Rod Adams wrote:
> Now that I've gotten some feedback from my original message (on list and
> off), and have had some time to think about it some more, I've come to
> some conclusions:
>
>Junctions are Sets. (if not, they would make more sense if they
> were.)
As pointed out elsewhere, Junc
David Storrs OOC'd:
OOC, will there be a way to control where C gets its randomness
from? (e.g. perl's builtin PRNG, /dev/random, egd, etc)
Sure:
# Use RBR (Really Bad Randomness) algorithm...
temp *rand (Num ?$max = 1) {
return $max/2;
}
my $guess = @data.pick;
Damian
Timothy S. Nelson wrote:
Sorry, I've just worked out that, while I'm not sure I understand your
comments on RFC 051 in A2, it looks like there'll be a function where I pass
it a filename and it returns the contents, and that's what I want; I presume
this closes it after.
Yes. The function is
Rod Adams wrote:
However, what if what you're calling a non-Perl Parrot based function?
Do we disable junctions from playing with non-PurePerl functions? Or do
we autothread over them? How do we tell if a non-Perl function outputs
to determine if we should be able to autothread into them or not?
Jonathan Scott Duff wrote:
Perhaps. I'm not so sure it's the rare case that programmers aren't
prepared to deal with implicit parallelization. :-)
Of course. But I'm saying it's a rare case where they've have to. Or, at
least, where it will bite them if they don't.
use warnings 'autothreading
On Sun, Feb 13, 2005 at 11:10:20AM -0600, Patrick R. Michaud wrote:
> Autothreading, even if enabled by default, doesn't happen until a
> junction is created and used somewhere. Thus the only time our hypothetical
> new programmer would be forced to become aware of junctions (without
> himself/h
On Sat, Feb 12, 2005 at 06:39:01PM +1100, Damian Conway wrote:
> pick - select at random from a list, array, or hash
OOC, will there be a way to control where C gets its randomness
from? (e.g. perl's builtin PRNG, /dev/random, egd, etc)
--Dks
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On Fri, Feb 11, 2005 at 05:33:29PM -0800, Ashley Winters wrote:
> On Thu, 10 Feb 2005 08:59:04 -0800, David Storrs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Wed, Feb 09, 2005 at 05:13:56AM -0600, Rod Adams wrote:
> > >
> > > ($k, $v) <== pop %hash;
> > > make sense to anyone except me?
> >
> > ... the onl
On Sat, Feb 12, 2005 at 05:24:04PM -0600, Jonathan Scott Duff wrote:
> > >Because of this, I'd suggest that autothreading of user-defined routines
> > >not be the default, but rather enabled via a pragma of some sort (or, of
> > >course, via an "autothreaded" trait). For the built-in routines this
On Sat, Feb 12, 2005 at 03:54:57PM -0600, Rod Adams wrote:
> >>But, to extract those alternative values from an object, you do
> >>something special to it, like call a method. Whenever you evaluate the
> >>object as a scalar, you get a single value back. Quite probably a
> >>reference to somethi
On Sat, 12 Feb 2005, Larry Wall wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 12, 2005 at 05:55:48PM +1100, Timothy S. Nelson wrote:
> : More hyper-operators
> :
> :
> : Incidentally, is there any chance we'll have more than one official
> : hyper-operator in Perl6? According to the S3, there's
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