Re: pluralization idea that keeps bugging me

2008-01-31 Thread David Green
On 2008-Jan-26, at 9:58 am, Larry Wall wrote: My first thought is that this is such a common idiom that we ought to have some syntactic sugar for it: say Received $m message\s. I've always wanted a magic-S (and I don't think the anglocentrism matters, because Perl is already pretty

Re: pluralization idea that keeps bugging me

2008-01-31 Thread Mark Overmeer
* David Green ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [080131 08:48]: I've always wanted a magic-S (and I don't think the anglocentrism matters, because Perl is already pretty anglocentric -- more so than plural S's, which apply to some other languages anyway). In the good old days all computer OSes were

[perl #50298] [PATCH] Fix the glibc backtrace() configuration test

2008-01-31 Thread James Keenan via RT
Since this does not appear to be causing any problems for smoke tests, I'm resolving this ticket.

[perl #50424] [PROPOSAL][PCT] allow empty PAST::Stmts nodes

2008-01-31 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by Klaas-Jan Stol # Please include the string: [perl #50424] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # URL: http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=50424 hi, as far as I could see, it is not allowed to create empty PAST::Stmts nodes.

Re: [perl #37358] [CAGE] Tests - cleanup use of temp files

2008-01-31 Thread Andy Dougherty
On Wed, 30 Jan 2008, James Keenan via RT wrote: I have identified a relatively few instances in the tests I have written where I used tempfile() without UNLINK =1 or tempdir() without CLEANUP = 1. I have fixed those situations. I have then done make realclean, perl Configure.pl --test and

Re: pluralization idea that keeps bugging me

2008-01-31 Thread David Green
On 2008-Jan-31, at 2:38 am, Mark Overmeer wrote: * David Green ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [080131 08:48]: I've always wanted a magic-S (and I don't think the anglocentrism matters In the good old days all computer OSes were anglo-centric. They are not like that anymore. But Perl still is.

Re: [perl #50402] pb compiling a parrot got from svk on a Leopard MacBook

2008-01-31 Thread chromatic
On Thursday 31 January 2008 11:10:45 Stéphane Payrard wrote: make realclean svk update perl Configure.pl --verbose-step=61 --test in attached file... What's the output of 'svk info' in ~/svk/parrot? -- c

Re: [perl #50402] pb compiling a parrot got from svk on a Leopard MacBook

2008-01-31 Thread Stéphane Payrard
On Jan 30, 2008 7:53 PM, James Keenan via RT [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Or, better still: make realclean svk update perl Configure.pl --verbose-step=61 --test in attached file... Thx -- cognominal stef u have mail. maccog:~ stef$ cd ~/svk/parrot/ maccog:parrot stef$ make realclean make:

[perl #50440] [BUG] parrot segfault

2008-01-31 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by Zev Benjamin # Please include the string: [perl #50440] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # URL: http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=50440 The attached code makes parrot segfault (invoked as ./parrot segfault.pir). I

Re: [perl #50440] [BUG] parrot segfault

2008-01-31 Thread Andy Lester
FWIW, running under valgrind gives: uniqua:~/parrot $ valgrind ./parrot segfault.pir ==19577== Memcheck, a memory error detector. ==19577== Copyright (C) 2002-2007, and GNU GPL'd, by Julian Seward et al. ==19577== Using LibVEX rev 1804, a library for dynamic binary translation. ==19577==

Re: [perl #50440] [BUG] parrot segfault

2008-01-31 Thread chromatic
On Thursday 31 January 2008 14:21:27 Zev Benjamin wrote: The attached code makes parrot segfault (invoked as ./parrot segfault.pir). I attempted to debug, but wasn't able to get to the root of the problem. It seems as though VTABLE_get_class() on line 64 of src/ops/objects.ops is returning