Re: Perl 6's Exporter

2001-12-22 Thread Michael G Schwern
On Sat, Dec 22, 2001 at 09:20:08PM -0800, Brent Dax wrote: > # However, shoving everything onto the use line seems of somewhat > # dubious use. For starters, how do you say "don't export import()" and > # "export these variables please" at the same time? You start getting > # into special "dont_

RE: Perl 6's Exporter

2001-12-22 Thread Brent Dax
Michael G Schwern: # I've rearranged the proposed features a bit to put the long objections # at the bottom. # # Brent Dax wrote: # > I've been thinking about improvements that could be made to # Exporter for # > Perl 6. # > 3. Warnings about conflicts: # > use warnings 'Exporter'; # > sub

Re: Perl 6's Exporter

2001-12-22 Thread Michael G Schwern
I've rearranged the proposed features a bit to put the long objections at the bottom. Brent Dax wrote: > I've been thinking about improvements that could be made to Exporter for > Perl 6. > 3. Warnings about conflicts: > use warnings 'Exporter'; > sub Dumper { ... } > use Data::Dumpe

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2001-12-22 Thread venkata rama sasank
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Re: Perl 6's Exporter

2001-12-22 Thread Uri Guttman
> "BD" == Brent Dax <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: BD> # > 1. Choosing where to export to: BD> # > use Data::Dumper 'Dumper' => 'dumpvar'; BD> # > #exports Data::Dumper::Dumper to Main::dumpvar BD> # (or whatever) BD> # BD> # Where to import to. It'

[PATCH] Thread Local Storage

2001-12-22 Thread Jason Gloudon
Here is a big diff that removes the interpreter argument from vtable function calls, and creates macros for obtaining the pointer to an interpreter structure for the current thread from thread local storage, assuming only that there is one interpreter per thread. It works on unixish systems with

Re: Perl 6's Exporter

2001-12-22 Thread Bryan C. Warnock
On Saturday 22 December 2001 05:40 am, Brent Dax wrote: > BTW, can we genericize 'use' to work like an indirect-object method? > > use Data::Dumper; > Data::Dumper.use; #same thing Only if you can gel the compile-time semantics of compile-and-run. > # Well, I can't get

RE: Perl 6's Exporter

2001-12-22 Thread Brent Dax
Bryan C. Warnock: # On Saturday 22 December 2001 02:29 am, Brent Dax wrote: # > I've been thinking about improvements that could be made to # Exporter for # > Perl 6. # > # > 1. Choosing where to export to: # > use Data::Dumper 'Dumper' => 'dumpvar'; # > #exports Data::

Re: Perl 6's Exporter

2001-12-22 Thread Bryan C. Warnock
On Saturday 22 December 2001 02:29 am, Brent Dax wrote: > I've been thinking about improvements that could be made to Exporter for > Perl 6. > > 1. Choosing where to export to: > use Data::Dumper 'Dumper' => 'dumpvar'; > #exports Data::Dumper::Dumper to Main::dump

RE: Taking bakcups of a files in directory structure

2001-12-22 Thread Brent Dax
Richard J Cox: # [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Brent Dax) wrote: # > krish: # > # I am a beginner in Perl and have a very trivial query. I have # > # some .expect # [...] # > # > This is the wrong group for this sort of question. # perl6-internals is # # s/internals/language/ Doh! got the groups mixed up..

Re: restarting the discussion: parrot build system

2001-12-22 Thread Richard J Cox
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jarkko Hietaniemi) wrote: > My preference still is rely on *NOTHING* except an ANSI C compiler, > and a way to execute the executable. Which is fine, but how do you pass the source files to the compiler? What other options does it need. What ab

RE: Taking bakcups of a files in directory structure

2001-12-22 Thread Richard J Cox
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Brent Dax) wrote: > krish: > # I am a beginner in Perl and have a very trivial query. I have > # some .expect [...] > > This is the wrong group for this sort of question. perl6-internals is s/internals/language/ but the rest does apply (it's