Re: FAQ Questions (WAS: ICU advantages? was Re: Problems Installing Parrot)

2006-07-21 Thread Chris Dolan
On Jul 21, 2006, at 1:12 PM, Mr. Shawn H. Corey wrote: Chris Dolan wrote: This would be a good entry for the FAQs for a cage cleaner. If you're collect questions for the FAQ, here are some Andy Lester answered for me: I'm not, actually. :-( Could you do one of the following, in order of p

[perl #39905] [TODO] TGE - line number reporting.

2006-07-21 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by Will Coleda # Please include the string: [perl #39905] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=39905 > Once a .tg file is compiled to a .pir file, any errors in the embedded PIR are reported

Re: [svn:parrot] r13424 - trunk/docs/art

2006-07-21 Thread Will Coleda
Can we discuss this on list a bit? On Jul 21, 2006, at 5:07 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Author: duff Date: Fri Jul 21 14:07:00 2006 New Revision: 13424 Added: trunk/docs/art/ Log: place for parrot articles -- Will "Coke" Coleda [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: NCI and libparrot Question

2006-07-21 Thread chromatic
On Friday 21 July 2006 11:43, Leopold Toetsch wrote: > Without futher looking - you have to replace a lot of 'p's (some structure) > with 'J' (the Interpreter* interp structure). E.g. > > .store_nci_func( 'Parrot_readbc', 'ppt' ) > > => > > .store_nci_func( 'Parrot_readbc', 'pJt' ) I'm not co

Re: [svn:perl6-synopsis] r10350 - doc/trunk/design/syn

2006-07-21 Thread Smylers
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > s/loop/repeat/ for test-after loops Yay! That makes things very clear, with different things looking nicely different. Smylers

[svn:perl6-synopsis] r10350 - doc/trunk/design/syn

2006-07-21 Thread larry
Author: larry Date: Fri Jul 21 12:52:51 2006 New Revision: 10350 Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S04.pod Log: s/loop/repeat/ for test-after loops Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S04.pod == --- doc/trunk/design/syn/S04.

Re: Help Understanding Configure.pl Output

2006-07-21 Thread Joshua Hoblitt
On Fri, Jul 21, 2006 at 03:04:06PM -0400, Mr. Shawn H. Corey wrote: > Determining if your C compiler is actually gcc.yes. > Determining if your C compiler is actually Visual C++...no. > Enabling optimization...n

Re: S04 - forbidden coding-style

2006-07-21 Thread Trey Harris
In a message dated Fri, 21 Jul 2006, Ruud H.G. van Tol writes: Larry Wall schreef: Maybe we should just make statement modifiers uppercase and burn out everyone's eye sockets. :) Or maybe { }. while $x ; Actually, can't that be made to work already (already by the language spec, not

Re: S04 - forbidden coding-style

2006-07-21 Thread Ruud H.G. van Tol
Larry Wall schreef: > Maybe we should just make statement modifiers > uppercase and burn out everyone's eye sockets. :) Or maybe { }. while $x ; -- Groet, Ruud

Re: FAQ Questions (WAS: ICU advantages? was Re: Problems Installing Parrot)

2006-07-21 Thread Patrick R. Michaud
On Fri, Jul 21, 2006 at 02:12:57PM -0400, Mr. Shawn H. Corey wrote: > Chris Dolan wrote: > > 1. Do I need root privileges to install Parrot? Do I need it for Cage > > Cleaners? > > You don't even need root at all. You can build in a local directory and > not install. In fact, for those who are d

Help Understanding Configure.pl Output

2006-07-21 Thread Mr. Shawn H. Corey
Hi, I ran `perl Configure.pl` and I have some questions about its output. First: Determining if your C compiler is actually gcc.yes. Determining if your C compiler is actually Visual C++...no. Enabling optimization..

Re: NCI and libparrot Question

2006-07-21 Thread Leopold Toetsch
Am Freitag, 21. Juli 2006 20:08 schrieb chromatic: > On Friday 21 July 2006 00:57, Leopold Toetsch wrote: > > (You could use 'pIt' and 'pIp' signatures too, then the STRING* result of > > the 'const_string' would be wrapped into a ManagedStruct PMC). > > I don't see documentation for the S or I par

[svn:perl6-synopsis] r10348 - doc/trunk/design/syn

2006-07-21 Thread audreyt
Author: audreyt Date: Fri Jul 21 11:40:37 2006 New Revision: 10348 Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S02.pod Log: * S02: rodi++ pointed out a nit: "say q<< <> >>" should print " <> " not "<>". Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S02.pod

Re: FAQ Questions (WAS: ICU advantages? was Re: Problems Installing Parrot)

