Re: An idea

2002-02-08 Thread David
xwindows.org Check out the quotes at: http://www.wxpython.org/ -- David Cuny

Random questions...

2003-02-05 Thread David
onstant section, instead of creating a seperate string and numeric section? 2. Are duplicate values (strings, numbers) consolidated in the data section? 3. Why store numbers in binary format instead of text format? Doesn't that limit precision? Thanks! -- David Cuny

Re: Random questions...

2003-02-05 Thread David
; values. > > Again, please consult core.ops, they have exactly above names. Urgh. For some reason, I expected them in the core docs also. Thanks again! -- David Cuny

A couple easy questions...

2003-02-25 Thread David
How do you determine the datatype of a PMC? For example, if I create the following array: new P0, .PerlArray set P0[1], "cat" set P0[2], 123 set P0[3], 456.789 and then grab a value from the array: set P1, P2[1] how can I test to determine the datatype o

Re: A couple easy questions...

2003-02-25 Thread David
Leopold Toetsch wrote: > From docs/core_ops.pod (built from core.ops): Thanks. I better upgrade my version, I'm not seeing it in 0.0.9. -- David Cuny

Re: A couple easy questions...

2003-02-25 Thread David
Leon Brocard wrote: > You'd be wanting "typeof". Thanks. > ps i fixed your code Thanks again. :-) Anyone know about a Parrot Windows binary? -- David Cuny

List datatype

2003-02-27 Thread David
PerlArray, a List can hold any sort of item (including other lists). Elements are referenced only by position, not by a key. I can emulate the behavior with a PerlArray, but it's a bit expensive. Thanks. -- David Cuny

Re: Parrot 0.0.10 feature freeze

2003-03-10 Thread David
rm... see above the above) "The Real Macaw" (also the name of a bar) "The Vaults of Madagascar" (more from the O'Reilly "book") "Fractious Culture" (O'Reilly - and would make a good band name, too) "Gnope" (again, O'Reilly) "The Snake That Broke the Camel's Back" (slashdot) "Jarrot" (yes, same book) "Your Ad Here!" (my favorite!) "Pretty Bird" (d'oh) -- David Cuny

wxWindows Support

2003-07-03 Thread David
There was a recent mention on the wxWindows* list that pairing it with Parrot would be a good combination. Is there any interest in supporting wxWindows in Parrot? Thanks. -- David Cuny *: For those not familiar with it, wxWindows (http://www.wxwindows.org) is an open source, cross-platform

Request for new feature: attach a perl debugger to a running process

2001-10-29 Thread David Trusty
e capabilities would add a lot of value to perl. Thanks in advance!! David _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp

[Patch] - for memory.c

2001-12-09 Thread David Jacobs
rounded up power of two plus the requested size. Let me know if you like it. David Jacobs --- parrot-0.0.3/memory.c Sat Oct 13 14:43:50 2001 +++ parrot/memory.c Sat Dec 8 18:25:34 2001 @@ -47,19 +47,13 @@ /* Okay, we just brute-force things here. Yeah it's stupid, but it

[Patch] - stacks.c

2001-12-09 Thread David Jacobs
optimize (e.g., instead of 'a > b - 1' use 'a >= b'). If you would prefer not to receive patches that include these types of changes, just let me know. David Jacobs --- parrot-0.0.3/stacks.c Wed Nov 7 12:29:18 2001 +++ parrot/stacks.c Sun Dec 9 16:37:38 2001 @@ -16,12 +16,

How Powerful Is Parrot?

2002-01-24 Thread David . Leeper
I've been watching the Parrot development with interest and have a few questions about Parrots capabilities. Will Parrot support templates (also known as generics)? Will Parrot support operator overloading? Do Parrot classes have constructors and destructors? Does Parrot have garbage

RE: How Powerful Is Parrot?

