Re: Question - (1) Devel:;Cover and B::Deparse issue (2) "cover" and its momory consuming issue

2006-06-02 Thread James E Keenan
Scott Wang wrote: We are trying to use Devel::Cover module and "cover" in our regression tests run to generate product code coverage data. However, we met two big problems: (1) Lots of our perl test scripts failed in code coverage run and seems related to B::Deparse and we got million lines of m

Question - (1) Devel:;Cover and B::Deparse issue (2) "cover" and its momory consuming issue

2006-06-02 Thread Scott Wang
We are trying to use Devel::Cover module and "cover" in our regression tests run to generate product code coverage data. However, we met two big problems: (1) Lots of our perl test scripts failed in code coverage run and seems related to B::Deparse and we got million lines of messages like below i

Re: grammar: difference between rule, token and regex

2006-06-02 Thread Rene Hangstrup Møller
Patrick R. Michaud wrote: Jerry is correct that S05 is the place to look for information on this. But to summarize an answer to your question: Thank you very much for the swift and thorough answer. It answered all my questions. Your reply was very pedagogical and deserves to go into the man

Re: grammar: difference between rule, token and regex

2006-06-02 Thread Patrick R. Michaud
On Fri, Jun 02, 2006 at 01:56:55PM -0700, jerry gay wrote: > On 6/2/06, Rene Hangstrup Møller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >I am toying around with Parrot and the compiler tools. The documenation > >of Perl 6 grammars that I have been able to find only describe rule. But > >the grammars in Parrot 0

RE: Synchronized / Thread syntax in Perl 6

2006-06-02 Thread Paul Hodges
--- John Drago <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: . . . > > class QueueRunner { > >our sub process_queue(Code @jobs_in) { > > my @ans is serial; > > @ans.push map { async { &_() } } @jobs_in; > > @ans; > >} > > } > > my @answer = QueueRunner.process_job_queue( @jobs ); > > Actual

[perl #39272] failures in languages/tcl/t/cmd_lsort.t

2006-06-02 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by Will Coleda # Please include the string: [perl #39272] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # https://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=39272 > Some of these tests are failing. I can't isolate a small test case, but here's the las

Re: grammar: difference between rule, token and regex

2006-06-02 Thread jerry gay
On 6/2/06, Rene Hangstrup Møller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi I am toying around with Parrot and the compiler tools. The documenation of Perl 6 grammars that I have been able to find only describe rule. But the grammars in Parrot 0.4.4 for punie and APL use rule, token and regex elements. Can

grammar: difference between rule, token and regex

2006-06-02 Thread Rene Hangstrup Møller
Hi I am toying around with Parrot and the compiler tools. The documenation of Perl 6 grammars that I have been able to find only describe rule. But the grammars in Parrot 0.4.4 for punie and APL use rule, token and regex elements. Can someone please clarify the difference between these three

Parroters in Frappr

2006-06-02 Thread Alberto Simões
Hi all, Coke suggested to create a map with people working on Parrot. Create the map in Frappr. The URL is: http://www.frappr.com/parrotcoders Feel free to add yourself Cheers Alberto -- Alberto Simões - Departamento de Informática - Universidade do Minho Campus de

Re: Concurrency: hypothetical variables and atomic blocks

2006-06-02 Thread Darren Duncan
At 1:50 PM -0700 6/1/06, Larry Wall wrote: As for side-effecty ops, many of them can just be a promise to perform the op later when the transaction is committed, I suspect. Yes, but it would be important to specify that by the time control is returned to whatever invoked the op, that any side

Re: Minimum modules for Production?

2006-06-02 Thread A. Pagaltzis
* Michael Mathews <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-06-02 15:25]: > I believe I said "in Perl6 modules" not "in the language core" > as you imply My apologies; I misremembered the argument, and the PHP example you gave only happened to reinforce my misconception. I agree then; having clients for a few ne

RE: Synchronized / Thread syntax in Perl 6

2006-06-02 Thread John Drago
> > > You mean "is parallel" as a synonym for "is async"? > > > > I think "is parallel" denotes something as usable by multiple threads > > simultaneously, "in parallel". > > "is serial" would denote that only one thread can use the $thing at a > > time, exclusively. > > Are you saying both are as

Re: Minimum modules for Production?

