RE: [CVS ci] Parrot_destroy

2002-11-04 Thread Brent Dax
Leopold Toetsch: # It's totally sane with the standard copying allocator. But the malloc # allocator tracks resources (i.e. strings bufstart) only via # the header. # So, when you reuse the header, the old bufstart which was # there before # is unmanaged and leaks. Can we add a way to

Re: [CVS ci] Parrot_destroy

2002-11-04 Thread Leopold Toetsch
Brent Dax wrote: Leopold Toetsch: # It's totally sane with the standard copying allocator. But the malloc # allocator tracks resources (i.e. strings bufstart) only via # the header. # So, when you reuse the header, the old bufstart which was # there before # is unmanaged and leaks. Can we

Re: Need for fingerprinting? [was: Re: What to do if Digest::MD5 is unavailable?]

2002-11-04 Thread Leopold Toetsch
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Leo -- Here's one of the messages about how I'd like to see us link op implementations with their op codes: http://archive.develooper.com/perl6-internals;perl.org/msg06193.html Thanks for all these pointers. I did read this thread WRT dynamic opcode loading.

[CVS ci] bugfix: parrot -b; 25% speed up with cgoto core/GNUC

2002-11-04 Thread Leopold Toetsch
My last patch did break runops_slow_core (first instruction got traced) - fixed. And finally I found an hopefully sane way, to implement the idea from #17495: - stacktop is initially set in test_main - if running the CGgoto core and it's cleared in interpreter - in cg_core stacktop get's set

Re: Need for fingerprinting? [was: Re: What to do if Digest::MD5 is unavailable?]

2002-11-04 Thread gregor
Nicholas -- I agree it would be good to see CG performance (compilation and exeuction speed) with and without optimizations. I haven't done the experiment myself. I had tinkered with some asm-comment ideas last year when discussing JIT with Daniel Grunblatt. For your amusement, I've attached a

Re: [perl #18219] on_exit not portable

2002-11-04 Thread Josh Wilmes
At 18:57 on 11/04/2002 +0100, Leopold Toetsch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: atexit is not an alternative, because we might have multiple interpreters to clean up like in t/op/interp_2. So the issue here is that on_exit can take a parameter to be passed into the handler function, right? We could

Re: Need for fingerprinting? [was: Re: What to do if Digest::MD5 is unavailable?]

2002-11-04 Thread Rhys Weatherley
Nicholas Clark wrote: I believe that your understanding of the JIT and the GC cores are still correct. The problem would be solved if we had some nice way of getting the C compiler to generate us nice stub versions of all the non-inline ops functions, which we could then place inline.

Re: [CVS ci] string_str_index

2002-11-04 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 12:41 PM +0100 10/30/02, Leopold Toetsch wrote: Nicholas Clark wrote: Also, no-one commented on my suggestion a long time back to remove -fno-strict-aliasing from gcc's flags. In theory we're stopping some possible gcc optimisations with this. I don't see a reason, why we would need

Re: [perl #18127] [PATCH] Implicit stack direction probe

2002-11-04 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 9:41 AM +0100 10/30/02, Leopold Toetsch wrote: Jason Gloudon wrote: ... By default both compilers align stack variables at their natural alignment, so PMC pointers would normally fall on 4 byte boundaries. However, it is also possible that someone might save a PMC pointer to an unaligned

Re: [perl #18170] [PATCH] very complete lexical scope implementation

2002-11-04 Thread Jonathan Sillito
On 2 Nov 2002, Juergen Boemmels wrote: Ok, I tested the patch (I tried to use this scratchpads for the scheme compiler) One thing I missed (or at least didn't find): How can I generate a new scope? new_pad generates a new one one the pad stack with a size which is actually smaller than the

Re: Need for fingerprinting? [was: Re: What to do if Digest::MD5 is unavailable?]

2002-11-04 Thread Leopold Toetsch
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Leo -- I don't know much about the CG core, but prederef and JIT should be able to work with dynamic optables. For prederef and JIT, optable mucking does expire your prederefed and JITted blocks (in general), but for conventional use (preamble setup), you don't pay a

Re: Parrot 0.0.9

2002-11-04 Thread Juergen Boemmels
Dan Sugalski [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [...] No, it doesn't. It needs to preallocate a few entries in the TOC at the start of the chunk, but that's it. Not that much waste, even if some of the metadata's in the TOC. The point is to have a file format that does what we need it

[perl #18219] on_exit not portable

2002-11-04 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by Andy Dougherty # Please include the string: [perl #18219] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # URL: http://rt.perl.org/rt2/Ticket/Display.html?id=18219 The Solaris tinderbox is currently failing with gcc -o parrot [...]

