Re: Signatures and matching (was Re: XPath grammars (Was: Re: globs and trees in Perl6))

2008-10-27 Thread TSa
HaloO, David Green wrote: On 2008-Oct-22, at 10:03 am, TSa wrote: Note that types have a fundamentally different task in a signature than name and position have. The latter are for binding arguments to parameters. The types however are for selection of dispatch target. Names do that too; I

Re: Precompilation to PIR

2008-10-27 Thread Carl Mäsak
Chris (): How safe is it today to pre-compile Rakudo code to PIR and expect that to behave identically to as if I compiled from .pm at runtime? I believe PCT is just generating PIR anyway, so my initial guess is that there should be no differences. Are there any gotchas, like compile-time

[perl #60164] [PATCH] make Test.pm methods return a boolean, like Test::More

2008-10-27 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by Chris Dolan # Please include the string: [perl #60164] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # URL: http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=60164 The attached one-line patch makes Rakudo's Test.pm methods (ok(), is (), etc)

[perl #60168] [PATCH] Refactor Junction.

2008-10-27 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by Vasily Chekalkin # Please include the string: [perl #60168] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # URL: http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=60168 Hello. I've (slightly) refactor Junction.pir. 1. Get rid of

Re: Precompilation to PIR

2008-10-27 Thread Chris Dolan
On Oct 27, 2008, at 3:07 AM, Carl Mäsak wrote: Chris (): How safe is it today to pre-compile Rakudo code to PIR and expect that to behave identically to as if I compiled from .pm at runtime? I believe PCT is just generating PIR anyway, so my initial guess is that there should be no

[perl #60160] [BUG] [PATCH] recursive use causes infinite loop.

2008-10-27 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by Chris Dolan # Please include the string: [perl #60160] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # URL: http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=60160 The following simple test involves two .pm files that depend on each other. In

Parrot Bug Summary

2008-10-27 Thread Parrot Bug Summary
Parrot Bug Summary http://rt.perl.org/rt3/NoAuth/parrot/Overview.html Generated at Mon Oct 27 13:00:01 2008 GMT --- * Numbers * New Issues * Overview of Open Issues * Ticket Status By Version * Requestors with

Re: Why {{}} for regexp closures instead of just {}?

2008-10-27 Thread jerry gay
On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 10:45 PM, Chris Dolan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: S05 always uses single curlies for closures, but throughout Parrot, code seems to use double curlies in PGE regexps. Why is that? That is, why this: m/ foo {{ say found foo }} / and not this: m/ foo { say found foo }

Re: [perl #60128] [BUG] GC STRING segfault.

2008-10-27 Thread Will Coleda
On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 11:17 AM, Will Coleda [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Turns out setting the conditional breakpoint never fired; left this running overnight, and it eventually came back with the segfault directly. Back to the drawing board. Here is a very small snippet of tcl (with a single

[perl #60166] [BUG] Exception handling in parrot doesn't unwind stack.

2008-10-27 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by Vasily Chekalkin # Please include the string: [perl #60166] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # URL: http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=60166 Hello. Exception handling in parrot doesn't unwind used stack frames. Simple

[perl #60170] Segfault in verify_signature

2008-10-27 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by Will Coleda # Please include the string: [perl #60170] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # URL: http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=60170 While trying to duplicate the tcl segfault in PIR, I was able to generate PIR that

Re: [perl #60170] Segfault in verify_signature

2008-10-27 Thread Will Coleda
On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 12:14 PM, via RT Will Coleda [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: # New Ticket Created by Will Coleda # Please include the string: [perl #60170] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # URL: http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=60170

[perl #60172] segfault in expand_pcc_sub_call

2008-10-27 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by Will Coleda # Please include the string: [perl #60172] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # URL: http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=60172 .sub _main ($S0) = 'blah'(:pir_only=1) .end segfaults with: 0xb7e4fe84 in

Re: globs and rules and trees, oh my!

2008-10-27 Thread TSa
HaloO, Jon Lang wrote: This can already be done, for the most part: / (.does(ro)) / Mind you, this only searches a list; to make it search a tree, you'd need a drill-down subrule such as I outline above: / [* (.does(ro)) ]* / Isn't it the case that ~~ has very special dispatch semantics?

Re: globs and rules and trees, oh my!

