Dan Sugalski [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
From a language perspective, I have a scheme to allow us to yank all the
cruft (sockets, shm, messages, localtime...) out into separate libraries,
yet pull them in on demand without needing a use.
a la dbmopen in perl5?
--
Piers
"Bradley M. Kuhn" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Dan Sugalski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
However, I don't think we should dismiss it out of hand because people don't
do a lot of systems programming C. some of the things we are going to build
for C (if that's what we pick), are already there
Dan Sugalski [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I think I'd just as soon always call DESTROY in a predicable manner
and not do *anything* perlish at GC time. If nothing else it means
that we don't have to worry about having a valid perl context handy
when the GC runs. (Since threading the thing is a
Dan Sugalski [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
At 05:55 PM 12/7/00 +, Piers Cawley wrote:
Dan Sugalski [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I think I'd just as soon always call DESTROY in a predicable manner
and not do *anything* perlish at GC time. If nothing else it means
that we don't have
Dave Storrs [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Wed, 31 Jan 2001, Tim Bunce wrote:
Since this thread is in the mood for quotes, here's one I'm fond of...
It goes something along the lines of:
Any fool can create a complicated system.
The real skill is in making a simple one.
translate Ruby's runtime libraries from C to Perl
we'll be laughing. Or laughed at. I'm never quite sure.
--
Piers Cawley
www.iterative-software.com
know how it was called? (ie: Through method
dispatch or through straightforward symbol table lookup. I'm really
hoping the answer to this is 'yes'.) Or will methods and subroutines
be distinct now?
--
Piers Cawley
www.iterative-software.com
Simon Cozens [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Thu, Oct 25, 2001 at 09:47:01AM -0400, James Mastros wrote:
This is version 0.4 of my chr and ord patch for parrot. Included
is a patch, a test file, and an example.
That one looks good. You know, if it had documentation, I'd commit
it. :)
I
Dan Sugalski [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
At 11:39 AM 11/12/2001 -0500, Ken Fox wrote:
Simon Cozens wrote:
You save one level of indirection, at a large complexity
cost.
A lot less complexity than a JIT though. 100% portable
code too.
It's got the same sort of issue that a lot of other
Simon Cozens [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Tue, Oct 09, 2001 at 11:50:55PM +0200, Benoit Cerrina wrote:
It is clear that PMCs are object but does the acronym has a signification?
Parrot Magic Cookie.
Where can such things be found.
In the documentation I'm in the middle of writing.
Nathan Torkington [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Piers Cawley writes:
I got some mail from a publisher off the back of my 'Not Just for
Damians' article asking if I'd like to write a perl 6 book for them.
Must reply really.
Sure, I'd be glad to write about perl 6. Do you also want to know
David Lisa Jacobs [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
From what I could tell, it looks like Dan put it in there as a
potential GC hook when allocating the header of a string or PMC (see
resources.c). My guess is that he is planning to fire off the GC
from the interpreter.
If that is the case and we
Hong Zhang [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
preprocessing. Another example, if I want to search for /resume/e,
(equivalent matching), the regex engine can normalize the case, fully
decompose input string, strip off any combining character, and do 8-bit
Hmmm. The above sounds complicated not
Uri Guttman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
DS == Dan Sugalski [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Correct, especially a list is nothing but a pair with another pair or
an end-of-list-marker in its second element. To implement set-car! and
set-cdr! both elements of this pair must be mutable
DS
Melvin Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I also could care less about reinventing the wheel, if I get
to own my own wheel and put my name on it.. and paint it yellow...
No mate, you want to paint it purple. You know it makes sense.
--
Piers
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a
Dan Sugalski [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
At 11:12 AM +0100 1/2/70, James A Duncan wrote:
Morning (BST) all,
I've started work on B::Parrot, which is a Perl 5 to Parrot
translation engine. Its very basic at the moment, but I've got it
successfully translating things like:
my $perliv = 10;
my
So, here I am, roughing out some ideas for how I'm going to implement
a very lovely and worthwhile scheme interpreter (or a compiler, I'm
not proud) for parrot. If I'm going to be doing tail call optimization
(and I can't call it scheme if I don't) then my first thought was as
follows.
# This
Andrew J Bromage [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
G'day all.
