Re: [perl #38406] [BUG] PGE - truncating PIR code generated by p6rule

2006-02-03 Thread Joshua Isom
I've tested on FreeBSD 6.0 and OS X 10.3.9, and t/problematic.t is successful for both, both with r11418. But, I've encountered two major problems. On darwin, I can't finish past_node.t, first parrot takes over 100 megs of ram, then perl(5.8.7) wants 180 megs. On freebsd, it's actually worse

Re: TODO test paradox: better TODO test management?

2006-02-03 Thread Ricardo SIGNES
* demerphq <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-02-01T03:26:55] > And I think you've conveniently sidestepped my main point which is > that TODO tests passing are errors. Consider you have two TODO tests, > both of which depend on a common set of functionality. Both should > pass or both should fail. I just

Re: [perl #38406] [BUG] PGE - truncating PIR code generated by p6rule

2006-02-03 Thread Allison Randal
On Feb 2, 2006, at 15:10, Patrick R. Michaud via RT wrote: ...as of r11409, I'm not seeing the 'make test' error for punie (on my Linux/x86_64 box). I don't know if this is because it's now working, or because you've routed around the particular problem you were seeing, so let me know if you're

Re: something between "state" and "my"

2006-02-03 Thread Larry Wall
On Fri, Feb 03, 2006 at 12:41:47PM -0800, Dave Whipp wrote: : Larry Wall wrote: : : >But that's just my current mental model, which history has shown : >is subject to random tweakage. And maybe "env $+result" could be a : >special squinting construct that does create-unless-already-created. : >Do

Re: A GraphViz eye view of Parrot

2006-02-03 Thread Nicholas Clark
On Wed, Feb 01, 2006 at 01:39:55PM -0800, Allison Randal wrote: > On Jan 31, 2006, at 16:26, Allison Randal wrote: > > >This'll likely be out-of-date tomorrow, but I found it useful as a > >quick snapshot/overview of the Parrot repository. The process used to created it isn't amenable to automa

Re: something between "state" and "my"

2006-02-03 Thread Dave Whipp
Larry Wall wrote: But that's just my current mental model, which history has shown is subject to random tweakage. And maybe "env $+result" could be a special squinting construct that does create-unless-already-created. Doesn't feel terribly clean to me though. If we stick with the + twigil alw

Re: something between "state" and "my"

2006-02-03 Thread Larry Wall
On Fri, Feb 03, 2006 at 06:45:23AM +, Luke Palmer wrote: : On 2/3/06, Dave Whipp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: : >sub factorial(Int $x) { : >temp state Int $result = 1; : >$result *= $x; : >factorial $x-1 if $x > 2; : >return $result if want; : >} : >say

Re: use of parrot built source tree in pugs

2006-02-03 Thread Beau E. Cox
On Friday 03 February 2006 07:03 am, Larry Wall wrote: > On Thu, Feb 02, 2006 at 08:18:14PM -1000, Beau E. Cox wrote: > : Hi - > : > : When making pugs, I know that the following env must be > : setup to imbed parrot: > : > : ... > : export PUGS_EMBED="perl5 parrot" > : export PARROT_PATH="/the/par

Re: use of parrot built source tree in pugs

2006-02-03 Thread Larry Wall
On Thu, Feb 02, 2006 at 08:18:14PM -1000, Beau E. Cox wrote: : Hi - : : When making pugs, I know that the following env must be : setup to imbed parrot: : : ... : export PUGS_EMBED="perl5 parrot" : export PARROT_PATH="/the/parrot/built/source/tree" : ... : : Is the parrot source tree only needed

Re: [perl #38348] [PATCH] Accept return values via a Continuation

2006-02-03 Thread Leopold Toetsch
On Feb 3, 2006, at 15:49, Nicholas Clark wrote: On Tue, Jan 31, 2006 at 02:01:42PM +0100, Leopold Toetsch wrote: Limiting the callframe range, where the continuation can go. Currently creating a continuation is rather expensive, as all RetContinuations up the call chain are converted into f

Re: [perl #38348] [PATCH] Accept return values via a Continuation

2006-02-03 Thread Nicholas Clark
On Tue, Jan 31, 2006 at 02:01:42PM +0100, Leopold Toetsch wrote: > Bob Rogers wrote: > > From: "Leopold Toetsch via RT" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > Yep. At least as long we don't have better support for creating > > limited continuations that are able to return some results. > > > >I'm afraid

Re: [perl #38348] [PATCH] Accept return values via a Continuation

2006-02-03 Thread Leopold Toetsch
Bob Rogers wrote: Worse, the closed-over frame is leaked entirely. (Is this what the "obviously leaks memory" comment in src/register.c is talking about, or are there other cases of leakage?) But I think I have a handle on what's causing this, and hope to propose a fix shortly. Yep re com

Re: embparrot still has two failures

2006-02-03 Thread Stuart Cook
On 03/02/06, Uri Guttman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > "LW" == Larry Wall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > LW> pugs -V: > > LW> This is Perl6 User's Golfing System, version 6.2.11, February 1, > LW> 2005 (r8945) built for i386-linux-thread-multi > > > not that this has anything

Re: [perl #38348] [PATCH] Accept return values via a Continuation

2006-02-03 Thread Bob Rogers
From: Leopold Toetsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 14:01:42 +0100 Bob Rogers wrote: >From: "Leopold Toetsch via RT" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Yep. At least as long we don't have better support for creating >limited continuations that are able to return some

Re: Kwalitee in your dependencies (was CPAN Upload: etc etc)

2006-02-03 Thread Nicholas Clark
On Fri, Feb 03, 2006 at 11:30:13AM +0100, Tels wrote: > Problaby just because the last guy running RISC OS has died 4 years ago. > SCNR :-) Well, the list is *slightly* more active than that: http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.riscos Nicholas Clark

Re: Kwalitee in your dependencies (was CPAN Upload: etc etc)

2006-02-03 Thread Tels
Moin, On Friday 03 February 2006 11:04, David Landgren wrote: > David Cantrell wrote: > > brian d foy wrote: > >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>> Hopefully it will be something like: > >>> $I::don't::bother::to::write::portable::code=1; > >>> ;-) [snip] > > > > I want my code to be more like File

Re: [Module::Build] [RFC] author tests

2006-02-03 Thread Smylers
Tyler MacDonald writes: > Chris Dolan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > [lots of author test examples, including:] > > > * versionsync.t - Checks that the $VERSION is the same in all bin/* > > and *.pm files. This test is pointless after release, since it's > > already been tested before relea

Re: Kwalitee in your dependencies (was CPAN Upload: etc etc)

2006-02-03 Thread David Landgren
David Cantrell wrote: brian d foy wrote: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hopefully it will be something like: $I::don't::bother::to::write::portable::code=1; ;-) Seriously though, I would expect things in Win32::* to only work on Windows, things in Linux::* only to work on linux, and so on for many

Re: Development version

2006-02-03 Thread Kevin Puetz
Beau E. Cox wrote: > Hi - > > Congrats on your 6.2.11 release! > > Did the development (svn) version really jump to 6.28.0? Yes. Major pugs releases are numbered by adding the next digit of 2*pi, rather than the more conventional x.y+1 :-) > I am running some scripts to automate a refresh of p