Re: What's involved in the creation of a new Rakudo * version?

2016-10-16 Thread Aaron Sherman
Yep, I'm pleased that Star is behind a bit. It needs to be the stable face of Perl 6, but updated frequently enough that it's not irrelevant. On Sun, Oct 16, 2016, 12:51 PM Steve Mynott wrote: > There are star releases every 3 months. > > There was a RC0 of 2016.10 released today. > > There is a

[perl #129899] [BUG] infix: silences Failures

2016-10-16 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by Zoffix Znet # Please include the string: [perl #129899] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=129899 > # I have the fix; filing for records: m: my $x = 5 x '10sadsadas'; say $x rakudo-moar a

[perl #129894] 1**NaN is 1, but any numeric operation with NaN should be NaN (say 1**NaN)

2016-10-16 Thread Zoffix Znet via RT
More, at nqp level: m: use nqp; dd nqp::pow_n(NaN, 0e0) rakudo-moar 2b5226: OUTPUT«1e0␤» m: use nqp; dd nqp::pow_n(1e0, NaN) rakudo-moar 2b5226: OUTPUT«1e0␤»

[perl #129894] 1**NaN is 1, but any numeric operation with NaN should be NaN (say 1**NaN)

2016-10-16 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by Aleks-Daniel Jakimenko-Aleksejev # Please include the string: [perl #129894] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=129894 > *Code:* say 0**NaN; say 1**NaN; say 2**NaN; *Output:* NaN 1 NaN Se

Re: What's involved in the creation of a new Rakudo * version?

2016-10-16 Thread Steve Mynott
There are star releases every 3 months. There was a RC0 of 2016.10 released today. There is a link on perl6.org to the Tarball. You can help by installing on as many systems as possible -- particularly on recent Linux systems with HLE in /proc/cpuinfo Cheers Steve On Sunday, 16 October 2016, P

Re: What's involved in the creation of a new Rakudo * version?

2016-10-16 Thread Moritz Lenz
Hi On 16.10.2016 17:24, Parrot Raiser wrote: > We "Star" users are falling rather behind the compiler versions. > I'd like to help catch up, if the processes involved are sufficiently mundane. > Is there a checklist of the required tasks from which to work? Yes, there is: https://github.com/rakud

What's involved in the creation of a new Rakudo * version?

2016-10-16 Thread Parrot Raiser
We "Star" users are falling rather behind the compiler versions. I'd like to help catch up, if the processes involved are sufficiently mundane. Is there a checklist of the required tasks from which to work?

Re: [perl #129889] [BUG] Constraint type check failed for Array parameter

2016-10-16 Thread Parrot Raiser
FWIW, that's true on 2016.07.01 as well. build-date = 2016-07-22T12:37:00Z

Re: [perl #129884] Strange behaviour on "say".

2016-10-16 Thread Parrot Raiser
Rakudo*'s latest version (2016.07.01) has perl6::build-date=2016-07-22T12:37:00Z which indeed predates that commit Fri Aug 5 15:57:18 2016 -0700 .

Re: C static analysis on rakudo sources

2016-10-16 Thread Michael Franz
BTW http://www.coverity.com/press-releases/press_story54_01_08_08/ From: Tobias Leich Sent: Sunday, October 16, 2016 3:05:36 AM To: Dmitry Karasik; perl6-compi...@perl.org Subject: Re: C static analysis on rakudo sources Hi, I removed the obvious false-positive

[perl #109586] .pick on a large range needs more entropy

2016-10-16 Thread Tobias Leich via RT
PR was merged and test got added: https://github.com/MoarVM/MoarVM/pull/357 https://github.com/perl6/roast/commit/67c494ced2 Thanks to all involved!

Re: C static analysis on rakudo sources

2016-10-16 Thread Tobias Leich
Hi, I removed the obvious false-positives from the list. I'll open tickets by categroy of the errors. Thank you very much! Am 15.10.2016 um 17:26 schrieb Dmitry Karasik: Dear all, I've had access to a of C/C++ static analysis tool PVS Studio, and ran it against the latest rakudo sources [1]