Parrot 0.6.0 "P&P" is released.

2008-03-18 Thread Bernhard Schmalhofer
On behalf of the Parrot team, I'm proud to announce Parrot 0.6.0 "P&P." Parrot (http://parrotcode.org/) is a virtual machine aimed at running dynamic languages. This release is a milestone release featuring the revamping of Parrot Magic Cookies. Parrot 0.6.0 can be obtained via CPAN (soon), or f

Re: Musings on operator overloading

2008-03-18 Thread TSa
HaloO, Doug McNutt wrote: I really want to use complex numbers, vectors, matrices, and sometimes quarternions. I really want to be able to define or use previously defined operators in a way that I learned in the 50's. I want my compiler to understand when I use vectors in which the components a

Re: Regex syntax

2008-03-18 Thread Jon Lang
Moritz Lenz wrote: > I noticed that in larger grammars (like STD.pm and many PGE grammars in > the parrot repo) string literals are always quoted for clarity > > regex foo { > 'literal' > } > > Since I think this is a good idea, we could just as well enforce that, and > drop the <...> ar