Re: [perl #130562] Mixed longest (ltm) and lexical alternation makes wrong match - "42" ~~ / [ "0" || "42" ] | "4" /

2017-01-17 Thread Ronald Schmidt
On 2017-01-17 21:35, Will Coleda wrote: > If you'd like to turn this into a doc-u-bug, that's fine; please open > a ticket at > > https://github.com/perl6/doc/issues Already done and described on earlier timestamp on ticket "Mon, 16 Jan 2017 11:12:59 -0800" by AlexDaniel++ https://github.com/p

Re: Building Rakudo under Windows 7 / 32bit

2010-03-02 Thread Ronald Schmidt
Please try removing the parrot and parrot_install directories and try the --gen-parrot option again and let me know if that changes the failure mode. No luck. I removed both directories, reset the build\PARROT_VERSION to 44371, ran "perl Configure.pl --gen-parrot" followed by "mingw32-m

Re: Building Rakudo under Windows 7 / 32bit

2010-03-02 Thread Ronald Schmidt
Will Coleda wrote: Was there an old copy of parrot around from a previous build of rakudo? If so, you might want to move aside the D:\Src\rakudo\parrot* directories and rebuild parrot using the appropriate rakudo Configure.pl option. I am having the same problems a Mr Nagel. AFAIK I am buil

Re: Building Rakudo under Windows 7 / 32bit

2010-03-01 Thread Ronald Schmidt
Claus Nagel wrote: Hi, an onwards with this slowly evolving error report on MS-platforms. Ron gave a hint, but STDERR on Windows is just q{2>}, so running PS D:\Src\rakudo> gdb .\parrot_install\bin\parrot.exe 2> error.txt produces at least following error: gdb.exe : warning: Query the

Re: Building Rakudo under Windows 7 / 32bit

2010-03-01 Thread Ronald Schmidt
Claus Nagel wrote: Hi, I tried Bruce's suggestions (and failed miserably...) Running parrot under gdb with: (gdb) run src/gen/perl6.pbc --target=pir src/gen/core.pm Starting program: D:\Src\rakudo/.\parrot_install\bin\parrot.exe src/gen/perl6.pbc --target=pir src/gen/core.pm [New Thread 4828.0

Re: Rakudo can't run on cygwin (WinXP), can anyone help me?

2009-04-24 Thread Ronald Schmidt
Ma Jinke wrote: I put Rakudo from git under C:\cygwin\home\admin\rakudo(cygwin:/home/admin/rakudo), It compiled nicely. ... rakudo: "make test" is OK, but "make spectest" is FAILED! When reporting a failure, as above, it would be helpful if you provided specific error messages generated by by

Re: Should the Length of string_substr() Ever Be Negative?

2008-10-05 Thread Ronald Schmidt
NotFound wrote: But if you talk about perl6, this is not applicable, the perl6 function can have any wanted signature, it will never call the function directly, it emits the opcode that will call it and can insert any check or change of his argument. If the sub implementation allows accidental si

[ PATCH ] Broken link on parrotcode.org dev page - list item "Parrot Testing Status"

2008-09-05 Thread Ronald Schmidt
I applied for an account and built what seems to me to be an appropriate Parrot Testing Status page. My proposed link target is http://www.parrot.org/wiki/some-testing-status-tools . If someone wants to set me up as a site editor I will fix the link myself otherwise the page is available for

Re: Beta of web services to fulfill smoke "Queryability" requirements.

2008-08-05 Thread Ronald Schmidt
Michael Peters wrote: Ronald Schmidt wrote: I've been meaning to update that wiki page to point to the progress we're making toward this. I should also write up how Smolder already accomplishes those goals (well, the ones it does accomplish). Thanks. If I had noticed that s

Beta of web services to fulfill smoke "Queryability" requirements.

2008-08-04 Thread Ronald Schmidt
I am posting this message to one more mailing list for a few reasons, but mostly to request that some notice of the work be placed on the project’s request page, RFP: Parrot needs better smoke reports, if the results are found to make an adequate contribution the Queryability of smoke reports.

Beta of web services to fulfill smoke "Queryability" requirements.

2008-07-31 Thread Ronald Schmidt
A while back I across the web page: RFP: Parrot needs better smoke reports (at url: http://www.perlfoundation.org/parrot/index.cgi?rfp_parrot_needs_better_smoke_reports). After reading the requirements for "Queryability" I decided to try to write some web query forms and reports that fit those

Re: [perl #55594] Modify parser to allow empty semicolon ';' terminated statement

2008-06-13 Thread Ronald Schmidt
So, since Rakudo's current grammar pretty much matches what STD.pm has here, I'd prefer that we figure out how STD.pm is handling empty statements and do that. Thanks again! Pm As far as I can tell, STD.pm handles this problem in "token statement", as shown below. If you modify the st

Re: [perl #55304] [PATCH] eval_(dies|lives)_ok methods for rakudo's Test.pm, and more tests

2008-06-07 Thread Ronald Schmidt
Vasily Chekalkin wrote: This is wrong patch. eval() shouldn't throws any exceptions. Correct patch for 'eval()' and Test.pm attached. As Mr Lenz wrote with respect to eval exceptions and this patch: Are there any exceptions that are not caught by eval? Currently rakudo seems to catch every

Re: [perl #55304] [PATCH] eval_(dies|lives)_ok methods for rakudo's Test.pm, and more tests

2008-06-05 Thread Ronald Schmidt
Moritz Lenz wrote: Oops, forgot to attach patch. Now it's really there. Your implementations of eval_lives_ok and eval_dies_ok seem inconsistent. eval_lives_ok uses try and eval_dies_ok does not. The two implementations may catch different types of exceptions. I am proposing the patch b