> "n" == nick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
n> Uri Guttman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>
>> that is my concept of inline delivery. in the op dispatch loop, either a
>> counter is used or a special op (which was automatically code generated
>> is called and then all pending events (
"Bradley M. Kuhn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Liceses. Bletch.
> Don't blame the licenses, blame the copyright law that makes them an
> unfortunate necessity in many cases.
And the thieves who steal the intellectual property and claim it as their
own turf in the first place.
What are we ta
Dan Sugalski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm beginning to loathe software licenses in a *big* way, and I'm a half
> step away from saying to hell with it all and going fully public domain.
> (Or at least pushing for it, as I don't control perl's licensing terms)
Public domain has it's own t
Andy Dougherty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> (Does the LPGL and the existence of fgmp make it ok to distribute the
> interface/XS code and rely on the end user to install gmp if they so
> choose? Ick. I hate licensing problems.)
This is actually one of the reasons I'd like to see the licensing
Uri Guttman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> "IS" == <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> IS> Dan Sugalski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> IS> I have some sympathy with Uri's position here. Signals and event
> IS> loops are close cousins. What I am less clear about is whether we
> IS> want to g
> "IS" == <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
IS> Dan Sugalski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
IS> I have some sympathy with Uri's position here. Signals and event
IS> loops are close cousins. What I am less clear about is whether we
IS> want to go down the Tcl route, or do something even more
Simon Cozens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>On Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 11:03:08PM +, Nick Ing-Simmons wrote:
>> I am willing to cast bleadperl5's PerlIO into the form of a _draft_ PDD
>> for perl6 - i.e. "this is what it does now", not "this is what it should do".
>
>I have a feeling the two are go
Sam Tregar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>On Wed, 3 Jan 2001, Dan Sugalski wrote:
>
>> I think one of the things we might want to do is figure out what people use
>> signals for and see if we can abstract out some of that functionality
>> without actually exposing signals. (From an internals standpo
Dan Sugalski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>Using alarm and $SIG{ALRM} to abort blocked or long-running things is one
>of the biggies (personally I think I'd prefer some sort of eval block with
>a timeout attached), since it doesn't work threaded, doesn't work well
>outside of Unix/VMS (read: Win
> "DS" == Dan Sugalski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
DS> Right. I'm not talking about getting rid of signals--I want to make them
DS> work properly in perl 6, %SIG and all. What I'm thinking about is those
DS> things that signals are used for but aren't particularly optimal.
DS> Usin
David Cantrell wrote:
> And in any case, I can think of three different ways of saying 1821 in
> English alone.
>
> One thousand eight hundred and twenty one
> One thousand eight hundred twenty one
> Eighteen hundred and twenty one
>
> As far as *I* am concerned, the middle one is wrong (although
At 12:49 PM 1/4/01 +, Simon Cozens wrote:
>On Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 11:34:04PM -0500, Uri Guttman wrote:
> > > "DS" == Dan Sugalski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > DS> A subsystem is, in this instance at least, a piece of perl that
> > DS> can more or less stand alone, but cross modules
At 12:50 PM 1/4/01 +, Simon Cozens wrote:
>On Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 11:03:08PM +, Nick Ing-Simmons wrote:
> > I am willing to cast bleadperl5's PerlIO into the form of a _draft_ PDD
> > for perl6 - i.e. "this is what it does now", not "this is what it
> should do".
>
>I have a feeling the
At 10:15 AM 1/4/01 -0500, Sam Tregar wrote:
>On Wed, 3 Jan 2001, Dan Sugalski wrote:
>
> > I think one of the things we might want to do is figure out what people use
> > signals for and see if we can abstract out some of that functionality
> > without actually exposing signals. (From an internals
Did we do this one already?
I have an embarrassingly large amount of code that has to do Cisa('Foo') }>, or Ccan('Bar') }> because there is a
chance that C<$foo> is an unblessed reference.
I would use UNIVERSAL::can directly, but I have some code (a
container/decorator class) that messes with is
On Wed, 3 Jan 2001, Dan Sugalski wrote:
> I think one of the things we might want to do is figure out what people use
> signals for and see if we can abstract out some of that functionality
> without actually exposing signals. (From an internals standpoint, at least)
Well, one thing people use s
On Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 11:34:04PM -0500, Uri Guttman wrote:
> > "DS" == Dan Sugalski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> DS> A subsystem is, in this instance at least, a piece of perl that
> DS> can more or less stand alone, but cross modules
...
> DS> Safe signals live pretty much entirely i
On Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 11:03:08PM +, Nick Ing-Simmons wrote:
> I am willing to cast bleadperl5's PerlIO into the form of a _draft_ PDD
> for perl6 - i.e. "this is what it does now", not "this is what it should do".
I have a feeling the two are going to be very similar.
--
"A word to the wi
At 12:42 PM 1/4/01 +, Simon Cozens wrote:
>It's time to design the RTL and API. Can I have suggestions for vtable
>methods, please?
I can go you one better--I've a partial vtable PDD done. I'll patch it up a
bit when I get into the office later and send it on.
One thing we need to discuss b
It's time to design the RTL and API. Can I have suggestions for vtable
methods, please?
--
In related wibbling, I can see an opening for the four lusers of the
Apocalypse... "I didn't change anything", "My e-mail doesn't work",
"I can't print" and "Is the network broken?".
- Paul Mc Aule
David Cantrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Thu, Jan 04, 2001 at 09:28:26AM +, Piers Cawley wrote:
>
> > And for 'proper' library type sorting (assuming all works are in
> > English) we should really be doing something like:
> >
> > require Lingua::EN::Numbers;
> > s/(\d+(?:\.\d
On Thu, Jan 04, 2001 at 09:28:26AM +, Piers Cawley wrote:
> And for 'proper' library type sorting (assuming all works are in
> English) we should really be doing something like:
>
> require Lingua::EN::Numbers;
> s/(\d+(?:\.\d+))/Lingua::EN::Numbers->($1)->get_string/eg;
>
> since i
Piers Cawley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> "David L. Nicol" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > Marc Lehmann wrote:
> > >
> > > On Sat, Dec 30, 2000 at 05:31:29AM +, "David L. Nicol"
><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > > I do not know exactly what the perl5 default sort heuristic is,
> > > > asid
Here is the complete list of SunOS signals (as reported by "kill -l"),
with possible uses for each. Some I'm discounting as "not useful"
(for Perl programs), but it ain't necessarily so...
=over 4
=item HUP
Prodding daemons, dealing with loss of interactivity
=item INT, QUIT, TERM (#15, pres
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