[perl #30852] [PATCH] Undef.set_pmc(), Ref allowing null values

2004-07-28 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by TOGoS # Please include the string: [perl #30852] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # URL: http://rt.perl.org:80/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=30852 This patch changes the Undef PMC type to morph itself to a Ref with the given value

Re: CPANTS preview

2004-07-28 Thread Nick Ing-Simmons
Thomas Klausner [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Personally, I'm annoyed by dist that I cannot remove after installation. If files are read-only, I'll have to do extra steps during deleting. So I like dists which no read-only files. Which is why it's a Kwalitee indicator. If we (whoever is interested in

Re: This week's summary

2004-07-28 Thread Piers Cawley
Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The Perl 6 Summarizer wrote: The infinite thread Pushing onto lazy lists continued to exercise the p6l crowd (or at least, a subset of it). Larry said that if someone wanted to hack surreal numbers into Perl 6.1 then that would

Re: This week's summary

2004-07-28 Thread Mark J. Reed
On 2004-07-28 at 20:55:28, Piers Cawley wrote: What's a math teacher? Oh, come now. You may refuse to *use* the Leftpondian short form, but pretending not to *recognize* it is a bit much. :) -- Mark REED| CNN Internet Technology 1 CNN Center Rm SW0831G | [EMAIL

Re: This week's summary

2004-07-28 Thread Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon
Piers Cawley wrote: Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Care to explain what those are, O great math teacher? What's a math teacher? It's the right^H^H^H^H^HAmerican way to say maths teacher. -- Brent Dax Royal-Gordon [EMAIL PROTECTED] Perl and Parrot hacker Oceania has always been

Stack Based Language

2004-07-28 Thread RaghavendraK 70574
Hi, What do we mean by Stack Based VM and Register based VM? Because all the modern CPU are Register based. Regster Based: Each Instruction will have to carry a destination along with the operands. Stack Based: Instruction is free of operands meaining operands are saved in the stack. One More

Re: Stack Based Language

2004-07-28 Thread Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon
RaghavendraK 70574 wrote: Because all the modern CPU are Register based. All modern *physical* CPUs are register-based; however, most modern *virtual* CPUs (virtual machines) are stack-based. Parrot is unique because it's a register-based *virtual* CPU. Regster Based: Each Instruction will