Re: Tasks for the interested

2002-06-26 Thread Joe McMahon
There's a draft update of the Z-machine spec to 1.1: http://www.jczorkmid.net/~jpenney/ZSpec11-draft6.txt It's not final, but it does clarify some vague stuff in the 1.0 spec. --- Joe M.

Re: extension API

2002-06-26 Thread Dave Goehrig
On Wed, Jun 26, 2002 at 08:04:05AM -0700, Sean O'Rourke wrote: > I'd suggest having types be integers handed out at run-time. I thought about this before I suggested what I did, hence they TYPE macro :) Remember, an enum is really just an integer, and your question is about how you manage that.

System calls/spawning new processes

2002-06-26 Thread Fahmawi, Yazan
Hi all, I am writing a perl script, call it 'Master.pl'. I am also writing another script, 'Peon.pl'. I'm using perl5 on a Unix system, and what I'd like to do is allow Master.pl to spawn multiple instances of Peon.pl, as if someone was executing it from the command prompt with an ampersand (&).

Re: extension API

2002-06-26 Thread Sean O'Rourke
On Wed, 26 Jun 2002, Dave Goehrig wrote: > 1.) Data creation function having both of the following properties: > a.) Create & register new PMCs > b.) Toggle GC on/off > > say with the following API for sake of arugment: > let TYPE be either a char* or

extension API

2002-06-26 Thread Dave Goehrig
Dan, I've started work on a XS wrapper extension for Parrot, and have been spending a lot of time looking the current Perl5 API relative to Python's and Ruby's. I am working under the assumption that the Parrot extension API will have a minimum of the following parts: 1.) Data creation