2008-10-27 Thread Patrick R. Michaud
On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 06:20:51PM +0100, TSa wrote: HaloO, Jon Lang wrote: This can already be done, for the most part: / (.does(ro)) / Mind you, this only searches a list; to make it search a tree, you'd need a drill-down subrule such as I outline above: / [* (.does(ro)) ]* / Isn't

Re: [perl #60152] if(something) is not treated as a sub call in Rakudo

2008-10-27 Thread Patrick R. Michaud
On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 02:47:12PM -0700, Carl Mäsak wrote: moritz_ rakudo: if(3 5) { say yes } # that should fail Early experimentation indicates that this goes for unless, while, until and given as well, and probably others I can't think of now. Just for the record (since the ticket

Re: [perl #60124] MMD Fails to Resolve with Autoboxing and :optional Parameters

2008-10-27 Thread Patrick R. Michaud
On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 09:37:36PM -0400, Bob Rogers wrote: .sub 'main' :main foo('Hello') .end .sub foo :multi(String) .param pmc s say s .end [...] Which brings us to an interesting question: How can you decide what type

Re: [perl #60168] [PATCH] Refactor Junction.

2008-10-27 Thread Patrick R. Michaud
On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 03:47:50AM -0700, Vasily Chekalkin wrote: I've (slightly) refactor Junction.pir. 1. Get rid of junction_comparision_helper. Use infix_junction_helper instead. 2. In infix and unary junction helpers store original value in ResultHash to avoid stringification of

Re: [perl #60098] [BUG] load_bytecode couldn't find file 'P6object.pbc'

2008-10-27 Thread Patrick R. Michaud
On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 06:50:29AM -0700, François PERRAD via RT wrote: In fact, perl6.exe contains some dependencies on build tree. Just after a build, perl6.exe works : This is a known item -- see line 32 of languages/perl6/README: This binary executable feature is still somewhat

Re: Argument scoping error or bug?

2008-10-27 Thread Patrick R. Michaud
On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 10:52:13AM +0200, Moritz Lenz wrote: Chris Dolan wrote: I stumbled across this issue while descending into a recursive Match structure. Consider the following reentrant subroutine: You have just experienced this bug:

Re: [perl #60148] Degenerate unspace does not work in Rakudo

2008-10-27 Thread Patrick R. Michaud
On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 01:00:03PM -0700, Carl Mäsak wrote: Rakudo r32141 can understand unspaces consisting of a backslash followed by whitespace, but not unspace consisting of only a backslash. $ ./perl6 -e 'my %h; %h{key} = value; say %h\ {key}' # works fine value $ ./perl6 -e 'my %h;

Re: [perl #60144] undef cannot be assigned to typed variables in Rakudo

2008-10-27 Thread Patrick R. Michaud
On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 12:33:21PM -0700, Carl Mäsak wrote: Rakudo r32141 fails to accept undef as a value to typed variables. $ ./perl6 -e 'my Int $a = undef' Type check failed [...] Should work according to S02. Yes, this is a bug in Rakudo. We're likely to be revising all of

Re: [perl #60128] [BUG] GC STRING segfault.

2008-10-27 Thread Will Coleda
On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 9:31 AM, Will Coleda [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 11:17 AM, Will Coleda [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here is a very small snippet of tcl SNIP Attached is a PIR-only file (no tcl required) that triggers the same GC-related segfault (tested in r32210) --

Re: [perl #60044] [BUG?] rethrow just throwing?

2008-10-27 Thread Allison Randal
Patrick R. Michaud wrote: On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 12:18:40PM -0700, Allison Randal wrote: (I suppose technically we should stop calling this a stack trace since it's not a stack. But return continuation chain trace is just too verbose.) backtrace Exactly the word I was looking for.

Re: [perl #60124] MMD Fails to Resolve with Autoboxing and :optional Parameters

2008-10-27 Thread Bob Rogers
From: Patrick R. Michaud [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2008 13:32:02 -0500 On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 09:37:36PM -0400, Bob Rogers wrote: .sub 'main' :main foo('Hello') .end .sub foo :multi(String) .param pmc s say s

Re: [perl #60124] MMD Fails to Resolve with Autoboxing and :optional Parameters

2008-10-27 Thread chromatic
On Monday 27 October 2008 19:26:31 Bob Rogers wrote: All true. But it's unfortunate that the Parrot type system considers int and Integer unrelated. As a result, MMD prevents autoboxing (when chromatic and I had expected otherwise). I'm not sure it's the type system as much as it is

Re: [perl #60124] MMD Fails to Resolve with Autoboxing and :optional Parameters

2008-10-27 Thread chromatic
On Monday 27 October 2008 19:36:58 chromatic wrote: I think I know how to promote primitive registers to their autoboxed PMCs in that function; Parrot's calling conventions should take care of the rest. Fixed in r32211. All tests pass (including the TODO test I added for this). -- c

Re: [perl #60124] MMD Fails to Resolve with Autoboxing and :optional Parameters

2008-10-27 Thread Bob Rogers
From: chromatic [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2008 20:00:50 -0700 On Monday 27 October 2008 19:36:58 chromatic wrote: I think I know how to promote primitive registers to their autoboxed PMCs in that function; Parrot's calling conventions should take care of the rest.