Discussions - perl.perl6.compiler

	0 <=> -1/2
	..../perl6 -e 'say 0 <=> -1/2' ...-1/2 is not close enough to 0 to warrant this result. By Lewis Wall - Nov 19 - 1 new of 1 message

	README Patch
	...Picked up a compile time problem with Rakudo today. It is actually Parrot that uses perl5 to calculate which libraries and headers to use, and it was using invalid/old entries between an OS upgrade on Mac OS X. This was fixed by running /usr/bin/perl Configure.pl --gen-parrot instead of just perl Configure-pl --gen-parrot.... more » By Scott Penrose - Nov 19 - 1 new of 1 message

	[BUG] Rakudo gets confused when the exponent in scientific notation is large enough
	...<diakopter> rakudo: say 0e99999999999 # masak <p6eval> rakudo 7347ec: undefined identifier 'NaN' [...] <moritz_> ng: say 0e99999999999 <p6eval> ng 94fa72: error:imcc:syntax error, unexpected IDENTIFIER, expecting COMMA or ')' ('NaN') <diakopter> whoa * masak submits rakudobug By Carl Mäsak - Nov 17 - 1 new of 1 message

	[BUG] Null PMC access on a regex with a final infix:<\|> followed by whitespace in Rakudo
	...<masak> rakudo: "b" ~~ /b\| / <p6eval> rakudo 7347ec: Null PMC access in find_method('reduce') [...] * masak cackles * masak submits rakudobug <diakopter> u win for now ...... <masak> I sure do! <jnthn> ng won't give a NPMCA on that. <jnthn> ;-) <moritz_> right, a parse error <jnthn> moritz_: shhh! :-P... more » By Carl Mäsak - Nov 17 - 1 new of 1 message

	[BUG] abs(412).WHAT is parsed the wrong way in Rakudo
	...<diakopter> rakudo: say (abs(412).WHAT) # here's one for you, masak <p6eval> rakudo 7347ec: Use of type object as value␤0␤ <masak> diakopter: nice catch! * masak submits rakudobug <diakopter> rakudo: say (abs (412).WHAT) # this is what it's parsing as <p6eval> rakudo 7347ec: Use of type object as value␤0␤... more » By Carl Mäsak - Nov 17 - 1 new of 1 message

Another build system for Rakudo

... Does it work with RPM specfiles? It took us a while to beat the current one into submission for that. :) ------------------------------ ------------------------------ --------- ...--------------------------- ------------------------------ ------------ ----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK---- Version 3.12 GCS d+++ s+: a- C++$ U+++$ P+++$ L+++ E- W+ N+ w--- V-... more »

By Timothy S. Nelson - Nov 16 - 1 new of 1 message

	Calling multimethod causes segfault
	...This code snippet: class T does Associative { multi method postcircumfix:<{ }> { }; }; my T $t .= new; say $t<a>; causes a segfault on Rakudo on OS X 10.6.2. Recompiling Rakudo with -O0 -g gives some interesting data in gdb: 278 GETATTR_P6LowLevelSig_elements (interp, signature, sig_elem_info);... more » By Arne Skjærholt - Nov 15 - 1 new of 1 message

	[BUG] Cannot declare contextual &-sigilled variables in Rakudo
	...<masak> rakudo: my &x <p6eval> rakudo 7347ec: Method 'scope' not found for invocant of class 'PAST;Op' [...] masak submits rakudobug By Carl Mäsak - Nov 15 - 1 new of 1 message

	[TODO] In regexes <foo=bar> should preserve the <bar> capture, <foo=.bar> does not
	...See $subject; new spec as per r29067. Some basic tests for that are in t/spec/S05-metasyntax/angle-br ackets.t By Moritz Lenz - Nov 15 - 1 new of 1 message

	[BUG] Either binding or lexicals are broken in Rakudo when recursing in methods
	...$ cat /tmp/test class M { has M @.ms is rw; method s($i=0) { $i ~ "[{ map { "{$_.s($i + 1)}" }, self.ms }]" } ...my $m = M.new; my $m2 = M.new; $m2.ms = M.new; $m.ms = M.new, $m2, M.new; say $m.s; $ perl6 /tmp/test 0[1[] 2[3[]] 4[]] ...<masak> jnthn: did you fix my bug yet? <jnthn> masak: no.... more » By Carl Mäsak - Nov 13 - 2 new of 2 messages