Re: [PATCH] Updates for languages/PIR/docs/pirgrammar.pod

2007-02-07 Thread jerry gay
On 2/7/07, chromatic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wednesday 07 February 2007 12:25, Klaas-Jan Stol wrote: > absolutely true. I'm not sure; is pod2html present on any platform where > perl is? If so, then it can be incorporated into step.pm, (that makes > the Makefiles), so it can done when runn

Re: [PATCH] Updates for languages/PIR/docs/pirgrammar.pod

2007-02-07 Thread chromatic
On Wednesday 07 February 2007 12:25, Klaas-Jan Stol wrote: > absolutely true. I'm not sure; is pod2html present on any platform where > perl is? If so, then it can be incorporated into step.pm, (that makes > the Makefiles), so it can done when running make. > (likewise, make test could run podche

Re: [PATCH] Updates for languages/PIR/docs/pirgrammar.pod

2007-02-07 Thread Klaas-Jan Stol
chromatic wrote: On Wednesday 07 February 2007 08:33, Klaas-Jan Stol wrote: attached a patch for pirgrammar.pod and its html variant. Keeping this HTML in the repository sucks. Is there a possibilty that we could generate it automatically? What's preventing us from doing so? I un

Re: What Skills Do We Need to Finish Parrot?

2007-02-07 Thread Bernhard Schmalhofer
Joshua Isom schrieb: On Feb 7, 2007, at 1:49 PM, chromatic wrote: On Tuesday 06 February 2007 15:56, James Keenan wrote: On Feb 6, 2007, at 12:07 PM, Allison Randal wrote: E ... I'm the one who *needs* the tutorial, not the one to write it. That makes you a prime person to capture the

Re: What Skills Do We Need to Finish Parrot?

2007-02-07 Thread Joshua Isom
On Feb 7, 2007, at 1:49 PM, chromatic wrote: On Tuesday 06 February 2007 15:56, James Keenan wrote: On Feb 6, 2007, at 12:07 PM, Allison Randal wrote: E ... I'm the one who *needs* the tutorial, not the one to write it. That makes you a prime person to capture the questions it needs to

Re: [PATCH] Updates for languages/PIR/docs/pirgrammar.pod

2007-02-07 Thread chromatic
On Wednesday 07 February 2007 08:33, Klaas-Jan Stol wrote: > attached a patch for pirgrammar.pod and its html variant. Keeping this HTML in the repository sucks. Is there a possibilty that we could generate it automatically? What's preventing us from doing so? I understand the rationale for s

Re: What Skills Do We Need to Finish Parrot?

2007-02-07 Thread chromatic
On Tuesday 06 February 2007 15:56, James Keenan wrote: > On Feb 6, 2007, at 12:07 PM, Allison Randal wrote: > > Failing that, a PIR tutorial is a good project for someone to take > > on. You interested in working on it? > > E ... I'm the one who *needs* the tutorial, not the one to write it.

[svn:perl6-synopsis] r13573 - doc/trunk/design/syn

2007-02-07 Thread larry
Author: larry Date: Wed Feb 7 11:29:13 2007 New Revision: 13573 Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S02.pod Log: Clarified one-pass parsing of heredocs, and a restriction based on that. Changed list() comprehension to each() which came available and reads better. Removed misleading fossil about sp

Re: What Skills Do We Need to Finish Parrot?

2007-02-07 Thread James Keenan
On Feb 6, 2007, at 12:07 PM, Allison Randal wrote: Failing that, a PIR tutorial is a good project for someone to take on. You interested in working on it? E ... I'm the one who *needs* the tutorial, not the one to write it.

Re: Negative array subscripts

2007-02-07 Thread Jonathan Scott Duff
On 2/6/07, Smylers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Blair Sutton writes: > David Green wrote: > > > In some ways, I like not having a [0] index at all: programmers may > > be used to counting from zero, but normal humans start with first, > > second, third, ... third last, second last,... > > My feel

Re: Negative array subscripts

2007-02-07 Thread Rafael Garcia-Suarez
Smylers wrote in perl.perl6.language : > Hmmm, a pragma's a bit heavyweight for this; how about being able to set > this with a special global variable -- that sure sounds handy ... Actually, in perl 5, $[ *is* a pragma... :) -- Grepping the source is good for the soul. -- the perldebguts manpag

Re: [perl #41453] [BUG] Test failure in t/pmc/object-meths.t

2007-02-07 Thread James Keenan
On Feb 6, 2007, at 2:27 PM, Leopold Toetsch via RT wrote: Am Dienstag, 6. Februar 2007 17:54 schrieb Allison Randal: This is a failing test Leo added in r16783. It looks to me like calling: o = new 'MyClass', $P0 actually should call init_pmc, rather than init, even when $P0 is null.

"delete" and maybe a problem with gather

2007-02-07 Thread Gilbert R. Röhrbein
# I want to shake an array, so its elements are ordered randomly. # # I discovered, that the behaviour of "delete" is odd and # #something i can't discribe. # # Something with "gather". I know it is not finished, but I like to use it and... # huh... can't understand that bug below. # fu