2002-01-24 Thread David . Leeper
Thanks Brent. # #Does Parrot have garbage collection? # Not yet, but it will. When it does, I'd ask that there be some sort of option on what type of garbage collection is used. This is because different methods of garbage collection have very different characteristics. For example, refer

Re: How Powerful Is Parrot? (A Few More Questions)

2002-01-25 Thread David . Leeper
Thanks to everyone for their information on Parrot. A couple more questions have come to mind. 1) Does Parrot support multiple inheritance? 2) Does Parrot support stack variables or is everything allocated on the heap? Thanks again. Dave

Re: CPP Namespace pollution

2002-01-25 Thread David . Leeper
> I don't have a specific proposal at the moment, but would invite > others to think creatively about ways to minimize cpp pollution while > still keeping the source readable and maintainable. One possibility would be to change code like this #define XYZ 123 to this... namespace _PARR

Re: How Powerful Is Parrot? (A Few More Questions)

2002-01-25 Thread David . Leeper
Thanks Simon I haven't used Perl since its pre-inhertance days, so I was unaware it supported multiple inheritance. Most languages I'm familar with that have garbage collection don't have true stack variables. For example, the code void f() { int x = 0; ... } creates x on th

Re: CPP Namespace pollution

2002-01-25 Thread David . Leeper
> > This requires the use of C++, rather than C. > See the FAQ. Where would the FAQ be? Dave Simon Cozens

Re: How Powerful Is Parrot? (A Few More Questions)

2002-01-25 Thread David . Leeper
> >From what I've seen, supporting both garbage collection and true stack > >variables is a difficult task. > Why is that? Because stack variables can refer to heap variables and heap variables can refer to stack variables. The garbage collector needs to be smart enough to handle all cases corr

Re: How Powerful Is Parrot? (A Few More Questions)

2002-01-25 Thread David . Leeper
> Thanks for the nice example, except I understand the issue you > are speaking of, I was basically asking what parts of it do you think > are more "difficult" to implement than any other major construct? I believe the main difficulty comes from heading into uncharted waters. For example, once y

Re: How Powerful Is Parrot? (A Few More Questions)

2002-01-25 Thread David . Leeper
> Parrot supports deterministic destruction at the language level. If your > language wants 'o' to be destroyed at the exit from f2(), then 'o' will be > destroyed in whatever manner MyClass destruction means to your language. > Resources allocated strictly by the internal representation respons

RE: How Powerful Is Parrot? (A Few More Questions)

2002-01-25 Thread David . Leeper
> That is exactly the case for C++. In your above code f1(), the C++ compiler > already (behind the scene) inserts finally block for "o" destructor. That > is why the destructor of stack allocated objects is called even when > exception > happens. The only difference is that the memory deallocati

Re: How Powerful Is Parrot? (A Few More Questions)

2002-01-25 Thread David . Leeper
> In neither case do you have any control over the order that memory is > compacted, or dead objects with destructors have their destructors > called. If you must force some sort of order you need to do so within > the objects destructor. Alternately if your program knows what order > objects sh

Parrot strings: are strings like "\x{FF10}" false?

2002-01-26 Thread David Chan
icode_get_digit(U+FF10) should return 0. Allowing things like "\x{FF10}" to be false sounds like a bit of a nightmare to me. There are already over 20 forms of zero in Unicode 3.1; if the next version of unicode adds another one at, say, U+3, does the next version of parrot chang

Re: How Powerful Is Parrot? (A Few More Questions)

2002-01-28 Thread David . Leeper
to Uri Guttman >>>>> "DL" == David Leeper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: DL> If I know what I want to destroy and when, can I just

Re: Initial bignum pdd

2002-02-26 Thread David Chan
an our exponents cannot be bigger than MAXINT? If so, do we care? (I looked at the URL you gave, and noticed that their arbitrary precision library has an exponent size limit). I guess it would be difficult to allow the exponent to be a big int, and still have a fast library? -- David

Re: Initial bignum pdd

2002-02-28 Thread David Chan
orld". For instance, numbers bigger than 10**98 are used routinely in cryptography (though not bigger than 10**2147483648, which is your point, I think). I'm sure you could, in theory, get numbers that high when dealing with statistical stuff. But if people say it hardly ever ha

parrot-0.0.5 doesn't like me. Which isn't fair, really, because I rather like it.

2002-04-16 Thread David Hand
p.c:29: warning: passing arg 1 of `Parrot_PerlHash_class_init' with different width due to prototype global_setup.c:30: warning: passing arg 1 of `Parrot_ParrotPointer_class_init' with different width due to prototype global_setup.c:31: warning: passing arg 1 of `Parrot_IntQueue_class_init' with different width due to prototype END PARTIAL make SCROLLBACK -- David "Cogent" Hand <http://davidhand.com/> <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: parrot-0.0.5 doesn't like me. Which isn't fair, really, because I rather like it.