On Fri, Apr 19, 2002 at 07:06:04AM +0100, Piers Cawley wrote:
If I'm going to be doing tail call optimization
(and I can't call it scheme if I don't) then my first thought was as
follows.
# This is a tail call
Andrew J Bromage [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Sat, Apr 20, 2002 at 10:06:10PM -0700, Steve Fink wrote:
- Local label addresses are only valid within the scope containing
the label (the result of jumping to someone else's local label is
undefined, possibly triggering an exception in
Does anyone have an idea of when we're going to see these? Or hashes
of PMCs, I don't really care which...
--
Piers
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a language in
possession of a rich syntax must be in need of a rewrite.
-- Jane Austen?
Steve Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Mon, Apr 22, 2002 at 05:40:09PM +0100, Piers Cawley wrote:
Does anyone have an idea of when we're going to see these? Or hashes
of PMCs, I don't really care which...
Well, we don't have hashes of anything. We already have arrays of
PMCs. You just
Andrew J Bromage [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
G'day all.
On Sun, Apr 28, 2002 at 09:49:35PM -0400, Melvin Smith wrote:
I don't think I and Andrew were saying we shouldn't do caller-save,
we were just discussing that the calling convention (read
activation record of a subroutine) should
So, I was thinking about how symbol tables are going to work, and I
remembered that Dan had said that he wanted hashes to preserve their
insertion order on print out.
Which led me to think that it'd be really nice if there was some way
of addressing hashes with integers to get the 'nth thing'
Steve Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Mon, Apr 29, 2002 at 01:41:56PM -0400, Mike Lambert wrote:
- Make an array of buffer data, in order of insertion into the hashtable.
set pmc_pointer and buffer_ptr and let the GC rip through it.
- The hashtable itself just uses indices into this array.
Andrew J Bromage [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
G'day all.
On Mon, Apr 29, 2002 at 11:59:45PM +0100, Tim Bunce wrote:
[ I'm playing devils advocate for a while longer as I'm not 100% convinced ]
Understood.
Isn't compiler convienience a (the?) major issue here?
I wouldn't call it a major
Uri Guttman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
DS == Dan Sugalski [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
DS We'll find out with A6 whether we do coroutines and continuations as
DS part of the core perl. If not, well, python does the first and ruby
DS the second, so it's all good in there.
on the last
=head1 This week on Perl 6 (17-23 June 2002)
by Piers Cawley, 020020624
=head2 Notes
It's been a while since the last Perl 6 digest and summarizing
everything that's happened since then would take, ooh, a while. So
I've punted on that, and just pretended that the last one was
published
Tim Bunce [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Tue, Jun 25, 2002 at 11:35:20AM +0100, Dave Mitchell wrote:
On Tue, Jun 25, 2002 at 11:08:53AM +0100, Tim Bunce wrote:
On Tue, Jun 25, 2002 at 12:23:34AM +0100, Dave Mitchell wrote:
Of course, another approach is to embed the existing Perl5
.' and that, no matter how many editions it
goes through, Friedl's book is always going to be called *Mastering
Regular Expressions*. So, Larry is `encouraging use of the technical
term regex as a way to not precisely mean regular expression.'
Piers Cawley raised a question about
Juergen Boemmels [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Piers Cawley [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
[...]
typeof is a *really* bad idea. Let the 'Object' PMC handle the
multilevel vtable look up (in exactly the same way that one does
lexical lookup in the environment chain) and method invocation. So
So, do we have a timetable for when the Perl 6 interpreter is going
handle closures?
Also, consider the following:
sub fac($n) {
when 0 { 1 }
default { $n * fac($n - 1) }
}
print1 fac(10);
Compiling this barfs because there's 'no topic in fac', despite the
apocalypse stating
So, I know that recursion doesn't seem to work in the simple case, but
at least it reaches runtime. Mutual recursion doesn't even compile
successfully.
Here's the classic example of mutual recursion:
sub even ($n) {
given $n {
when 0 { return 1 };
default { odd($n-1) };
Sean O'Rourke [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Thu, 12 Sep 2002, Piers Cawley wrote:
So, I know that recursion doesn't seem to work in the simple case, but
at least it reaches runtime. Mutual recursion doesn't even compile
successfully.