Re: Need for fingerprinting? [was: Re: What to do if Digest::MD5 is unavailable?]

2002-11-04 Thread gregor
Jason -- Originally, I considered adding an optable segment to the packfile format and no useop op. After considering useop, I found the idea of a conventional (but technically optional, TMTOWTDI) preamble and the ability to modify the optable while running intriguing. There is value to using

Re: [perl #16941] [PATCH] Use pre-generated files for imcc.

2002-11-04 Thread Leopold Toetsch
Andy Dougherty wrote: Alternatively, developers could always try to ensure they checkin patches in the correct order so that the timestamps stay correct. I would prefer such a solution - or better something a long: info cvs The commit support files i.e. a

Re: Avoiding C++-style comments

2002-11-04 Thread Leopold Toetsch
Andy Dougherty wrote: I have committed the following patch: -//mem_sys_free(p); +/* mem_sys_free(p); */ /* XXX ??? */ Sorry for that, must have slipped through during my different trials to clean up PIO. It would also be nice if someone who understood this could add

Re: [perl #16941] [PATCH] Use pre-generated files for imcc.

2002-11-04 Thread Leopold Toetsch
Andy Dougherty wrote: Alternatively, developers could always try to ensure they checkin patches in the correct order so that the timestamps stay correct. Or yet another one: $ cat bison touch imcparser.c imcparser.h imclexer.c in languages/imcc should do it. leo

Re: [perl #18219] on_exit not portable

2002-11-04 Thread Leopold Toetsch
Andy Dougherty (via RT) wrote: That's because Solaris doesn't have on_exit. It does have atexit, but atexit doesn't take any parameters so it's not a direct drop-in replacement. The correct fix is not obvious to me. I suppose someone could have Configure.pl test for on_exit and only use it

Re: Need for fingerprinting? [was: Re: What to do if Digest::MD5 is unavailable?]

2002-11-04 Thread Leopold Toetsch
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Leo -- ... Optable build time is not a function of program size, but rather of optable size Ok, I see that, but ... I don't think it remains a problem how to run ops from different oplibs _fast_. the problem is, that as soon as there are dynamic oblibs,

Re: Need for fingerprinting? [was: Re: What to do if Digest::MD5 is unavailable?]

2002-11-04 Thread gregor
Leo -- Ah. It seems the point of divergence is slow_core vs. cg_core, et al. As you have figured out, I've been referring to performance of the non-cg, non-prederef, non-JIT (read: slow ;) core. I don't know much about the CG core, but prederef and JIT should be able to work with dynamic

RE: Need for fingerprinting? [was: Re: What to do if Digest::MD5 is unavailable?]

2002-11-04 Thread Brent Dax
Leopold Toetsch: # the problem is, that as soon as there are dynamic # oblibs, they can't # be run in the CGoto core, which is normally the fastest core, when # executions time is depending on opcode dispatch time. JIT is (much) # faster, in almost integer only code, e.g. mops.pasm, but

Re: Need for fingerprinting? [was: Re: What to do if Digest::MD5 is unavailable?]

2002-11-04 Thread Jason Gloudon
On Sun, Nov 03, 2002 at 04:59:22PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What I advocate is having possibly only one (maybe too extreme, but doable) built-in op pre-loaded at opcode zero. This op's name is useop, and its arguments give an opcode (optable index), and sufficent information for the

Re: [perl #16941] [PATCH] Use pre-generated files for imcc.

2002-11-04 Thread Andy Dougherty
When I trycd languages/perl6; make; the build stops with bison -v -y -d -o imcparser.c imcc.y sh: bison: not found The above-referenced patch includes changes to config/gen/makefiles/imcc.in to avoid this problem. That patch has the disadvantage of requiring developers to remember

Avoiding C++-style comments

2002-11-04 Thread Andy Dougherty
I have committed the following patch: diff -r -u parrot-orig/io/io.c parrot-andy/io/io.c --- parrot-orig/io/io.c Mon Nov 4 11:26:09 2002 +++ parrot-andy/io/io.c Mon Nov 4 12:02:22 2002 @@ -160,7 +160,7 @@ down = p-down; if (p-api-Delete) (*p-api-Delete) (p); -

Re: [perl #16941] [PATCH] Use pre-generated files for imcc.

