[perl #41557] [BUG] addparent established heirarchies don't work with .Super

2007-02-21 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by Sam Vilain # Please include the string: [perl #41557] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # URL: http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=41557 Hi there, There seem to be some bugs with inheritance, possibly in the .Super PMC.

[svn:parrot-pdd] r17085 - in trunk/docs: . art dev pdds pdds/draft req stm

2007-02-21 Thread paultcochrane
Author: paultcochrane Date: Tue Feb 20 12:04:14 2007 New Revision: 17085 Modified: trunk/docs/pdds/README (props changed) trunk/docs/pdds/draft/pdd19_pir.pod (props changed) trunk/docs/pdds/draft/pdd24_events.pod (props changed) trunk/docs/pdds/draft/pdd25_concurrency.pod

[perl #41558] [PATCH] Add ops summary doc generator

2007-02-21 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by Sartak # Please include the string: [perl #41558] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # URL: http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=41558 This patch adds a new utility script to generate a summary for all the ops. It's fairly

Re: Cross-compiling Parrot

2007-02-21 Thread Aldo Calpini
jerry gay ha scritto: On 2/20/07, Aldo Calpini [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1) does anybody have objections to patching the current build system for cross-compilation (even yes, but not now because... objections)? no objection here! this is a long-desired feature, and is currently unavailable.

Re: Y not

2007-02-21 Thread Jesse Vincent
On Feb 20, 2007, at 3:42 PM, Larry Wall wrote: I think the ¥ and Y operators are going to have to change to something else. The current Y has at least four strikes against it: * It's an ASCII version of a cute Unicode picture, but other than that, the picture it doesn't

Re: Y not

2007-02-21 Thread Thomas Wittek
Damian Conway schrieb: If the very much more readable 'zip' and 'minmax' are to be replaced with 'ZZ' and 'MM', then I think that's a serious step backwards in usability. Fully agree here and I think that there are still even more places, where the usability could be improved: Say more

Re: Cross-compiling Parrot

2007-02-21 Thread Aldo Calpini
Joshua Isom ha scritto: Using perl 5's configure probes also somewhat limits us to how the vendor distributed perl. It should also be considered that we can't rely on perl5 being available, especially since we intend to replace it eventually, so rewriting all the perl to support cross

Re: Y not

2007-02-21 Thread Luke Palmer
On 2/21/07, Thomas Wittek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Damian Conway schrieb: If the very much more readable 'zip' and 'minmax' are to be replaced with 'ZZ' and 'MM', then I think that's a serious step backwards in usability. Fully agree here and I think that there are still even more places,

Re: Y not

2007-02-21 Thread Mark A. Biggar
Thomas Wittek wrote: Damian Conway schrieb: If the very much more readable 'zip' and 'minmax' are to be replaced with 'ZZ' and 'MM', then I think that's a serious step backwards in usability. Fully agree here and I think that there are still even more places, where the usability could be

Y not

2007-02-21 Thread Jonathan Lang
Luke Palmer wrote: % as the mod operator is a good example of what you describe. There's no need for mod to be a symbolic operator: when you read 5 % 3 you say 5 mod 3. Why would we not write 5 mod 3: it is just as obvious what and how we are doing this operation. And % is uncommon enough that

[svn:perl6-synopsis] r13699 - doc/trunk/design/syn

2007-02-21 Thread larry
Author: larry Date: Wed Feb 21 09:25:37 2007 New Revision: 13699 Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S03.pod Log: ¥ is replaced by Z. XX becomes simply X and old X must now be spelled X~X. Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S03.pod

Re: Y not

2007-02-21 Thread Uri Guttman
DC == Damian Conway [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: DC On 21/02/07, Damian Conway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [Off-list] DC Apparently not. DC Just pretend I'm not here. DC ;-) we can't pretend as we can sense your mad scientist brain across the big waters. there ain't enough aluminum foil

Relief for rw/ro

2007-02-21 Thread Steve Lukas
Recently $larry asked for ideas for better naming the several states of write access. There are some tentative thoughts, I like to offer. Larry Wall wrote: That being said, in writing the Perl 6 grammar I keep running into the need for rw context variables. I'm getting tired of writing things

[perl #39196] [TODO] tests - need to test addmethod

2007-02-21 Thread Klaas-Jan Stol via RT
On Wed May 24 05:26:22 2006, coke wrote: New addmethod opcode needs tests. -- Will Coke Coleda [EMAIL PROTECTED] Attached a patch that adds a test for addmethod. It adds a method in the same (root) namespace, and also a method in a different namespace. I couldn't really think of other

[svn:parrot-pdd] r17119 - trunk/docs/pdds

2007-02-21 Thread smash
Author: smash Date: Wed Feb 21 09:38:04 2007 New Revision: 17119 Modified: trunk/docs/pdds/pdd22_io.pod Log: [docs/pdds]: fix typo Modified: trunk/docs/pdds/pdd22_io.pod == --- trunk/docs/pdds/pdd22_io.pod

[perl #29994] [BUG] loadlib $P0, varname not working correctly

2007-02-21 Thread Klaas-Jan Stol via RT
On Tue Jun 15 08:13:06 2004, leo wrote: Dan Sugalski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 9:50 AM +0200 6/3/04, Leopold Toetsch wrote: Dan Sugalski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Option two here would be the right one. For dynamic PMC classes and NCI yes. *But* what about dynamic opcode libs? The

[perl #41387] perlcritic.t picking up non-perl files

2007-02-21 Thread Paul Cochrane via RT
This ticket was resolved by chromatic++ in r17069.

[perl #41569] [BUG] t/distro/file_metadata.t fails on win32

2007-02-21 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by Jerry Gay # Please include the string: [perl #41569] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # URL: http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=41569 don't have time to debug the failure now since we're so close to a release, but here's

Preliminary notes for 0.4.9 release

2007-02-21 Thread Patrick R. Michaud
Hello, all- I've been working on the 0.4.9 release; so far things seem to be going reasonably well. Many thanks to Jerry Gay and others who have come before me for cleaning up the release process and making sure the various NEWS/STATUS docs are up to date! It's really quite straightforward now.

Re: Preliminary notes for 0.4.9 release

2007-02-21 Thread chromatic
On Wednesday 21 February 2007 21:21, Patrick R. Michaud wrote: 1. The t/library/pg.t tests require libpq.so to be installed in order to run -- should I be testing ('make fulltest') with this library installed? They should skip without the library installed; if that doesn't work on your

Re: Cross-compiling Parrot

2007-02-21 Thread Allison Randal
Aldo Calpini wrote: 1) does anybody have objections to patching the current build system for cross-compilation (even yes, but not now because... objections)? Not at all. Cross-compilation is definitely a core goal for Parrot. 2) does anybody already have a .plan or something in mind about