Re: [svn:parrot] r24414 - trunk/t/tools/ops2pmutils

2008-01-02 Thread chromatic
On Tuesday 01 January 2008 09:00:36 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Modified: trunk/t/tools/ops2pmutils/08-sort_ops.t Log: Commenting out TODO block around test for experimental.ops. Test has been steadily passing for 1 month. Why comment it out? We can revert this checkin if necessary (or

[svn:perl6-synopsis] r14477 - doc/trunk/design/syn

2008-01-02 Thread larry
Author: larry Date: Tue Jan 1 17:01:32 2008 New Revision: 14477 Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S02.pod Log: Clarification of off-the-end semantics of KeySet and KeyBag requested by Limbic~Region++. Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S02.pod

New wiki page: RFP Parrot needs better smoke reports

2008-01-02 Thread James E Keenan
Following up on today's Parrotsketch discussion, I have begun a wiki page whose purpose is to develop a specification for an improved smoke testing setup for Parrot. http://www.perlfoundation.org/parrot/index.cgi?rfp_parrot_needs_better_smoke_reports I invite you to: -- correct any factual

Re: [perl #49224] [BUG] Repeated problems with 'svn commit'

2008-01-02 Thread Paul Cochrane
James, I've been seeing this problem off and on for over a month. As you've noticed, it's rather intermittent, however, when the problem occurs it persists for up to couple of hours. I've also seen that this is platform independent, and so guessed that the problem existed at the server end

Re: Another deadlock on Mac OS 10.5.1

2008-01-02 Thread Paul Cochrane
On 31/12/2007, James E Keenan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Andy Armstrong wrote: Sorry if I've missed something recent that means that this is expected behaviour but r24318 is hanging during make test on Mac OS 10.5.1 / Intel. The test log and pictures of the process probe are here:

Re: Testing asynchronous code

2008-01-02 Thread ajr
In the concurrency work I'm about to check in, I have some tests that fail intermittently because they test for something like: But, as we add more asynchronous code, and more asynchronous tests, we'll need to do more thinking on our strategies for testing asynchronous code. Would

Re: am I doing something wrong - hanoi example with 0.5.1 parrot release

2008-01-02 Thread Ovid
--- Aaron Trevena [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: running the example at http://svn.pugscode.org/pugs/examples/algorithms/hanoi.pl parrot ~/downloads/parrot-0.5.1/languages/perl6/perl6.pbc hanoi.pl I get.. Null PMC access in isa() current instr.: 'parrot;Perl6Object;make_proto' pc 55

Re: Multiline comments in Perl6

2008-01-02 Thread Paul Hodges
I love this list. I wish I had more of value to contribute. =o] But for those of you who don't want to read a long blather, this is mostly opinion, hopefully sans soapbox. Feel free to skip to the end. asnideWhat's with the sudden influx of people swooping in at the last minute and attacking

Re: Testing asynchronous code

2008-01-02 Thread Joshua Juran
On Dec 31, 2007, at 11:57 AM, chromatic wrote: On Monday 31 December 2007 05:50:47 Allison Randal wrote: In the concurrency work I'm about to check in, I have some tests that fail intermittently because they test for something like: 1 alarm1 2 alarm2 3 alarm3 alarm1 alarm3 4 alarm3 alarm3

Re: am I doing something wrong - hanoi example with 0.5.1 parrot release

2008-01-02 Thread jerry gay
On Jan 2, 2008 2:54 AM, Ovid [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- Aaron Trevena [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: running the example at http://svn.pugscode.org/pugs/examples/algorithms/hanoi.pl parrot ~/downloads/parrot-0.5.1/languages/perl6/perl6.pbc hanoi.pl I get.. Null PMC access in isa()

Re: S03 - Str autodecrement

2008-01-02 Thread Larry Wall
On Tue, Jan 01, 2008 at 04:26:29PM -0600, Patrick R. Michaud wrote: : I'm working on S03 tests, and S03 says: : : Perl 6 also supports Str decrement with similar semantics, : simply by running the cycles the other direction. However, : leftmost characters are never removed, and the

Re: [perl #49224] [BUG] Repeated problems with 'svn commit'

2008-01-02 Thread Patrick R. Michaud
On Wed, Jan 02, 2008 at 09:58:21AM +0100, Paul Cochrane wrote: I've been seeing this problem off and on for over a month. As you've noticed, it's rather intermittent, however, when the problem occurs it persists for up to couple of hours. I've also seen that this is platform independent, and

[perl #49262] [CAGE]: Rename Parrot::Configure::Step and Parrot::Configure::Step::Base

2008-01-02 Thread James Keenan via RT
No problems evident from smoke tests, so I'm resolving this ticket.

Re: Multiline comments in Perl6

2008-01-02 Thread Jonathan Lang
Paul Hodges wrote: http://perl6.org/doc/design/syn/S02.html still says: Intra-line comments will not be supported in standard Perl This is wrong, since S02 also defines intra-line comments, under Whitespace and Comments. It calls them 'embedded comments'. You don't need a 'use' statement.