2002-11-04 Thread Juergen Boemmels
Leopold Toetsch [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Andy Dougherty wrote: Alternatively, developers could always try to ensure they checkin patches in the correct order so that the timestamps stay correct. Does cvs change the timestamps at checkout/update according to the checkin timestamp? Or

Should memory be washed?

2002-11-04 Thread Peter Gibbs
What is the official position with respect to laundry services in the Parrot memory allocation code? Some code assumes that the memory returned by Parrot_allocate and its cousins will be pre-washed, while other code does its own laundry. The same applies to 'bufferlike' headers - the buffer

Re: Need for fingerprinting? [was: Re: What to do if Digest::MD5 is unavailable?]

2002-11-04 Thread Nicholas Clark
On Mon, Nov 04, 2002 at 10:09:06AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: While I don't think I'm sophisticated enough to pull it off on my own, I do think it should be possible to use what was learned to build the JIT system to build the equivalent of a CG core on the fly, given its structure. I

Re: Supercomma! (was Re: UTF-8 and Unicode FAQ, demos)

2002-11-04 Thread Larry Wall
[Note to all: yes, this is me, despite the weirdities of the quoting and headers. This is how it looks when I using mutt out of the box, because I haven't yet customized it like I have pine. But I do like being able to see my own Unicode characters, not to mention everyone else's. If you don't

Re: Unifying invocant and topic naming syntax

2002-11-04 Thread Damian Conway
ralph wrote: It's clear you could have come up with something like one of these: method f ($a, $b) is invoked_by($self) method f ($a, $b) is invoked_by($self is topic) method f ($a, $b) is invoked_by($_) but you didn't. Any idea why not? Because most methods need some kind of

RE: Supercomma! (was Re: UTF-8 and Unicode FAQ, demos)

2002-11-04 Thread Brent Dax
Larry Wall: (B# for @x $B!B(B @y $B!B(B @z - $x, $y, $z { ... } (B (BEven if you decide to use UTF-8 operators (which I am Officially (BRecommending Against), *please* don't use this one. This shows up as a (Bbox in the Outlook UTF-8 font. (B (B--Brent Dax [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Supercomma! (was Re: UTF-8 and Unicode FAQ, demos)

2002-11-04 Thread Brian Ingerson
On 04/11/02 17:52 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [Note to all: yes, this is me, despite the weirdities of the quoting and headers. This is how it looks when I using mutt out of the box, because I haven't yet customized it like I have pine. But I do like being able to see my own Unicode

Re: UTF-8 and Unicode FAQ, demos

2002-11-04 Thread Damian Conway
Larry wrote: I've actually got my eye on ≈ (U+2248 ALMOST EQUAL TO) as a replacement for ~~ someday in the distant future. I suppose it could be argued that we should use ≅ (U+2245 APPROXIMATELY EQUAL TO) instead. That's what =~ was supposed to represent, after all... Yeah, either of those

Re: Possible Vector Operator Notations

2002-11-04 Thread Damian Conway
Smylers summarized (beautifully, thank-you): * the looks like an array option: [op] » Seemed a nice idea, but doesn't work with other use of square brackets. Could be made to work. Suppose that every operator definition (explicit or implicit) automagically also defined a variant

Re: Supercomma! (was Re: UTF-8 and Unicode FAQ, demos)

2002-11-04 Thread Damian Conway
Larry wrote: But at the moment I'm thinking there's something wrong about any approach that requires a special character on the signature side. I'm starting to think that all the convolving should be specified on the left. So in this: for parallel(x, y, z) - $x, $y, $z { ... } the

Re: UTF-8 and Unicode FAQ, demos

2002-11-04 Thread Austin Hastings
--- Matthew Zimmerman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Nov 03, 2002 at 09:41:44AM -, Rafael Garcia-Suarez wrote: Matthew Zimmerman wrote in perl.perl6.language : So let me make my original question a little more general: are Perl 6 source files encoded in Latin-1, UTF-8, or

Re: vectorization (union and intersection operators)

2002-11-04 Thread Ed Peschko
I'm probably opening up a whole new can of worms here, but if we said that the following were both vector operators: ^ == intersection operator v == union operator then these could have potentially useful meanings on their *own* as set operators, as well as modifying other

Re: vectorization (union and intersection operators)

2002-11-04 Thread Damian Conway
Ed Peschko asked: ps - as an aside, are the apocalypses going to be backdated as changes to the design come up? Yes. Or are the apocalypses just a first draft for more enduring documentation? Yes. ;-) Damian

Re: UTF-8 and Unicode FAQ, demos

2002-11-04 Thread Larry Wall
On Mon, Nov 04, 2002 at 10:19:55AM -0800, Michael Lazzaro wrote: UTF-8 «op» representations have the advantage of trivially not conflicting with _any_ existing operators, and being visually distinct from all of them. There may be a few other things in easy-to-find-and-type Latin1, like one

What is the order of evaluation for separate streams in a loop?

