Re: [PATCH] perlarray strange behaviour

2002-07-01 Thread Jeff
Josef Höök wrote: > > i found some strange behaviour in perlarray.pmc > Consider this code: > > new P0, .PerlArray, 2 # P0[2] > set P0, 2, 1 # P0[2] = 1 > set P0, -4, 1 # P0[-4] = 1 > > # Above runs some strange code: > # ix += SELF->cache.int_val >

Re: Perl 6 grammar progress?

2002-07-01 Thread Ashley Winters
On Monday 01 July 2002 02:30 pm, Uri Guttman wrote: > > "AW" == Ashley Winters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > AW> Also, where does $() come in? Is statement scalarification ever > AW> useful outside a string? > > it is the same as scalar() in perl5. it provides scalar context if used > ou

Re: Perl 6 grammar progress?

2002-07-01 Thread Uri Guttman
> "AW" == Ashley Winters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: AW> Also, where does $() come in? Is statement scalarification ever AW> useful outside a string? it is the same as scalar() in perl5. it provides scalar context if used outside a string. uri -- Uri Guttman -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Perl 6 grammar progress?

2002-07-01 Thread Ashley Winters
On Sunday 30 June 2002 09:09 pm, Sean O'Rourke wrote: > On Sun, 30 Jun 2002, Ashley Winters wrote: > > I don't know how the grammars are going, and I'm not fit to write one > > myself, > > Hey, neither am I, but that hasn't stopped me from taking a stab or two, > figuring that through pain comes f

Re: Stack performance issue

2002-07-01 Thread Melvin Smith
At 06:59 PM 6/30/2002 +0100, Tom Hughes wrote: >of the ARM procedure call standard. The solution there is to always >keep one chunk in reserve - when you move back out of a chunk you don't >free it. Instead you wait until you move back another chunk and then >free the chunk after the one that has

Some regex syntax foibles

2002-07-01 Thread Me
Current p6 rx syntax aiui regarding embedded code: / #1 do (may include an explicit fail): { code } #2 do with implicit 'or fail' <( code )> #3 interp lit: $( { code } ) #4 interp as rx: <{ code }> / This feels cryptic. Do we need abbreviated syntax for

Re: Perl 6 grammar progress?

2002-07-01 Thread Erik Steven Harrison
-- On Sun, 30 Jun 2002 21:09:40 Sean O'Rourke wrote: >On Sun, 30 Jun 2002, Ashley Winters wrote: > >> I don't know how the grammars are going, and I'm not fit to write one >> myself, > >Hey, neither am I, but that hasn't stopped me from taking a stab or two, >figuring that through pain comes

Re: Stack performance issue

2002-07-01 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 6:59 PM +0100 6/30/02, Tom Hughes wrote: >There is a performance issue in the stack code, which the attached >patch attempts to address. [Snip] >Some figures from my test programs, running on a K6-200 linux box. The >test programs push and pop 65536 times with the first column being when >tha

Re: [Patch] typeof op

2002-07-01 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 1:49 PM -0500 6/29/02, brian wheeler wrote: >This patch implements a typeof op which returns the integer type or >string type of a PMC. Applied, thanks. -- Dan --"it's like this"--- Dan Sugalski

what's new continued

2002-07-01 Thread raptor
me again, At the moment based on Apo1->4 no ex's "walked" yet. - There is a questions inside feel free to answer ... [?? ... ??] - Also links for other reference implementation will be good. - Also feel free to correct my english :") What's new ? Let me first mention this is in no means ful

Re: Perl 6 grammar progress?

2002-07-01 Thread John Porter
For some reason I feel really, really bad saying this -- in fact, I'm warming up the flog right now -- but, um, maybe Damian should write it? __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! - Official partner of 2002 FIFA World Cup http://fifaworldcup.yahoo.com

Re: Tasks for the interested

2002-07-01 Thread John Porter
(I don't have the original msg in my mbox, so I'm jumping in here...) The following is from the Tcl bytecode compiler [1] FAQ: Why doesn't Tcl use the Java bytecodes? I [2] had originally hoped to use Java bytecodes because they have a mature design and because Java is widely available. I cho

PMC's

2002-07-01 Thread Alberto Manuel Brandão Simões
Hi. Some questions I got when start looking to PMC's: - Is there planned a set PMC? If not, a parrot application can't create it's own PMC? - There are PMC examples other than the test suite? Thanks for the good work ;) Alberto -- Alberto Manuel B. Simoes Departamento de Informática - Univer