[perl #53210] [TODO] change new_from_string to init_str

2008-04-23 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by Allison Randal # Please include the string: [perl #53210] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # URL: http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=53210 We've been kicking around the idea of removing new_from_string for a while, but

Re: Decrement of Numbers in Strings (Was: [svn:perl6-synopsis] r14460 - doc/trunk/design/syn)

2008-04-23 Thread Smylers
On September 13th [EMAIL PROTECTED] committed: Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S03.pod == +Perl 6 also supports CStr decrement with similar semantics, simply by +running the cycles the other direction. However,

Re: Class names are virtual

2008-04-23 Thread TSa
HaloO, John M. Dlugosz wrote: Using Dog in an expression (rather than a declaration) returns an undefined protoobject of type Dog. Yeah, an avatar. But we already know that this is supposed to work: my ::Alias ::= Dog; but maybe the RHS of ::= (if not :=) has its own special parsing

Re: Decrement of Numbers in Strings (Was: [svn:perl6-synopsis] r14460 - doc/trunk/design/syn)

2008-04-23 Thread TSa
HaloO, Smylers wrote: If a 'number' is read in from a file, standard input, a webpage, a command-line argument, and possibly even a database then it's likely to be a string to start with. I realize there are ways to get round this, for example by declaring the variable as numeric. But not

Re: use of ::?CLASS

2008-04-23 Thread TSa
HaloO, I wrote: subset Five of Int where {$_ == 5} is the corresponding type my Five $x; # effectively a constant my 5$y; # syntax error or 5 in type position? Would my :(5) $z; work as a type literal? Regards, TSa. -- The unavoidable price of reliability is

Re: Decrement of Numbers in Strings (Was: [svn:perl6-synopsis] r14460 - doc/trunk/design/syn)

2008-04-23 Thread Larry Wall
On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 04:03:01PM +0100, Smylers wrote: : The algorithm for increment and decrement on strings sounds really good, : however I'm concerned that dealing with all that has made the common : case of integer decrement a little less intuitive where the integer : happens to be stored in

[perl #53264] [PATCH] Re: [svn:parrot] r27144 - in trunk: include/parrot src src/pmc

2008-04-23 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by Andy Dougherty # Please include the string: [perl #53264] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # URL: http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=53264 On Tue, 22 Apr 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Log: [src] The PMC struct and

[perl #46681] [TODO] [C] Use strerror_r instead of strerror

2008-04-23 Thread James Keenan via RT
This thread trailed off about 4 months ago. Could we get an update on its status, i.e., whether it should be applied, what OSes it's passing on, etc. Thank you very much. kid51

RT Needs Cage Tag

2008-04-23 Thread James E Keenan
At ny.pm tonight, I was discussing the joys and sorrows of Parrot cage cleaning with one attendee. I just discovered that while you can search the newsgroup for the string 'cage' in a posting's subject line, there is no 'cage' tag in our RT system. So you can't construct a query string as

Re: [perl #53082] rakudo does not use the line numbering feature of imcc. may be hllcompiler does not support it.

2008-04-23 Thread Patrick R. Michaud
On Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 12:37:32PM -0700, Jonathan Worthington via RT wrote: Patrick R. Michaud wrote: Rakudo doesn't use the line numbering feature of imcc because the line numbering feature of imcc doesn't work. See RT#43269 - setline is tied to PIR source. I wouldn't say it doesn'

Re: [perl #53082] rakudo does not use the line numbering feature of imcc. may be hllcompiler does not support it.

2008-04-23 Thread chromatic
On Wednesday 23 April 2008 18:30:26 Patrick R. Michaud wrote: Fair enough. However, I'm in favor of Chip's remark in #40806 that says we should use setfile/setline (opcodes) for tracking HLL lines and the #line num file directive for tracking lines of PIR source. +1, as if you needed it.

[perl #53270] [TODO] Rename/refactor _handle_mswin32()

2008-04-23 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by James Keenan # Please include the string: [perl #53270] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # URL: http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=53270 There are five configuration step classes where the class's runstep() method has

Re: [perl #53270] [TODO] Rename/refactor _handle_mswin32()

2008-04-23 Thread Geoffrey Broadwell
On Wed, 2008-04-23 at 18:40 -0700, James Keenan wrote: There are five configuration step classes where the class's runstep() method has an internal subroutine called _handle_mswin32(). These classes are: config/auto//crypto.pm config/auto//gettext.pm config/auto//gmp.pm

Re: RT Needs Cage Tag

2008-04-23 Thread Will Coleda
On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 9:27 PM, James E Keenan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At ny.pm tonight, I was discussing the joys and sorrows of Parrot cage cleaning with one attendee. I just discovered that while you can search the newsgroup for the string 'cage' in a posting's subject line, there is no

r27153 removes user stack ops

2008-04-23 Thread Patrick R. Michaud
Based on Tuesday's #parrotsketch discussion, r27153 eliminates the user stack opcodes from Parrot. DEPRECATED.pod showed that this would occur after the 0.7.0 release, but given discussions and changes relating to the other stacks it was decided that this could probably take place now. The

Re: Decrement of Numbers in Strings (Was: [svn:perl6-synopsis] r14460 - doc/trunk/design/syn)

2008-04-23 Thread Ph. Marek
On Mittwoch, 23. April 2008, Larry Wall wrote: On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 04:03:01PM +0100, Smylers wrote: : The algorithm for increment and decrement on strings sounds really good, : however I'm concerned that dealing with all that has made the common : case of integer decrement a little less