2002-11-04 Thread Austin Hastings
Something from [EMAIL PROTECTED] about the relative frequency made me wonder: What's the order of evaluation or nestedness for separate streams in a for loop? That is, can I meaningfully say: for my $i; $j - 0 .. @array.length - 1; $i + 1 .. @array.length { .. } And get the equivalent of two

Re: UTF-8 and Unicode FAQ, demos

2002-11-04 Thread Larry Wall
On Mon, Nov 04, 2002 at 11:27:16AM -0800, Austin Hastings wrote: --- Matthew Zimmerman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Nov 03, 2002 at 09:41:44AM -, Rafael Garcia-Suarez wrote: Matthew Zimmerman wrote in perl.perl6.language : So let me make my original question a little more

Re: What is the order of evaluation for separate streams in a loop?

2002-11-04 Thread Luke Palmer
Mailing-List: contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]; run by ezmlm Date: Mon, 4 Nov 2002 12:09:12 -0800 (PST) From: Austin Hastings [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-SMTPD: qpsmtpd/0.12, http://develooper.com/code/qpsmtpd/ Something from [EMAIL PROTECTED] about the relative frequency made

Re: UTF-8 and Unicode FAQ, demos

2002-11-04 Thread Austin Hastings
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED], UNEXPECTED_DATA_AFTER_ADDRESS@.SYNTAX-ERROR. wrote: Mmm, I view one-character Unicode operators as more of an escape hatch for the future, not as something to be made mandatory. But then, I'm one of those ugly Americans. EBCDIC didn't support brackets, originally, so

Re: What is the order of evaluation for separate streams in a loop?

2002-11-04 Thread Austin Hastings
--- Luke Palmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't know where to correct you first... :) Is that a dunce-hat? Is there an ISO version I could use instead? :- I'll start by saying your variables are on the wrong side of the pointy sub. Also, presuming you switched the order, that Cmy

Re: UTF-8 and Unicode FAQ, demos

2002-11-04 Thread Mark J. Reed
On 2002-11-04 at 12:26:56, Austin Hastings wrote: 1- ? and ? are really useful in my context. Okay. Now can you get your mailer to send them properly? :)

Re: How to set your Windows keyboard to ¶erl-mode

2002-11-04 Thread Ken Fox
Austin Hastings wrote: At this point, Meestaire ISO-phobic Amairecain Programmaire, you have achieved keyboard parity with the average Swiss six-year-old child. The question is not about being ISO-phobic or pro-English. ** The question is whether we want a pictographic language. I like the

Re: UTF-8 and Unicode FAQ, demos

2002-11-04 Thread Me
After all, there's gotta be some advantage to being the Fearless Leader... Larry Thousands will cry for the blood of the Perl 6 design team. As Leader, you can draw their ire. Because you are Fearless, you won't mind... -- ralph

Re: UTF-8 and Unicode FAQ, demos

2002-11-04 Thread Damian Conway
Ken Fox wrote: I know I'm just another sample point in a sea of samples, but my embedded symbol parser seems optimized for alphabetic symbols. The cool non-alphabetic Unicode symbols are beautiful to look at, but they don't help me read or write faster. Once again: we're only talking about «

Re: How to set your Windows keyboard to ¶erl-mode

2002-11-04 Thread Austin Hastings
--- Ken Fox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Austin Hastings wrote: The question is not about being ISO-phobic or pro-English. ** The two gripes I've heard have been: 1- It's hard to type. 2- I don't know how to type it on platform X. With combo gripe It'll be hard to remember how to type it

Re: UTF-8 and Unicode FAQ, demos

2002-11-04 Thread Damian Conway
Garrett Goebel wrote: Can't we have our cake and eat it too? Give ASCII digraph or trigraph alternatives for the incoming tide of Perl6 Unicode? Allow both * and »*«? I'd really prefer we didn't. I'd much rather keep and for other things. Or something similar '*', [*], etc... Much as I

