Re: RFC - Hashing PMC's albie@halfarrabio.di.uminho.pt

2002-07-25 Thread Luke Palmer
On 25 Jul 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Personally I don't like the C is Hashed::ByValues because it smacks of spooky action at a distance; I much prefer my notion of C %h{*@x} = 1. And in Perl 6 I have the horrible feeling that C %h = (*@x = 1) would expand to C %h = (1,2,3 = 1) ,

Re: RFC - Hashing PMC's albie@halfarrabio.di.uminho.pt

2002-07-25 Thread Luke Palmer
On 25 Jul 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Luke Palmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 25 Jul 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Personally I don't like the C is Hashed::ByValues because it smacks of spooky action at a distance; I much prefer my notion of C %h{*@x} = 1. And in Perl 6 I

Re: cvs diff is having problems

2002-07-25 Thread Juergen Boemmels
Tanton Gibbs [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: TG Does anyone know why I keep getting this: TG $ cvs diff diff.out TG cvs server: failed to create lock directory for `/cvs/public/parrot/Parrot' TG (/cvs/public/parrot/Parrot/#cvs.lock): No such file or directory TG cvs server: failed to

Re: [PATCH] Reduce array.pmc keyed code

2002-07-25 Thread Scott Walters
Mike, Part of the beauty of PMCs is that you can have very compact storage given a dedicated eg int array type. Generating these would not be a bad thing. The typical case still remains, that arrays will contained mixtures of all datatypes. On Wed, 24 Jul 2002, Mike Lambert wrote: This patch

Re: PMC's and high level languages

2002-07-25 Thread David M. Lloyd
I can comment on a bit of this at least :) On Wed, 24 Jul 2002, Melvin Smith wrote: It is not clear to me yet that there needs to be a 1-to-1 correlation from PMC's to upper level classes. There won't be. In general, there well be far fewer PMC classes than upper-level classes. Also, as

[perl #15574] [PATCH] RECALL renamed to AVOID

2002-07-25 Thread Tanton Gibbs
# New Ticket Created by Tanton Gibbs # Please include the string: [perl #15574] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # URL: http://rt.perl.org/rt2/Ticket/Display.html?id=15574 This patch implements the AGAIN pmc preprocessor command. AGAIN should be used

Re: [PATCH] Reduce array.pmc keyed code

2002-07-25 Thread Mike Lambert
Scott Walters wrote: Part of the beauty of PMCs is that you can have very compact storage given a dedicated eg int array type. Generating these would not be a bad thing. The typical case still remains, that arrays will contained mixtures of all datatypes. Yep, I agree. Thus, array.pmc would

Re: RFC - Hashing PMC's albie@halfarrabio.di.uminho.pt

2002-07-25 Thread Aaron Sherman
On Thu, 2002-07-25 at 03:12, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Aaron Sherman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: my @x is Hashed::ByValues = (1,2,3); %h = (@x = 1); @x[1] += 4; Personally I don't like the C is Hashed::ByValues because it smacks of spooky action at a distance; I much prefer

Re: [PATCH] Reduce array.pmc keyed code

2002-07-25 Thread Scott Walters
Mike, Was very happy to see your message. People don't often agree with me. I'm not very agreeable. On Thu, 25 Jul 2002, Mike Lambert wrote: Scott Walters wrote: Part of the beauty of PMCs is that you can have very compact storage given a dedicated eg int array type. Generating these

Re: [miguel@ximian.com: parrot/mops/mops.cs]

2002-07-25 Thread Leon Brocard
Simon Cozens sent the following bits through the ether: The mops test for C# in the parrot distribution uses long-integers, which are 64-bit values, instead of the 32-bit integers used by the other tests in the directory. Cool. How do we fix it? Change long to int? Leon -- Leon