2002-04-17 Thread David Hand
g `;' after `*' core.ops:113: illegal statement, missing `identifier' after `goto' core.ops:113: syntax error, missing `;' after `*' END (Copied from the border between those two errors.) I get pages and pages of each of those errors, in addition to others. Is *this* related to long long, too? -- David "Cogent" Hand <http://davidhand.com/> <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: parrot-0.0.5 doesn't like me. Which isn't fair, really, because I rather like it.

2002-04-17 Thread David Hand
nfig_h.in... Okay, we're done! You can now use `make' (or your platform's equivalent to `make') to build your Parrot. After that, you can use `make test' to run the test suite. Happy Hacking, The Parrot Team 14:14:14 [cogent@localhost] parrot-0.0.5>$ END `cd /usr/local/src/parrot-0.0.5; perl Configure.pl` -- David "Cogent" Hand <http://davidhand.com/> <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: parrot-0.0.5 doesn't like me. Which isn't fair, really, because I rather like it.

2002-04-17 Thread David Hand
On Wed, Apr 17, 2002 at 02:40:16PM -0400, Dan Sugalski wrote: > At 2:10 PM -0400 4/17/02, David Hand wrote: > >Trying CVS parrot as of 1400 EDT (why not?), it still didn't work. > >Interestingly, typing "long" both times that Configure suggests "long > >

[PATCH] Re: parrot-0.0.5 doesn't like me. Which isn't fair, really, because I rather like it.

2002-04-21 Thread David Hand
{ldflags} =~ s/-flat_namespace\s*//; $c{ldflags} .= " -L/sw/lib -flat_namespace "; $c{libs} .= " -ldl"; $c{cc_warn} = "-Wno-shadow" -- David "Cogent" Hand <http://davidhand.com/> <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: [PATCH] Re: parrot-0.0.5 doesn't like me. Which isn't fair, really, because I rather like it.

2002-04-21 Thread David Hand
On Sun, Apr 21, 2002 at 09:24:26PM -0700, Steve Fink wrote: > On Mon, Apr 22, 2002 at 12:00:31AM -0400, David Hand wrote: > > > > Index: hints/darwin.pl > > === > > RCS file: /home/perlcvs/parrot/hints

core.ops ate my (miniscule) RAM

2002-10-02 Thread David Chan
swap partition. Should parrot need this much memory to compile? Would it be good to split the core_ops*.c files into pieces? Or am I living in a fantasy world to think this is at all useful? David -- $_=".--- ..- ... - .- -. --- - . .-. .--. . .-. .-.. .- -.-.". " -.

Re: the getting started guide

2002-10-09 Thread David Wheeler
On Wednesday, October 9, 2002, at 08:49 AM, Erik Lechak wrote: >> Oh, and spell Piers Cawley's name correctly! :-) >> > > DAMN! I new that would happen. Piers, if your out there listening, > forgive me. Did you misspell it a "Bunch" of times? (S

RE: Perl 6 Test Organization

2002-11-20 Thread David Whipp
Joseph F. Ryan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: > Well, thats not exactly true. I've been following along the > discussion > on P6-doc, and I've been updating the tests to match the > current status. > > Although I'm not sure of their accuracy (My posts to p6-doc about them > have been pretty

long double error

2002-11-23 Thread David Robins
When's the long double "KNOWN ISSUE" going to be fixed? What's the work around, just to build a perl with NV==double? I've looked around, can't find anything about it except in KNOWN_ISSUES (only match in RT is "Parrot_sprintf-related stuff"). Scan of the archives turns up nothing. Thanks, Dav

Re: long double error

2002-11-24 Thread David Robins
On Sun, 24 Nov 2002, Dan Sugalski wrote: > At 9:20 AM -0500 11/24/02, Andy Dougherty wrote: > >On Sat, 23 Nov 2002, David Robins wrote: > >> When's the long double "KNOWN ISSUE" going to be fixed? What's the work > >It's (at least partly) a

Re: C#/Parrot Status

2002-11-25 Thread David Robins
On Mon, 25 Nov 2002, Leopold Toetsch wrote: > Dan Sugalski wrote: > > >> $1 = (INTVAL)((char)($1)); > >> The INTVAL could be a "long long". > > > > That one needs a sizeof(char) check. chars are *not* 8 bits everywhere. > > AFAIK are chars 8 bits by defintion, i.e. C standard. The machine > repr

