Re: RFC 120 (v2) Implicit counter in for statements, possibly $#.

2000-08-28 Thread Steve Simmons
On Thu, Aug 17, 2000 at 08:46:53PM -, Perl6 RFC Librarian wrote: > This and other RFCs are available on the web at > http://dev.perl.org/rfc/ > > =head1 TITLE > > Implicit counter in for statements, possibly $#. Having read over the entire discussion, I want to make a few comments and thr

Re: Are Perl6 threads preemptive or cooperative?

2000-08-28 Thread David L. Nicol
What if every subroutine tagged itself with a list of the globals it uses, so a calling routine would know to add those to the list of globals it wants locked?

Re: Are Perl6 threads preemptive or cooperative?

2000-08-28 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 12:11 PM 8/28/00 -0500, David L. Nicol wrote: >What if every subroutine tagged itself with a list of the globals >it uses, so a calling routine would know to add those to the list >of globals it wants locked? If you're looking for automagic locking of variables, you're treading deep into "In

Re: Are Perl6 threads preemptive or cooperative?

2000-08-28 Thread Chaim Frenkel
> "DLN" == David L Nicol <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: DLN> What if every subroutine tagged itself with a list of the globals DLN> it uses, so a calling routine would know to add those to the list DLN> of globals it wants locked? And what about all the subroutines _it_ will call? And if you so

Re: Are Perl6 threads preemptive or cooperative?

2000-08-28 Thread David L. Nicol
Chaim Frenkel wrote: > > > "DLN" == David L Nicol <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > DLN> What if every subroutine tagged itself with a list of the globals > DLN> it uses, so a calling routine would know to add those to the list > DLN> of globals it wants locked? > > And what about all the sub