Re: Chr Ord, v0.4

2001-10-27 Thread Piers Cawley
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

Re: Revamping the build system

2001-10-27 Thread Ask Bjoern Hansen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paolo Molaro) writes: [...] I'm going to bite and say the words (and get the flames). autoconf automake libtool FWIW: I have the impression that they're not very happy with those in the apache httpd project. (But I am blissfully ignorant about the details). - ask

Re: Revamping the build system

2001-10-27 Thread Ask Bjoern Hansen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Simon Cozens) writes: On Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 09:05:33AM -0400, Andy Dougherty wrote: While imperfect and Unix-centric, we can (and should!) learn a lot from auto{conf,make} and metaconfig. *nod*. I just had a look around, and most of the other languages are using

Re: Languages in the core source tree?

2001-10-27 Thread Ask Bjoern Hansen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dan Sugalski) writes: At 07:15 AM 10/22/2001 -0700, Wizard wrote: 1) Do we put them all in the parrot CVS tree I think it would be good for the languages to be in tree, but I would like to have it under a different mechanism for cvs checkout. In other words, the

Re: Languages in the core source tree?

2001-10-27 Thread Ask Bjoern Hansen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael G Schwern) writes: [...] However, the author(s) of each individual interpreter should be responsible for their own language. Basically, a mini-pumpinking. oh, just to make it clear: Our CVS setup supports just giving someone access to certain directories within a

Re: Schedule of things to come

2001-10-27 Thread Ask Bjoern Hansen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dan Sugalski) writes: [...] If the 0.02/0.03/0.04 versions of parrot leak, it's not that big a deal since it's not like we've got a long-running persistent interpreter like mod_parrot or anything... ;-) I think Robert and I are planning to get mod_parrot to work as soon

Re: String rationale

2001-10-27 Thread Tom Hughes
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tom Hughes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Other than that it looked quite good and I'll probably start looking at bending the existing code into the new model over the weekend. Attached is my first pass at this - it's not fully ready yet but is something for

Re: String rationale

2001-10-27 Thread Tom Hughes
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tom Hughes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Attached is my first pass at this - it's not fully ready yet but is something for people to cast an eye over before I spend lots of time going down the wrong path ;-) Before anybody else spots, let me just add what I

Re: Schedule of things to come

2001-10-27 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 06:27 AM 10/27/2001 -0700, Ask Bjoern Hansen wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dan Sugalski) writes: [...] If the 0.02/0.03/0.04 versions of parrot leak, it's not that big a deal since it's not like we've got a long-running persistent interpreter like mod_parrot or anything... ;-) I think

Re: String rationale

2001-10-27 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 04:23 PM 10/27/2001 +0100, Tom Hughes wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tom Hughes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Other than that it looked quite good and I'll probably start looking at bending the existing code into the new model over the weekend. Attached is my first pass at

Re: Schedule of things to come

2001-10-27 Thread John Siracusa
On 10/27/01 4:22 PM, Dan Sugalski wrote: At 06:27 AM 10/27/2001 -0700, Ask Bjoern Hansen wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dan Sugalski) writes: I think Robert and I are planning to get mod_parrot to work as soon as parrot has some kind of I/O. :-) Darned soon now. So I know for the first-stage

Re: Schedule of things to come

2001-10-27 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 06:09 PM 10/27/2001 -0400, John Siracusa wrote: On 10/27/01 4:22 PM, Dan Sugalski wrote: At 06:27 AM 10/27/2001 -0700, Ask Bjoern Hansen wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dan Sugalski) writes: I think Robert and I are planning to get mod_parrot to work as soon as parrot has some kind of I/O.

Re: Schedule of things to come

2001-10-27 Thread John Siracusa
On 10/27/01 7:08 PM, Dan Sugalski wrote: I think we're due out in reasonably good alpha/beta shape for the summer. Heh, the phrase suitable vague springs to mind... :) (which year is that again? ;) -John

Re: Schedule of things to come

2001-10-27 Thread John Siracusa
On 10/27/01 10:34 PM, John Siracusa wrote: On 10/27/01 7:08 PM, Dan Sugalski wrote: I think we're due out in reasonably good alpha/beta shape for the summer. Heh, the phrase suitable vague springs to mind... :) s/e v/y v/; # oops :) -John

Re: Schedule of things to come

2001-10-27 Thread Dan Sugalski
On Sat, 27 Oct 2001, John Siracusa wrote: On 10/27/01 7:08 PM, Dan Sugalski wrote: I think we're due out in reasonably good alpha/beta shape for the summer. Heh, the phrase suitably vague springs to mind... :) Ah, and you thought it was my *technical* skills that got me this job! (which

Opcode complaints

2001-10-27 Thread Brent Dax
Okay, now that I've had some time working with Parrot assembler, I've developed a list of complaints. ;^) 1. No if(s|sc, i|ic) We're treating strings as second-class citizens here. Why shouldn't you be able to do an 'if' on a string? You could interpret it as the string's length, or the