IMCC minor issues

2002-12-02 Thread David Robins
These all using the 2002-12-02_16 snapshot. 1. Can't ret early from .subs - looks like the parser sees a ret and figures that's the end of the sub. ..sub foo $P0 = 1 if $P0 goto bar ret bar: print "BAR" ret Parse error at 'bar'. 2. Most things can only be done in a sub. $P0 =

hash_destroy, lexicals, ChangeLog

2002-12-03 Thread David Robins
The hash_destroy function is in include/parrot/hash.h but not defined (or invoked) anywhere. I presume this is because hashes are GC'd, so hash_destroy can now be removed from the header file? I take it the design of lexicals is still undecided, as examples/assembly/lexicals.pasm coughs up errors

logical_not issue

2002-12-03 Thread David Robins
Yes, me again Most of the time, in the PMC logical_not method, one can write: void logical_not (PMC* dest) { dest->vtable->set_integer_native(INTERP,dest,NOT_SELF); } where NOT_SELF is 0 if we're "true" and 1 if we're "false". Or just leave it out and let default blow up if

Re: logical_not issue

2002-12-03 Thread David Robins
On Tue, 3 Dec 2002, Dan Sugalski wrote: > At 4:29 PM -0500 12/3/02, David Robins wrote: > >Enlightenment appreciated as always. > > This is something that'll come up with perl 6 reasonably soon as > well. The solution for us is to have truth and falsehood be an > optiona

Brainf*ck

2002-12-03 Thread David Robins
On Tue, 3 Dec 2002, Andy Dougherty wrote: > On Thu, 21 Nov 2002, Leon Brocard wrote: > > > ps You might be concerned about the name. Well, CPAN has a module > >which matches /fuck/ too. However, if everyone really thinks > >it is a problem, I don't see a problem with s/fuck/funk/g > > Well

IMCC -c, logical ops

2002-12-05 Thread David Robins
I'd been looking for an option to IMCC to generate the PBC directly, figuring from list postings that it was there, but didn't find it (-c) until reading the recently updated ChangeLog. It's not in the syntax message IMCC prints (with no args or -h or bad args), probably should be added. Any answ

Re: logical_not issue

2002-12-09 Thread David Robins
On Fri, 6 Dec 2002, Dan Sugalski wrote: > At 5:47 PM -0500 12/3/02, David Robins wrote: > >Adding an extra knob doesn't seem like all that good a solution (seems > >you'd run into weird issues, like a boolean PMC that was both true and > >false at the same t

Re: logical_not issue

2002-12-09 Thread David Robins
On Sat, 7 Dec 2002, Alex Gough wrote: > [Fri, Dec 06, 2002 at 05:01:21PM -0500: Dan Sugalski] > > >- have not P0, P1 set P0 to $1->get_bool ? true : false > > > > Sure, that works. I can't think of a good reason to have PMCs be able > > to return something fancier than true or false when

Re: logical_not issue

2002-12-09 Thread David Robins
On Mon, 9 Dec 2002, Dan Sugalski wrote: > At 12:27 AM + 12/7/02, Alex Gough wrote: > >That is to say, in "if ( !exp1 ) { ... }", !exp1 merely has to be true > >or false, while $foo = !exp1 leaves !exp1 needing to be all manner of > >things. > > D'oh! Now it's obvious. > I've been conflating th

Re: Compiling to ParrotVM

2002-12-17 Thread David Robins
On Tue, 17 Dec 2002, K Stol wrote: > After doing some reading about Parrot, I got very interested. I'd like to > write some kind of compiler for my Bacherlor's in Computer Science. I'm > thinking of a compiler for Tcl which produces Parrot Assembly code, but > the source language (which will be com

Returning a new PMC from ops

2002-12-18 Thread David Robins
What's the cleanest way to return a new PMC from an op? e.g. Suppose I have a Vec2D_in_X_plane and a Vec2D_in_Y_plane and I add them and want to always produce a Vec3D - is this correct (and is it efficient?): void add(PMC* value, PMC* dest) { if(value->vtable == &Parrot_base_vtables[enum_

Re: Returning a new PMC from ops

2002-12-18 Thread David Robins
On Wed, 18 Dec 2002, Leopold Toetsch wrote: > David Robins wrote: > > if(value->vtable == &Parrot_base_vtables[enum_class_Vec2D_in_Y_plane]) { > > always compare ids (vtables may change) - yes, many pmc's do like above, > but will need changes too. What

