Some minor changes

2002-06-30 Thread Dan Sugalski
I've added (or will add, depending on whether this gets to the list before the CVS syncup does) a couple of new opcodes. find_type(INT, STR) returns the integer identifier number for any known PMC type. That means you can now do: find_type I0, "PerlArray" new P0, I0 instead of

Stack performance issue

2002-06-30 Thread Tom Hughes
There is a performance issue in the stack code, which the attached patch attempts to address. The problem revolves around what happens when you are close to the boundary between two chunks. When this happens you can find that you are in a loop where something is pushed on the stack, causing a new

Perl 6 grammar progress?

2002-06-30 Thread Dan Sugalski
So, it's been a week or so and, while I'm mostly offline until wednesday, I'll ask the question... How's the work on the perl 6 grammar going? We any further along than we were before YAPC? -- Dan --"it's like this"-

Re: Perl 6 grammar progress?

2002-06-30 Thread Ashley Winters
On Sunday 30 June 2002 12:46 pm, Dan Sugalski wrote: > So, it's been a week or so and, while I'm mostly offline until > wednesday, I'll ask the question... > > How's the work on the perl 6 grammar going? We any further along than > we were before YAPC? I don't know how the grammars are going, and

Re: Perl 6 grammar progress?

2002-06-30 Thread Sean O'Rourke
On Sun, 30 Jun 2002, Ashley Winters wrote: > I don't know how the grammars are going, and I'm not fit to write one > myself, Hey, neither am I, but that hasn't stopped me from taking a stab or two, figuring that through pain comes fitness. The attempt has certainly given me a much better unders

[netlabs #744] PATCH: escape strings while tracing

2002-06-30 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by Leon Brocard # Please include the string: [netlabs #744] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # http://bugs6.perl.org/rt2/Ticket/Display.html?id=744 > I played with pdb and tracing today and liked the way that pdb escaped strings, eg wh

[netlabs #745] [PATCH] New mandelbrot pasm example

2002-06-30 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by Leon Brocard # Please include the string: [netlabs #745] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # http://bugs6.perl.org/rt2/Ticket/Display.html?id=745 > This .pasm file was one of the first largish Parrot programs and I don't quite rememb