Re: Idea for making @, %, $ optional

2005-06-04 Thread Millsa Erlas
Millsa Erlas wrote: I have thought of an interesting idea that may allow Perl 6 to make the $, @, and % optional on many uses of variables. This involves simply extending the function namespace to include all kinds of structures, and thus the function namespace does not require symbols, they ar

Re: Parrot 0.2.1 "APW" Released!

2005-06-04 Thread H.Merijn Brand
On Sat, 04 Jun 2005 12:36:57 +0200, Leopold Toetsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Parrot 0.2.1 "APW" Released! > > On behalf of the Parrot team I'm proud to announce another monthly > release of Parrot and I'd like to thank all involved people as well as > our sponsors for supporting us. > > The

Building Parrot with MinGW, ActivePerl & command.com

2005-06-04 Thread Clement Cherlin
I actually have Linux installed on this machine, but for reasons which I'm not going to get into here I use Win98 for day-to-day computing. I therefore took it as a challenge to get Parrot to build with crufty ol' command.com. I used MinGW 3.1.0-1 and ActivePerl 5.8.6.811 to build Parrot. I conf

Re: Parrot 0.2.1 "APW" Released!

2005-06-04 Thread Thomas Klausner
Hi! On Sat, Jun 04, 2005 at 12:36:57PM +0200, Leopold Toetsch wrote: > The release name stands for "Austrian Perl Workshop", which will take > place on 9th and 10th of June in Vienna. It will have a french > connection that is a live video stream to the French Perl Workshop > happening at the sam

Re: Missing MMD default functions?

2005-06-04 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 8:14 PM -0400 6/3/05, Chip Salzenberg wrote: On Fri, Jun 03, 2005 at 02:55:52PM -0400, Dan Sugalski wrote: Dan was expecting sane defaults, that is when I do addition with two PMCs that haven't otherwise said they behave specially that the floating point values of the two PMCs are retrieve

Re: prove with Devel::Cover example?

2005-06-04 Thread Mark Stosberg
On 2005-06-04, Michael G Schwern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Jun 03, 2005 at 02:04:50PM -0500, Pete Krawczyk wrote: >> }How can I use 'prove' and Devel::Cover together? I tried: >> >> HARNESS_PERL_SWITCHES=-MDevel::Cover prove file.t > > Kinda surprised there's not a --cover switch. I w

Re: Software Transactional Memory interaction with Garbage Collection

2005-06-04 Thread Leopold Toetsch
Sam Vilain wrote: Hi all, While I must start this post out by saying that I've never implemented either STM or a garbage collector, during a discussion on #parrot (is that channel logged?), a similarity between the two processes occurred to me. Not really. STM is a scheme to handle access t

release 0.2.1 done

2005-06-04 Thread Leopold Toetsch
I hope everything works as expected. Have fun and thanks for all your contributions, leo

Parrot 0.2.1 "APW" Released!

2005-06-04 Thread Leopold Toetsch
Parrot 0.2.1 "APW" Released! On behalf of the Parrot team I'm proud to announce another monthly release of Parrot and I'd like to thank all involved people as well as our sponsors for supporting us. The release name stands for "Austrian Perl Workshop", which will take place on 9th and 10th of Ju

Re: (multi)subroutine names

2005-06-04 Thread dakkar
Rod Adams wrote: > It used to be > >&foo >&foo > > but I seem to recall that there was a mild change that occurred. Or > maybe I'm thinking about the adding of the colon for operators. I'm not > certain, but it's something very close to the above. Well, it doesn't seem ambiguous to me. Oper

Re: Missing MMD default functions?

2005-06-04 Thread Chip Salzenberg
On Fri, Jun 03, 2005 at 02:55:52PM -0400, Dan Sugalski wrote: > Dan was expecting sane defaults, that is when I do addition with two > PMCs that haven't otherwise said they behave specially that the > floating point values of the two PMCs are retrieved and added > together. Is deriving from Flo

Re: prove with Devel::Cover example?

2005-06-04 Thread Michael G Schwern
On Fri, Jun 03, 2005 at 02:04:50PM -0500, Pete Krawczyk wrote: > }How can I use 'prove' and Devel::Cover together? I tried: > > HARNESS_PERL_SWITCHES=-MDevel::Cover prove file.t Kinda surprised there's not a --cover switch. -- Michael G Schwern [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pobox.com/~

Re: Extraneous whitespace on failures with T::Harness 0.48, T::More 0.60

2005-06-04 Thread Michael G Schwern
On Fri, Jun 03, 2005 at 03:22:46PM +0100, Clayton, Nik wrote: > I get this output: > > 1..2 > ok 1 - test 1 > not ok 2 - test 2 > > # Failed test (test.pl at line 9) > # Looks like you failed 1 test of 2. > > Notice the blank line between the "not ok 2" line and the first

variable register frames (was: Register Allocation and Continuations problem definition)

2005-06-04 Thread Leopold Toetsch
Matt Fowles wrote: [ thanks for your summary ] Another summary can be found here: http://xrl.us/gban ... Discussions about specific solutions should and religion should have a seperate thread. I'll put together some more WRT: 4) variable sized register frames During the discussion of con

release 0.2.1 starting - please no more comitts at all

2005-06-04 Thread Leopold Toetsch
I'll start putting together the monthly release in a minute. Please refrain from svn ci in the next hours until further notice. Thanks, leo

Re: [perl #36119] [PATCH] Reapply execute permissions on dynclasses for HP-UX

2005-06-04 Thread Leopold Toetsch
Nick Glencross (via RT) wrote: +if ($^O ne 'MSWin32') { I'd much more prefer one of: a) if $^O eq 'hpux' b) fix the "copy" to preserve perms Anyway, as hpux is still broken in several other places, I'll drop a note in PLATFORMS and not apply the patch now. leo