Re: UTF-8 and Unicode FAQ, demos

2002-11-04 Thread Me
people on the list who can't be bothered to read the documentation for their own keyboard IO system. Most of this discussion seems to focus on keyboarding. But that's of little consequence. This will always be spotted before it does much harm and will affect just one person and their software

utf and ebcdic

2002-11-04 Thread Brian Ingerson
On 04/11/02 12:12 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] aka Larry Wall wrote: If you want trigraph support, you'll have to put use encoding 'ugly-american'; at the top of your files. ;-) ;-) ;-) Otherwise, it'll be one-character ?fancyops? all the way. Mmm, I view one-character Unicode

Re: UTF-8 and Unicode FAQ, demos

2002-11-04 Thread Austin Hastings
--- Me [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: people on the list who can't be bothered to read the documentation for their own keyboard IO system. Most of this discussion seems to focus on keyboarding. But that's of little consequence. This will always be spotted before it does much harm and will

Re: utf and ebcdic

2002-11-04 Thread Austin Hastings
--- Brian Ingerson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: FWIW, ebcdic *does* have the cent sign! And the not sign. Damian may force us to abandon ASCII entirely... =Austin __ Yahoo! - We Remember 9-11: A tribute to the more than 3,000 lives lost

Re: UTF-8 and Unicode FAQ, demos

2002-11-04 Thread Adam D. Lopresto
I'm having trouble this is even being considered. At all. And especially for these operators... So, yeah, include trigraph sequences if it will make happy the people on the list who can't be bothered to read the documentation for their own keyboard IO system. But don't expect the rest of

[ANNOUNCE] Perl6 Docs, an initial Chapter.

2002-11-04 Thread Michael Lazzaro
There is a (partial) book-style chapter describing Perl6 values, variables, and primitive/promoted types at: http://cog.cognitivity.com/perl6/val.html The entire thing is one page, for easy printing. It works out to about 15-20 pages, depending on your printer. There is *much* more coming

Re: UTF-8 and Unicode FAQ, demos

2002-11-04 Thread Paul Johnson
On Mon, Nov 04, 2002 at 12:26:56PM -0800, Austin Hastings wrote: In short: 1- ? and ? are really useful in my context. 2- I can make my work environment generate them in one (modified) keystroke. 3- I can make my home environment do likewise. 4- The ascii-only version isn't faster and

Re: Unifying invocant and topic naming syntax

2002-11-04 Thread Allison Randal
On Sun, Nov 03, 2002 at 11:17:32PM -0600, Me wrote: I started with a simple thought: is given($foo) seems to jar with given $foo { ... } One pulls in the topic from outside and calls it $foo, the other does the reverse -- it pulls in $foo from the outside and makes it the

Re: How to set your Windows keyboard to ¶erl-mode

2002-11-04 Thread Simon Cozens
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ken Fox) writes: The question is whether we want a pictographic language. So far we've managed to avoid turning Perl into APL. :-) -- Larry Wall in [EMAIL PROTECTED] Although that was some time ago... :) -- The FSF is not overly concerned about security. -

Re: UTF-8 and Unicode FAQ, demos

2002-11-04 Thread Simon Cozens
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Damian Conway) writes: Or something similar '*', [*], etc... Much as I hate the notion of di- and trigraphs, this is a possibility. I do like this too, because it reminds me of C trigraphs, which had precisely the same purpose - allow people with old-fashioned sub-standard

Re: UTF-8 and Unicode FAQ, demos

2002-11-04 Thread Austin Hastings
--- Rafael Garcia-Suarez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Austin Hastings wrote in perl.perl6.language : What we've got is an encoding problem at the MUA level. Mark Reed says my mailer (Yahoo!) tagged a message containing high-bit characters as US-ASCII. Several people the other day reported

Re: UTF-8 and Unicode FAQ, demos

2002-11-04 Thread Simon Cozens
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Austin Hastings) writes: Yeah, but ActiveState does Perl, and Microsoft owns ActiveState To what extent are *either* of those statements true? :) -- All the good ones are taken.

