Updated: #perl6 follow-up the (Early Pre-Release Prototype) Perl 6 User FAQ

2006-05-02 Thread Conrad Schneiker
[Damn the Outlook Express newsreader!!! Just downloaded Thunderbird. Hopefully formatting will be sane this time. Made some updates.] Per #perl6 suggestion, we are reactivating this newsgroup to serve as an information exchange for users of early pre-release prototype versions of Perl 6. (We use

#perl6 follow up: Perl 6 (Early Prototype) User FAQ and related topics

2006-05-02 Thread Conrad Schneiker
Per #perl6 suggestion, we are reactivating this newsgroup to serve as an information exchange for users of early pre-release prototype versions of Perl 6. (We use the somewhat redundant phrase early pre-release prototype to hopefully keep total newbies from being mislead about the present

[svn:perl6-synopsis] r9099 - doc/trunk/design/syn

2006-05-02 Thread autrijus
Author: autrijus Date: Tue May 2 05:49:59 2006 New Revision: 9099 Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S03.pod Log: * S03: Minor typographical correction, changing the === operator-lookalike to a more conventional comment. Reported by lichtkind++ Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S03.pod

[svn:perl6-synopsis] r9103 - doc/trunk/design/syn

2006-05-02 Thread autrijus
Author: autrijus Date: Tue May 2 10:46:43 2006 New Revision: 9103 Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S02.pod Log: * S02: Clarify that subscripts evaluates under list context at RHS, but scalar context at LHS. Also adds some example code to illustrate various interactions.

Re: [svn:perl6-synopsis] r9076 - doc/trunk/design/syn

2006-05-02 Thread Audrey Tang
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is my ($foo, *, $bar) = 1..3 legal perl6? my ($foo, undef, $bar) = 1..3; is valid perl5, but AFAIK that is completely undocumented. (It's quite useful from time to time Most likely yes, as lvalue * can just act as a /dev/null. -- now if only my (@rest, $almost,

[perl #39050] Build failure in compilers/pge/pgc.pir

2006-05-02 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by Andy Dougherty # Please include the string: [perl #39050] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # URL: https://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=39050 The build process for the current (Tue May 2 07:15:06 2006 UTC) parrot snapshot

[perl #39051] Test failure in t/pmc/objects_62.pasm (attributes)

2006-05-02 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by Andy Dougherty # Please include the string: [perl #39051] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # URL: https://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=39051 The current (Tue May 2 07:15:06 2006 UTC) parrot snapshot fails test

[perl #39052] namespace-related failure in t/pmc/objects_74.pir

2006-05-02 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by Andy Dougherty # Please include the string: [perl #39052] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # URL: https://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=39052 The current (Tue May 2 07:15:06 2006 UTC) parrot snapshot is failing test

[perl #39053] [PATCH] Update PLATFORMS for Solaris (May 2006)

2006-05-02 Thread via RT
B--- - - -Y/98320060502 sol9-sparc-gcc3.3.2 B-Y/2 - Y YY/2 20050814 sol10-sparc-cc_5.8 BY-- Y Y YY/6 20060331 sol10-sparc-gcc_4.0.2 BY-- Y Y YY/7 20060401

Re: [svn:perl6-synopsis] r9076 - doc/trunk/design/syn

2006-05-02 Thread james
On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 02:10:29AM +0800, Audrey Tang wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is my ($foo, *, $bar) = 1..3 legal perl6? my ($foo, undef, $bar) = 1..3; is valid perl5, but AFAIK that is completely undocumented. (It's quite useful from time to time Most likely yes, as lvalue *

[svn:perl6-synopsis] r9107 - doc/trunk/design/syn

2006-05-02 Thread larry
Author: larry Date: Tue May 2 13:57:33 2006 New Revision: 9107 Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S29.pod Log: Redirected S29 link to pugs repository. Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S29.pod == ---

[perl #39056] [BUG] vtable override doesn't work in sub-subclasses

2006-05-02 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by Patrick R. Michaud # Please include the string: [perl #39056] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # URL: https://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=39056 Vtable overrides don't appear to work in a once-removed subclass (i.e., a