returns keyword - current meaning?

2008-08-02 Thread John M. Dlugosz
According to S02, The word returns is allowed as an alias for of. and The as property specifies a constraint to be enforced on the return value ..., is not advertised as the type of the routine However, S06 states, returns/is returns The inner type constraint that a routine imposes on

Re: YAPC::EU 2008

2008-08-02 Thread Allison Randal
Jonathan Worthington wrote: Patrick and I will be hacking on the 12th and the 16th. If you've not seen Copenhagen before, I could forgive you for wanting to spend a day enjoying the city rather than hacking though - it's nice! :-) I have, in fact, seen Copenhagen before, and if it weren't

[perl #56800] [META] merge pdd25cx branch back into trunk

2008-08-02 Thread Allison Randal via RT
On Tue Jul 22 06:10:41 2008, fperrad wrote: In fact 'docall' uses a pushaction. I modified 'docall' so it no longer uses pushaction, and all Lua tests are now passing.

[perl #57522] [PATCH] verbose test harness flag

2008-08-02 Thread jason switzer
# New Ticket Created by jason switzer # Please include the string: [perl #57522] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # URL: http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=57522 The test harness used the default verbosity mode provided by TAP::Harness. It

[perl #56800] [META] merge pdd25cx branch back into trunk

2008-08-02 Thread Allison Randal via RT
chromatic and I have fixed the majority of the language issues (see child tickets for specific comments). I will merge the branch back into trunk first thing tomorrow morning (Saturday, August 2nd).

[perl #56786] [pdd25cx] Segfault with tcl

2008-08-02 Thread Allison Randal via RT
In r29934 of the branch, I can't even get tcl to build, it keeps complaining about calls to tcl_error_s which it says doesn't exist. Since you mentioned you were eliminating the versions of tcl_error identical to 'die', I went through and replaced the calls to tcl_error with calls to die. It

[perl #57504] [PATCH][Lua] Fixed 64bit bug in Lua bytecode decoder/translator.

2008-08-02 Thread Robert G. Jakabosky (via RT)
# New Ticket Created by Robert G. Jakabosky # Please include the string: [perl #57504] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # URL: http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=57504 Hello everyone, This is my first patch to the parrot project. This

[perl #38392] [BUG] FreeBSD bugs with JIT on t/op/trans.t

2008-08-02 Thread Reini Urban via RT
On Sat Jun 14 17:17:03 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can anyone on FreeBSD give us an update on this issue? freebsd7, recent parrot svn (r29922) passes the t/op/trans.t tests Determining JIT capability.yes It even works with freebsd's make, not only

Re: [perl #39742] [BUG] installed parrot conflicts with dev parrot.

2008-08-02 Thread Reini Urban
Andy Dougherty schrieb: On Sat, 14 Jun 2008, James Keenan via RT wrote: Can we get an update as to the issues raised in this ticket? The general issue installeld parrot conflicts with dev parrot -- at least when a shared libparrot.so is used is, as far as I know, unsolved. A

Re: [perl #57504] [PATCH][Lua] Fixed 64bit bug in Lua bytecode decoder/translator.

2008-08-02 Thread Peter Gibbs
- Original Message - From: Robert G. Jakabosky (via RT) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [perl #57504] [PATCH][Lua] Fixed 64bit bug in Lua bytecode decoder/translator. Changes to 'languages/lua/t/os.t': 1 test from 'os.t' fails on 64bit systems because 'os.time()' does not return a 'nil'

[perl #57522] [PATCH] verbose test harness flag

2008-08-02 Thread James Keenan via RT
I have tried this patch out in a sandbox from trunk and, at the very least, it does no harm with anything up through Parrot's 'make test'. I rarely go into the languages or, for example, run Rakudo's 'make test', so I'm unclear as to how to use this. What would I do after I've called: cd

