The Perl 6 Summary for the week ending 2005-05-24
Note to self: It's generally not a good idea to go installing Tiger on
the day you return from holiday. It's especially not a good idea to fail
to check that it didn't completely and utterly radish your Postfix
configuration. And you
The Perl 6 Summary for the week ending 20030831
Welcome to this week's Perl 6 summary. This week, for one week only I'm
going to break with a long established summary tradition. No, that
doesn't mean I won't be mentioning Leon Brocard this week. Nope, this
week
Perl 6 Summary for the week ending 20030703
"Ooh look, it's another Perl 6 summary. Doesn't that man ever take a
holiday?"
"I think he took one last month."
"Is it in Esperanto this week?"
"I don't think so."
"Does Leon Brocard get a mention?"
"It certainly looks th
Piers Cawley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Don't trace system areas in sweep ops
> through holes in the C stack (hmm... if anyone has a good drawing of
> this?)).
I don't know if its a good one, but my original posting about that
problem had some ASCII graphics (in this thread):
Subj
Piers Cawley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Okay, okay, PONIE really stands for 'Perl On New Internal Engine'.
That's that what they say. Actually it was: "PONIEPONIE":
"Perl5 Obsoletes Nasty Internals Entirely:
Parrot Occupies Numerous Interpreters Everywhere"
But that was to bulky. Or too many
Perl 6 Summary for the week ending 20030727
Welcome to another in the ongoing series of Perl 6 summaries in which
your faintly frazzled summarizer attempts to find a native speaker of
Esperanto to translate this opening paragraph in honour of the huge
amount of money (1371 Euros) ra
The Perl 6 Summary for the week ending 20030615
Welcome to the last Perl 6 Summary of my first year of summarizing. If I
were a better writer (or if I weren't listening with half an ear to
Damian telling YAPC about Perl 6 in case anything's changed) then this
summary might well be a
The Perl 6 Summary for the week ending 20030601
Another Monday, another Perl 6 Summary. Does this man never take a
holiday? (Yes, but only to go to Perl conferences this year, how did
that happen?)
We start with the internals list as usual.
More on timely destruction
The dis
Piers Cawley writes:
> is static?
> Discussion of static/state variables continued. Arcadi Shehter wondered
> if it made sense to attach "but" properties to closures. I confess I
> didn't really understand what he was driving at. Austin Hastings and
Actually, I was confused , thi
On Monday, March 31, 2003, at 10:15 AM, Jonathan Scott Duff wrote:
On Mon, Mar 31, 2003 at 10:09:43AM -0800, Michael Lazzaro wrote:
I'm still hoping rather desperately for a if-uninitialized op in
general, even if only for hashes, because the difference between
"present but undefined" and "not pr
On Mon, Mar 31, 2003 at 10:09:43AM -0800, Michael Lazzaro wrote:
> I'm still hoping rather desperately for a if-uninitialized op in
> general, even if only for hashes, because the difference between
> "present but undefined" and "not present" is rather crucial for some
> common algorithms.
Ca
On Monday, March 31, 2003, at 07:39 AM, Piers Cawley wrote:
Argument initializations
Michael Lazzaro summarized the various different and proposed
assignment
operators available in Perl 6, including a proposed "::=" for 'only
assign to uninitialized variables'. Michael wondered how
The Perl 6 Summary for the week ending 20030330
Welcome once again to the gallimaufry that is a Perl 6 summary.
Unfettered this week by the presence of feline distraction we plunge
straight into the crystal clear waters of perk6-internals.
Iterator proof of concept
People must re
--- Uri Guttman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > "PC" == Piers Cawley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> PC> To do that you need to declare the parameter with "is
> PC> copy". Uri noted that he really should keep his finger off
> the
> PC> send button until he's read the whole 'm
> "PC" == Piers Cawley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
PC> To do that you need to declare the parameter with "is
PC> copy". Uri noted that he really should keep his finger off the
PC> send button until he's read the whole 'megilla', whatever one
PC> of those is.
it is appr
The Perl 6 Summary for the week ending 20030316
Spring is in the air, the Apocalypse is here (or imminent, depending on
which sense of the word 'Apocalypse' you are using). We'll start with
perl6-internals as usual, before bracing ourselves for the increased
volume and ploughing on
--- Leopold Toetsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Piers Cawley wrote:
> > Coroutines end and DFG
> > Nobody explained what DFG stands for.
