[svn:perl6-synopsis] r8893 - doc/trunk/design/syn

2006-04-21 Thread autrijus
Author: autrijus Date: Thu Apr 20 23:49:15 2006 New Revision: 8893 Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S05.pod Log: Stylistic cleanup of S05; no functional changes. * s/TimToady/Larry Wall/ * Consistently change foo to Cfoo or Ifoo to be consistent with context. * Fixed the state $x ||= /.../

[perl #38957] hash test failures

2006-04-21 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by Will Coleda # Please include the string: [perl #38957] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # URL: https://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=38957 OSX 10.4.6, PPC This failure has been pretty persistent the past few weeks:

[perl #38958] hash/iterator failures

2006-04-21 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by Will Coleda # Please include the string: [perl #38958] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # URL: https://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=38958 OSX 10.4.6 t/pmc/iterator.t 13 332839 13 33.33% 16-18 21-28 30-31

[svn:perl6-synopsis] r8899 - doc/trunk/design/syn

2006-04-21 Thread autrijus
Author: autrijus Date: Fri Apr 21 08:56:22 2006 New Revision: 8899 Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S05.pod Log: * S05: Oops, turns out I entirely read perlop.pod incorrectly; it matches once only means it matches successfully once only, not it performs the match once only. Sorry,

Re: [svn:perl6-synopsis] r8899 - doc/trunk/design/syn

2006-04-21 Thread Uri Guttman
a == autrijus [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: a * S05: Oops, turns out I entirely read perlop.pod incorrectly; a it matches once only means it matches successfully once only, a not it performs the match once only. Sorry, TimToady++'s a original example of: a (state $x) ||= /

Re: [svn:perl6-synopsis] r8899 - doc/trunk/design/syn

2006-04-21 Thread Jonathan Scott Duff
On Fri, Apr 21, 2006 at 01:12:35PM -0400, Uri Guttman wrote: a == autrijus [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: a * S05: Oops, turns out I entirely read perlop.pod incorrectly; a it matches once only means it matches successfully once only, a not it performs the match once only. Sorry,

Re: [svn:perl6-synopsis] r8899 - doc/trunk/design/syn

2006-04-21 Thread Larry Wall
On Fri, Apr 21, 2006 at 12:45:13PM -0500, Jonathan Scott Duff wrote: : According to S05, a /.../ matches immediately in a value context : (void, Boolean, string, or numeric) and since : : (state $x) ||= / pattern /; : : is very much the same as : : state $x; $x = $x || /pattern/; :

[svn:perl6-synopsis] r8900 - doc/trunk/design/syn

2006-04-21 Thread larry
Author: larry Date: Fri Apr 21 11:13:21 2006 New Revision: 8900 Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S05.pod Log: Fixed up state $x ||= /.../ example a little more. Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S05.pod == ---

RFC: Possible SoC Proposal

2006-04-21 Thread Alberto Simões
Hi This Google Summer of Code proposal was an idea we had when Leopold visited Braga this month to talk about Parrot. He had a talk with a teacher here in the university which teach compilers, and is working on a toy language named LISS (Language of Integers, Sets and Sequences). The

Re: [svn:perl6-synopsis] r8899 - doc/trunk/design/syn

2006-04-21 Thread Jonathan Scott Duff
On Fri, Apr 21, 2006 at 11:06:20AM -0700, Larry Wall wrote: On Fri, Apr 21, 2006 at 12:45:13PM -0500, Jonathan Scott Duff wrote: : According to S05, a /.../ matches immediately in a value context : (void, Boolean, string, or numeric) and since : : (state $x) ||= / pattern /; : : is

Re: RFC: Possible SoC Proposal

2006-04-21 Thread chromatic
On Friday 21 April 2006 11:20, Alberto Simões wrote: Now, why am I sending this email? 1) I never proposed anything for SoC at all, and I don't know if this is a task big enough; 2) I do not know if there is really interest on doing this 3) I do not know who to propose as mentor (I offer

Fwd: About STM in Parrot

2006-04-21 Thread Leopold Toetsch
Begin forwarded message: From: Caio Marcelo [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: April 20, 2006 17:42:15 CEST To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: About STM in Parrot Hello Leopold Toetsch, I'm a undergrad student and am considering applying for Summer of Code with a Perl project involving implement STM

Re: [svn:perl6-synopsis] r8899 - doc/trunk/design/syn

2006-04-21 Thread Uri Guttman
JSD == Jonathan Scott Duff [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: JSD On Fri, Apr 21, 2006 at 11:06:20AM -0700, Larry Wall wrote: On Fri, Apr 21, 2006 at 12:45:13PM -0500, Jonathan Scott Duff wrote: : According to S05, a /.../ matches immediately in a value context : (void, Boolean, string, or

Re: [perl #38957] hash test failures

2006-04-21 Thread Andy Dougherty
On Fri, 21 Apr 2006, Will Coleda wrote: OSX 10.4.6, PPC This failure has been pretty persistent the past few weeks: t/src/hash.t1 256111 9.09% 6 # got: '42 # hash_6(4373,0xa000ed98) malloc: *** error for object 0x1d14140: incorrect checksum for freed

What version of perl is required?

