"Parrot: Evolution v2" presentation

2006-07-27 Thread Chip Salzenberg
I've just delivered v2 of "Parrot: Evolution" at OSCON '06. This presentation is a bit different in content but looks a lot more, well, plain. Not that there's anything wrong with that. I suggested to the people present that they might visit http://use.perl.org/~chip/journal/30455 where I l

[perl #39987] [PATCH] patched editor text-highlighting for vim

2006-07-27 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by Kay-Uwe Huell # Please include the string: [perl #39987] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=39987 > Hi parrot-team, there were a few words highlighted wrong in vim, like .endm, .endnames

[perl #39992] [TODO] t/op/01-parse_ops.t: figure out how to test parsing of pmc constant parameters

2006-07-27 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by Jerry Gay # Please include the string: [perl #39992] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=39992 > r13601 added a test to check parsing of every parrot opcode. but those that accept pmc cons

Re: [perl #39990] External API and C Strings

2006-07-27 Thread Leopold Toetsch
Am Donnerstag, 27. Juli 2006 20:27 schrieb chromatic: > When embedding or extending Parrot through the external API, most of the > strings go into and come out of Parrot as the type Parrot_STRING.  This is > painful and somewhat tedious from C (where these are usually -- but not > always -- C strin

Re: [perl #39988] [BUG] Exceptions + Vtable Methods

2006-07-27 Thread Leopold Toetsch
Am Donnerstag, 27. Juli 2006 19:44 schrieb Matt Diephouse: >    .sub __get_string :method >      $P0 = new .Exception >      throw $P0 >    .end > > Running this gives: > >    caught >    No exception to pop. PIR code running on behalf of a vtable (or MMD) function is implemented by entering a se

Re: [svn:perl6-synopsis] r10492 - doc/trunk/design/syn

2006-07-27 Thread Agent Zhang
On 7/28/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Author: audreyt Date: Thu Jul 27 10:44:22 2006 New Revision: 10492 Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S04.pod Log: * S04: More nits from agentzh++. (However, the period-inside-parens style, as seen in this sentence, is not changed.)

[perl #39990] External API and C Strings

2006-07-27 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by chromatic # Please include the string: [perl #39990] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=39990 > When embedding or extending Parrot through the external API, most of the strings go into a

[svn:perl6-synopsis] r10492 - doc/trunk/design/syn

2006-07-27 Thread audreyt
Author: audreyt Date: Thu Jul 27 10:44:22 2006 New Revision: 10492 Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S04.pod Log: * S04: More nits from agentzh++. (However, the period-inside-parens style, as seen in this sentence, is not changed.) Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S04.pod

[perl #39988] [BUG] Exceptions + Vtable Methods

2006-07-27 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by Matt Diephouse # Please include the string: [perl #39988] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=39988 > The example: .sub main :main $P0 = get_hll_global ['Foo'], 'load' $P0()

[perl #39986] Create Default PackFile for New Interpreter (Parrot C API)

2006-07-27 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by chromatic # Please include the string: [perl #39986] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=39986 > Hi there, When creating a new interpreter with Parrot_new(), it should be possible to com

[svn:perl6-synopsis] r10490 - doc/trunk/design/syn

2006-07-27 Thread audreyt
Author: audreyt Date: Thu Jul 27 10:38:08 2006 New Revision: 10490 Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S02.pod doc/trunk/design/syn/S06.pod Log: * S02, S06: gaal++ suggested s/sending a feed into/feeding into/. Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S02.pod =

[config] New Configure.pl option --m=32

2006-07-27 Thread Leopold Toetsch
I've eventually reinstalled my AMD X2 box. It's now running x86_64-linux. r13597 enables compiling 32 bit executables (with JIT - yay!) on this arch. $ perl Configure.pl --m=32 does almost all that is needed. See F for more. leo

Re: [svn:perl6-synopsis] r10487 - doc/trunk/design/syn

2006-07-27 Thread Agent Zhang
Audrey, I know the feeling of processing a "large" patch. :=) As Larry said, there're always nits. :( Here're even more fixes for S04: Index: D:/projects/Perl6-Syn/S04.pod === --- D:/projects/Perl6-Syn/S04.pod (revision 10

Re: [perl #38887] Result of INFINITY or NAN stringification is platform dependent

2006-07-27 Thread Ron Blaschke
Bill Coffman wrote: > There is no platform independent way to produce "NaN" or "Inf", so IMHO, > you > did it the only way it can be done. > > That being said, you can optimize by looking at the bits. Wikipedia > explains IEEE-754 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_754 Many thanks for your though