On Fri, 22 Dec 2000, Nicholas Clark wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 22, 2000 at 03:56:06PM -0500, Deven T. Corzine wrote:
> > Except for obvious performance-critical bottleneck areas, what advantages
> > are there to implementing anything else first in C?
>
> One reason (maybe not a good one) I can think
On Fri, Dec 22, 2000 at 03:56:06PM -0500, Deven T. Corzine wrote:
> Except for obvious performance-critical bottleneck areas, what advantages
> are there to implementing anything else first in C?
One reason (maybe not a good one) I can think of
There are people who already have experience of wri
On Fri, 22 Dec 2000, Dan Sugalski wrote:
> At 02:43 PM 12/22/00 -0500, Deven T. Corzine wrote:
> >I don't know if this has been discussed before, but I'm just tossing this
> >idea on the table for discussion and consideration. (If this was already
> >discussed, please tell me what the conclusio
At 02:43 PM 12/22/00 -0500, Deven T. Corzine wrote:
>I don't know if this has been discussed before, but I'm just tossing this
>idea on the table for discussion and consideration. (If this was already
>discussed, please tell me what the conclusion was, if any.)
>
>How about implementing the Perl
Can the autovivication behavior be changed slightly for Perl 6?
Specificly, can we suppress autovivication in read-only circumstances, and
evaluate the expression as "undef" immediately instead of autovivicating
empty data structures that didn't exist before?
The current behavior in Perl 5 is i
I don't know if this has been discussed before, but I'm just tossing this
idea on the table for discussion and consideration. (If this was already
discussed, please tell me what the conclusion was, if any.)
How about implementing the Perl 6 compiler in Perl 6 itself?
Note that I'm _not_ talking
On Wed, Dec 20, 2000 at 12:40:46AM -0500, Mark-Jason Dominus wrote:
> The part I found interesting was the part about elimination of the message.
> Perceived slowness is also important.
Perl 6 is going to be much faster.
(Than what I don't know, but I'm just helping to propagate the perception.)
