Re: Test failures on OSX

2005-05-14 Thread Tim Bunce
On Thu, May 12, 2005 at 10:31:06PM +0200, Leopold Toetsch wrote: Tim wrote: Fresh (and first) checkout and build of parrot (#8075) first???\ :-) I know, I know. Real life, real work and all that. I've been watching from afar though at all this great work. I still won't have much time

[perl #35439] [BUG] PGE: 'index' op not found when creating rule

2005-05-14 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by jerry gay # Please include the string: [perl #35439] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # URL: https://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=35439 with parrot revision 8086, i'm running the following: .sub main @MAIN

Re: trait and properties thru getter/setters

2005-05-14 Thread mark . a . biggar
I don't understand why you think you need the eval here? -- Mark Biggar [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] There is syntax to define trait and properties but is there an API? my $b = eval '$a but true'; # setting a true property # API to do it without an eval? A

Re: Plethora of operators

2005-05-14 Thread Adam Kennedy
[»+^=«] reminds me of a P5 regex that has a comment saying This is black magic. Don't touch!. --That's-- my complaint. Indeed. There's a time and a place for that sort of black magic, and it's usually about once per 5,000 lines of code, and so deep and well wrapped in comments and unit tests

Re: ^method ?

2005-05-14 Thread Adam Kennedy
The obvious way to do it is to declare the invocant. Wasn't one of the original headline features for Perl 6 not having to do that any more for basic normal code? Or at least from a couple of damian talks it was one of the things that practically _everybody_ wanted. On the plus side, with

Re: [Maybe Spam] Re: DBD-mysql coverage == 56% - am I on drugs ??

2005-05-14 Thread Tim Bunce
On Fri, May 13, 2005 at 10:51:56AM +0200, Paul Johnson wrote: On Fri, May 13, 2005 at 03:00:39PM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Covering the XS portion of the code with gcov is possible, and Devel::Cover will create all kinds of nice webpages and statistics

Re: ^method ?

2005-05-14 Thread Adam Kennedy
Autrijus Tang wrote: Juerd informed me today that .method should still means $_.method. However, for the OO modules we're writing, there still needs to be a way to invoke methods on the current invocant, when the invocant name has been omitted from the method() declaration. Currently Pugs has:

Re: ^method ?

2005-05-14 Thread Luke Palmer
On 5/14/05, Adam Kennedy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't mean to be disrespectful, but what was whoever suggested ^ thinking? Well I suggested backtick in the same role *duck*. For starters, about the only combination harder to hit with on spanned hand might be ctrl-F5. I've remapped my

Re: ^method ?

2005-05-14 Thread Damian Conway
Luke wrote: If the alternatives are: * declare $self, use $self.method, and .method for calling on $_ * use .method, and use $_.method for calling on $_ I'd say the former has no case. I, for one, am not nearly so certain of that. Our original rationale for that choice was not

Re: ^method ?

2005-05-14 Thread Juerd
Firstly, thanks for writing the message out so clearly that it cannot be misunderstood. Damian Conway skribis 2005-05-14 22:06 (+1000): .{width} //= 80; .{height}//= 24; .{gutter}//= 4; .{justification} //= 'left'; .{available}

Re: Plethora of operators

2005-05-14 Thread Damian Conway
Adam Kennedy wrote: And reduction? I write 25,000+ lines of Perl a year, and if you are talking about something like List::Util::reduce, I think I've used it maybe twice? Which proves what? That you don't (yet) write the sort of code that benefits from reductions? That you don't (yet) think in

Re: Object Numify/Stringify-ing to Unique values

2005-05-14 Thread Leopold Toetsch
Autrijus Tang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What does unboxed values return for their id, though? 3 =:= 3; # always true? 3.id ~~ 3.id; # ditto? Maybe true or not, that's highly implementation dependent. I'd not touch these internals: $ python Python 2.4 [...] id(2) == id(1+1)

Re: Plethora of operators

2005-05-14 Thread Herbert Snorrason
On 14/05/05, Damian Conway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here are a few of the things I'll be using reductions for in Perl 6... 1. To add things up: $sum = [+] @amounts; 2. To calculate the probability that I'll need to use a reduction today: $final_prob =

Re: [perl #35439] [BUG] PGE: 'index' op not found when creating rule

2005-05-14 Thread Leopold Toetsch
Jerry Gay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: with parrot revision 8086, i'm running the following: .sub main @MAIN load_bytecode 'PGE.pbc' .local pmc p6rule, rulesub, match p6rule= find_global 'PGE', 'p6rule' rulesub= p6rule( '( \\ \. )+ \\' ) .end which, under parrot -t, gives

