Re: [perl #24667] IMCC not handling some integer constant parameters properly

2003-12-16 Thread Leopold Toetsch
Dan Sugalski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If, as part if a prototyped .pcc_begin/.pcc_end function call set, you try and set an integer parameter equal to the register number the integer would go into. .pcc_begin prototyped .arg 1 .arg 6 .arg 7 A simple test case works

This week's summary

2003-12-16 Thread The Perl 6 Summarizer
The Perl 6 Summary for the week ending 20031214 It looks like things are starting to slow down slightly as we run up to Christmas, but the quality of discussion remains high. We'll start with the usual trawl through perl6-internals. Testing for null Dan ruled on last week's

Re: This week's summary

2003-12-16 Thread Piers Cawley
The Perl 6 Summarizer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Vocabulary If you're even vaguely interested in the workings of Perl 6's object system, you need to read the referenced post. Luke Palmer, worrying about people using Object related vocabulary in subtly inconsistent ways,

Re: This week's summary

2003-12-16 Thread Luke Palmer
Piers Cawley writes: The Perl 6 Summarizer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Vocabulary If you're even vaguely interested in the workings of Perl 6's object system, you need to read the referenced post. Luke Palmer, worrying about people using Object related vocabulary in

Re: Vocabulary

2003-12-16 Thread Luke Palmer
Michael Lazzaro writes: On Sunday, December 14, 2003, at 06:14 PM, Larry Wall wrote: But the agreement could be implied by silence. If, by the time the entire program is parsed, nobody has said they want to extend an interface, then the interface can be considered closed. In other words,

Re: Vocabulary

2003-12-16 Thread Larry Wall
On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 07:05:19AM -0700, Luke Palmer wrote: : Michael Lazzaro writes: : : On Sunday, December 14, 2003, at 06:14 PM, Larry Wall wrote: : But the agreement could be implied by silence. If, by the time the : entire program is parsed, nobody has said they want to extend an :

[perl #24677] Why Pay for over priced P!rescription Drugs???

2003-12-16 Thread Jose S. Plummer
# New Ticket Created by Jose S. Plummer # Please include the string: [perl #24677] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # URL: http://rt.perl.org:80/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=24677

Re: [perl #24667] IMCC not handling some integer constant parameters properly

2003-12-16 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 9:52 AM +0100 12/16/03, Leopold Toetsch wrote: Dan Sugalski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If, as part if a prototyped .pcc_begin/.pcc_end function call set, you try and set an integer parameter equal to the register number the integer would go into. .pcc_begin prototyped .arg 1

Namespaces, part 2

2003-12-16 Thread Dan Sugalski
I lost track of this a bit (sorry, work intruded) so lets pick it back up again. As we last left it, I'd proposed we access namespaces via a multidimensional key to dodge the whole What separator does *this* language use? problem. I'd also proposed that we split the namespace and thing name

Re: Yet another keyed ops proposal.

2003-12-16 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 11:56 AM +0100 12/12/03, Leopold Toetsch wrote: Yet another keyed ops proposal[1] Given the Perl6 expression: @a[$i] = @b[1] + $k; This should translate to add P0[I0], P1[1], I2 But having multi-keyed variants of all relevant opcodes would burst our opcode count to #of-keyed-opcodes *

Re: Vocabulary

2003-12-16 Thread Michael Lazzaro
On Tuesday, December 16, 2003, at 09:07 AM, Larry Wall wrote: Seriously, I hope we can provide a framework in which you can screw around to your heart's content while modules are being compiled, and to a lesser extent after compilation. But we'll never get to a programming-in-the-large model if

Re: Vocabulary

2003-12-16 Thread chromatic
On Tue, 2003-12-16 at 12:06, Michael Lazzaro wrote: My own first instinct would be that the run-time extensibility of a particular interface/class would simply be a trait attached to that class... by default, classes don't get it. That doesn't sound very dynamic. At the post-OSCON design

