On Oct 15, 9:57 am, markjr...@gmail.com ("Mark J. Reed") wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 7:42 AM, Leon Timmermans wrote:
> > Continuations and fibers are incredibly useful and should be easy to
> > implement on parrot/rakudo but they aren't really concurrency. They're
> > a solution to a differen
I just implemented Bag to the point where it passes the spectests.
(https://github.com/masonk/rakudo/commit/2668178c6ba90863538ea74cfdd287684a20c520)
However, in doing so, I discovered that I'm not really sure what Bags are
for, anymore.
The more I think about Bags and Sets, the more my brain
On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 10:22 AM, B. Estrade wrote:
> Pardon my ignorance, but are continuations the same thing as
> co-routines, or is it more primitive than that?
Continuations are not the same thing as coroutines, although they can
be used to implement coroutines - in fact, continuations can b
Mason Kramer wrote:
I want to propose one major change to the Bag spec: When a Bag is used as an
Iterable, you get an Iterator that has each key in proportion to the number of
times it appears in the Bag.
You present some interesting thoughts here. But I don't have enough time to
think ab
Darren Duncan wrote:
> However, if the above proposal is done, I would still want an easy way to
> get the value-count pairs from a bag if I wanted them.
I don't see any problem there. Mason's suggestion only deals with the
Bag as seen through the the lens of the Iterable role; when viewed as
a h
Mason Kramer wrote:
> I'd like to anticipate one objection to this - the existence of the 'hyper'
> operator/keyword. The hyper operator says, "I am taking responsibility for
> this particular code block and promising that it can execute out of order and
> concurrently". Creating a Bag instead
On 11/08/2010 01:51 AM, Darren Duncan wrote:
> Mason Kramer wrote:
>
>> I want to propose one major change to the Bag spec: When a Bag is used as an
>> Iterable, you get an Iterator that has each key in proportion to the number
>> of times it appears in the Bag.
>
>
> You present some interest
