Re: ~ for concat / negation (Re: The Perl 6 Emulator)

2001-06-22 Thread Benjamin Stuhl
In summary: 1. I don't like ~ for concat 2. But if it does become concat, then we still shouldn't change ~'s current unary meaning Thanks for listening. -Nate I agree completely. However, this is no longer really a topic for -internals, it's really a purely language

Re: ~ for concat / negation (Re: The Perl 6 Emulator)

2001-06-22 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 05:17 AM 6/22/2001 -0700, Benjamin Stuhl wrote: In summary: 1. I don't like ~ for concat 2. But if it does become concat, then we still shouldn't change ~'s current unary meaning Thanks for listening. -Nate I agree completely. However, this is no longer

Re: ~ for concat / negation (Re: The Perl 6 Emulator)

2001-06-22 Thread James Mastros
From: Nathan Wiger [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2001 4:41 PM Subject: ~ for concat / negation (Re: The Perl 6 Emulator) Does anyone else see a problem with =~ ? Plus, it makes the pre-plus-concat that many desire impossible, since =~ is

Python on Unicode etc.

2001-06-22 Thread Nathan Torkington
This is from the latest python-dev summary. It might be of interest to folks considering how to store strings. * Adding .decode() method to Unicode * Marc-Andre Lemburg asked for opinions on adding a .decode method to unicode objects:

Re: Should the op dispatch loop decode?

2001-06-22 Thread Uri Guttman
DS == Dan Sugalski [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: DS At 01:13 PM 6/13/2001 +0200, Bart Lateur wrote: On Tue, 12 Jun 2001 18:12:35 -0400, Dan Sugalski wrote: 'Kay, here's a question to ponder. Should the op dispatch loop handle argument decoding, or should that be left to the opcode

Re: A quick sketch of the interpreter

2001-06-22 Thread Uri Guttman
DS == Dan Sugalski [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: DS At 11:45 PM 6/14/2001 -0400, Bryan C. Warnock wrote: =head1 The opcode loop This is a tight loop. All it does is call an opcode function, get back a pointer to the next opcode to execute, and check the event dispatch flag.

Re: A quick sketch of the interpreter

2001-06-22 Thread Uri Guttman
DS == Dan Sugalski [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: How does this port to a TIL form? DS Badly. :) We'll need to insert event checking code into the DS generated TIL, or figure out some way to wedge into the platform DS interrupt/async system. (I'd bet on the former, though) again, two