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the 'status' page says that ranges work but i see this:

$ ./perl6 t/spec/S03-operators/range-by.t
Statement not terminated properly at line 8, near ":by(-1)), "
in Main (src/gen_setting.pm:0)
$


same error in the interactive command line:

> for 1..2:by(2) { say $^x }
Statement not terminated properly at line 1, near ":by(2) { s"
in Main (src/gen_setting.pm:0)
>


am i missing something?

Compilation worked fine ( 10 min on my old computer, faster than the Oslo release ), debian lenny 2.6.26-2.

Safe from speed, I'm having a lot of fun with rakudo :)
Hope P6 will get the "buzz" it deserves ...
Meanwhile, keep on good work !

Best Regards.

i was able to build rakudo and parrot on osx 10.4 by following the simple instructions on rakudo.org page. however, the build took a long time, more than an hour and ate up almost all available physical memory (1Gb) causing the system to swap and other apps unresponsive. i had to close all apps to give most of the ram to cc1 during the build.
it's very encouraging to see nice progress on both rakudo and parrot after such a long wait! hope that the projects will gain more interests as they are getting more mature. thanks for bringing perl6 and parrot closer to reality!

Would like to get involved in Perl 6 / Parrot, but not being able to compile it is a pretty big hurdle to get past for your first project (I've tried twice and failed so far).. Any pointers are appreciated..

/code/rakudo/parrot/parrot -o perl6_s1.pbc perl6.pir
src/string/api.c:762: failed assertion 'encoding'
Backtrace - Obtained 14 stack frames (max trace depth is 32).
Parrot_do_check_events
Parrot_confess
Parrot_str_new_init
Parrot_str_new_constant
Parrot_lib_perl6_group_load
Parrot_init_lib
Parrot_init_lib
Parrot_load_lib
Parrot_Undef_ro_get_vtable
yyparse
imcc_initialize
imcc_run
start
start
make: *** [perl6_s1.pbc] Abort trap

I ran this under "gdb" (Thanks skids!) and ran "bt"

(gdb) bt

0 0x95981e42 in __kill ()

1 0x95981e34 in kill$UNIX2003 ()

2 0x959f423a in raise ()

3 0x95a00679 in abort ()

4 0x009724ec in Parrot_confess (cond=0xbea654 "encoding", file=0xbe1812 "src/string/api.c", line=762) at src/exceptions.c:590

5 0x00901b4b in Parrot_str_new_init (interp=0x801790, buffer=0x734acc "MutableVAR", len=10, encoding=0x0, charset=0x0, flags=12288) at src/string/api.c:762

6 0x00901e71 in Parrot_str_new_constant (interp=0x801790, buffer=0x734acc "MutableVAR") at src/string/api.c:680

7 0x00722d98 in Parrot_lib_perl6_group_load (interp=0x801790) at perl6_group.c:52

8 0x003ff813 in Parrot_init_lib (interp=0x801790, load_func=0x722d60 <Parrot_lib_perl6_group_load>, init_func=0) at src/dynext.c:386

9 0x003ff9e3 in run_init_lib (interp=0x801790, handle=0x818b30, lib_name=0x289228, wo_ext=0x289228) at src/dynext.c:452

10 0x00400119 in Parrot_load_lib (interp=0x801790, lib=0x263dd0, initializer_unused=0x0) at src/dynext.c:656

11 0x005dafd7 in do_loadlib (interp=0x801790, lib=0x818940 "'perl6_group'") at imcc.y:1021

12 0x005dc52a in yyparse (yyscanner=0x8181b0, interp=0x801790) at imcc.y:1159

13 0x005e9d75 in compile_to_bytecode (interp=0x801790, sourcefile=0xbffffa47 "perl6.pir", output_file=0xbffffa3a "perl6_s1.pbc") at compilers/imcc/main.c:973

14 0x005ea0dc in imcc_run (interp=0x801790, sourcefile=0xbffffa47 "perl6.pir", argc=1, argv=0xbffff994) at compilers/imcc/main.c:1072

15 0x000025f9 in main (argc=1, argv=0xbffff994) at src/main.c:61

skids advised me to find out Parrot's encoding.. I typed the below:

(gdb) print Parrot_fixed_8_encoding_ptr
$1 = (ENCODING *) 0x801d60