Re: Unicode in 'NFG' formation ?

2009-05-20 Thread Helmut Wollmersdorfer
Larry Wall wrote: On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 11:11:32AM +0200, Helmut Wollmersdorfer wrote: 2) Can I use Unicode property matching safely with graphemes? If yes, who or what maintains the necessary tables? Good question. My assumption is that adding marks to a character doesn't change its

Re: Perl6 won't compile on Cygwin/Win (configure.pl won't run)

2009-05-20 Thread chromatic
On Tuesday 19 May 2009 08:29:39 Patrick R. Michaud wrote: On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 02:54:55PM -0700, chromatic wrote: I have an SVK checkout of Parrot, so Parrot's configuration process cannot determine the Parrot SVN revision. The problem here may be similar. Indeed -- I may simply

[perl #63180] Null PMC access when the word 'scalar' is mentioned in Rakudo

2009-05-20 Thread jn...@jnthn.net via RT
On Thu Feb 12 06:05:34 2009, masak wrote: Rakudo b2e7ac: $ perl6 -e 'scalar' Null PMC access in getprop() [...] Now we're running our own .HLL, this is no longer an issue... scalar Could not find non-existent sub scalar So resolving. Thanks, Jonathan

[perl #64594] You can push strings to attribute arrays typed with Int in Rakudo

2009-05-20 Thread jn...@jnthn.net via RT
On Thu Apr 23 09:44:12 2009, moritz wrote: On Thu Apr 09 01:12:40 2009, masak wrote: moritz_ rakudo: class A { has Int @.a is rw }; my $x=A.new; $x.a = (2, 3, 4); say $x.a.perl p6eval rakudo e05aff: OUTPUT«[2, 3, 4]␤» moritz_ rakudo: class A { has Int @.a is rw }; my $x=A.new; $x.a =

[perl #65346] [BUG] has initializers should be methods with 'self'

2009-05-20 Thread jn...@jnthn.net via RT
On Mon May 04 14:07:56 2009, pmichaud wrote: 21:00 TimToady pmichaud: note that for the self ticket, the phrase in question is a has initializer, which runs in BUILD context, and hence does have an obvious instance self, so this isn't really about binding self to the class 21:04 pmichaud

[perl #63404] MMD error with Bool named parameters

2009-05-20 Thread jn...@jnthn.net via RT
On Sun Feb 22 13:37:39 2009, cspencer wrote: [1:19pm] cspencer:rakudo: multi foo(Bool :$baz = Bool::False, *...@vals) { say foo }; foo(:baz(Bool::True), 1, 2, 3); [1:19pm] p6eval:rakudo 2a9382: OUTPUT«No applicable candidates found to dispatch to for 'foo'␤current instr.: '_block14' pc

[perl #64882] Dispatch fails to multi with a named and a slurpy in Rakudo

2009-05-20 Thread jn...@jnthn.net via RT
On Mon Apr 20 00:38:43 2009, masak wrote: cspencer rakudo: multi foo(Int $x, Bool :$flag, *...@vals) { say bar 1 }; foo(1) p6eval rakudo 0d5515: OUTPUT«bar 1␤» cspencer rakudo: multi foo(Int $x, Bool :$flag, *...@vals) { say bar 1 }; foo(1, 2, 3, 4, 5) p6eval rakudo 0d5515: OUTPUT«No

[perl #64270] Cannot call private !a variables in a class in Rakudo

2009-05-20 Thread jn...@jnthn.net via RT
On Sun Mar 29 09:40:06 2009, masak wrote: masak rakudo: class A { has !a = { say OH HAI }; method foo { !a() } };A.new.foo p6eval rakudo 7af829: OUTPUT«No such attribute '!a' [...] * masak submits rakudobug The error message is contradictory, since there obviously is an attribute '!a'.

[perl #64650] Calling anonymous methods stored in public attributes in Rakudo

2009-05-20 Thread jn...@jnthn.net via RT
On Sat Apr 11 14:56:36 2009, masak wrote: jnthn rakudo: class Foo { has @.body; has .writer = method ($x) { @!body.push($x) }; }; my $x = Foo.new; $x.writer(oh); $x.writer(hai); .say for $x.body; p6eval rakudo 5b679a: OUTPUT«Could not locate a method 'writer' to invoke on lass 'Foo'. * masak

Parrot 1.2.0 Bird Brain released!

2009-05-20 Thread Mark Glines
On behalf of the Parrot team, I'm proud to announce Parrot 1.2.0 Bird Brain. Parrot (http://parrot.org/) is a virtual machine aimed at running all dynamic languages. Parrot 1.2.0 is available on Parrot's FTP site, or follow the download instructions at http://parrot.org/download. For those who

[perl #43713] [TODO] Items should only contain paths

2009-05-20 Thread James Keenan via RT
Rejected, and ticket resolved, in r38996. kid51

[perl #43709] [TODO] Groups should only contain items or paths

2009-05-20 Thread James Keenan via RT
Rejected, and ticket resolved, in r38997. kid51

[perl #43687] [TODO] combine abstract search with other search in lib/Parrot/Docs/File.pm

2009-05-20 Thread James Keenan via RT
On Sat May 09 19:40:51 2009, jk...@verizon.net wrote: In the course of working on RT 43683, I came across the inline comment which was the pretext for creating this ticket in the first place. It was not removed when the ticket was rejected. And since I was doing some refactoring for the

[perl #65660] [TODO] Recognize meta-op forms of user-defined ops in Rakudo

2009-05-20 Thread jn...@jnthn.net via RT
On Thu May 14 09:23:14 2009, masak wrote: jnthn rakudo: sub infix:ö($x, $y) { say flyyy }; (1,2,3) »ö« (4,5,6) p6eval rakudo 612bcf: OUTPUT«Statement not terminated properly at line 1, near \x{bb}\x{f6}\x{ab} (4,5,6 [...] jnthn aww. masak is that a new bug? jnthn Yes. No. moritz_ jnthn: I

Re: Unicode in 'NFG' formation ?

2009-05-20 Thread John M. Dlugosz
Larry Wall larry-at-wall.org |Perl 6| wrote: On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 11:11:32AM +0200, Helmut Wollmersdorfer wrote: [1] Open questions: 1) Will graphemes have an unique charname? e.g. GRAPHEME LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH DOT BELOW AND DOT ABOVE Yes, presumably that comes with the

Meditations on a Loop

2009-05-20 Thread John M. Dlugosz
If you would be so kind, please take a look at http://www.dlugosz.com/Perl6/web/med-loop.html. I spent a couple days on this, and besides needing it checked for correctness, found a few issues as well as more food for thought. --John P.S. contains some humor.

Re: Meditations on a Loop

2009-05-20 Thread Austin Hastings
You write: I’m not sure what the heart of Perl 6 would be, but I think we’ve identified the spleen with the |Capture|. In the human body, most people have no idea what the spleen does. It sits there out of the way doing its thing, and we can’t live without it. I, along with a host of

Re: Meditations on a Loop

2009-05-20 Thread Patrick R. Michaud
On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 07:55:55PM -0500, John M. Dlugosz wrote: If you would be so kind, please take a look at http://www.dlugosz.com/Perl6/web/med-loop.html. The page currently says: The reason this [.prime] works is because the method-call syntax will call an ordinary

Re: Meditations on a Loop

2009-05-20 Thread Timothy S. Nelson
On Wed, 20 May 2009, John M. Dlugosz wrote: If you would be so kind, please take a look at http://www.dlugosz.com/Perl6/web/med-loop.html. I spent a couple days on this, and besides needing it checked for correctness, found a few issues as well as more food for thought. John, I