2006-04-21 Thread Andy Dougherty
README says: You'll also need Perl 5.6 or above to run various configure and build scripts. but Configure.pl complains $ perl Configure.pl Perl v5.8.0 required--this is only v5.6.2, stopped at Configure.pl line 243. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at Configure.pl line

Re: What version of perl is required?

2006-04-21 Thread Will Coleda
There was an agreement on 5.6.1 a few weeks back on IRC, if I recall correctly, I haven't heard anything about 5.8. This change was made here: r11744 | bernhard | 2006-02-26 05:55:39 -0500 (Sun, 26 Feb 2006) | 7 lines Configuration: - Sprinkle a few 'use warnings;' - Some code

Re: RFC: Possible SoC Proposal

2006-04-21 Thread Alberto Simões
Follows a quick proposal. Please give me comments (specially the English, that I know is bad!!) Alberto Simões wrote: Hi This Google Summer of Code proposal was an idea we had when Leopold visited Braga this month to talk about Parrot. He had a talk with a teacher here in the university

[svn:perl6-synopsis] r8902 - doc/trunk/design/syn

2006-04-21 Thread larry
Author: larry Date: Fri Apr 21 13:27:05 2006 New Revision: 8902 Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S02.pod doc/trunk/design/syn/S06.pod doc/trunk/design/syn/S09.pod Log: Attempt to straighten out Buf vs Str semantics. In line with autobox-to-uppercase rule, buf types now autobox to Buf

Re: RFC: Possible SoC Proposal

2006-04-21 Thread Alberto Simões
And, a new version (thanks to pmurias at #parrot for the idea). Sorry for the spam :) Alberto Alberto Simões wrote: Follows a quick proposal. Please give me comments (specially the English, that I know is bad!!) Alberto Simões wrote: Hi This Google Summer of Code proposal was an idea we

Re: What version of perl is required?

2006-04-21 Thread Andy Dougherty
On Fri, 21 Apr 2006, Will Coleda wrote: There was an agreement on 5.6.1 a few weeks back on IRC, if I recall correctly, I haven't heard anything about 5.8. That reminds me: Is #parrot logged anywhere? Or, if not, are significant disucssions or decisions logged or archived anywhere? --

Re: [svn:perl6-synopsis] r8899 - doc/trunk/design/syn

2006-04-21 Thread Larry Wall
On Fri, Apr 21, 2006 at 03:15:12PM -0400, Uri Guttman wrote: : oy! the habits to be broken and relearned! Habits are no fun unless they're either good or bad. Larry

Re: What version of perl is required?

2006-04-21 Thread Leopold Toetsch
On Apr 21, 2006, at 22:42, Andy Dougherty wrote: That reminds me: Is #parrot logged anywhere? Or, if not, are significant disucssions or decisions logged or archived anywhere? No / No. Significant discussions/results/decisions are mailed to p6i though. leo

Re: About STM in Parrot

2006-04-21 Thread Leopold Toetsch
On Apr 21, 2006, at 20:49, Leopold Toetsch wrote: I'm a undergrad student and am considering applying for Summer of Code with a Perl project involving implement STM (software transactional memory) in Parrot. STM would be definitely a very interesting and worthy project. There was a bit of

[perl #38960] [BUG] test troubles

2006-04-21 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by Leopold Toetsch # Please include the string: [perl #38960] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # URL: https://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=38960 I get this on x86/linux languages/perl6 $ perl t/harness t/01-sanity/01-tap.t

Re: [perl #38960] [BUG] test troubles

2006-04-21 Thread Matt Diephouse
via RT Leopold Toetsch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: # New Ticket Created by Leopold Toetsch # Please include the string: [perl #38960] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # URL: https://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=38960 I get this on x86/linux

Re: [perl #38957] hash test failures

2006-04-21 Thread Matt Diephouse
via RT Will Coleda [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: # New Ticket Created by Will Coleda # Please include the string: [perl #38957] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # URL: https://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=38957 OSX 10.4.6, PPC This failure has

Re: [perl #38958] hash/iterator failures

2006-04-21 Thread Matt Diephouse
via RT Will Coleda [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: # New Ticket Created by Will Coleda # Please include the string: [perl #38958] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # URL: https://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=38958 OSX 10.4.6 t/pmc/iterator.t 13

