Re: ... as an "expand list" unary postfix operator

[Doug Rogers <doug.rogers@...>]

Peter Cawley wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 4:21 PM, Duncan Cross<duncan.cross@gmail.com> wrote:
>   
> > Thanks again for this Peter...
> Should now be fixed.
>   

Great stuff, Peter, and clearly a lot of work. Thank you!

Your replacement of SETLIST by TUPLE and DETUPLE was a nice insight into 
how to achieve the goal. And as I scanned the diff, I noticed quite a 
few places where there were more leading '-' than '+' characters; that's 
always a good sign that you're on the right track. Of course the final 
product contained more '+' lines, especially when it came time to tweak 
the VM.

FYI, I put it through the tests at:

 http://www.inf.puc-rio.br/~roberto/lua/lua5.1-tests.tar.gz

It passed completely.

I had a little trouble with the expected strings for the interpreter 
tests (-i) in main.lua. Running "lua -i < prepfile > outfile" included 
echoes of the text from the prepfile, just as if they were typed by 
hand. I played around with how I was launching the test (shell prompt, 
shell script, emacs compile) but couldn't make it go away. I'm sure 
there's some tty setting that I need to make for it to work (I'm using 
Ubuntu 8.04). Any tips for this?

Since the code was clearly working and it seemed like there were only a 
few '-i' tests, I inspected each false negative by hand and commented 
out the checkout() calls one at a time.

Props to you, Peter.

Doug


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