RE: Vocabulary

2003-12-16 Thread Gordon Henriksen
finally by default? None for me; thanks, though. -- Gordon Henriksen IT Manager ICLUBcentral Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Vocabulary

2003-12-16 Thread Jonathan Scott Duff
On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 12:06:46PM -0800, Michael Lazzaro wrote: As far as users of your class being able to specify that they want something runtime-extensible, when your original module didn't call for it, I don't see that as a problem, if they can just add the trait to your class shortly

Re: Vocabulary

2003-12-16 Thread Chip Salzenberg
According to Jonathan Scott Duff: Those classes that are closed can be opened at run-time and the user pays the penalty then when they try to modify the class [...] The optimization that can be reversed is not the true optimization. -- Chip Salzenberg - a.k.a. -

Re: Vocabulary

2003-12-16 Thread Luke Palmer
Chip Salzenberg writes: According to Jonathan Scott Duff: Those classes that are closed can be opened at run-time and the user pays the penalty then when they try to modify the class [...] The optimization that can be reversed is not the true optimization. While poetic and concise, I

Re: Vocabulary

2003-12-16 Thread Luke Palmer
Larry Wall writes: On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 07:05:19AM -0700, Luke Palmer wrote: : Michael Lazzaro writes: : : On Sunday, December 14, 2003, at 06:14 PM, Larry Wall wrote: : But the agreement could be implied by silence. If, by the time the : entire program is parsed, nobody has said

Re: Vocabulary

2003-12-16 Thread Michael Lazzaro
On Tuesday, December 16, 2003, at 12:20 PM, Gordon Henriksen wrote: finally by default? None for me; thanks, though. I don't think so; we're just talking about whether you can extend a class at _runtime_, not _compiletime_. Whether or not Perl can have some degree of confidence that, once a

Re: Vocabulary

2003-12-16 Thread Chip Salzenberg
According to Michael Lazzaro: As someone who has 90% of their projects relying very critically on speed ... an anecdote ... and who has had to battle a number of clients' IT departments over the years in defense of said speed compared to other popular languages which, out of spite, I

Re: Vocabulary

2003-12-16 Thread Piers Cawley
Larry Wall [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 07:05:19AM -0700, Luke Palmer wrote: : Michael Lazzaro writes: : : On Sunday, December 14, 2003, at 06:14 PM, Larry Wall wrote: : But the agreement could be implied by silence. If, by the time the : entire program is parsed,

Re: Vocabulary

2003-12-16 Thread Piers Cawley
Michael Lazzaro [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tuesday, December 16, 2003, at 12:20 PM, Gordon Henriksen wrote: finally by default? None for me; thanks, though. I don't think so; we're just talking about whether you can extend a class at _runtime_, not _compiletime_. Whether or not Perl can

RE: Namespaces, part 2

2003-12-16 Thread Chris Shawmail (E-mail)
From: Dan Sugalski [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2003 6:56 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Namespaces, part 2 load_global $P1, ['foo'; 'bar'] '$baz' load_global $P2, ['foo'; 'bar'] '$xyzzy' I'm not at all familiar with the intricacies of Parrot internals

restore N via win32 CreateProcessA

2003-12-16 Thread Pete Lomax
Hi, I've hit a very strange problem: set N18, 86 save N18 restore N18 if I run this from a DOS prompt, it works fine, however if I run it via the kernel32.dll function CreateProcessA, the restore N18 line fails with Wrong type on top of stack!. If I change the first line

Re: restore N via win32 CreateProcessA

2003-12-16 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 11:38 PM + 12/16/03, Pete Lomax wrote: Hi, I've hit a very strange problem: set N18, 86 save N18 restore N18 if I run this from a DOS prompt, it works fine, however if I run it via the kernel32.dll function CreateProcessA, the restore N18 line fails with Wrong type

[ANNOUNCE] Test::Benchmark

2003-12-16 Thread Fergal Daly
Hi, since no one else has done it, here it is. Not sure exactly how useful it is, benchmarks being the fickle things they are but maybe someone will find it useful. Comments, patches, flames welcome. Docs are below file will be on CPAN shortly, until then

