[svn:perl6-synopsis] r14319 - doc/trunk/design/syn

2007-03-07 Thread larry
Author: larry Date: Wed Mar 7 21:35:52 2007 New Revision: 14319 Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S02.pod Log: Definition of version sorting order. Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S02.pod == --- doc/trunk/design/syn/S02

[svn:perl6-synopsis] r14318 - doc/trunk/design/syn

2007-03-07 Thread larry
Author: larry Date: Wed Mar 7 20:40:33 2007 New Revision: 14318 Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S02.pod Log: typo spotted by TimToady++ :/ Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S02.pod == --- doc/trunk/design/syn/S02.pod

[svn:perl6-synopsis] r14317 - doc/trunk/design/syn

2007-03-07 Thread larry
Author: larry Date: Wed Mar 7 20:38:15 2007 New Revision: 14317 Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S02.pod doc/trunk/design/syn/S11.pod Log: Module longnames now specified in terms of ident plus adverbials. Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S02.pod ==

Whatevereversing Ranges

2007-03-07 Thread David Green
On 2/28/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ranges are not autoreversing: C<2..1> is always a null range. I assume the reason for not having ranges automatically go in either direction is that it would make it easier for subtle bugs to creep in when either end is smaller (or bigger) than you expecte

Parrot 0.4.10 (Coming Soon)

2007-03-07 Thread Will Coleda
Release is a little under two weeks away... There's a placeholder ticket here: http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=41581 Which contains all the tickets (so far) I'd preferentially like to see resolved before the next release. If you've got something you're working on that you th

Re: [S09] "Whatever" indices and shaped arrays

2007-03-07 Thread David Green
On 3/7/07, Jonathan Lang wrote: Looks good to me. As well, the fact that @x[-1] doesn't refer to the element immediately before @x[0] is awkward, as is the fact that @x[*-1] doesn't refer to the element immediately before @x[*+0]. IMHO, it would be cleaner to have @x[n] count forward and

[svn:perl6-synopsis] r14316 - doc/trunk/design/syn

2007-03-07 Thread larry
Author: larry Date: Wed Mar 7 17:25:32 2007 New Revision: 14316 Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S03.pod Log: Clarifications requested by TheDamian++ Defined ++ and -- in terms of .succ and .pred so I could write s[] = $0.succ Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S03.pod ===

Re: [perl #41733] invoke :vtable - execution stops

2007-03-07 Thread chromatic
On Wednesday 07 March 2007 17:02, Matt Diephouse wrote: > I don't think that's the right route to take. Exposing the pc to PIR-land > code seems dangerous and I don't think there's much point. As a PIR user, I > want the invoke vtable to behave just like any other PIR subroutine. Agreed. > This

Re: [perl #41733] invoke :vtable - execution stops

2007-03-07 Thread Matt Diephouse
Alek Storm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The invoke vtable method is supposed to take one argument - the address of the opcode immediately following the invokecc opcode, so we can return to it later. It then returns the address of the subroutine to jump into. The problem is that, in C, the invoke

Re: [perl #41733] invoke :vtable - execution stops

2007-03-07 Thread Alek Storm
The invoke vtable method is supposed to take one argument - the address of the opcode immediately following the invokecc opcode, so we can return to it later. It then returns the address of the subroutine to jump into. The problem is that, in C, the invoke method takes and returns an opcode_t*,

[svn:parrot-pdd] r17380 - trunk/docs/pdds

2007-03-07 Thread particle
Author: particle Date: Wed Mar 7 16:38:50 2007 New Revision: 17380 Modified: trunk/docs/pdds/pdd22_io.pod Log: [PDD22]: ~ added note about Status PMC passing for async ops ~ added Status PMC return value for I/O print method ~ renumbered example code registers for consistency ~ expanded tabs

[svn:perl6-synopsis] r14315 - doc/trunk/design/syn

2007-03-07 Thread larry
Author: larry Date: Wed Mar 7 16:18:15 2007 New Revision: 14315 Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S03.pod Log: made "my Any $x; $x := [1,2,3]" a little dwammy (do what audreyt++ means :) Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S03.pod

