Exception Handling (Was Re: More bugs or PEBKAC)

2011-09-07 Thread David Romano
itself. Perhaps die() is too ingrained to die. - David P.S. I haven't been following IRC as much as I used to, so my apologies if something similar has already been suggested there. -- David Romano .:. un...@cpan.org

Re: [perl #50056] [BUG] Undefined symbols on OS X

2008-01-27 Thread David Romano
James Keenan via RT wrote on Sun, Jan 27, 2008 at 04:32:59PM PST: ... Determining what C compiler and linker to use...Compilation failed with '/usr/bin/gcc-3.3' Here's the output with -verbose-step=7 (inter::progs). Determining what C compiler and linker to use... ccflags: -fno-common

Re: [perl #44945] [CAGE] Add Documentation to Undef PMC

2007-10-26 Thread David Romano
chromatic wrote on Sat, Aug 25, 2007 at 11:09:24PM PDT: There's almost no vtable entry documentation in src/pmc/undef.pmc. You can copy it almost verbatim from almost any other PMC. This is an easy task that requires almost no C or Perl knowledge. This isn't much documentation, and I hope

Re: Test coverage of Parrot's C-language components

2007-09-17 Thread David Romano
Bob Rogers wrote on Sun, Sep 16, 2007 at 04:28:03PM PDT: I suspect Gmail because you and Paul are the only ones affected, and you both have Gmail addresses However, I have no explanation why Klaas-Jan and Jerry (the other two Gmail users to post in the last three days) seem to be

Re: [perl #38982] [CAGE] refactor long test files

2007-08-20 Thread David Romano
jerry gay wrote on Mon, Aug 20, 2007 at 07:17:07AM PDT: ... perhaps it's not explicit enough in the description, but Fsprintf_tests is copied directly from perl's repository. modifying this file is not recommended, as future synchronizations from a newer perl will likely overwrite previous

Re: [perl #44753] [PATCH] find current revision for git

2007-08-19 Thread David Romano
James Keenan via RT wrote on Sat, Aug 18, 2007 at 06:31:27PM PDT: 1. I added a reference to RT 42360 which requests unit tests for the SVK portion of Parrot::Revision's code. 2. Would it be possible to add tests for the git-related code in your patch to the following 4 test files:

[PATCH] t/distro/file_metadata.t and git

2007-08-19 Thread David Romano
Testing svn file metadata isn't always appropriate when using git. When git mirrors an svn repo, it can store the metadata for each file in .git/svn/git-svn/unhandled.log, but sometimes the user chooses not to store the metadata. If the user does store it, this patch allows for the tests to pass

gmp_version undeclared

2006-09-17 Thread David Romano
Hi everyone, I just tried to build parrot (something I hadn't done in about a month and a half) and it failed to build due to gmp_version being undeclared in src/pmc/bigint.pmc (not suprising since I don't have GMP installed). Attached is a patch that fixes the problem for me. Using the

pcre tests

2006-09-17 Thread David Romano
Hi everyone, When building parrot on my iBook, two tests that depend on PCRE failed because I don't have PCRE installed and the code that determines if PCRE is installed is faulty. Parrot::Test::run_command returns [SIGNAL $exit_code] if the exit code of the commands are not divisible by 256, or

Re: [perl #39997] [PATCH] PGE P5 Test Cleanup

2006-08-01 Thread David Romano
On 7/28/06, jerry gay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: thanks for the effort! however, i don't want to apply this patch as it is. 're_tests' was stolen directly from perl5's test suite. the idea is that the test data this file contains is implementation-independent. therefore, if some other crazy person

Re: [perl #39997] [PATCH] PGE P5 Test Cleanup

2006-08-01 Thread David Romano
On 7/28/06, jerry gay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 7/28/06, jerry gay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: thanks for the effort! however, i don't want to apply this patch as it is. 're_tests' was stolen directly from perl5's test suite. the idea is that the test data this file contains is