Re: Plethora of operators

2005-05-14 Thread Juerd
Damian Conway skribis 2005-05-14 22:56 (+1000): $leaf_value = [.{}] %hash, @keys; $propped = [but] $value, @properties; With the precedence of [op] being that of a normal list op, the above are a problem. Perhaps ; or multiple == can solve this? Juerd --

Re: Plethora of operators

2005-05-14 Thread Eirik Berg Hanssen
Juerd [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Damian Conway skribis 2005-05-14 22:56 (+1000): $leaf_value = [.{}] %hash, @keys; $propped = [but] $value, @properties; With the precedence of [op] being that of a normal list op, the above are a problem. Perhaps ; or multiple == can

Re: Plethora of operators

2005-05-14 Thread Jonathan Scott Duff
On Sat, May 14, 2005 at 10:56:29PM +1000, Damian Conway wrote: 3. To drill down a hierarchical data structure, following the path specified by a list of keys: $leaf_value = [.{}] %hash, @keys; I think this one needs to be written as: $leaf_value = [.{}] \%hash,

The [] metaoperator

2005-05-14 Thread Autrijus Tang
On Sat, May 14, 2005 at 10:56:29PM +1000, Damian Conway wrote: 8. To verify the monotonicity of a sequence: $is_monotonic = [] @numbers; Hey. Does this mean that the [] metaoperator folds with the associativity of the operator inside it? That is, if the operator inside is

Re: Plethora of operators

2005-05-14 Thread Juerd
Eirik Berg Hanssen skribis 2005-05-14 16:22 (+0200): With the precedence of [op] being that of a normal list op, the above are a problem. Perhaps ; or multiple == can solve this? I suppose the first must just make sure not to flatten the %hash: $leaf_value = [.{}] \%hash, @keys; # %hash

Re: Plethora of operators

2005-05-14 Thread Uri Guttman
DC == Damian Conway [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: DC Here are a few of the things I'll be using reductions for in Perl 6... DC 3. To drill down a hierarchical data structure, following the path DC specified by a list of keys: DC $leaf_value = [.{}] %hash, @keys;

Re: Plethora of operators

2005-05-14 Thread Juerd
Jonathan Scott Duff skribis 2005-05-14 9:49 (-0500): Then surely $leaf = [.{}] %hash, $k1, $k2, $k3 is the same as$leaf = %hash .{} $k1 .{} $k2 .{} $k3 Then perhaps the easy way out is to make .{} $key and .[] $index valid syntax. Or perhaps [] can play the role of

Re: Plethora of operators

2005-05-14 Thread Markus Laire
Adam Kennedy kirjoitti: [»+^=«] reminds me of a P5 regex that has a comment saying This is black magic. Don't touch!. --That's-- my complaint. I look at... but the basic operator there is just ^, with a + modifier to indicate numeric XOR, = to indicate an assignment operator, »« to indicate

Re: small typo in PBC_COMPAT

2005-05-14 Thread Dino Morelli
On Thu, 12 May 2005, Autrijus Tang wrote: On Wed, May 11, 2005 at 06:09:00PM -0400, Dino Morelli wrote: Feel free to correct 'no_plan'. I'll happily apply any and all patches to the tests, and those with commit privs are welcome to directly modify the t/p6rules/*.t files at any time.

Re: Plethora of operators

2005-05-14 Thread Juerd
Markus Laire skribis 2005-05-14 18:07 (+0300): [+^=] (@a, @b, @c) These arrays flatten first (otherwise [+] @foo could never calculate the sum of the elements), so imagine that you have Juerd -- http://convolution.nl/maak_juerd_blij.html http://convolution.nl/make_juerd_happy.html

Re: Plethora of operators

2005-05-14 Thread Juerd
Juerd skribis 2005-05-14 17:23 (+0200): Markus Laire skribis 2005-05-14 18:07 (+0300): [+^=] (@a, @b, @c) These arrays flatten first (otherwise [+] @foo could never calculate the sum of the elements), so imagine that you have $foo, $bar, $baz, $quux, $xyzzy to let +^= operate on.