[svn:perl6-synopsis] r14478 - doc/trunk/design/syn

2008-01-02 Thread larry
Author: larry Date: Wed Jan 2 11:30:16 2008 New Revision: 14478 Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S03.pod doc/trunk/design/syn/S06.pod Log: Rationalize migration strategy from Perl 5 to Perl 6 using transitional p5= operator Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S03.pod

Re: Testing asynchronous code

2008-01-02 Thread Klaas-Jan Stol
what about joining threads, and comparing the output at those points? For async IO, a join is more or less implemented by a wait operation, no? (or the parrot equivalent for that). just a thought. kjs On Dec 31, 2007 8:57 PM, chromatic [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 31 December 2007

Re: [perl #49238] [PATCH] pbc_to_exe compile failure on Win32 / MSVC9

2008-01-02 Thread chromatic
On Wednesday 02 January 2008 05:40:35 Cosimo Streppone via RT wrote: Thanks for the building process explanation. After your changes (r24437) I still have problems building perl6.exe. I'm trying to use `nmake perl6'. Two problems here: 1) The `int8_t' define doesn't work for me. Seems like

Current status on Solaris 8/SPARC

2008-01-02 Thread Andy Dougherty
After fixing various minor little things, here's where I stand on Solaris 8/SPARC after the recent changes. I have not identified any particular common theme. Do these ring any bells? Failed TestStat Wstat Total Fail List of Failed

[perl #49292] Make perl6 support -h

2008-01-02 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by Andy Lester # Please include the string: [perl #49292] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # URL: http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=49292 The -h should provide a list of help. -- Andy Lester = [EMAIL PROTECTED] =

[perl #49294] Make perl6 support -v

2008-01-02 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by Andy Lester # Please include the string: [perl #49294] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # URL: http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=49294 perl6 -v should provide a version statement. -- Andy Lester = [EMAIL PROTECTED] =

[perl #49296] Make perl6 support -e

2008-01-02 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by Andy Lester # Please include the string: [perl #49296] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # URL: http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=49296 perl6 -esay 'hello world' should work. -- Andy Lester = [EMAIL PROTECTED] =

SVK bootstrap dump for parrot

2008-01-02 Thread Zev Benjamin
http://www.parrotcode.org/source.html claims the last dump was done in Aug 2006. Would someone be willing to update that dump? I'm going to be on a train tomorrow for 6 hours and would like to be able to do some work on parrot with version control. Zev

Re: Multiline comments in Perl6

2008-01-02 Thread Jonathan Lang
I've been putting a fair amount of thought into this. Here's what I've come up with: Perl 6 has several instances where whitespace is required or forbidden in order to better facilitate Do What I Mean programming: for instance, by having the presence or absence of whitespace before curly braces

Re: expected test failures in t/pmc, t/run, and t/stm

2008-01-02 Thread Allison Randal
Allison Randal wrote: Thanks all for the reports. I see two common trouble spots in hellgrind and the test output. One is a possible race condition if two threads add tasks to the concurrency scheduler at exactly the same moment. The other is the fact that PCC uses globals in the interpreter

Re: [svn:parrot] r24439 - in trunk/languages/perl6: . config/makefiles

2008-01-02 Thread chromatic
On Wednesday 02 January 2008 08:39:51 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Modified: trunk/languages/perl6/ (props changed) trunk/languages/perl6/config/makefiles/root.in Log: [perl6] - add suffixe .exe on Win32 I'm not sure about this change. None of our other Makefile targets have file

Sequential bias in S04 (and Perl6 in general)

2008-01-02 Thread Dave Whipp
I was reading Synopsis 4 with regards to multi core programming. It seems to be infused with a bias towards non-parallel models of computation. Concurrently appears to be an add-on feature -- whereas we should have a mindset that explicit sequential constraints are the add-on feature. Two

Re: Current status on Solaris 8/SPARC

2008-01-02 Thread James E Keenan
Andy Dougherty wrote: After fixing various minor little things, here's where I stand on Solaris 8/SPARC after the recent changes. I have not identified any particular common theme. Do these ring any bells? Failed TestStat Wstat Total Fail List of Failed

Re: Testing asynchronous code

2008-01-02 Thread Bob Rogers
From: Klaas-Jan Stol [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2008 16:16:26 +0100 what about joining threads, and comparing the output at those points? For async IO, a join is more or less implemented by a wait operation, no? (or the parrot equivalent for that). just a thought.

Re: Multiline comments in Perl6

2008-01-02 Thread Jonathan Lang
Jonathan Lang wrote: How about '~#', meaning something along the lines of string-like comment? The idea is that the syntax that follows this would conform closely to that of string literals (i.e., quotes). We might even consider loosening the restrictions on delimiter characters, allowing

Re: [perl #49296] Make perl6 support -e

2008-01-02 Thread Patrick R. Michaud
On Tue, Jan 01, 2008 at 11:15:57PM -0800, Andy Lester wrote: # URL: http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=49296 perl6 -esay 'hello world' should work. Oddly(?), the question of standard options to Perl 6 implementations also came up in today's Perl 6 design meeting. I believe Larry

Re: [perl #49292] Make perl6 support -h

2008-01-02 Thread Patrick R. Michaud
On Tue, Jan 01, 2008 at 11:15:07PM -0800, Andy Lester wrote: # URL: http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=49292 The -h should provide a list of help. See also the comments about Perl 6 standard command line options in RT#49296. Pm

[perl #43269] [BUG] setline is tied to PIR source

2008-01-02 Thread Patrick R. Michaud via RT
On Wed Jun 20 16:23:40 2007, pmichaud wrote: On Thu, Jun 21, 2007 at 12:08:33AM +0100, Jonathan Worthington wrote: Patrick R.Michaud (via RT) wrote: The 'setline' opcode doesn't do what I expect it to do, which is to associate runtime errors with lines in HLL source. Currently HLL

Re: [perl #49294] Make perl6 support -v

2008-01-02 Thread Patrick R. Michaud
On Tue, Jan 01, 2008 at 11:15:34PM -0800, Andy Lester wrote: # New Ticket Created by Andy Lester # Please include the string: [perl #49294] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # URL: http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=49294 perl6 -v should