets, and Threading.

2005-02-22 Thread Juerd
Damian Conway skribis 2005-02-22 22:13 (+1100): > >@x = func($a, [EMAIL PROTECTED]); > That's: > @x = »func«($a, @y); > But, y'know, this one almost convinces me. Especially when you consider: > sub func ($i, $j, $k) {...} > @x = func($a, [EMAIL PROTECTED], @z); Naievely, I'd ex

Re: Junctions, Sets, and Threading.

2005-02-22 Thread Damian Conway
Rod Adams wrote: > The purpose of a junction is to allow for performing several tests at a > given time, with the testing code needing no knowledge of that junctions > are present. While a junction can represent several values at the same > time, such notions as "hold" and "contain" should be avoid

Re: Returning varying numbers of results from a tail call

2005-02-22 Thread Leopold Toetsch
Bob Rogers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >From: Leopold Toetsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >I'd pass one argument array around. With Cdoing that anyway. > Well, the example I showed you was a bit contrived. I'm working on > implementing Common Lisp call/return semantics, where functions often

Re: Sets vs Junctions

2005-02-22 Thread Michele Dondi
On Mon, 21 Feb 2005, Jonathan Lang wrote: There are a couple of problems: first, a hash's keys are limited to strings; a set ought to be able to handle a wider range of data types. Well, if I had learnt something about Perl6 it is that it is no longer necessarily so. Michele -- It's also amazing

Junctions, Sets, and Threading.

2005-02-22 Thread Rod Adams
Definitions === set (n) : A data container that can hold many elements simultaneously. The order of elements in a set is meaningless. No two elements in a set may hold the same value. junction (n) : The combination of several independent values and an explicit boolean predicate, to form an

Re: Question about pairs

2005-02-22 Thread Larry Wall
On Mon, Feb 21, 2005 at 09:37:02PM -0600, Steve Peters wrote: : On Mon, Feb 21, 2005 at 11:32:16AM -0800, Larry Wall wrote: : > On Mon, Feb 21, 2005 at 02:07:10PM +, osfameron wrote: : > : >In Perl 6, C<< => >> is a fully-fledged anonymous object constructor -- : > : >like C<[...]> and

Re: Sets vs Junctions

2005-02-22 Thread Larry Wall
On Mon, Feb 21, 2005 at 10:32:15PM -0800, Jonathan Lang wrote: : ...then you've got the notion of Fuzzy Logic Sets, where the key would be : the prospective element and the value would be the degree of membership. : For fuzzy sets, hashes seem to be a better fit than junctions, which have : no obv

Re: Sets vs Junctions

2005-02-22 Thread Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon
Jonathan Lang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There are a couple of problems: first, a hash's keys are limited to > strings; a set ought to be able to handle a wider range of data types. Last time I checked, there was going to be a way to declare a different data type for the key (which could easily