Re: [perl #30500] [PATCH] Yet another Perl Version Issue

2004-06-28 Thread Nicholas Clark
On Sun, Jun 27, 2004 at 04:13:30PM -0700, Jürgen Bömmels wrote: > I stumbled over another Perl Version Issue (actually it is a > Data::Dumper Version issue). The Perl on Debian Woddy ships > with Data::Dumper Version 2.102 which does not support > Sortkeys. Therefor Parrot doesn't even Configure.

AW: Re: Q: bignum vtables

2004-06-28 Thread lt
| | I'd planned on having bignums be a base data type the same way that | strings were, since I couldn't see a reasonable way to handle them and do | lossless interchange at the lowest levels otherwise. Yes, during implementation of first BigInt steps, I saw that we'll need some of these vtables

RE: [perl #30500] [PATCH] Yet another Perl Version Issue

2004-06-28 Thread Gay, Jerry
> I attach a patch which uses Sortkey only in Versions of > Data::Dumper supporting Sortkey. In what version was Sortkey > introduced to Data::Dumer? > > bye > boe > > Data::Dumper 2.12 (introducing Sortkeys) was first released on the CPAN in perl-5.7.3. $Data::Dumper::Sortkeys is available in

Re: Some tasks for the interested

2004-06-28 Thread Ion Alexandru MOREGA
Dan Sugalski wrote: <>Cool, go for it. I'd think that for the set_(integer|number) vtable slots we'd set the real part and make the imaginary part 0, while the string version'd look for the "x + yi" version. And have set_num_keyed set the real and the imaginary part (indexed as strings, say "real

Re: Some tasks for the interested

2004-06-28 Thread Dan Sugalski
On Mon, 28 Jun 2004, Ion Alexandru Morega wrote: > Jonathan Worthington wrote: > > "Leopold Toetsch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >>1) Python has a complex builtin class. So we'll need one too. > >>* Create a complex PMC. > >>* Parse complex constants '4j' > > > > j? I've always used

Re: Q: bignum vtables

2004-06-28 Thread Dan Sugalski
On Thu, 24 Jun 2004, Leopold Toetsch wrote: > There are currently 19 bignum vtable slots, which take a BIGNUM* value > argument of some kind. These are IMHO useless. We don't have a Parrot > basic type like BIGNUM. > > A BIGNUM (BigInteger, BigNumber) will just be a PMC, AFAIK. > > So I think thes

Re: our own decimal math lib

2004-06-28 Thread Dan Sugalski
On Fri, 25 Jun 2004, [ISO-8859-1] André Pang wrote: > On 24/06/2004, at 6:31 PM, Leopold Toetsch wrote: > > >> i still have my stillborn bignum (using bcd registers and efficient > >> algorithms) implementation if anyone wants to pick it up. i have some > >> working base code and the overall desig

Semi-out of touch

2004-06-28 Thread Dan Sugalski
Sorry I've been so out of touch lately--I've been suffering through a series of hardware failures, which pretty much limit me to access at work. And while on the one hand it's nice to have a lot of computer-free time (I apparently have a garden. And children. Who'dve thought?) it is getting in the

Re: Library PMCs

2004-06-28 Thread Dan Sugalski
On Sat, 26 Jun 2004, Nicholas Clark wrote: > On Fri, Jun 11, 2004 at 11:09:49AM -0400, Dan Sugalski wrote: > > > set up (Ask's working on it, so at some point we will have a > > compilers, standard library, and real perl6-internals list) we'll > > Called "parrot-internals" ? Yup. Along with Parro

Re: confused parameter order asking for trouble

2004-06-28 Thread Dan Sugalski
On Fri, 25 Jun 2004, Nicholas Clark wrote: > On Fri, Jun 25, 2004 at 02:43:14PM +0200, Leopold Toetsch wrote: > > Nicholas Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Fri, Jun 25, 2004 at 09:46:53AM +0200, Leopold Toetsch wrote: > > >> > > >> Yep. I'd swap function names as well as argument order, s

[perl #30500] [PATCH] Yet another Perl Version Issue

2004-06-28 Thread Jürgen
# New Ticket Created by JÃrgen BÃmmels # Please include the string: [perl #30500] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # http://rt.perl.org:80/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=30500 > Hi, I stumbled over another Perl Version Issue (actually it is a Data::Dumper Vers

Re: Some tasks for the interested

2004-06-28 Thread Ion Alexandru Morega
Jonathan Worthington wrote: "Leopold Toetsch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 1) Python has a complex builtin class. So we'll need one too. * Create a complex PMC. * Parse complex constants '4j' j? I've always used i as the imaginary unit, though I believe j is used more in engineering fields ('c