Re: Regexp::Parser v0.02 on CPAN (and Perl 6 regex question)

2004-07-01 Thread Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon
Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan wrote: ...I have a question about the backtrack control assertions : :: and :::. Do any of them cause the regex to fail entirely? That is, not fail and try again from a different position in the string, but fail utterly? My understanding is they don't, which is why there's , b

Re: Regexp::Parser v0.02 on CPAN (and Perl 6 regex question)

2004-07-01 Thread Luke Palmer
Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan writes: > It'll appear shortly at your local mirror. You can get it from my web > site as well. > > I'll be writing an extension module tomorrow, and starting next week, I'll > get started on Regexp::Perl6. Cool. > Which leads me to a question about Perl 6 regexes. I'm writ

Regexp::Parser v0.02 on CPAN (and Perl 6 regex question)

2004-07-01 Thread Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan
It'll appear shortly at your local mirror. You can get it from my web site as well. I'll be writing an extension module tomorrow, and starting next week, I'll get started on Regexp::Perl6. Which leads me to a question about Perl 6 regexes. I'm writing an article on (?{ ... }) and (??{ ... }) fo

DB_File

2004-07-01 Thread H.Merijn Brand
Sorry I already deleted the mail from Andy that triggered my attention He was summarizing the different DB options as of the perl5 perspective There is also a rather new version available: QDBM It got me confused because the HP porting center has put a prcompiled version for HP-UX on their mirror

[perl #30560] [PATCH] classes/complex.pmc: void function can't return a value

2004-07-01 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by Andy Dougherty # Please include the string: [perl #30560] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # http://rt.perl.org:80/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=30560 > The Solaris compiler complained when classes/complex.c tried to return a value from

[perl #30557] [BUG] Re: cvs commit: parrot/config/init data.pl

2004-07-01 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by Dennis Rieks # Please include the string: [perl #30557] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # http://rt.perl.org:80/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=30557 > On Saturday 26 June 2004 16:44, Nicholas Clark wrote: > cvsuser 04/06/26 07:44:10

Re: GMP's license looks Parrot-compatible

2004-07-01 Thread Andy Dougherty
On Thu, 1 Jul 2004, Leopold Toetsch wrote: No. Please not another library (like ICU), which we have to update in our tree as well. I'd like to just link against it, *if* the library is selected with Configure. Agreed. This reminds me of the situation we faced in perl5 with database libraries. Th

Re: Yet another Math Library

2004-07-01 Thread Leopold Toetsch
Robert Spier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This might be useful... (thanks planetlisp!) >I came across a free portable arbitary precision integer and rational >arithmentic library called [1]IMath that looks useful. It is under a >BSD style license and it looks like it might

Re: [perl #30534] [PATCH] Complex numbers PMC

2004-07-01 Thread Leopold Toetsch
Ion Alexandru Morega <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This is the new classes/complex.pmc, tests included. It supports string > parsing (in the form "a + bi", see the docs for more), string-keyed > access to "real" and "imag" and simple numerical operations. Whee, great, thaks - applied. > ... Howev

Re: Some tasks for the interested

2004-07-01 Thread Leopold Toetsch
Dan Sugalski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > And I'm now thinking that we want to do mmd for assignment. Dammit. :( Don't think so. We need, ehem, probably, set_complex, get_complex and so on vtables. Complex is a basic type like integer, number, or bignum. def main(): i = complex(2 + 1j)

Re: our own decimal math lib

2004-07-01 Thread Leopold Toetsch
Dan Sugalski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Nope. Nor, if the freeze/thaw system is representation-neutral, as a > plugin option for parrot itself. There are just some license issues (or > I'm reading it wrong, which is an issue itself :) that make shipping GMP > with parrot problematic. Isn't it e

Re: This week's Summary

2004-07-01 Thread Leopold Toetsch
The Perl 6 Summarizer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Congratulations Ion, don't forget to send in a patch to the CREDITS > file. $ grep -1 Ion CREDITS N: Ion Alexandru Morega D: string.pmc Thanks again for your summary, leo

Re: GMP's license looks Parrot-compatible

2004-07-01 Thread Leopold Toetsch
Ion Alexandru Morega <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It would certainly work that way, but there are advantages in including > the source code: > - We could trim down all the functionality we don't use (if there is > any) No. Please not another library (like ICU), which we have to update in our t