Re: Vocabulary

2003-12-16 Thread Michael Lazzaro
On Tuesday, December 16, 2003, at 04:01 PM, Chip Salzenberg wrote: According to Michael Lazzaro: As someone who has 90% of their projects relying very critically on speed ... an anecdote ... Yes. and who has had to battle a number of clients' IT departments over the years in defense of said

Re: Vocabulary

2003-12-16 Thread John Macdonald
On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 12:15:04AM +, Piers Cawley wrote: There's still a hell of a lot of stuff you can do with 'cached' optimization that can be thrown away if anything changes. What the 'final' type declarations would do is allow the compiler to throw away the unoptimized paths and the

Re: Vocabulary

2003-12-16 Thread Chip Salzenberg
According to Michael Lazzaro: On Tuesday, December 16, 2003, at 04:01 PM, Chip Salzenberg wrote: ... an anecdote ... ... and a public relations issue. Let us not confuse them. I'm not sure I understand which part of that is in conflict. Speed is for users. PR is for non-users. You want

Re: Vocabulary

2003-12-16 Thread Larry Wall
On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 12:11:59AM +, Piers Cawley wrote: : When you say CHECK time, do you mean there'll be a CHECK phase for : code that gets required at run time? Dunno about that. When I say CHECK time I'm primarily referring to the end of the main compilation. Perl 5 appears to ignore

Re: Vocabulary

2003-12-16 Thread Michael Lazzaro
On Tuesday, December 16, 2003, at 05:36 PM, Chip Salzenberg wrote: Speed is for users. PR is for non-users. You want speed? OK, we can talk about the actual speed you actually need based on your actual usage patterns. But from a design perspective you're a collection of anecote, not a user

Re: Vocabulary

2003-12-16 Thread Luke Palmer
Michael Lazzaro writes: I agree, it is frequently the case that the question of speed is made critical by people who most assuredly do not need it. But they still decide that way, and I have found that asserting to them that speed is not important has been... well, less than effective. I

[perl #24682] [BUG] parrot compile fails on MacOS 10.3.1 - possibly dynaloading patch?

2003-12-16 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by Allison Randal # Please include the string: [perl #24682] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # URL: http://rt.perl.org:80/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=24682 I can't compile parrot on Mac OS 10.3.1 tonight. It's been about a week since

Re: restore N via win32 CreateProcessA

2003-12-16 Thread Pete Lomax
On Tue, 16 Dec 2003 19:54:25 -0500, Dan Sugalski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 11:38 PM + 12/16/03, Pete Lomax wrote: Hi, I've hit a very strange problem: set N18, 86 save N18 restore N18 Solved. I forgot I was using -O2 when executing via CreateProcessA, which I wasn't when

Re: [perl #24682] [BUG] parrot compile fails on MacOS 10.3.1 - possibly dynaloading patch?

2003-12-16 Thread Allison Randal
On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 11:54:27PM -0500, Dan Sugalski wrote: At 12:00 AM + 1/1/04, Allison Randal (via RT) wrote: # New Ticket Created by Allison Randal # Please include the string: [perl #24682] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # URL:

[perl #24683] [PATCH] P6C update concat and bitwise operators

2003-12-16 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by Allison Randal # Please include the string: [perl #24683] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # URL: http://rt.perl.org:80/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=24683 This patch updates the following operators and their assignment counterparts:

Re: Vocabulary

2003-12-16 Thread Rafael Garcia-Suarez
Larry Wall wrote in perl.perl6.language : On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 12:11:59AM +, Piers Cawley wrote: : When you say CHECK time, do you mean there'll be a CHECK phase for : code that gets required at run time? Dunno about that. When I say CHECK time I'm primarily referring to the end of

Re: This week's summary

2003-12-16 Thread Piers Cawley
Luke Palmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Piers Cawley writes: The Perl 6 Summarizer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: http://groups.google.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] This should, of course, read: http://groups.google.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] Or even: http://groups.google.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] We