It should do about this, since you're calling
Aaron Sherman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Thu, 2002-09-12 at 06:46, Piers Cawley wrote:
Here's the classic example of mutual recursion:
sub even ($n) {
given $n {
when 0 { return 1 };
default { odd($n-1) };
}
}
sub odd ($n) {
given $n {
when
John Porter [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I've decided it's time for me to take another break from this list.
Not that any of you care, but I think the reason is important.
Due to a silly misunderstanding -- one which could have been easily
avoided by a simple request for clarification -- our
What does it feel like to be middle aged? (Well, by the biblical count
at least...)
--
Piers
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a language in
possession of a rich syntax must be in need of a rewrite.
-- Jane Austen?
Implementation Details
Jürgen Bömmels and Piers Cawley continued their discussion of how to go
about implementing a scheme interpreter, and lambda in particular.
Piers made noises about a proof of concept implementation of Scheme that
he'd made using Perl objects, but didn't show
Leopold Toetsch [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Piers Cawley wrote:
Happy birthday to me!
Congratulations.
... by my turning 35 on the 15th
44 on 16th - yes Sept.
Congrats to you too. So, should I start maintaining a birthday
database for the summaries? Probably not.
--
Piers
Jonathan Sillito [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
-Original Message-
From: Sean O'Rourke [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
I think I didn't look through the patch queue carefully enough ;). I
gather that it's accepted practice (or something like that) to use an
array of pointers instead of links
The Perl 6 Summary for the Week Ending 20020822
So, another week, another Perl 6 summary. Let's see if I can get through
this one without calling Tim Bunce 'Tim Bunch' shall we? Or maybe I
should leave a couple of deliberate errors in as a less than cunning
ploy to get more
are you?
Piers Cawley
What do you do for/with Perl 6?
I write the summaries every week, and try and contribute to
perl6-language and perl6-internals when they're discussing things I
know about.
Where are you coming from?
I've been a happy Perl user
The Perl 6 Summary for the week ending 20021020
I'm sorry to have to inform you that I've returned from my holiday (no,
base jumping and paragliding were *not* involved) and that this week's
summary will not be written by the estimable Leon Brocard. Sorry about
that. Leon is
Clinton A. Pierce [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Most of the discussion in p6i goes right over my head, but I'm
certainly enjoying the fruits of their labors.
Huge amounts of it go over my head too, which means I'm never *quite*
sure whether I've got the salient points in my summaries.
--
Piers
The Perl 6 Summary for the week ending 20021027
You may have noticed that this summary is late. Um... [looks sheepish,
shuffles feet], the dog ate my homework. I did a tiny bit of
procrastination at the beginning of the week and then got totally
overtaken by events involving failed
Leopold Toetsch [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Juergen Boemmels wrote:
Leopold Toetsch [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
When there is no interpreter in PIO_eprint, vfprintf gets called.
As we are in the state of changing packfile.c (at least long term):
Should the packfile functions have an
and Larry had thought long and hard about whether or not to interleave
sources and iterators before deciding on the current syntax.
http://makeashorterlink.com/?W23612C52
http://makeashorterlink.com/?Y54632C52
Nondeterministic algorithms, flexops, and stuff
Piers Cawley made heads
Junctions are what we're calling superpositions this week. Piers Cawley
had another crack (the operative word I think, on rereading) at his non
deterministic search algorithm using junctions and a subclass of
Function. Damian, of course, came up with a better possible syntax for
lazy
not entirely sure why a thread titled `Superpositions and Laziness'
should contain discussion of whether one should have a `pure' property
or a `cached' one. Or both.
Meanwhile, in the `laziness' side of the thread, Piers Cawley saw fit to
post a huge chunk of uncommented code which
http://makeashorterlink.com/?C2E8115A2 -- Larry's vision
http://makeashorterlink.com/?E2F8325A2 -- Michael's vision
http://makeashorterlink.com/?H409355A2 -- Bryan's vision
http://makeashorterlink.com/?W219315A2 - Garrett's vision
Just wondering...
Piers Cawley pointed out
Dan Sugalski [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
At 4:45 PM + 12/5/02, Leon Brocard wrote:
Leon Brocard sent the following bits through the ether:
Now to get the hand of the signatures...