Re: Returning a new PMC from ops

2002-12-19 Thread David Robins
On Thu, 19 Dec 2002, Leopold Toetsch wrote: > David Robins wrote: > > On Wed, 18 Dec 2002, Leopold Toetsch wrote: > >>morph "dest" to be a "ret"? > >>unimplemented, unused, but your examples seems to be a typical test case. > > "des

Re: Returning a new PMC from ops

2002-12-19 Thread David Robins
On Thu, 19 Dec 2002, Leopold Toetsch wrote: > David Robins wrote: > > This method is primarily used when the interpreter has need of > > coercing a PMC to a particular type, and isn't meant as a general > > purpose casting tool. Compilers should only emit valid >

Re: This week's Perl 6 summary

2002-12-24 Thread David Wheeler
On Tuesday, December 24, 2002, at 02:55 AM, Piers Cawley wrote: Apparently part of the problem is that the undef function isn't fully defined. Well, isn't that sort-of the point? :-) David -- David Wheeler AIM: dwTheory [EMAIL

Re: encoding info in mis-aligned pointers

2002-12-31 Thread David Robins
On Tue, 31 Dec 2002, Jim Cromie wrote: > pardon the lack of clue I reveal here, but.. > > on 32 bit box, a void* has 3 values which are illegal/unaligned; > > void* ptr; > if (ptr & 0x00) { ITYM if(!(ptr & 0x3)) > /* ok */ > } else { > /* some exceptional situation */ > } > is there any

Returning new PMCs (again)

2002-12-31 Thread David Robins
Maybe I missed it in the original thread, but what was the resolution on how to create and return a new PMC in PMC ops that take a "PMC* dest" param? Should I submit my pmc_placement_new() (also in that thread) as a patch? (morph isn't sufficient because I don't want to coerce the destination into

Re: Returning new PMCs (again)

2002-12-31 Thread David Robins
On Tue, 31 Dec 2002, Dan Sugalski wrote: > At 1:29 PM -0500 12/31/02, David Robins wrote: > >Maybe I missed it in the original thread, but what was the resolution on how > >to create and return a new PMC in PMC ops that take a "PMC* dest" param? > > If the op defin

Re: Returning new PMCs (again)

2002-12-31 Thread David Robins
On Tue, 31 Dec 2002, Dan Sugalski wrote: > >I don't think any ops do that presently (that would take a PMC** param). > Oh, sure, lots do. Remember the ops get a pointer to the PMC > register, which is itself a pointer. Whatever you stuff in there is > what the register is set to. Right, I meant P

gmp_version undeclared

2006-09-17 Thread David Romano
Using the preprocessor was the only way I knew how to fix it. - David -- "Men have become the tools of their tools." -- Henry David Thoreau Index: src/pmc/bigint.pmc === --- src/pmc/bigint.pmc (revision 14630) +++ src/pmc/

pcre tests

2006-09-17 Thread David Romano
6, or if one of commands that needs to be run is not found. Attached is a patch for both t/library/pcre.t and t/examples/library.t, the only places where Parrot::Test::run_command is used in the test suite. With the patch, the tests are correctly skipped. - David -- "Where is human nature

Re: [perl #39742] [BUG] installed parrot conflicts with dev parrot.

2006-12-20 Thread David Landgren
chromatic via RT did write: garaud and I hope to have fixed this as of r16139, though he still has some dynext and dynpmc failures on his FreeBSD 6.2-tobe box. Can anyone still confirm? Let me have a look and I'll get back to you. David -- "It's overkill of course, but you can

Re: [perl #39742] [BUG] installed parrot conflicts with dev parrot.

2006-12-20 Thread David Landgren
-lreadline -Wl,-E -L/usr/local/lib src/pdb.o(.text+0xaa): In function `main': src/pdb.c:153: undefined reference to `IMCC_ast_init' *** Error code 1 Stop in /home/perl/src/parrot. *** Error code 1 Stop in /home/perl/src/parrot. All of the above was preceded by a 'make distclean' followed by a 'perl Configure.pl'. Feel free to holler if you want some more info. Thanks, David -- "It's overkill of course, but you can never have too much overkill."