[perl #38392] [BUG] FreeBSD bugs with JIT on t/op/trans.t

2008-08-02 Thread James Keenan via RT
On Sat Aug 02 05:06:31 2008, rurban wrote: On Sat Jun 14 17:17:03 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can anyone on FreeBSD give us an update on this issue? freebsd7, recent parrot svn (r29922) passes the t/op/trans.t tests Thanks for looking into this, Reini. Now, would these failures

Re: [perl #56786] [pdd25cx] Segfault with tcl

2008-08-02 Thread Will Coleda
On Sat, Aug 2, 2008 at 5:00 AM, Allison Randal via RT [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In r29934 of the branch, I can't even get tcl to build, it keeps complaining about calls to tcl_error_s which it says doesn't exist. Since you mentioned you were eliminating the versions of tcl_error identical to

Re: [perl #56786] [pdd25cx] Segfault with tcl

2008-08-02 Thread Will Coleda
On Sat, Aug 2, 2008 at 11:00 AM, Will Coleda [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Aug 2, 2008 at 5:00 AM, Allison Randal via RT [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In r29934 of the branch, I can't even get tcl to build, it keeps complaining about calls to tcl_error_s which it says doesn't exist. Since you

Re: [perl #56786] [pdd25cx] Segfault with tcl

2008-08-02 Thread Will Coleda
On Sat, Aug 2, 2008 at 11:07 AM, Will Coleda [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Aug 2, 2008 at 11:00 AM, Will Coleda [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Aug 2, 2008 at 5:00 AM, Allison Randal via RT [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In r29934 of the branch, I can't even get tcl to build, it keeps

Re: [svn:parrot] r29940 - branches/pdd25cx/languages/tcl/src

2008-08-02 Thread Will Coleda
On Sat, Aug 2, 2008 at 11:20 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Author: coke Date: Sat Aug 2 08:20:01 2008 New Revision: 29940 Modified: branches/pdd25cx/languages/tcl/src/macros.pir Log: [tcl] The error message is actually in the 'message' slot now; having the wrong name here was causing

Re: returns keyword - current meaning?

2008-08-02 Thread Larry Wall
On Sat, Aug 02, 2008 at 01:50:42AM -0500, John M. Dlugosz wrote: According to S02, The word returns is allowed as an alias for of. and The as property specifies a constraint to be enforced on the return value ..., is not advertised as the type of the routine However, S06 states,

Re: Code-only forms?

2008-08-02 Thread Larry Wall
On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 05:56:14AM -0500, John M. Dlugosz wrote: In S04, Other similar Code-only forms ... What does that mean? It is feebly attempting to say that, because these are control flow functions, the argument is really a thunk that the function has control of when and how it's

Re: continuation taken?

2008-08-02 Thread Larry Wall
On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 05:25:53AM -0500, John M. Dlugosz wrote: In S04, Note that temporizations that are undone upon scope exit must be prepared to be redone if a continuation within that scope is taken. What will create a continuation there and how do you take it? That is, how will this

[perl #57530] Fwd: Parallelize the Perl 6 tests

2008-08-02 Thread Patrick R. Michaud (via RT)
# New Ticket Created by Patrick R. Michaud # Please include the string: [perl #57530] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # URL: http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=57530 Schwern provided the following patch at the OSCON hackathon, but we should

Re: [perl #57438] [DEPRECATED] [PDD19] .pragma n_operators

2008-08-02 Thread Patrick R. Michaud
On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 10:07:49AM +0100, Klaas-Jan Stol wrote: On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 9:06 PM, via RT Will Coleda wrote From PDD19: =item .pragma n_operators [deprecated] does this mean that by default all ops will have the n_ prefix by default? That would imply some variants of these

Re: [perl #57530] Fwd: Parallelize the Perl 6 tests

2008-08-02 Thread Will Coleda
On Sat, Aug 2, 2008 at 1:52 PM, Patrick R. Michaud (via RT) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: # New Ticket Created by Patrick R. Michaud # Please include the string: [perl #57530] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # URL:

Re: Code-only forms?