2006-07-21 Thread Mr. Shawn H. Corey
Chris Dolan wrote: > On Jul 21, 2006, at 9:48 AM, Jonathan Rockway wrote: > >>> I have downloaded the icu4j_3_4_4.jar but have no idea what to do with >>> it. Could someone please help? >>> >> You'll want to get icu4c (icu for C), not icu4j (for java). If you >> get the tgz C version, just tar xz

Re: NCI and libparrot Question

2006-07-21 Thread chromatic
On Friday 21 July 2006 00:57, Leopold Toetsch wrote: > This can't work for several reasons: > > 1) the NCI call signatures don't match the C functions' args: > > .store_nci_func( 'const_string', 'ppt' ) > > should be: 'SIt' (return STRING*, interp & C-cstring args) > > .store_nci_func

Re: S04 - forbidden coding-style

2006-07-21 Thread Larry Wall
On Fri, Jul 21, 2006 at 12:07:52PM -0500, Jonathan Scott Duff wrote: : Or just give them some sort of syntactic marker ... I know! : : loop { : ... : } : :while $loopy; : : eat :if $hungry; : go_postal :when $aggravation > 10; : .sleep :until .rested; : : *Everybo

ICU advantages? was Re: Problems Installing Parrot

2006-07-21 Thread Chris Dolan
On Jul 21, 2006, at 9:48 AM, Jonathan Rockway wrote: I have downloaded the icu4j_3_4_4.jar but have no idea what to do with it. Could someone please help? You'll want to get icu4c (icu for C), not icu4j (for java). If you get the tgz C version, just tar xzvf it, cd source; ./configure; m

Re: S04 - forbidden coding-style

2006-07-21 Thread Jonathan Scott Duff
On Thu, Jul 20, 2006 at 10:18:57AM -0700, Larry Wall wrote: > It ain't easy. Maybe we should just make statement modifiers uppercase > and burn out everyone's eye sockets. :) Or just give them some sort of syntactic marker ... I know! loop { ... } :while $loopy; eat :if

Re: S04 - forbidden coding-style

2006-07-21 Thread Larry Wall
On Thu, Jul 20, 2006 at 05:03:32PM +0100, Smylers wrote: : Markus Laire writes: : : > S04 seems to say that a style like this can't be used by : > perl6-programmers: : > : > loop : > { : >... : > } : > while $x; : > : > I like this style, as it lines up both the keywords and the curlies. :

Re: Problems Installing Parrot

2006-07-21 Thread Jonathan Rockway
I have downloaded the icu4j_3_4_4.jar but have no idea what to do with it. Could someone please help? You'll want to get icu4c (icu for C), not icu4j (for java). If you get the tgz C version, just tar xzvf it, cd source; ./configure; make; make install. Note that most Linux distros have p

Problems Installing Parrot

2006-07-21 Thread Mr. Shawn H. Corey
Hi, I am trying to install Parrot and the README file has this: You'll need a C compiler, a linker and a make program of course. If you will be linking with the ICU library you have to download and install it before configuring Parrot. Get it from http://www-306.ibm.com/software/globalization/ic

Re: PDD 23 Exceptions - ready for implementation

2006-07-21 Thread Bob Rogers
From: Allison Randal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2006 00:24:13 -0700 chromatic wrote: > Here's what I don't understand. Why is there talk of a stack to keep track of > various flow control constructs? Doesn't a CPS system use a linked list of > continuations to h

Re: S04 - forbidden coding-style

2006-07-21 Thread Markus Laire
On 7/20/06, Smylers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Markus Laire writes: > S04 seems to say that a style like this can't be used by > perl6-programmers: > > loop > { >... > } > while $x; > > I like this style, as it lines up both the keywords and the curlies. As of yesterday you can get very c

r13411 - Add a failing sprintf test (sprintf "%-20x", -1)

2006-07-21 Thread Leopold Toetsch
There are 3 problems with the test: %x takes an *unsigned int*, the conversion from -1 to UI can use internally an arbitrary (and unspecced, arch-specific) amount of bits. The test is wrong for 64-bit architectures. And finally: trailing whitespace in tests is *bad*. leo

Re: NCI and libparrot Question

2006-07-21 Thread Leopold Toetsch
Am Freitag, 21. Juli 2006 07:53 schrieb chromatic: > Should this code work? I think so. This can't work for several reasons: 1) the NCI call signatures don't match the C functions' args: .store_nci_func( 'const_string', 'ppt' ) should be: 'SIt' (return STRING*, interp & C-cstring args

Re: PDD 23 Exceptions - ready for implementation

2006-07-21 Thread Allison Randal
chromatic wrote: Here's what I don't understand. Why is there talk of a stack to keep track of various flow control constructs? Doesn't a CPS system use a linked list of continuations to handle normal flow control? If that works there, why not another linked list of continuations to handle