2006-06-02 Thread Graham Barr
On Jun 1, 2006, at 11:37 AM, Josh Wilmes wrote: At 12:00 on 06/01/2006 BST, David Cantrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Basic I/O is talking to filehandles and nyetwork sockets. Anything above the UDP / TCP level should not, IMO, be included. I agree. I'd respectfully disagree. Just l

Re: About default options ':ratchet' and ':sigspace' on rules

2006-06-02 Thread Patrick R. Michaud
On Fri, Jun 02, 2006 at 02:17:25PM +0800, Shu-chun Weng wrote: > 1. Spaces at beginning and end of rule blocks should be ignored > since space before and after current rule are most likely be > defined in rules using current one. > 1a. I'm not sure if it's "clear" to define as this, but t

RE: Synchronized / Thread syntax in Perl 6

2006-06-02 Thread Paul Hodges
--- John Drago <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > You mean "is parallel" as a synonym for "is async"? > > I think "is parallel" denotes something as usable by multiple threads > simultaneously, "in parallel". > "is serial" would denote that only one thread can use the $thing at a > time, exclusively

Re: [perl #39255] Revision 12862 fails tests on OS X

2006-06-02 Thread Will Coleda
Per leo, "As of r12867 this is fixed." On Jun 2, 2006, at 8:24 AM, Will Coleda wrote: Known failures. Per Leo, failing tests were committed for these features to "encourage" development. We've tried to let head be usable for this long, we should probably have some kind of procedure for d

Re: Minimum modules for Production?

2006-06-02 Thread Michael Mathews
On 02/06/06, A. Pagaltzis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: * Michael Mathews <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-06-02 12:10]: > I would also point to PHP's fread() (and friends) functions, > which take "filenames" in the form of "C:\\blah" or > "http://foo.com/blah"; and behaves the same. Yes, which means that

Re: [perl #39254] Unicode sub names don't work with :multi

2006-06-02 Thread Leopold Toetsch
Am Mittwoch, 31. Mai 2006 19:40 schrieb Will Coleda: > #39254] Unicode sub names don't work with :multi As of r12867 this is fixed. All tests successful again, which means, we need more tests. leo

Re: [perl #39255] Revision 12862 fails tests on OS X

2006-06-02 Thread Will Coleda
Known failures. Per Leo, failing tests were committed for these features to "encourage" development. We've tried to let head be usable for this long, we should probably have some kind of procedure for dealing with this this sort of development to avoid this sort of confusion. Thanks for

Re: Minimum modules for Production?

2006-06-02 Thread A. Pagaltzis
* Michael Mathews <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-06-02 12:10]: > I would also point to PHP's fread() (and friends) functions, > which take "filenames" in the form of "C:\\blah" or > "http://foo.com/blah"; and behaves the same. Yes, which means that any un- (or badly) sanitised user input has the potent

Re: Fwd: Minimum modules for Production?

2006-06-02 Thread Michael Mathews
On 01/06/06, Josh Wilmes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: At 12:00 on 06/01/2006 BST, David Cantrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Basic I/O is talking to filehandles and nyetwork sockets. Anything > above the UDP / TCP level should not, IMO, be included. I'd respectfully disagree. Just like text isn'

RE: Synchronized / Thread syntax in Perl 6

2006-06-02 Thread John Drago
> > James Mastros wrote: > > > I don't like the name synchronized -- it implies that multiple > > > things are happening at the same time, as in synchronized swiming, > > > which is exactly the opposite of what should be implied. > > > "Serialized" would be a nice name, except it implies serializ

About default options ':ratchet' and ':sigspace' on rules

2006-06-02 Thread Shu-chun Weng
Hello, (used to post on google group but found it does not deliver) I'm implementing "MiniPerl6" in pugs which is the first step of writing perl 6 parser in perl 6. In module Pugs::Grammar::MiniPerl6, http://svn.openfoundry.org/pugs/misc/pX/Common/Pugs-Grammar-MiniPerl6, I use another perl 6 gr

Re: Fwd: Minimum modules for Production?

2006-06-02 Thread Josh Wilmes
At 12:00 on 06/01/2006 BST, David Cantrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Basic I/O is talking to filehandles and nyetwork sockets. Anything > above the UDP / TCP level should not, IMO, be included. I'd respectfully disagree. Just like text isn't just ascii any more, content isn't just on local

[perl #39255] Revision 12862 fails tests on OS X

2006-06-02 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by Tim Bunce # Please include the string: [perl #39255] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # https://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=39255 > --- osname= darwin osvers= 8.0 arch= darwin-thread-multi-2level cc= cc --- Flags:

$1,000 Grant (was: prize) for Perl 6 Wiki written in Perl 6

2006-06-02 Thread Conrad Schneiker
The note below is in reply to these preceding posters: > From: Ovid [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] [...] > From: Ask Bjørn Hansen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] [...] > From: Fagyal Csongor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] [...] > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [...] Thanks for the thought-provoking comments and suggest

Re: Concurrency: hypothetical variables and atomic blocks

2006-06-02 Thread Jonathan Worthington
"Jonathan Scott Duff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thu, Jun 01, 2006 at 02:22:12PM -0700, Jonathan Lang wrote: Forgive this ignorant soul; but what is "STM"? Software Transaction Memory Well, Software Transactional Memory if I'm being picky. :-) Some info and an interesting paper here:-