Re: S26 - The Next Generation

2009-09-22 Thread Damian Conway
Jon Lang asked: Not actually S26; but closely related: should $=POD and .WHY be read-only? I had assumed so. Also, should there be other Pod variables besides $=POD? If so, which ones? The original idea was that every Pod block with any kind of TYPENAME would be available as $=TYPENAME.

[perl #69270] [BUG] Nil doesn't listify to the empty list in for loop expressions

2009-09-22 Thread Carl Mäsak
# New Ticket Created by Carl Mäsak # Please include the string: [perl #69270] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # URL: http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=69270 masak rakudo: .say for Nil p6eval rakudo 5d3d3a: OUTPUT«Nil()␤» * masak submits

[perl #69272] [TODO] Implement .succ and .pred for Rat

2009-09-22 Thread Carl Mäsak
# New Ticket Created by Carl Mäsak # Please include the string: [perl #69272] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # URL: http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=69272 masak rakudo: my $a = 3/4; $a++ p6eval rakudo 5d3d3a: OUTPUT«Method 'succ' not found

Re: r28344 - docs/Perl6/Spec

2009-09-22 Thread David Green
On 2009-Sep-21, at 2:57 pm, pugs-comm...@feather.perl6.nl wrote: So the preceding example reduces to: +1, 2, 3 ... +10, 20, 30 ... +100, 200, 300 ... 1000 + +These rules may seem complicated, but they're essentially just replicating +what a human does naturally when you say and so

[perl #69272] [TODO] Implement .succ and .pred for Rat

2009-09-22 Thread Will Coleda via RT
On Mon Sep 21 22:30:12 2009, masak wrote: masak rakudo: my $a = 3/4; $a++ p6eval rakudo 5d3d3a: OUTPUT«Method 'succ' not found for invocant of class 'Rat'␤» * masak submits rakudobug This seems to be working as of e52ed31e2fe1ab2fd4a661ebeda78a880bad1215 $ ./perl6 -e 'my $a = 3/4; say ++$a'

Re: [perl #58990] [TODO] Design new spec coverage mechanism

2009-09-22 Thread François Perrad
2009/9/22 James Keenan via RT parrotbug-follo...@parrotcode.org: On Wed Sep 17 16:38:22 2008, jk...@verizon.net wrote: We need a way to measure the extent to which Parrot's test suite covers the Parrot specification. As with RT #58740, this is a ticket whose functionality is not absolutely

Re: [perl #56712] [BUG] --optimize causes perl6 to segfault during make

2009-09-22 Thread Nicholas Clark
On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 02:22:17PM -0400, Andy Dougherty wrote: On Tue, 22 Sep 2009, Will Coleda via RT wrote: On Tue Jul 08 20:56:02 2008, s1n wrote: When trying to use the --optimize flag, building perl6 causes parrot to segfault. Attached is the Configure.pl script output. SNIP

Re: [perl #56712] [BUG] --optimize causes perl6 to segfault during make

2009-09-22 Thread Will Coleda
On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 3:30 PM, Andy Dougherty dough...@lafayette.edu wrote: On Tue, 22 Sep 2009, Nicholas Clark wrote: On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 02:22:17PM -0400, Andy Dougherty wrote: On Tue, 22 Sep 2009, Will Coleda via RT wrote: On Tue Jul 08 20:56:02 2008, s1n wrote: When trying

Re: r28344 - docs/Perl6/Spec

2009-09-22 Thread Nicholas Clark
On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 10:57:15PM +0200, pugs-comm...@feather.perl6.nl wrote: Author: lwall Date: 2009-09-21 22:57:15 +0200 (Mon, 21 Sep 2009) New Revision: 28344 @@ -1809,10 +1808,83 @@ 10,20,30,40,50,60,70,80,90, 100,200,300,400,500,600,700,800,900 +If the right operand is