Ah, well, I gave up on SDL as it was a little complicated. Instead, I
played with curses. Please find
Dan Sugalski [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
At 4:45 PM + 12/5/02, Leon Brocard wrote:
Leon Brocard sent the following bits through the ether:
Now to get the hand of the signatures...
Ah, well, I gave up on SDL as it was a little complicated. Instead,
I played with curses. Please find
Leopold Toetsch [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Piers Cawley wrote:
Dan Sugalski [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
There are ways to get around that, and there are some inefficiencies
in the implementation there. I think we can work around some of
those--I am rather tempted to have invoke promise
pipelines'
thing, during which Piers Cawley got rather wound up.
http://makeashorterlink.com/?O295150D2
In Brief
Gregor is looking at adding native calls to Jako and thought he needed
changes to IMCC to get things working, but the Patchmonster pointed him
toward a workaround
) would be expensive, and reckoned
that the basic approach should be fast and good enough for the common
case. Piers Cawley wondered if doing object 'identity' comparison with a
method (eg: $obj.is($other_obj);) wasn't actually the best way
forward. (Piers had been applying his OO rule
The Perl 6 Summary for the week ending 20021229
This is not your normal summary. It's been Christmas, things have been
quiet, I've been concentrating on mince pies, roast goose and all that
other good stuff. Normal service will be resumed next week.
Acknowledgements
* Larry Wall
Steve Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Jan-04, Leopold Toetsch wrote:
Damian Conway wrote:
Piers Cawley wrote:
Acknowledgements
But, of course, modesty forebade him from thanking the tireless Perl 6
summarizer himself, for his sterling efforts wading through the morasses
that are P6
This will be vague and handwavy, but I *think* it suggests something
that hasn't been tried before...
1. The problem of infant mortality is that resource allocation can
trigger a DOD run could wipe out the very thing we were allocating
memory for.
2. This can be solved by extending the
Dan Sugalski [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
At 3:06 PM -0500 1/15/03, Christopher Armstrong wrote:
On Wed, Jan 15, 2003 at 01:57:28AM -0500, Dan Sugalski wrote:
At 9:37 PM -0500 1/14/03, Christopher Armstrong wrote:
But who knows, maybe it could be made modular enough (i.e., more
Dan Sugalski [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
At 9:24 PM + 1/21/03, Piers Cawley wrote:
Dan Sugalski [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Hrm, interesting. Single symbol table for methods and attributes,
though that's not too surprising all things considered. That may make
interoperability interesting
Dan Sugalski [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
At 11:52 AM + 1/27/03, Piers Cawley wrote:
Dan Sugalski [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
At 9:24 PM + 1/21/03, Piers Cawley wrote:
Dan Sugalski [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Hrm, interesting. Single symbol table for methods and attributes,
though
it as specifying a
step.
http://makeashorterlink.com/?Q1D521D33
Multiple Dispatch by Context?
Piers Cawley wondered if it would be possible to specify a multimethod
by context as well as by parameter types. Dan Sugalski managed to hole
the proposal below the waterline
Leopold Toetsch [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The 2004 Performance challenge
Dan announced that he'd made a bet with Guido van Rossum that Parrot
would be faster at executing a pure python benchmark
[ ... ]
For some reason nobody commented on this.
The Perl 6 summary for the week ending 20030216
Welcome to the all new, entirely unaltered, all singing, all dancing
Perl 6 summary. Your beacon of reliability in the crazy world that is
Perl 6 design and development.
Another quiet week. Even quieter than last week in fact, unless
Steve Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I think this has been discussd before, but are we all okay with this
callee-save-everything policy? At the very least, I'd be tempted to
add a bitmasked saveall/restoreall pair to reduce the amount of cache
thrashing. (saveall
Leopold Toetsch [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Piers Cawley wrote:
Steve Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
... I didn't follow about how that interferes with tail-call
optimization. (To me, tail call optimization == replace recursive
call with a goto to the end of the function preamble)
Um
The Perl 6 summary for the week ending 20030223
Another week, another Perl 6 Summary, in which you'll find gratuitous
mentions of Leon Brocard, awed descriptions of what Leopold Tötsch got
up to and maybe even a summary of what's been happening in Perl 6 design
and development.
