$ENV{ICU_DATA_DIR}

2004-05-30 Thread Steve Fink
Anyone mind if I commit this? One thing I'm not sure of, though -- I try to behave myself and use Parrot_getenv rather than a plain getenv(), but I'm not convinced the API is complete -- Parrot_getenv saves back a boolean saying whether to free the returned string or not, but what should I call to

Re: Layering PMCs

2004-05-30 Thread Leopold Toetsch
Dan Sugalski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We need the ability to layer PMCs. Nothing new, we need something of the sort for transparent read-only-ness and probably thread-safety What about the current implementation [1]: * PMCs that have read-only variants have the Cconst_too flag set * the PMC

Re: Layering PMCs

2004-05-30 Thread Leopold Toetsch
Stéphane Payrard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To avoid to go back the slow world of perl5 where many things need to be tested before figuring what to do, performancewise, there is little choice but to have two versions of each PMC class, a fast one that is devoid of property support and another

Re: Layering PMCs

2004-05-30 Thread Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon
Leopold Toetsch wrote: Dan Sugalski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We need the ability to layer PMCs. Nothing new, we need something of the sort for transparent read-only-ness and probably thread-safety What about the current implementation [1]: * PMCs that have read-only variants have the Cconst_too

Re: compiler-faq

2004-05-30 Thread TOGoS
Your answer is about compiling a subroutine that does something. What's wrong with the current wording: How do I generate a sub call with a variable-length parameter list in PIR? Use unprototyped calls and functions and pass as many arguments as you have. Well, for one

Re: compiler-faq

2004-05-30 Thread Sterling Hughes
Leopold Toetsch wrote: William Coleda [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was going to submit this as a patch, but I ended up with a conflict, and Dan threatened he wouldn't apply it anyway, so I'll just post it here for comment. Feel free to apply any or all of it. I would be very happy to hear of a

Re: Layering PMCs

2004-05-30 Thread Leopold Toetsch
Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Leopold Toetsch wrote: Dan Sugalski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We need the ability to layer PMCs. Nothing new, we need something of the sort for transparent read-only-ness and probably thread-safety What about the current implementation [1]: *