Re: Perl6 and accents

2010-05-18 Thread Helmut Wollmersdorfer
Tom Christiansen wrote: Certainly it's perfectly well known amongst people who deal with letters--including with the Unicode standard. Accent does have a colloquial meaning that maps correctly, but sadly that colloquial definition does not correspond to the technical definition, so in being

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2010-05-18 Thread nigelsandever
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2010-05-18 Thread Daniel Ruoso
Em Dom, 2010-05-16 às 19:34 +0100, nigelsande...@btconnect.com escreveu: 3) The tough-y: Closed-over variables. These are tough because it exposes lexicals to sharing, but they are so natural to use, it is hard to suggest banning their use in concurrent routines. This is the point I

Re: Parallelism and Concurrency was Re: Ideas for a (nntp: message (nntp: message 18 of 20) 14 of 20) Object-Belongs-to-Thread threading model

2010-05-18 Thread nigelsandever
On Tue, 18 May 2010 11:39:04 +0100, Daniel Ruoso dan...@ruoso.com wrote: This is the point I was trying to address, actually. Having *only* explicitly shared variables makes it very cumbersome to write threaded code, specially because explicitly shared variables have a lot of restrictions on

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2010-05-18 Thread nigelsandever
On Tue, 18 May 2010 11:41:08 +0100, Daniel Ruoso dan...@ruoso.com wrote: Em Dom, 2010-05-16 às 19:34 +0100, nigelsande...@btconnect.com escreveu: Interoperability with Perl 5 and is reference counting should not be a high priority in the decision making process for defining the Perl 6

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2010-05-18 Thread Andrew Whitworth
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2010-05-18 Thread Daniel Ruoso
Em Ter, 2010-05-18 às 12:58 -0700, Alex Elsayed escreveu: You are imposing a false dichotomy here. Neither 'green' threads nor kernel threads preclude each other. In fact, it can be convincingly argued that they work _best_ when combined. Please look at the GSoC proposal for hybrid threading