RPMs

2007-05-24 Thread David Fetter
lly, I've heard that there are packages for Gentoo. What other packaging should we be working on? Cheers, David. -- David Fetter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://fetter.org/ phone: +1 415 235 3778AIM: dfetter666 Skype: davidfetter Remember to vote! Consi

Re: RPMs

2007-05-25 Thread David Fetter
On Thu, May 24, 2007 at 11:12:57AM -, Rafael Garcia-Suarez wrote: > David Fetter wrote in perl.perl6.internals : > > Folks, > > > > I've been wrestling with the .spec file to generate RPMs for parrot > > 0.4.12, and so far, the .spec file is winning, so I fig

Re: Parrot 0.4.13 "Clifton" Released

2007-06-20 Thread David Fetter
ot is no longer dual licensed? > > Yes. Under section 4(c)(ii) of Artistic 2.0 you can redistribute the > code under the GPL (any version), LGPL, or MPL, so there's no need > for dual licensing anymore. Please find enclosed a modified .spec file for the new parrot's RPMs :) Che

Re: Parrot Scan login

2007-07-17 Thread David Maxwell
On Tue, Jul 17, 2007 at 08:26:52PM -0500, Andy Lester wrote: > On Jul 17, 2007, at 3:48 PM, David Maxwell wrote: > Thanks so much for this. I've already turned my attention to a > crucial bug that Scan found, and removed some dead code that it > found, too. Beautiful. Exc

Re: Parrot Scan login

2007-07-17 Thread David Maxwell
for your talk about the Perl > help, although they might be pretty far out in my mind to remember. Any comments for my talk will just be anecdotes. The main content is already assembled, but you may tell me good things to drive changes in Scan, or suggest material for future talks. > The Pe

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

2007-08-19 Thread David Romano
and lib-Parrot-Revision-pm.html) for the test files when running w/a git repository, and when forcing the tests to not skip. Or am I missing something? - David -- "Aliud est de silvestri cacumine videre patriam pacis...et aliud tenere viam illuc ducentem." -- St. Augustine, Confessiones, VII, xxi

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

2007-08-19 Thread David Romano
pass (and not hang). If the user doesn't have the metadata but has a .git directory, then the tests are skipped. - David -- "For the fear of death is indeed the pretence of wisdom, and not real wisdom, being a pretence of knowing the unknown; and no one knows whether death, which me

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

2007-08-20 Thread David Romano
+- t/op/sprintf_parrot | 20 t/op/sprintf_tests | 19 --- 3 files changed, 33 insertions(+), 24 deletions(-) - David -- "/All/ Christians -- 'that they all may be one' -- are to be one. It is obvious that there can be no organizational

Build Farm

2007-08-30 Thread David Fetter
w page like this one: <http://www.pgbuildfarm.org/cgi-bin/show_status.pl> How about in detailed build reports? Cheers, David. -- David Fetter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://fetter.org/ phone: +1 415 235 3778AIM: dfetter666 Skype: davidfetter Remembe

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

2007-09-17 Thread David Romano
) seem to be unaffected. It could be a matter of which > Gmail server was used to post the message. Being a Gmail user, I also was affected. - David -- "The time is short, and education is long." -- Robert Maynard Hutchins, The Great Conversation

Re: Timely object destruction

2003-06-04 Thread David Robins
On Tue, 3 Jun 2003, Matt Fowles wrote: > Most of the ref counting systems provide for very simple ref counting > containers and, essentially, provide timely destruction for the simple > case where a variable is not placed into some more complicated > container. It seems to me that if we are worri

Re: This week's summary

2003-06-24 Thread David Storrs
On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 06:14:52AM -0700, Sean O'Rourke wrote: > On Tue, 24 Jun 2003, Leopold Toetsch wrote: > > > > [...] Nobody answered, if we need another > > Sub class implementing the old invoke/ret scheme ... > > I'd say "no". P6C is now compiling to an obsolete architecture. > While we sh

Re: This week's summary

2003-06-24 Thread David Storrs
On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 04:04:29PM +0100, Andrew Wilson wrote: > On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 07:58:32AM -0700, David Storrs wrote: > > /me shows ignorance yet again. > > > > For those of us who are not hardware types...what is "the new > > machine"? The Itanium?