Re: UTF-8 and Unicode FAQ, demos

2002-11-04 Thread Ken Fox
Damian Conway wrote: Larry Wall wrote: That suggests to me that the circumlocution could be *. A five character multiple symbol??? I guess that's the penalty for not upgrading to something that can handle unicode. Unless this is subtle humor, the Huffman encoding idea is getting seriously

RE: UTF-8 and Unicode FAQ, demos

2002-11-04 Thread Garrett Goebel
Ken Fox wrote: Damian Conway wrote: Larry Wall wrote: That suggests to me that the circumlocution could be *. A five character multiple symbol??? I guess that's the penalty for not upgrading to something that can handle unicode. Unless this is subtle humor, the Huffman encoding

RE: UTF-8 and Unicode FAQ, demos

2002-11-04 Thread Brent Dax
Garrett Goebel: # Ken Fox wrote: # Unless this is subtle humor, the Huffman encoding idea is getting # seriously out of hand. That 5 char ASCII sequence is *identically* # encoded when read by the human eye. Humans can probably type the 5 # char sequence faster too. How does Unicode win

How to set your Windows keyboard to ¶erl-mode

2002-11-04 Thread Austin Hastings
This ¶ is a pilchrow, which shows up for me as one of those paragraph-sign looking backwards P's with two vertical bars. Sorry if it doesn't come out for you. --- Brent Dax [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The Unicode version is more typing than the non-Unicode version, so what's the advantage?

Re: UTF-8 and Unicode FAQ, demos

2002-11-04 Thread Michael Lazzaro
On Monday, November 4, 2002, at 08:55 AM, Brent Dax wrote: # Can't we have our cake and eat it too? Give ASCII digraph or # trigraph alternatives for the incoming tide of Perl6 Unicode? The Unicode version is more typing than the non-Unicode version, so what's the advantage? It's prettier?

Re: How to set your Windows keyboard to ¶erl-mode

2002-11-04 Thread Ken Fox
Austin Hastings wrote: The and ... are just as pictographic (or not) as [ and ]. I'm not particularly fond of or either. ;) Damian just wrote that he prefers non-alphabetic operators to help differentiate nouns and verbs. I find it helpful when people explain their biases like that. What's

Supercomma! (was Re: UTF-8 and Unicode FAQ, demos)

2002-11-04 Thread Michael Lazzaro
On Monday, November 4, 2002, at 11:58 AM, Larry Wall wrote: You know, separate streams in a for loop are not going to be that common in practic, so maybe we should look around a little harder for a supercomma that isn't a semicolon. Now *that* would be a big step in reducing ambiguity... Or

Re: UTF-8 and Unicode FAQ, demos

2002-11-04 Thread Austin Hastings
--- Simon Cozens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Austin Hastings) writes: Yeah, but ActiveState does Perl, and Microsoft owns ActiveState To what extent are *either* of those statements true? :) Hmm. Well, last time I checked you could still download a perl binary from

Re: UTF-8 and Unicode FAQ, demos

2002-11-04 Thread Austin Hastings
--- Adam D. Lopresto [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm having trouble this is even being considered. At all. And especially for these operators. Heute vektoren, morgen das welt! Uniperl, Uniperl uber alles, Uber alles in der welt! With hyper-states through choose and true(); Masterfully golf

Re: UTF-8 and Unicode FAQ, demos

2002-11-04 Thread Brian Ingerson
On 04/11/02 14:09 -0800, Austin Hastings wrote: --- Rafael Garcia-Suarez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Austin Hastings wrote in perl.perl6.language : What we've got is an encoding problem at the MUA level. Mark Reed says my mailer (Yahoo!) tagged a message containing high-bit

Re: UTF-8 and Unicode FAQ, demos

2002-11-04 Thread Simon Cozens
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Austin Hastings) writes: If @a [*=] @b; doesn't scan like rats chewing their way into your cable, what does? This is why God gave us functions as well as operators. -- I _am_ pragmatic. That which works, works, and theory can go screw itself. - Linus Torvalds

Possible Vector Operator Notations

2002-11-04 Thread Smylers
The many recent suggestions for denoting vector operators all seem to have problems, with some having significant impact elsewhere in the language. After reading a few hundred mails on the subject I'm no longer sure what I prefer, but thought I'd be in a better position to have an opinion if I at

Re: Possible Vector Operator Notations

2002-11-04 Thread Simon Cozens
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Smylers) writes: Thank you very, very much for this; this is supremely helpful. » No character left for eating whitespace. That's a feature, not a bug! The space-eater alternately worries, confuses and scares me. -- I want you to know that I create nice things like

Re: Unifying invocant and topic naming syntax

2002-11-04 Thread Me
(naming) the invocant of a method involves something very like (naming) the topic Generally, there's no conceptual link... other than The similarity is that both are implicit parameters which was my point. Almost the entirety of what I see as relevant in the context of deciding