[perl #44307] PIR tutorial

2007-10-13 Thread Allison Randal via RT
A good place to start is by adding POD to the tutorial files already in the directory. I added POD to many, but not to all. In r22071, I added a one sentence descriptions this illustrates X to the files that had no POD, which could be expanded into full descriptions.

Re: [perl #44553] [PATCH] Add a new PIR tutorial for defined

2007-08-12 Thread Paul Cochrane
On 11/08/07, Patrick R. Michaud [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Aug 11, 2007 at 05:00:33PM +0200, Paul Cochrane wrote: Within the past few months we've standardized on always quoting type names in PIR, so the above needs to read $P1 = new 'String' Throughout Parrot you'll

[perl #44553] [PATCH] Add a new PIR tutorial for defined

2007-08-11 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by Colin Kuskie # Please include the string: [perl #44553] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # URL: http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=44553 This patch adds a new tutorial file, 56_defined.pir, which talks about the concept

Re: [perl #44553] [PATCH] Add a new PIR tutorial for defined

2007-08-11 Thread Patrick R. Michaud
On Fri, Aug 10, 2007 at 04:20:04PM -0700, Colin Kuskie wrote: This patch adds a new tutorial file, 56_defined.pir, which talks about the concept of definedness. ... +=head1 defined + +The defined function tells you if the contents of a PMC register is defined or not.

Re: [perl #44553] [PATCH] Add a new PIR tutorial for defined

2007-08-11 Thread Paul Cochrane
Within the past few months we've standardized on always quoting type names in PIR, so the above needs to read $P1 = new 'String' Throughout Parrot you'll find lots of examples and code that use older deprecated syntaxes -- they should probably be changed to the new syntax as well

Re: [perl #44553] [PATCH] Add a new PIR tutorial for defined

2007-08-11 Thread Patrick R. Michaud
On Sat, Aug 11, 2007 at 05:00:33PM +0200, Paul Cochrane wrote: Within the past few months we've standardized on always quoting type names in PIR, so the above needs to read $P1 = new 'String' Throughout Parrot you'll find lots of examples and code that use older deprecated

Re: PIR Tutorial

2007-03-09 Thread Klaas-Jan Stol
James E Keenan wrote: Klaas-Jan Stol wrote: hi, I've started a bit on a PIR tutorial on the wiki. If anybody can spare a few moments, some feedback would be very welcome! I am very glad to see this. One suggestion and one request for clarification: 1. First bullet point in FAQ should

PIR Tutorial

2007-03-08 Thread Klaas-Jan Stol
hi, I've started a bit on a PIR tutorial on the wiki. If anybody can spare a few moments, some feedback would be very welcome! regards, kjs

Re: PIR Tutorial

2007-03-08 Thread Julian Fondren
On 3/8/07, Klaas-Jan Stol [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi, I've started a bit on a PIR tutorial on the wiki. If anybody can spare a few moments, some feedback would be very welcome! I don't really have any feedback on what you have, but for what you don't have: 1. docs/compiler_faq.pod teaches

Re: PIR Tutorial

2007-03-08 Thread James E Keenan
Klaas-Jan Stol wrote: hi, I've started a bit on a PIR tutorial on the wiki. If anybody can spare a few moments, some feedback would be very welcome! I am very glad to see this. One suggestion and one request for clarification: 1. First bullet point in FAQ should be: What does PIR stand