Re: Small perl task for the interested

2003-06-26 Thread David Robins
> So... Configure.pl needs to be able to build a makefile that has > per-C-file flags, and those flags need to be overridable per-file at > configure time by the platform configuration module. Does the makefile need to be a typical 'make' makefile or is an all-perl solution viable? -- Dave Isa. 4

floor op

2003-09-03 Thread Burnett, David
I asked how to 'floor' in parrot on IRC last night, and this raised the the idea of having a 'floor' op. I was then asked to email a reminder here so here it is. I have worked around the lack of rounding by dubiously using mod N1, N0, 1 sub N0, N1 which appears to be more acurrate than simply

RE: floor op

2003-09-04 Thread Burnett, David
From: Lars Balker Rasmussen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] "Burnett, David" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> the idea of having a 'floor' op. >I've implemented an op for floor on native numbers. Feel free to >give it a whirl. (I'm not sure if floor(-0

Re: Parrot IO fun

2003-10-31 Thread David Robins
On Thu, 30 Oct 2003, Melvin Smith wrote: > At 12:09 AM 10/31/2003 +, Nicholas Clark wrote: > >On Thu, Oct 30, 2003 at 01:54:24AM -0500, Melvin Smith wrote: > > > Parrot fetched its first web page tonight. Its a baby step, but hey... :) > > > >Can we do IPv6? > > Some of the changes are pretty

IMCC Bug? comments after setline

2003-11-19 Thread David Chan
===== Thanks, David -- $_=".--- ..- ... - .- -. --- - . .-. .--. . .-. .-.. .- -.-.". " -.- . .-.\n";s!([.-]+) ?!$_=$1;y/-./10/;$_=chr(-1+ord pack"B*","01".0 x(5 -length)."1$_");y/DWYKAQMOCVLSFENU\\IGBHPJXZ[~nfb`_ow{}/a-z0-9/;$_!ge;print

Re: I could not resist

2003-12-30 Thread David Pippenger
On Mon, Dec 29, 2003 at 04:44:33PM -0500, Uri Guttman wrote: > > "HJ" == Harry Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > HJ> I was searching on google for > HJ> core.html parrot > > HJ> http://www.gurney.co.uk/parrots/dandan.html > > and if dan keeps leading parrot he will soon pluck

wxWindows support?

2003-12-31 Thread David Cuny
d yet. Since that point, objects have been added to Parrot, and there's been a lot of progress on other things. I'm wondering if it's now possible to interface wxWindows to Parrot. Thanks! -- David Cuny

Re: The todo list

2004-01-15 Thread David Pippenger
On Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 12:45:16PM -0500, Dan Sugalski wrote: > > What I'd like is for a volunteer or two to manage the todo queue. > Nothing fancy, just be there to assign todo list items to the folks > that volunteer, make sure they're closed out when done, and reassign > them if whoever's ha

Re: [PATCH] Fix imcpasm tests on Win32

2004-01-24 Thread David Pippenger
On Sun, Jan 18, 2004 at 02:49:06PM +0100, Michael Scott wrote: > > On 17 Jan 2004, at 21:47, Leopold Toetsch wrote: > > >[...] > > > >BTW don't we have some docs/*.pod with a summary of sending patches? > >Also the F seems to be missing in the tree. > > > > I have a submissions.pod on the wiki w

Re: If you're up for a real challenge

2004-08-09 Thread David Essex
Dan Sugalski wrote: > There's a GPL COBOL compiler, TinyCOBOL (1). > > If anyone wants to take a shot at giving it a > PIR back end... (And yes, this would actually be > very useful. Imagine using Parrot as a way to migrate > legacy COBOL apps to, well, almost anything else. > This would be a Good

Re: If you're up for a real challenge

2004-08-10 Thread David Essex
Uri Guttman wrote: > ... what about the runtime libraries for those cobols? i worked on PL/I libraries and they have many similar features to cobol (as pl/i was a genetic monster of cobol/algol/fortran). stuff such as isam record i/o, picture variables, decimal math, etc are needed for a full cobol

Re: If you're up for a real challenge

2004-08-12 Thread David Essex
Uri Guttman wrote: ... DE> Yes, run-time libraries are included. They are written in C. DE> Generally, both OC and TC generate inline code for program flow DE> control. The RTL are used mostly for type conversions, system calls DE> and such. then the question is how hard would it be to retarget f

Re: Namespaces again

2004-09-28 Thread David Christensen
his now; that comes later", "this is Larry's problem", or just "STFU: RTFM" -- I'm just trying to gain a more complete understanding. Regards, David - David Christensen Founder and CTO Yin Yan Software On Sep 28, 2004, at 5:37 PM, Chip Salzenberg wrote: According

Re: [RELEASE] Parrot 0.1.2 "Phoenix" Released!