Re: The [] metaoperator

2005-05-14 Thread Larry Wall
On Sat, May 14, 2005 at 10:53:38PM +0800, Autrijus Tang wrote: : On Sat, May 14, 2005 at 10:56:29PM +1000, Damian Conway wrote: : 8. To verify the monotonicity of a sequence: : : $is_monotonic = [] @numbers; : : Hey. Does this mean that the [] metaoperator folds with the :

Re: ^method ?

2005-05-14 Thread Larry Wall
On Sat, May 14, 2005 at 02:17:38PM +0200, Juerd wrote: : Firstly, thanks for writing the message out so clearly that it cannot be : misunderstood. : : Damian Conway skribis 2005-05-14 22:06 (+1000): : .{width} //= 80; : .{height}//= 24; : .{gutter}

Added tests to t/p6rules/ws.t

2005-05-14 Thread Dino Morelli
Changes: -Added the same set of tests for :w to be performed without :w -Added a couple of tests for both that include tabs, spaces and newlines -Added Cuse strict; use warnings; to the test script. Is this a good idea? I had gotten feedback from Coke and pjcj on #parrot about warnings

Re: Object Numify/Stringify-ing to Unique values

2005-05-14 Thread Larry Wall
On Sat, May 14, 2005 at 02:57:53PM +0200, Leopold Toetsch wrote: : If we want some interoperbility with Python dicts, hashing will not be : done on ids but on the hash function of the type. Which Perl could default to id. Larry

Re: ^method ?

2005-05-14 Thread Larry Wall
On Sat, May 14, 2005 at 04:22:44PM +1000, Adam Kennedy wrote: : The obvious way to do it is to declare the invocant. : : Wasn't one of the original headline features for Perl 6 not having to do : that any more for basic normal code? Or at least from a couple of damian : talks it was one of the

Re: Plethora of operators

2005-05-14 Thread Jonathan Scott Duff
On Sat, May 14, 2005 at 05:05:10PM +0200, Juerd wrote: Jonathan Scott Duff skribis 2005-05-14 9:49 (-0500): Then surely $leaf = [.{}] %hash, $k1, $k2, $k3 is the same as $leaf = %hash .{} $k1 .{} $k2 .{} $k3 Then perhaps the easy way out is to make .{} $key and .[]

Re: The [] metaoperator

2005-05-14 Thread Juerd
Larry Wall skribis 2005-05-14 8:29 (-0700): : say [x]; : Is it a repeating metaoperator on an empty list, or a single-element : array reference that contains the return value of calling x()? Always the first. [x] doesn't have to do lookahead. Does this mean that [x] is just an

Re: Plethora of operators

2005-05-14 Thread Larry Wall
On Sat, May 14, 2005 at 10:55:43AM -0500, Jonathan Scott Duff wrote: : But perhaps the reduce operator is some of that sufficiently advanced : technology that knows how the operator it wraps is slotted and does : something appropriate. Possibly. Or we just define infix .{}. and .[]. variants,

junctions vs English negatives.

2005-05-14 Thread Larry Wall
We have a bit of a problem with negative operators applied to junctions, as illustrated recently on PerlMonks. To wit, when a native English speaker writes if $a != 1 | 2 | 3 {...} they really mean one of: if not $a == 1 | 2 | 3 {...} if $a == none(1, 2, 3) {...} or, expressed in

Re: Plethora of operators

2005-05-14 Thread Jonathan Scott Duff
On Sat, May 14, 2005 at 09:20:21AM -0700, Larry Wall wrote: On Sat, May 14, 2005 at 10:55:43AM -0500, Jonathan Scott Duff wrote: : But perhaps the reduce operator is some of that sufficiently advanced : technology that knows how the operator it wraps is slotted and does : something

Re: Plethora of operators

2005-05-14 Thread Juerd
Larry Wall skribis 2005-05-14 9:20 (-0700): Possibly. Or we just define infix .{}. and .[]. variants, or some such. The problem is that we already have @foo[] meaning the same as @foo, and an always allowed . that also allows you to put whitespace around it. This means that %foo.{}.$kv should

Re: BEGIN and lexical variables inside subroutines

2005-05-14 Thread Larry Wall
On Fri, May 13, 2005 at 04:21:25PM +0200, TSa (Thomas Sandlaß) wrote: : And I hope that it is not possible to accidentially : mess up the internals of the compiler because code : in a BEGIN hits compiler data. Whereas I hope that it *is* possible to intentionally mess up the internals of the

Re: Plethora of operators

2005-05-14 Thread Larry Wall
On Sat, May 14, 2005 at 06:41:35PM +0200, Juerd wrote: : Larry Wall skribis 2005-05-14 9:20 (-0700): : Possibly. Or we just define infix .{}. and .[]. variants, or some such. : : The problem is that we already have @foo[] meaning the same as @foo, and : an always allowed . that also allows you

Re: junctions vs English negatives.

