Re: Converting a Perl 5 "pseudo-continuation" to Perl 6

2009-01-26 Thread Larry Wall
On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 12:27:56AM +0100, Aristotle Pagaltzis wrote: : * Aristotle Pagaltzis [2009-01-02 23:00]: : > That way, you get this combination: : > : > sub pid_file_handler ( $filename ) { : > # ... top half ... : > yield; : > # ... bottom half ... : > } :

Re: Converting a Perl 5 "pseudo-continuation" to Perl 6

2009-01-26 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
* Aristotle Pagaltzis [2009-01-02 23:00]: > That way, you get this combination: > > sub pid_file_handler ( $filename ) { > # ... top half ... > yield; > # ... bottom half ... > } > > sub init_server { > # ... > my $write_pid = pid_file_handler( $

Re: Converting a Perl 5 "pseudo-continuation" to Perl 6

2009-01-03 Thread Geoffrey Broadwell
On Fri, 2009-01-02 at 22:56 +0100, Aristotle Pagaltzis wrote: > > When I asked this question on #perl6, pmurias suggested using > > gather/take syntax, but that didn't feel right to me either -- > > it's contrived in a similar way to using a one-off closure. > > Contrived how? Meaning, the gather

Re: Converting a Perl 5 "pseudo-continuation" to Perl 6

2009-01-03 Thread Mark J. Reed
On Fri, Jan 2, 2009 at 9:06 PM, Geoffrey Broadwell wrote: > It does bring up a question, though. What if pid_file_handler() needed > to be broken into three or more pieces, thus containing multiple yield > statements? Does only the first one return a continuation object, which > can be called re

Coroutines in Perl 6 (Was: Re: Converting a Perl 5 "pseudo-continuation" to Perl 6)

2009-01-02 Thread Daniel Ruoso
Em Qui, 2009-01-01 às 12:34 -0800, Geoffrey Broadwell escreveu: > In the below Perl 5 code, I refactored to pull the two halves of the PID > file handling out of init_server(), but to do so, I had to return a sub > from pid_file_handler() that acted as a "continuation". The syntax is a > bit ugly,

Re: Converting a Perl 5 "pseudo-continuation" to Perl 6

2009-01-02 Thread Larry Wall
On Fri, Jan 02, 2009 at 06:06:31PM -0800, Geoffrey Broadwell wrote: : Meaning, the gather/take syntax doesn't make much sense, because we're : not "gathering" anything; the PID file handler has nothing to return. : We'd only be using it for the "side effect" of being able to pause the : callee's ex

Re: Coroutines in Perl 6 (Was: Re: Converting a Perl 5 "pseudo-continuation" to Perl 6)

2009-01-02 Thread Daniel Ruoso
Em Sex, 2009-01-02 às 08:34 -0300, Daniel Ruoso escreveu: > token routine_def: {...} Actually, I was just looking at STD, and the correct token would be token routine_declarator:coro { } I was also looking at the spec files, and I realized that DRAFT S17 mentions coroutines, but its defini

Re: Converting a Perl 5 "pseudo-continuation" to Perl 6

2009-01-02 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
* Geoffrey Broadwell [2009-01-01 21:40]: > In the below Perl 5 code, I refactored to pull the two halves of the PID > file handling out of init_server(), but to do so, I had to return a sub > from pid_file_handler() that acted as a "continuation". The syntax is a > bit ugly, though. Is there a c

Re: Converting a Perl 5 "pseudo-continuation" to Perl 6

2009-01-01 Thread Geoffrey Broadwell
On Fri, 2009-01-02 at 00:30 +0200, Leon Timmermans wrote: > I can't help wondering "why does pid_file_handler need to be split up > in the first place?" Why wouldn't it be possible to simply call > pid_file_handler after become_daemon? Two answers: 1. If an error occurs that will not allow the PI

Converting a Perl 5 "pseudo-continuation" to Perl 6

2009-01-01 Thread Geoffrey Broadwell
In the below Perl 5 code, I refactored to pull the two halves of the PID file handling out of init_server(), but to do so, I had to return a sub from pid_file_handler() that acted as a "continuation". The syntax is a bit ugly, though. Is there a cleaner way to this in Perl 6? ## sub init_ser

Re: Converting a Perl 5 "pseudo-continuation" to Perl 6

2009-01-01 Thread Leon Timmermans
I can't help wondering "why does pid_file_handler need to be split up in the first place?" Why wouldn't it be possible to simply call pid_file_handler after become_daemon? Regards, Leon Timmermans On Thu, Jan 1, 2009 at 10:34 PM, Geoffrey Broadwell wrote: > In the below Perl 5 code, I refactore