2005-03-07 Thread David Storrs
On Sun, Mar 06, 2005 at 04:57:38PM +0100, Leopold Toetsch wrote: > On behalf of the Parrot team I'm proud to announce the release of > Parrot 0.1.2. First: Congratulations to everyone for this release! Second: What will it take before Parrot moves to a 0.2 (0.3, 0.4...) release? --Dks

RPM: packaging the perl5/parrot libraries

2007-09-20 Thread David Fetter
THS=0x0002 rpmbuild --sign -ba parrot.spec Cheers, David. -- David Fetter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://fetter.org/ phone: +1 415 235 3778AIM: dfetter666 Skype: davidfetter Remember to vote! Consider donating to PostgreSQL: http://www.postgresql.org/a

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

2007-10-26 Thread David Romano
ocumentation, and I hope it's a step in the right direction. - David -- "Liberal education ought to end only with life itself." -- Robert Maynard Hutchins, The Great Conversation diff --git a/src/pmc/undef.pmc b/src/pmc/undef.pmc index 138a2fd..90a0440 100644 --- a/src/pmc

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

2008-01-27 Thread David Romano
/archives/2005/07/27/compiling_postgresql_and_psycopg_119_on_mac_os_x_104_tiger.html http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2005-03/msg00349.html Could you try setting MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET to 10.4 to see if that fixes the problem? - David -- "The implication--that something which I and most u

Re: Pugs 6.2.0 released.

2005-04-13 Thread David Storrs
On Wed, Apr 13, 2005 at 03:50:38AM +0800, Autrijus Tang wrote: > I am delighted to report that the first major milestone of Pugs, version > 6.2.0, has been released to CPAN: Autrijus and everyone else who has been working on Pugs, As someone who has been following the Perl6 lists for years, I'd l

Re: [perl #37841] build faild in src/embed.c line 373 MAP_FAILED undeclared

2005-12-05 Thread David Dyck
RT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 5 Dec 2005 06:34:17 -0800 Subject: Re: [perl #37841] build faild in src/embed.c line 373 MAP_FAILED undeclared On Dec 5, 2005, at 8:03, David Dyck (via RT) wrote: checked out todays version and found the following build er

Re: [perl #37906] socklen_t not defined

2006-02-28 Thread David Dyck
On Sun, 26 Feb 2006 at 07:31 -0800, Bernhard Schmalhofer via RT...: From: Bernhard Schmalhofer via RT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sun, 26 Feb 2006 07:31:10 -0800 Subject: [perl #37906] socklen_t not defined Hi David, why does parrot expect socklen_t to be defined?

Re: [perl #37906] socklen_t not defined

2006-03-04 Thread David Dyck
On Sat, 4 Mar 2006 at 08:52 -0800, Bernhard Schmalhofer via RT...: could you send your changes as a patch to me or to [EMAIL PROTECTED] my hack was not how anyone should implement it. (I was just trying to get it to compile) Could you additionally add your test results to PLATFORMS? I tr

PL/Parrot

2006-07-13 Thread David Fetter
s appropriate. * Running Parrot as a separate daemon process with a communication channel open to PostgreSQL. If interested, please contact me. Cheers, D -- David Fetter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://fetter.org/ phone: +1 415 235 3778AIM: dfetter666

Re: PL/Parrot

2006-07-14 Thread David Fetter
to have fewer dependencies. If somebody want's PL/Haskell, they shouldn't have to have PL/Perl6 to get it. Then again, it may just be easier to do in Perl6 and have other languages just deal with that. > -Original Message- > From: David Fetter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >

Re: [perl #39552] Segfault on FreeBSD during make

2006-07-19 Thread David Landgren
arrot build system. If you are not sure this is OK, press ^C (or your interrupt key) in the next ten seconds. It might be worth pointing out here what the work-around is: if the install dumps core, remove the installed version (and what files in question are). Thanks, David -- Much o

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

2006-08-01 Thread David Romano
eventually ;) Thanks for the feedback, Jerry. I changed the re_tests to not have TODO and SKIP in the descriptions. I also changed the documentation for p5rx.t to say that @todo_tests and @skip_tests now contain the test numbers along with the reason why a certain test is skipped or todo'ed. I attached the patch. David p5rx.patch Description: Binary data

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