2005-05-14 Thread Jonathan Scott Duff
On Sat, May 14, 2005 at 09:31:29AM -0700, Larry Wall wrote: I don't think we can allow this situation to stand. Either we have to make != and !~ and ne transform themselves via not raising, or we have to disallow negative comparisons on junctions entirely. I'm of the opinion that disallowing

Re: Added tests to t/p6rules/ws.t

2005-05-14 Thread Patrick R. Michaud
On Sat, May 14, 2005 at 11:36:30AM -0400, Dino Morelli wrote: Changes: -Added the same set of tests for :w to be performed without :w -Added a couple of tests for both that include tabs, spaces and newlines -Added Cuse strict; use warnings; to the test script. Is this a good idea? I had

Re: [perl #35439] [BUG] PGE: 'index' op not found when creating rule

2005-05-14 Thread Patrick R. Michaud
On Sat, May 14, 2005 at 03:31:21PM +0200, Leopold Toetsch wrote: Jerry Gay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: with parrot revision 8086, i'm running the following: .sub main @MAIN load_bytecode 'PGE.pbc' .local pmc p6rule, rulesub, match p6rule= find_global 'PGE', 'p6rule'

Re: Plethora of operators

2005-05-14 Thread Rod Adams
Larry Wall wrote: On Sat, May 14, 2005 at 06:41:35PM +0200, Juerd wrote: : Larry Wall skribis 2005-05-14 9:20 (-0700): : Possibly. Or we just define infix .{}. and .[]. variants, or some such. : : The problem is that we already have @foo[] meaning the same as @foo, and : an always allowed .

Re: junctions vs English negatives.

2005-05-14 Thread Rod Adams
Larry Wall wrote: We have a bit of a problem with negative operators applied to junctions, as illustrated recently on PerlMonks. To wit, when a native English speaker writes if $a != 1 | 2 | 3 {...} they really mean one of: if not $a == 1 | 2 | 3 {...} if $a == none(1, 2, 3) {...} or,

Re: Plethora of operators

2005-05-14 Thread Larry Wall
On Sat, May 14, 2005 at 12:51:32PM -0500, Rod Adams wrote: : Larry Wall wrote: : : On Sat, May 14, 2005 at 06:41:35PM +0200, Juerd wrote: : : Larry Wall skribis 2005-05-14 9:20 (-0700): : : Possibly. Or we just define infix .{}. and .[]. variants, or some : such. : : : : The problem is that

Re: Plethora of operators

2005-05-14 Thread Rod Adams
Larry Wall wrote: On Sat, May 14, 2005 at 12:51:32PM -0500, Rod Adams wrote: : Unless, of course, there is some subtle difference between a 3-d hash : and a hash of hashes of hashes that invalidates this. No difference, I hope. The multidimensional notation is meant to extend to HoH and AoA

Re: Plethora of operators

2005-05-14 Thread Larry Wall
On Sat, May 14, 2005 at 01:36:22PM -0500, Rod Adams wrote: : Larry Wall wrote: : : On Sat, May 14, 2005 at 12:51:32PM -0500, Rod Adams wrote: : : : Unless, of course, there is some subtle difference between a 3-d hash : : and a hash of hashes of hashes that invalidates this. : : No difference,

Re: Plethora of operators

2005-05-14 Thread Rob Kinyon
On 5/14/05, Larry Wall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, May 14, 2005 at 01:36:22PM -0500, Rod Adams wrote: : Larry Wall wrote: : : On Sat, May 14, 2005 at 12:51:32PM -0500, Rod Adams wrote: : : : Unless, of course, there is some subtle difference between a 3-d hash : : and a hash of hashes

Re: Plethora of operators

2005-05-14 Thread Rod Adams
Rob Kinyon wrote: So, does this mean that I can do something like: @a = [ 1 .. 4 ]; $x = @a{2}; and have $x == 3? If so, is there any reason (other than clarity) to use the @a[] notation? The @ already indicates you have an array vs. the % which indicates hash. Is there a reason to have the

Re: C:: in rules

2005-05-14 Thread Patrick R. Michaud
On Fri, May 13, 2005 at 01:07:20PM -0700, Larry Wall wrote: On Fri, May 13, 2005 at 11:54:47AM -0500, Patrick R. Michaud wrote: : $r1 = rx / abc :: def | ghi :: jkl | mn :: op /; : $r2 = rx / abc ::: def | ghi ::: jkl | mn ::: op /; : $r3 = rx / [ abc :: def | ghi :: jkl | mn :: op

Re: Plethora of operators

2005-05-14 Thread Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon
Damian Conway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 3. To drill down a hierarchical data structure, following the path specified by a list of keys: $leaf_value = [.{}] %hash, @keys; When I saw this, the following happened. *pause for a second* Wow. *a few more seconds* Holy

Re: ^method ?