Jerome Vouillon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 08:47:55AM +0100, Leopold Toetsch wrote:
Um... no. tail call optimization implies being able to replace *any*
tail call, not just a recursive one with a simple goto. Consider the
following calling sequence:
b(arg) -
Jerome Quelin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
And even toy languages may benefit from objects (yes, I really need
objects in order to implement -98 version of Befunge, especially
since I want to include concurrent-funge support). Well, I could use
my own hand-crafted objects as a list of whatever,
Benjamin Goldberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Piers Cawley wrote:
[snip]
Um... no. tail call optimization implies being able to replace *any*
tail call, not just a recursive one with a simple goto.
[snip]
In perl5, doing a tail call optimization can be done with just a simple
goto... well
Benjamin Goldberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Piers Cawley wrote:
Benjamin Goldberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Piers Cawley wrote:
[snip]
Um... no. tail call optimization implies being able to replace *any*
tail call, not just a recursive one with a simple goto.
[snip]
In perl5, doing
Nicholas Clark [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 02:21:32AM +0100, Angel Faus wrote:
[snip lots of good stuff]
All this is obviously machine dependent: the code generated should
only run in the machine it was compiled for. So we should always keep
the original imc code in
Dan Sugalski [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
At 9:34 PM -0800 2/27/03, David wrote:
Is there a List datatype for Parrot? I'm looking for something along the lines
of what's in Python. Specifically, it should be able to do the following
operations:
Not yet, though we do need one. There's not much
Dan Sugalski [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Okay, here's try three. I think I'm about ready to POD this up as a
formal spec to be assaulted, but this version is more a sketch than
anything:
[...]
Am I reading it right if I reckon that a Class isa Object? and an
Object hasa Class (assuming that
Dan Sugalski [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
At 6:53 PM + 3/9/03, Piers Cawley wrote:
Dan Sugalski [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Okay, here's try three. I think I'm about ready to POD this up as a
formal spec to be assaulted, but this version is more a sketch than
anything:
[...]
Am I reading
The Perl 6 Summary for the week ending 20030309
Ooh look, it's another of those Perl 6 Summaries where Piers tries to
work a gratuitous reference to Leon Brocard into a summary of what's
been happening to the Perl 6 development process this week.
As tradition dictates, we'll start
to know if the new declaration would
automagically turn the old one into a multimethod. Michael Lazzaro
thought not. As did Damian and Larry. Damian provided a summary of the
rules for subroutine/method dispatch, which look wonderfully
subvertable. Piers Cawley wondered if it would
The Perl 6 Summary for the week ending 20030323
Assuming I can tear myself away from stroking the cat who has just
magically appeared on my chest and is even now trying to wipe his dags
on my nose, welcome one and all to another Perl 6 summary, which should
go a lot quicker now
The Perl 6 Summary for the week ending 20030330
Welcome once again to the gallimaufry that is a Perl 6 summary.
Unfettered this week by the presence of feline distraction we plunge
straight into the crystal clear waters of perk6-internals.
Iterator proof of concept
People must
Leopold Toetsch [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Jonathan Sillito [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Here is another suggestion (I think I mentioned this in another email) we
could support a few different types of continuations. The simplest
continuation could be just a saved return address (i.e. an
The Perl 6 Summary for the week ending 20030608
It's another Monday, it's another summary and I need to get this
finished so I can starting getting the house in order before we head off
to Boca Raton and points north and west on the long road to Portland,
Oregon. Via Vermont. (I'm
The Perl 6 Summary for the week ending 20030601
Another Monday, another Perl 6 Summary. Does this man never take a
holiday? (Yes, but only to go to Perl conferences this year, how did
that happen?)
We start with the internals list as usual.
More on timely destruction
The
The Perl 6 Summary for the week ending 20030615
Welcome to the last Perl 6 Summary of my first year of summarizing. If I
were a better writer (or if I weren't listening with half an ear to
Damian telling YAPC about Perl 6 in case anything's changed) then this
summary might well be
Dan Sugalski [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Okay, now that we're well on our way to getting sub/method/whatever
calling down and working, I want to point us towards what I'm thinking
of for exceptions.
