Re: Smooth numeric upgrades?

2008-10-06 Thread Michael G Schwern
So, the concrete use-case I'm thinking of here is currency. Darren Duncan wrote: [2] Num should have an optional limit on the number of decimal places it remembers, like NUMERIC in SQL, but that's a simple truncation. I disagree. For starters, any limit built into a type definition

[perl #59642] Return the empty list on non-positive LIMIT

2008-10-06 Thread Chris Davaz
# New Ticket Created by Chris Davaz # Please include the string: [perl #59642] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # URL: http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=59642 Here is a small patch to make split return the empty list on non-positive limit

Practical Considerations

2008-10-06 Thread Elyse M. Grasso
My company sells an application that links a bugtracking tool with an SCM tool so that, for example, the files changed for each bug are recorded in the bugtracking tool. It is currently written in (mostly) non-object-oriented perl5. We are re-architecting the application so that it can work

Parrot Bug Summary

2008-10-06 Thread Parrot Bug Summary
Parrot Bug Summary http://rt.perl.org/rt3/NoAuth/parrot/Overview.html Generated at Mon Oct 6 13:00:01 2008 GMT --- * Numbers * New Issues * Overview of Open Issues * Ticket Status By Version * Requestors with

Re: Practical Considerations

2008-10-06 Thread jerry gay
On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 5:49 AM, Elyse M. Grasso [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My company sells an application that links a bugtracking tool with an SCM tool so that, for example, the files changed for each bug are recorded in the bugtracking tool. It is currently written in (mostly)

[perl #59630] [BUG] Complex subtraction fails for subclasses of Complex

2008-10-06 Thread NotFound via RT
I've done some work in this problem. The attached patch is a way to make the examples work but I think this is not the way to go, or a lot of functions in a lot of pmc will need changes. Index: src/pmc/complex.pmc === ---

Re: [svn:perl6-synopsis] r14586 - doc/trunk/design/syn

2008-10-06 Thread Jon Lang
Larry Wall wrote: On Sun, Oct 05, 2008 at 08:19:42PM -0700, Jon Lang wrote: : [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: : Log: : Add missing series operator, mostly for readability. : : Is there a way for the continuing function to access its index as well : as, or instead of, the values of one or more

Re: [perl #59630] [BUG] Complex subtraction fails for subclasses of Complex

2008-10-06 Thread Patrick R. Michaud
On Mon, Oct 06, 2008 at 06:05:20AM -0700, NotFound via RT wrote: I've done some work in this problem. The attached patch is a way to make the examples work but I think this is not the way to go, or a lot of functions in a lot of pmc will need changes. [...] I agree this really isn't the way

Re: [svn:perl6-synopsis] r14586 - doc/trunk/design/syn

2008-10-06 Thread Larry Wall
On Mon, Oct 06, 2008 at 09:09:55AM -0700, Jon Lang wrote: : Larry Wall wrote: : On Sun, Oct 05, 2008 at 08:19:42PM -0700, Jon Lang wrote: : : [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: : : Log: : : Add missing series operator, mostly for readability. : : : : Is there a way for the continuing function to

[svn:perl6-synopsis] r14588 - doc/trunk/design/syn

2008-10-06 Thread larry
Author: larry Date: Mon Oct 6 18:15:17 2008 New Revision: 14588 Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S05.pod Log: Added ~ twiddle macro to make it easier to write bracketing constructs. Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S05.pod

[perl #59636] [BUG] t/op/bitwise.t fails on Darwin

2008-10-06 Thread James Keenan via RT
This was passing on Darwin as of r31667, i.e., just before the merge. See http://smolder.plusthree.com/app/public_projects/tap_stream/5891/163

[perl #59638] [BUG] t/pmc/bigint.t fails on Darwin

2008-10-06 Thread James Keenan via RT
This was passing as of r31667, i.e., just before the merge. See http://smolder.plusthree.com/app/public_projects/tap_stream/5891/201