Re: String concatentation operator

2002-11-20 Thread Mark Biggar
on a 128 CPU machine... now I know that's not entirely realistic, but it should be able to run at least say 60 times faster. Amdahl's law applies here: no amount of paralellism will speed up an inheirently sequential algorithm -- Mark Biggar [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Arrays: Default Values

2003-01-29 Thread Mark Biggar
will only lead to mysterious bugs and programmer missunderstandings. -- Mark Biggar [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Arrays: Default Values

2003-01-30 Thread Mark Biggar
array. I imagine that each primative type will have a default default :-) int0 str'' num0.0 etc. and if we define a prop is no_default then you get what ever junk happens to be in memory. (this for even more speed) -- Mark Biggar [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Wrappers vs. efficiency - quick comment

2003-03-11 Thread Mark Biggar
copies. Besides a wrapped inline sub is in no different situation as a inlined sub being called in another inlined sub, this seem to be all part of what the compiler has to be able to do to deal with a recursive sub that is also declared inline. -- Mark Biggar [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: a thought on multiple properties

2003-03-13 Thread Mark Biggar
feed (cat_table %cats) {...} -- Mark Biggar [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: A6: argument initializations via //=, ||=, ::=

2003-03-25 Thread Mark Biggar
to IO:STDOUT although maybe what I really want is := instead. -- Mark Biggar [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Short-circuiting user-defined operators

2003-04-03 Thread Mark Biggar
need to be an lvalue clouser to handle is rw paramenters. Side effects happen each time the thunk is called. Also changes to the thunks environment can effect its value when called. Either of those can have threading added as well. -- Mark Biggar [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Collapsing Junction states?

2008-11-13 Thread Mark Biggar
, one(@a) is. I suppose we could define a :uniq(true|false) adverb to modify the meaning of one() so we could have both interpretations. Mark Biggar

Re: infectious traits and pure functions

2009-02-16 Thread Mark Biggar
) that something is not impure is an NP-complete problem. Worse it's equivalent to the halting problem (I.e., not solvable). In general any non-trivial property of a program of the form Does this program ever do ... is equivalent to the halting problem. Mark Biggar -- m...@biggar.org mark.a.big

Re: Range and continuous intervals

2009-02-28 Thread Mark Biggar
Darren Duncan wrote: In reply to Jon Lang, What I'm proposing here in the general case, is a generic collection type, Interval say, that can represent a discontinuous interval of an ordered type. A simple way of defining such a type is that it is a Set of Pair of Ordered, where each Pair

Re: Unchecked versions of the setters (Re: Temporal.pod truncate)

2010-04-09 Thread Mark Biggar
On 4/9/2010 4:53 AM, Moritz Lenz wrote: Am 09.04.2010 13:34, schrieb Mark J. Reed: The date still corresponds to an actual day. If I set it to Feb 31, I should get back Mar 2 or 3 depending on the year. While I'm having trouble thinking of a good specific example, it's a capability I've taken