Re: [svn:perl6-synopsis] r9575 - doc/trunk/design/syn

2006-06-12 Thread David Romano
On 6/11/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (Operators that imply list operations are excluded: C@, C%, and Cxx, for instance. Hyper operators are also excluded, but -post-assigment forms such as CSIMPLE += SIMPLE is allowed.) +post-assigment forms such as CSIMPLE += SIMPLE are

Re: Continuous testing tools

2006-06-12 Thread David Romano
On 6/9/06, Adam Kennedy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://ali.as/pita.html The above gave a 404, but http://ali.as/pita/ worked.

Re: [svn:perl6-synopsis] r9575 - doc/trunk/design/syn

2006-06-12 Thread David Romano
On 6/12/06, Daniel Hulme [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -post-assigment forms such as CSIMPLE += SIMPLE is allowed.) +post-assigment forms such as CSIMPLE += SIMPLE are allowed. s/allowed\./allowed)./ Umm, no. The ) was correct in its original position (after the full stop). It just seems to

Re: eval

2006-05-25 Thread David Romano
Hi Michael, On 5/24/06, Michael Mathews [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Oh try! I like that! But is CATCH implemented in pugs? Anyone care to give a working example of try/CATCH? I don't think CATCH is implemented in pugs yet: #!/usr/local/bin/pugs catcher; sub catcher { say here; try {

Logic Programming for Perl6 (Was Re: 3 Good Reasons... (typo alert!))

2006-05-24 Thread David Romano
Hi Ovid, On 5/24/06, Ovid [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As an aside for those who, like me, wanted to see support for logic programming: the only significant disappoinment I have with Perl6 is also, oddly enough, accompanied by a sigh of relief. Perl6 will easily support imperative, functional

Re: parrot and pugs builds for os x

2006-05-23 Thread David Romano
FYI, another mirror is set up at http://lenin.net/~emile/www.unobe.com/packages/ David

parrot and pugs builds for os x

2006-05-22 Thread David Romano
Hi everyone, I fiddled around with PackageMaker and created packages for Pugs (r10396) and Parrot (r12747) for OS X. I used my laptop to check if they installed everything properly, and it seems they do. If you want to try them out, I'd be interested in some feedback:

Re: parrot and pugs builds for os x

2006-05-22 Thread David Romano
Hi everyone, On 5/22/06, Michael Mathews [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi David, Just downloaded both and ran the installers on my iBook G4 with OS X 10.4.6 (and ghc-6.4.2). So it just worked. I can now pugs -e 'say hello;' with the rest of them. But I only wish I'd had this three days ago,

Re: Getting to hello world?

2006-05-20 Thread David Romano
Hi James, On 5/20/06, James Peregrino wrote: Is any document yet that gets you to the point of running a perl6 'hello world'? I believe it's as simple as Hello world!.say. Look to http://svn.openfoundry.org/pugs/docs/ or http://svn.openfoundry.org/pugs/examples for more stuff. David

Re: Where can I find a Perl 6 langauge reference?

2006-05-18 Thread David Romano
On 5/18/06, Michael Mathews [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Like Thomas, I'm interested in having a go, in my case I'd like to install something I can play with. The link is appreciated but what I was hoping for was a simple set of instructions for just installing Perl6 (maybe I missed it--sorry) .

Re: Implementation of :w in regexes and other regex questions

2006-02-14 Thread David Romano
On 2/14/06, Luke Palmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2/14/06, David Romano [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't want to just skip B tags wholly, because they do serve a purpose, but only in a particular context. (Can ?ws be changed back to a default if changed to include html tags

Introduction

2005-12-16 Thread David Romano
and the Phalanx Project Milivoj Ivkovic, My name is David Romano and I've joined the Phalanx project. The Phalanx project has three goals: 1. Strengthen CPAN's tests, coverage and documentation 2. Strengthen Perl's tests and coverage 3. Bring in newcomers to the Perl