Re: [perl #41712] [TODO] deprecate CSub

2007-03-07 Thread jerry gay
On 3/7/07, Allison Randal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Jerry Gay (via RT) wrote: > it's old, not used anywhere, and defunct. let's list it in > DEPRECATED.pod before 0.4.10, and remove it before the following > release. Agree. i've added a note to DEPRECATED.pod, in preparation for the 0.4.10 re

Re: request new Mapping|Hash operators

2007-03-07 Thread Smylers
On February 27th Darren Duncan writes: > At 4:45 PM + 2/27/07, Nicholas Clark wrote: > > > > 4. rename(): > > > rename is a Perl 5 builtin. > I see this situation as being similar to Dog.bark() vs Tree.bark(); The difference is that those are methods. Having different objects which have

Re: [perl #41712] [TODO] deprecate CSub

2007-03-07 Thread Allison Randal
Jerry Gay (via RT) wrote: it's old, not used anywhere, and defunct. let's list it in DEPRECATED.pod before 0.4.10, and remove it before the following release. Agree. Allison

[perl #41733] invoke :vtable - execution stops

2007-03-07 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by [EMAIL PROTECTED] # Please include the string: [perl #41733] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=41733 > Hi There, Given the following (latest svn today - parrot 0.49+): .namespace ['Fo

Re: Weekly Perl 6 mailing list summary for 18-24 March, 2007

2007-03-07 Thread Ann Barcomb
On Sun, 4 Mar 2007, Will Coleda wrote: Good News: Thanks for the Summaries! Bad News: Isn't that in about 2 weeks? ^_^ I realized the mistake after I posted it. I corrected the web posts but it's rather hard to correct email. At Darren Duncan's suggestion, I will repost with the correct sub

Re: [perl #41724] [BUG] miniparrot fails to build on strawberry perl

2007-03-07 Thread chromatic
On Wednesday 07 March 2007 08:42, Aldo Calpini wrote: > on the other hand, I had a totally different experience using strawberry > perl to build parrot. it doesn't work at all, make groks because of > backslashes in paths in the Makefile (had to change them to forward > slashes), libparrot.dll ref

[svn:perl6-synopsis] r14314 - doc/trunk/design/syn

2007-03-07 Thread audreyt
Author: audreyt Date: Wed Mar 7 09:10:48 2007 New Revision: 14314 Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S06.pod Log: * S06: Instead of introducing the conjectural concept of single-semicolon delimited multiple-longnames, delegate the discussion to S12 and present the non-controversial double-s

Re: [perl #41724] [BUG] miniparrot fails to build on strawberry perl

2007-03-07 Thread Aldo Calpini
Jerry Gay (via RT) ha scritto: i suspect there's trouble with the platform-specific c/h files, given the nature of the warnings during build. the configure/make output is below. the only relevant warning I see is: config/gen/platform/win32/exec.c: In function `Parrot_Exec_OS_Command': conf

[perl #41732] [BUG] parrot objects segfault on improper invoke override

2007-03-07 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by Will Coleda # Please include the string: [perl #41732] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=41732 > The following (improper?) code segfaults: .namespace ['Foo'] .sub __invoke :method

Re: [S09] "Whatever" indices and shaped arrays

2007-03-07 Thread Jonathan Lang
OK: before I submit a patch, let me make sure that I've got the concepts straight: "@x[0]" always means "the first element of the array"; "@x[-1]" always means "the last element of the array"; "@x[*+0]" always means "the first element after the end of the array"; "@x[*-1]" always means "the first

[perl #41726] [PATCH] make lua fail more gracefully with an exception handler

2007-03-07 Thread Julian Fondren
# New Ticket Created by "Julian Fondren" # Please include the string: [perl #41726] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=41726 > Currently, evaluating this: function bad (n) return n * bad(n) end bad(2) will c