Re: [svn:parrot-pdd] r30622 - trunk/docs/pdds/draft

2008-09-01 Thread Bob Rogers
From: Allison Randal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tue, 02 Sep 2008 01:15:18 +0200 Thank you for responding so promptly; I doubt I will be able to "return fire" on your schedule. Bob Rogers wrote: >As a case in point, consider keyword (named) parameters in Lisp. > Kea-CL does not u

[svn:perl6-synopsis] r14579 - doc/trunk/design/syn

2008-09-01 Thread larry
Author: larry Date: Mon Sep 1 18:12:53 2008 New Revision: 14579 Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S04.pod Log: clarify that statement introducers may not use function syntax, which is reserved for user functions of the same name Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S04.pod ==

[svn:perl6-synopsis] r14578 - doc/trunk/design/syn

2008-09-01 Thread larry
Author: larry Date: Mon Sep 1 17:02:00 2008 New Revision: 14578 Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S02.pod Log: added Rat type to list of immutables, mbiggar++ Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S02.pod == --- doc/trunk/des

Re: [svn:parrot-pdd] r30622 - trunk/docs/pdds/draft

2008-09-01 Thread Allison Randal
Bob Rogers wrote: +{{ There seems to be an implied basic assumption here that language +interoperability is the responsibility of the language +implementor. It is not. We cannot require that language +implementors design and implement their languages according to some +global spe

Re: how much detail can I get from caller.want?

2008-09-01 Thread Larry Wall
On Mon, Sep 01, 2008 at 03:40:39PM -0400, Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH wrote: > On 2008 Sep 1, at 15:20, Larry Wall wrote: >> On Mon, Sep 01, 2008 at 05:52:28PM +0200, TSa wrote: >>> John M. Dlugosz wrote: Perhaps the supplier of the CPAN module for the nth function could also include, beside

Re: What happened to "err" operator?

2008-09-01 Thread Larry Wall
On Sun, Aug 31, 2008 at 04:28:36PM -0500, John M. Dlugosz wrote: > Has the "err" operator, as a low-precidence version of //, been removed? Yes. > It's not mentioned in S03, and the semantics of "orelse" is different. > Is "orelse" supposed to be a direct replacement, meaning if you ignore >

Re: how much detail can I get from caller.want?

2008-09-01 Thread Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH
On 2008 Sep 1, at 15:20, Larry Wall wrote: On Mon, Sep 01, 2008 at 05:52:28PM +0200, TSa wrote: John M. Dlugosz wrote: Perhaps the supplier of the CPAN module for the nth function could also include, besides the actual function, an optimization pattern plug-in that locates the idiom in the pars

Re: how much detail can I get from caller.want?

2008-09-01 Thread Larry Wall
On Mon, Sep 01, 2008 at 05:52:28PM +0200, TSa wrote: > HaloO, > > John M. Dlugosz wrote: >> Perhaps the supplier of the CPAN module for the nth function could >> also include, besides the actual function, an optimization pattern >> plug-in that locates the idiom in the parse tree and replaces the >

Re: [svn:parrot-pdd] r30622 - trunk/docs/pdds/draft

2008-09-01 Thread Bob Rogers
From: Allison Randal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Mon, 01 Sep 2008 20:31:18 +0200 Bob Rogers wrote: > Allison Randal wrote: > >+Monkeypatching is certainly possible, but not encouraged. > > Cool; a new term in Allison-speak! ;-} As much as linguists love creating n

Re: [svn:parrot-pdd] r30622 - trunk/docs/pdds/draft

2008-09-01 Thread Allison Randal
Bob Rogers wrote: Allison Randal wrote: +Monkeypatching is certainly possible, but not encouraged. Cool; a new term in Allison-speak! ;-} As much as linguists love creating new words, I can't claim credit for this one: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monkey_patch More later, Allison

Re: how much detail can I get from caller.want?

2008-09-01 Thread TSa
HaloO, John M. Dlugosz wrote: Perhaps the supplier of the CPAN module for the nth function could also include, besides the actual function, an optimization pattern plug-in that locates the idiom in the parse tree and replaces the expression with a call to nth. Wouldn't a dispatch target postci

Re: [perl #58424] Named regex, token and rule don't work outside of a grammar

2008-09-01 Thread Moritz Lenz
Patrick R. Michaud wrote: > On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 08:32:41AM -0700, Carl Mäsak wrote: >> r30590: >> $ ./perl6 -e 'regex a { b }; "b" ~~ a' >> too few arguments passed (0) - 2 params expected >> [...] >> >> I've also added tests for this in t/spec/S05-metasyntax/regex.t. >> >> (S05 is not entire

Re: [perl #58474] Re: Match bug, $0 empty

2008-09-01 Thread Carl Mäsak
Илья (>): >> I think this bug is the same as #58352. > > Yes, it is. I try to say that when I "And excuse me again -- open > ticket #58352 about that problem." No problem -- there was a bit of lag on the mailing list, that's all. I got your self-reply after I wrote my reply, even though you sent i

Parrot Bug Summary

2008-09-01 Thread Parrot Bug Summary
Parrot Bug Summary http://rt.perl.org/rt3/NoAuth/parrot/Overview.html Generated at Mon Sep 1 13:00:02 2008 GMT --- * Numbers * New Issues * Overview of Open Issues * Ticket Status By Version * Requestors with mo

Re: [perl #58474] Re: Match bug, $0 empty

2008-09-01 Thread Илья
Hi! > I think this bug is the same as #58352. Yes, it is. I try to say that when I "And excuse me again -- open ticket #58352 about that problem." excuse my bad English ( > And thus it can be worked around, for the time being, doing this: > <...> Ok! I will use it; Ilya