[perl #52008] [PATCH] Incorrect return type for ig_test in function comment

2008-03-22 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by Matt Kraai # Please include the string: [perl #52008] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=52008 > Howdy, The return value of ig_test in compilers/imcc/reg_alloc.c changed from an int to a

[svn:perl6-synopsis] r14527 - doc/trunk/design/syn

2008-03-22 Thread larry
Author: larry Date: Sat Mar 22 08:27:16 2008 New Revision: 14527 Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S05.pod Log: typos noticed by spinclad++ Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S05.pod == --- doc/trunk/design/syn/S05.pod

Re: [perl #38194] [TODO] build - optimize pmc2c.pl

2008-03-22 Thread Andy Dougherty
On Fri, 21 Mar 2008, James Keenan via RT wrote: > On Mon Jan 09 17:05:30 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Simple profile suggests that pmc2c.pl is spending about 25% of it's > > total execution time loading FindBin. The lib path use of FindBin::Bin > > can be replaced with 'use lib qw( . lib ..

Re: local $@ has an unwanted side effect

2008-03-22 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
* Rafael Garcia-Suarez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-03-23 00:15]: > I agree that the behaviour of $@ is very hard to modify right > now in Perl 5. It has many complications and many people have > worked around features or misfeatures in many ways. Introducing > a parallel system might work. What does

Re: local $@ has an unwanted side effect

2008-03-22 Thread Mark J. Reed
On Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 8:00 PM, Aristotle Pagaltzis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What does Perl 6 do in that respect? Maybe semantics could be > borrowed from there? In which respect? TTBOMK, both eval's role as pseudo-"try" and the $@ variable are gone in Perl6, which has a real "try" instead

What's the current state of the onion?

2008-03-22 Thread Mark J. Reed
It looks like Pugs has been dormant for a few months, while Parrot has some serious momentum going (in general, not just on the p6 front). But AFAICT perl6.pir is still less functional than Pugs. Meanwhile other implementations have popped up (in Perl5 and Lisp and possibly other backend langs), a