Re: [perl #38960] [BUG] test troubles

2006-04-21 Thread chromatic
On Friday 21 April 2006 14:44, Leopold Toetsch wrote: I get this on x86/linux languages/perl6 $ perl t/harness t/01-sanity/01-tap.t t/01-sanity/01-tapok [fine] But on darwin 10.3 languages/perl6 $ perl t/harness t/01-sanity/01-tap.t t/01-sanity/01-tapCan't exec /usr/bin/pugs at

[svn:perl6-synopsis] r8903 - doc/trunk/design/syn

2006-04-21 Thread larry
Author: larry Date: Fri Apr 21 14:54:12 2006 New Revision: 8903 Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S02.pod doc/trunk/design/syn/S06.pod Log: Moved adverb description to S02. Documented :!foo syntax. Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S02.pod

Re: [svn:perl6-synopsis] r8902 - doc/trunk/design/syn

2006-04-21 Thread Geoffrey Broadwell
On Fri, 2006-04-21 at 13:27 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bitwise operations on a CStr generally fail unless the +CStr in question can provide an abstract CBtr interface somehow. +Coercion to CBtr should generally invalidate the CStr interface. +As a generic type CBtr may be instantiated as

Mismatching text and example in S06

2006-04-21 Thread Geoffrey Broadwell
From S06: * As we saw earlier, zip produces little arrays by taking one element from each list in turn, so (0..2; 'a'..'c') == my @;tmp; for @;tmp.zip { say } produces [0,'a'],[1,'b'],[2,'c']. If you don't want the subarrays, then use Ceach() instead: (0..2; 'a'..'c') == my

Pugs build error OS X

2006-04-21 Thread Will Coleda
Fresh SVN checkout of pugs (Revision: 10048) $ env CC=/usr/bin/gcc-3.3 PUGS_EMBED=parrot perl5 perl Makefile.PL snip Generating precompiled Prelude... dyld: Library not loaded: /usr/ local/lib/libparrot.dylib Referenced from: /Users/wcoleda/research/pugs/./pugs Reason: image not found Use

[svn:perl6-synopsis] r8904 - doc/trunk/design/syn

2006-04-21 Thread larry
Author: larry Date: Fri Apr 21 16:57:00 2006 New Revision: 8904 Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S02.pod doc/trunk/design/syn/S06.pod Log: Cleanups suggested by 'f++ Also renamed @; to @;_ so @;() isn't a special case from other sigils. Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S02.pod

[svn:perl6-synopsis] r8905 - doc/trunk/design/syn

2006-04-21 Thread larry
Author: larry Date: Fri Apr 21 18:01:04 2006 New Revision: 8905 Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S02.pod doc/trunk/design/syn/S05.pod doc/trunk/design/syn/S06.pod doc/trunk/design/syn/S09.pod Log: Decided @; made more sense as a double @@ sigil than a twigil. Unified @@x with @x so you

Working on languages/python

2006-04-21 Thread Tyler Coumbes
Hello all, I just thought I would let everyone know I am working on getting the PMCs in languages/python to compile with the current parrot release(0.4.3). If you are interested I will be posting to Pirate's mailing list over at http://pirate.tangentcode.com/ Great work all of you, Tyler Coumbes

[svn:perl6-synopsis] r8906 - doc/trunk/design/syn

2006-04-21 Thread larry
Author: larry Date: Fri Apr 21 19:18:36 2006 New Revision: 8906 Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S02.pod doc/trunk/design/syn/S04.pod doc/trunk/design/syn/S05.pod doc/trunk/design/syn/S06.pod Log: Finished rule = regex conversion. Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S02.pod

Re: Pugs build error OS X

2006-04-21 Thread Darren Duncan
At 8:28 AM -0400 4/21/06, Will Coleda wrote: Fresh SVN checkout of pugs (Revision: 10048) Try it again. When I updated last night, the current version was r10054, and it compiled on my 10.4.6 system just fine. -- Darren Duncan

Re: [perl #38957] hash test failures

2006-04-21 Thread Will Coleda
I'm using gcc 4.0.1, an '--optimized' Configure, and perl 5.8.6 On Apr 21, 2006, at 5:50 PM, Matt Diephouse wrote: via RT Will Coleda [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: # New Ticket Created by Will Coleda # Please include the string: [perl #38957] # in the subject line of all future correspondence

[svn:perl6-synopsis] r8907 - doc/trunk/design/syn

2006-04-21 Thread larry
Author: larry Date: Fri Apr 21 22:41:58 2006 New Revision: 8907 Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S03.pod Log: Lots of tweaks and clarifications, mostly stuff discussed but not yet codified. Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S03.pod