2008-08-02 Thread Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH
On 2008 Aug 2, at 12:57, Larry Wall wrote: On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 05:56:14AM -0500, John M. Dlugosz wrote: In S04, Other similar Code-only forms ... What does that mean? It is feebly attempting to say that, because these are control flow functions, the argument is really a thunk that the

Re: [perl #57446] Enums of only one element don't work i rakudo

2008-08-02 Thread Patrick R. Michaud
On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 10:46:27PM -0700, Carl Mäsak wrote: $ svn info | grep Revi Revision: 29902 $ ./perl6 -e 'enum WeekdayMonday Tuesday;' # works $ ./perl6 -e 'enum WeekdayMonday;' # doesn't get_pmc_keyed() not implemented in class 'Perl6Str' [...] Likewise, $ ./perl6 -e 'enum A

Re: [perl #57450] Enum elements don't have a .perl method in rakudo

2008-08-02 Thread Patrick R. Michaud
On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 10:53:30PM -0700, Carl Mäsak wrote: $ ./perl6 -e 'enum WeekdayMonday Tuesday; say Monday' # works 0 $ ./perl6 -e 'enum WeekdayMonday Tuesday; say Monday.perl' # doesn't Method 'perl' not found for invocant of class '' [...] I'm not entirely clear on what I expected

Re: [perl #57448] Asking .WHAT on an enum element in rakudo causes null PMC access

2008-08-02 Thread Patrick R. Michaud
On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 10:50:32PM -0700, Carl Mäsak wrote: $ svn info | grep vi $ ./perl6 -e 'enum WeekdayMonday Tuesday; say Tuesday.WHAT' Null PMC access in find_method() [...] This is likely related to RT #57450, in that it's not clear how enums should report their type or .perl

Re: YAPC::EU 2008

2008-08-02 Thread Ron Blaschke
Bernhard Schmalhofer wrote: Jonathan Worthington schrieb: Allison Randal wrote: Bernhard Schmalhofer wrote: We could always do the 12th AND the 16th, just for fun and bonus productivity (if everyone isn't exhausted from a day of hacking and three days of conference)? ;-) Patrick and I will

[svn:parrot-pdd] r29952 - in trunk: . compilers/bcg/src/pmc compilers/imcc compilers/pct/src/PAST compilers/pge/PGE config/gen/crypto config/gen/makefiles config/gen/platform/ansi config/gen/platform/

2008-08-02 Thread allison
Author: allison Date: Sat Aug 2 15:45:13 2008 New Revision: 29952 Modified: trunk/docs/pdds/draft/pdd08_keys.pod trunk/docs/pdds/pdd17_pmc.pod trunk/docs/pdds/pdd23_exceptions.pod Changes in other areas also in this revision: Added: trunk/src/pmc/exceptionhandler.pmc - copied

Edits to submit

2008-08-02 Thread John M. Dlugosz
I've edited several of the S??.pod files,but I have not heard back from the owner ($Larry, whose name is on the top of the file) about accepting merging or rejecting my changes. I've posted the files to http://www.dlugosz.com/Perl6/offerings/ so they don't get lost, until someone with

Merged pdd25cx branch

2008-08-02 Thread Allison Randal
I just merged in the pdd25cx branch. Resolving all the conflicts took several hours (124 files, 1 minute or more per file...), but otherwise it went smoothly. The biggest changes you'll notice are the new exception system, a vastly reduced usage of the remaining stack (though it's not

Re: Code-only forms?

2008-08-02 Thread John M. Dlugosz
OK I think I''m getting it. You seem to have introduced the ability to use a statement rather than a block in these constructs. E.g. try blahblah; Is that in general? So the statements needs to be closure-block-like, even though braces are not written, so anything that depends on it being

[perl #57532] [BUG] config/auto/arch.pm sets incorrect value for cpuarch on 64-bit Intel OS X builds

2008-08-02 Thread James Keenan via RT
Applied in r29959. tetragon++. Marking ticket resolved.