2005-05-14 Thread Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon
Damian Conway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [an extremely well-thought-out explanation] Thank you, Dr. Conway. That was very enlightening, and I think I agree with all of it. Larry Wall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You guys are all ignoring that I said it could be set via pragma or macro. If you want

Re: Plethora of operators

2005-05-14 Thread Juerd
Larry Wall skribis 2005-05-14 9:45 (-0700): : OTOH, reduce probably just needs to be smart enough to understand : postcircumfix. Perhaps whitespace helps, [{ }], in parallel with : postcircumfix:{ }, to avoid a conflict with an infix {}. Erm, I don't like tokens with spaces in the middle.

Re: junctions vs English negatives.

2005-05-14 Thread Damian Conway
Larry wrote: I don't think we can allow this situation to stand. Either we have to make != and !~ and ne transform themselves via not raising, or we have to disallow negative comparisons on junctions entirely. Opinions? Making them DWIM here would be a mistake, since the dwimmery would disappear

gravity defying \

2005-05-14 Thread Aaron Sherman
On Sat, 2005-05-14 at 16:22 +0200, Eirik Berg Hanssen wrote: I suppose the first must just make sure not to flatten the %hash: $leaf_value = [.{}] \%hash, @keys; # %hash .{$key1} . {$key2} ... Side point on the whole topic: I just LOVE \ as an explosive list- context flattening preventer.

Re: ^method ?

2005-05-14 Thread Jonathan Worthington
Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Like the decision about which side of the road cars should drive on, it really doesn't matter *which* choice is taken, as long as *something* is decided. The only thing is, there already is a decided way to do it so far as I can see... I've seen

Re: Plethora of operators

2005-05-14 Thread Damian Conway
Larry wrote: Actually, I think Damian's original formulation is sufficiently clear. aolMe too!/aol ;-) I think that a standard [.infix markerpostfix marker] abbreviation for all postcircumfix operators within [op] reductions would be a useful bit of dwimmery. Damian

Re: ^method ?

2005-05-14 Thread Rod Adams
Jonathan Worthington wrote: Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Like the decision about which side of the road cars should drive on, it really doesn't matter *which* choice is taken, as long as *something* is decided. The only thing is, there already is a decided way to do it so far

Re: ^method ?

2005-05-14 Thread Juerd
Rod Adams skribis 2005-05-14 19:21 (-0500): $?SELF, and nothing else by default. Wrong because it's inconsistent. Nothing else defaults to $?SELF. $_ bound to $?SELF at start of method. Current spec. o. O. this. self. me. Not special syntax, meaning you can no longer use these

Re: ^method ?

2005-05-14 Thread Rod Adams
Juerd wrote: Rod Adams skribis 2005-05-14 19:21 (-0500): o. O. this. self. me. Not special syntax, meaning you can no longer use these identifiers for your own class. Bad style to use single-letter identifiers, but we know what trouble $a and $b in Perl 5 cause, and the B:: namespace. I

Re: ^method ?

2005-05-14 Thread Rob Kinyon
On 5/14/05, Rod Adams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jonathan Worthington wrote: Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Like the decision about which side of the road cars should drive on, it really doesn't matter *which* choice is taken, as long as *something* is decided.

Re: ^method ?

2005-05-14 Thread Aaron Sherman
On Sat, 2005-05-14 at 22:06 +1000, Damian Conway wrote: Luke wrote: If the alternatives are: * declare $self, use $self.method, and .method for calling on $_ * use .method, and use $_.method for calling on $_ I'd say the former has no case. I, for one, am not nearly

Re: Plethora of operators

2005-05-14 Thread Stuart Cook
On 5/15/05, Juerd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How does [EMAIL PROTECTED] know the difference between postcircumfix:!@ # and postcircumfix:! @#? Perhaps it checks how many different variations are actually defined--if it finds only one, it can DWIM, and if it finds more than one it can barf with