>
> It's a commonly used TLA standing for Data Flow Graph, which
> accompanies the CFG (Control Flow Graph). Both are necessary
> for register allocation
Piers Cawley wrote:
Coroutines end and DFG
Nobody explained what DFG stands for.
It's a commonly used TLA standing for Data Flow Graph, which accompanies
the CFG (Control Flow Graph). Both are necessary for register allocation.
leo
The Perl 6 Summary for the week ending 20030309
Ooh look, it's another of those Perl 6 Summaries where Piers tries to
work a gratuitous reference to Leon Brocard into a summary of what's
been happening to the Perl 6 development process this week.
As tradition dictates, we'll start
The Perl 6 summary for the week ending 20030216
Welcome to the all new, entirely unaltered, all singing, all dancing
Perl 6 summary. Your beacon of reliability in the crazy world that is
Perl 6 design and development.
Another quiet week. Even quieter than last week in fact, unless
The Perl 6 Summary for the week ending 20030209
Welcome to the latest Perl 6 summary, your handy cut out and keep guide
to the goings on in the crazy world of Perl 6 design and development.
It's been a rather quiet week this week; only 75 messages in
perl6-internals and a mere 57
The Perl 6 Summary for the week ending 20030126
Welcome to the first Perl 6 summary of the new 'Copious Free Time
enabled' era, which should mean that these summaries will get mailed out
on Monday evening from now on.
We start, as usual, with perl6-internals
The eval patch
L
The Perl 6 Summary for the week ending 20030119
Summary time again, damn but those tuits are hard to round up. Guess,
what? perl6-internals comes first. 141 messages this week versus the
language list's 143.
Objects (again)
Objects were still very much on everyone's mind as the d
On Tuesday, December 24, 2002, at 02:55 AM, Piers Cawley wrote:
Apparently part of the problem is that the undef function isn't
fully defined.
Well, isn't that sort-of the point?
:-)
David
--
David Wheeler AIM: dwTheory
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
The Perl Summary for the week ending 20021222
Hello, good morning and welcome to the Christmas edition of the Perl 6
summary. For some reason I have convinced myself to sit here on
Christmas Eve writing a summary for all you crazy kids out there who
hang on my every word. Plus, it b
The Perl Summary for the week ending 20021215
Hi, and welcome to the first summary prepared on my shiny second hand
TiBook (no, it wasn't a gift from a grateful summary reader, it was
bought from a friend who was upgrading, gifts from grateful summary
readers are, of course, still w
The Perl 6 Summary for the week ending 20021117
"Oh! my ears and whiskers, I'm late!"
It's 0650, it's 20021120 and I've only just started writing the summary.
Call me lazy, call me a shirker, call me anything you damn well please,
just don't interrupt me while I'm writing this.
Deborah Ariel Pickett wrote:
> Assuming that semicolon is no longer going to be a supercomma in these
> situations, does that mean that we C addicts can have C back to do
> the kinds of loops that we mean when we say "for loops"?
I hope not.
> I really don't much like the C keyword.
>
> for (
> Supercomma!
> [snip]
> Larry then confessed that he was thinking of changing the declaration of
> parallel for loops from:
> for @a ; @b ; @c - $a ; $b ; $c {...}
> to something like:
> for parallel(@a, @b, @c) - $a, $b, $c {...}
Assuming that semicolon is no longer goi
Piers Cawley writes:
>
> FMTWYENTK about ":="
> Bravely declining to expand the acronym in his subject, arcardi posted a
> summary of his current understanding of the behavior of ":=", the
its "far more then what you ever need to know"
and after Damian Conway answer it becomes JEOWY
The Perl 6 Summary for the week ending 20021110
Far off in distant Newark a figure, muttering something about `Leon
Brocard', shambles across a railway bridge and makes its way into a
waiting room. Time passes. After a while, a train arrives and the figure
shambles on board, takes i
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