Exception handlers really strike me as anonymous lexically scoped
subroutines that get called
The Perl 6 Summary for the week ending 20030622
Welcome to my first anniversary issue of the Perl 6 Summary. Hopefully
there won't too many more anniversaries to celebrate before we have a
real, running Perl 6, but there's bound to be ongoing development after
that. My job is
Leopold Toetsch [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Dan Sugalski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Exception handlers really strike me as anonymous lexically scoped
subroutines that get called with just one parameter--the exception
object. As far as the engine should be concerned, when an exception
is taken we
Dan Sugalski [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
At 11:19 PM +0200 6/29/03, Leopold Toetsch wrote:
Dan Sugalski wrote:
... I'd also like to be able to manipulate the stacks in a context,
pushing things on them, changing values on them, and generally
messing about with the things, so I'm all for it.
The Perl 6 Summary for the week ending 20030629
Welcome to the third of my US tour Perl 6 summaries. Once again I'm
pleased to report that the denizens of the Perl 6 mailing lists continue
to make the life of a touring summarizer an easy one by not posting all
that much to the
Perl 6 Summary for the week ending 20030706
Welcome to this week's Perl 6 Summary, coming to you live from a
gatecrashed Speakers' lounge at OSCON/TPC, surrounded by all the cool
people like Dan Sugalski, Lisa Wolfisch, Graham Barr and Geoff Young,
who aren't distracting me from
Perl 6 Summary for the week ending 20030713
Welcome once again to the Perl 6 Summary, in a week of major
developments and tantalizing hints.
Starting, as usual, with what's happening in perl6-internals
Targeting Parrot from GCC
Discussion in the thread entitled 'WxWindows
Perl 6 Summary for the week ending 20030720
Welcome back to an interim Perl 6 Summary, falling as it does between
two conference weeks; OSCON and YAPC::Europe. For reasons involving
insanity, a EuroStar ticket going begging, and undeserved generosity I
shall be bringing my
Adam Turoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Mon, Jul 21, 2003 at 03:20:26PM +0100, Piers Cawley wrote:
Acknowledgements, Announcements and Apologies
First of all, I plead insanity for my mistake of last week's summary.
PONIE does not stand for 'Perl On New Internal Architecture
Perl 6 Summary for the week ending 20030727
Welcome to another in the ongoing series of Perl 6 summaries in which
your faintly frazzled summarizer attempts to find a native speaker of
Esperanto to translate this opening paragraph in honour of the huge
amount of money (1371 Euros)
Perl 6 Summary for the week ending 20030703
Ooh look, it's another Perl 6 summary. Doesn't that man ever take a
holiday?
I think he took one last month.
Is it in Esperanto this week?
I don't think so.
Does Leon Brocard get a mention?
It certainly looks that way.
Leopold Toetsch [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
As calling conventions clearly state, that the caller has to save
everything, its probably up to imcc/pcc.c to insert above
statements, if another sub gets called from a sub. I'll fix that in
a minute ;-)
If and only if that's not a tail call of
Leopold Toetsch [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Piers Cawley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Leopold Toetsch [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
As calling conventions clearly state, that the caller has to save
everything, its probably up to imcc/pcc.c to insert above
statements, if another sub gets called from
Leopold Toetsch [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Piers Cawley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm not sure you can optimize it to a jump opcode when you're tail
calling another function can you? You could be tailcalling into a
closure so you'll need to use invoke to do the right thing with the
lexical
Dave Mitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Mon, Aug 11, 2003 at 07:32:00PM -, Rafael Garcia-Suarez wrote:
Will I really be forced to reimplement the whole subrecursive frobnizer
for tied magic ?
Almost certainly, I expect.
There's nothing to stop us *both* summarizing the parrot-dev
Dan Sugalski [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
At 8:48 PM +0200 8/4/03, Valery A.Khamenya wrote:
Hi All,
are there any info on getting ready-to-try
Parrot for win32 as stand-alone distribution?
Not that I know of. If someone's got a working build and can put
together a tarball or zip file, we
Perl 6 Summary for the week ending 20030810
Another week, another summary. How predictable is that?
In keeping with the predictability, we'll start with the internals list.
Set vs. Assign
T.O.G of Spookware has an issue with the way IMCC treats =;
sometimes an = means set and
Leopold Toetsch [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
With this patch, the major pieces are finished
...
load_bytecode temp.imc
$P0 = global _sub2
.pcc_begin prototyped
.pcc_call $P0
does what it look's like: call the Sub _sub2 in the loaded sorce file.
Cload_bytecode source_file
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