Re: FIRST, BETWEEN, etc.. (was Re: Loop controls)

2002-05-07 Thread Graham Barr
On Tue, May 07, 2002 at 12:27:08PM -0500, Allison Randal wrote: > On Tue, May 07, 2002 at 03:15:48PM +0100, Graham Barr wrote: > > > > LAST Executes on implicit loop exit or call to last() > > Loop variables may be unknown > > Not exactly "unknown". It's just that, in a few cases, their v

Re: FIRST, BETWEEN, etc.. (was Re: Loop controls)

2002-05-07 Thread Allison Randal
On Tue, May 07, 2002 at 03:15:48PM +0100, Graham Barr wrote: > > LAST Executes on implicit loop exit or call to last() > Loop variables may be unknown Not exactly "unknown". It's just that, in a few cases, their values may have changed by the time the LAST block is executed. > And I th

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2002-05-07 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 10:11 PM -0700 5/6/02, Erik Steven Harrison wrote: >On Mon, 6 May 2002 16:26:16 > Dan Sugalski wrote: >>*Alot of good answers to questions* > >Appreciate the descent from the mountain to help clear things up down here. You're certainly welcome for the answers. (And while the internals list

Re: Regex bytecode bakeoff

2002-05-07 Thread Steve Fink
On Mon, May 06, 2002 at 08:44:03PM -0700, Mark Kvale wrote: > > To compare schemes (A), (B), and (C), I implemented each of them. I > created a common parser for the three schemes that recognizes the > basics: ^, $, ., a, \a, [a], [^a], ab, a|b, a*, a+, a? and (a). The > parsed regex can be conv

Re: What does this do?

2002-05-07 Thread Larry Wall
Aaron Sherman writes: : On Fri, 2002-05-03 at 12:37, Larry Wall wrote: : > Piers Cawley writes: : > : Consider the following. : > : : > :sub foo {...} : > : : > :foo *@ary; : > :foo * @ary; : > : : > : Is this another place where whitespace will have meaning? Or should I : > : add p

Re: Regex bytecode bakeoff

2002-05-07 Thread Steve Fink
On Mon, May 06, 2002 at 09:38:00PM -0700, Brent Dax wrote: > (FYI, I'm the main author of Parrot's rx package.) > > Mark Kvale: > # computes dynamically several functions, such as length of the > # regex match string, that are precomputed in the reg code... > # > # Note that the overhead/match

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2002-05-07 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 9:26 AM -0400 5/7/02, Aaron Sherman wrote: >On Mon, 2002-05-06 at 16:26, Dan Sugalski wrote: >> I forgot to announce the call for questions here (sorry), but the >> answers 9and the questions) to the first round of Ask The Parrot have >> been posted over on use.perl. >> http://use.perl.org/

Re: Config issue

2002-05-07 Thread Andy Dougherty
On Mon, 6 May 2002, Melvin Smith wrote: > The broken 64bit systems seem to be related to compiling > Parrot with a different wordsize than Perl5, since I'm currently > getting byteorder from Perl5 Config.pm. > > I guess we will have to compute it ourselves after Parrot > has picked what type to

FIRST, BETWEEN, etc.. (was Re: Loop controls)

2002-05-07 Thread Graham Barr
I have been following this thread, but I would just like to inject a summary of the various related UPPERCASE blocks PREExecutes on block entry. Loop variables are in a known state POST Executes on block exit. Loop variables are in a known state NEXT Executes on impli

Re: What does this do?

2002-05-07 Thread Aaron Sherman
On Fri, 2002-05-03 at 12:37, Larry Wall wrote: > Piers Cawley writes: > : Consider the following. > : > :sub foo {...} > : > :foo *@ary; > :foo * @ary; > : > : Is this another place where whitespace will have meaning? Or should I > : add parentheses to disambiguate? Enquiring minds

RE: Loop controls

2002-05-07 Thread Aaron Sherman
On Mon, 2002-05-06 at 14:21, David Whipp wrote: > Miko O'Sullivan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: > > Sorry, I thought I'd expressed agreement at some point. I like the > > "else\s+(if|while|for|loop)" construct very much, and I think the > > programmers of the world would like it too. I know

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2002-05-07 Thread Aaron Sherman
On Mon, 2002-05-06 at 16:26, Dan Sugalski wrote: > I forgot to announce the call for questions here (sorry), but the > answers 9and the questions) to the first round of Ask The Parrot have > been posted over on use.perl. > http://use.perl.org/article.pl?sid=02/05/06/179233 for the interested.

Re: What does this do?

2002-05-07 Thread Piers Cawley
Larry Wall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Piers Cawley writes: > : Consider the following. > : > :sub foo {...} > : > :foo *@ary; > :foo * @ary; > : > : Is this another place where whitespace will have meaning? Or should I > : add parentheses to disambiguate? Enquiring minds want to