Opcode docs, part 2

2002-07-02 Thread Eric Kidder
If no one has any objections, I am planning on adding the undocumented opcodes to pdd06_pasm.pod. For the most part, I am just going to copy the pod documentation from the various *.ops files to pdd06. For those opcodes without documentation or which are confusing, I'll try to contact the author

[netlabs #758] [PATCH] Fixes for example programs

2002-07-02 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by Simon Glover # Please include the string: [netlabs #758] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # http://bugs6.perl.org/rt2/Ticket/Display.html?id=758 > Fixes to various of the PASM examples in light of recent changes in the assembler.

Re: Ruby iterators

2002-07-02 Thread Luke Palmer
On Tue, 2 Jul 2002, Michael G Schwern wrote: > On Fri, Jun 28, 2002 at 01:21:50PM -0700, Erik Steven Harrison wrote: > > Over on Perlmonks someone was asking about Perl 6's ability to have named > > argument passing. He also asked about the Jensen Machine and Ruby iterators. > > Now, just being o

[netlabs #757] Problem mixing labels, comments and quote-marks

2002-07-02 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by Simon Glover # Please include the string: [netlabs #757] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # http://bugs6.perl.org/rt2/Ticket/Display.html?id=757 > This code: A:# prints "a" print "a" end doesn't assem

Re: Ruby iterators

2002-07-02 Thread Michael G Schwern
On Fri, Jun 28, 2002 at 01:21:50PM -0700, Erik Steven Harrison wrote: > Over on Perlmonks someone was asking about Perl 6's ability to have named > argument passing. He also asked about the Jensen Machine and Ruby iterators. > Now, just being on this list has taught me so much, but, I'm not quite

[netlabs #754] [PATCH] Fix lookback op and add test

2002-07-02 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by Simon Glover # Please include the string: [netlabs #754] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # http://bugs6.perl.org/rt2/Ticket/Display.html?id=754 > This patch fixes the lookback ops to work properly when given negative offsets, an

Re: multidimensional array

2002-07-02 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 9:45 PM +0100 7/2/02, Nicholas Clark wrote: >On Thu, Jun 27, 2002 at 05:42:10PM +0200, Josef Höök wrote: >> I've been thinking abit on howto implement multidimensional arrays and >> i found that its quite tricky :). I'm currently thinking of having >> a structure that contains a data pointer

Re: [PATCH] 3-arg chopn

2002-07-02 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 5:14 PM -0400 7/2/02, Simon Glover wrote: >On Tue, 2 Jul 2002, Dan Sugalski wrote: > >> At 2:37 PM -0500 7/2/02, brian wheeler wrote: >> >I saw this was a TODO item in core.ops. >> >> Applied, thanks. >> >> Tests, from anyone, would be much appreciated. > > Will these do? Absolutely. Than

Re: Some regex syntax foibles

2002-07-02 Thread Allison Randal
On Tue, Jul 02, 2002 at 03:59:57PM -0500, Allison Randal wrote: > > The parens in #3, C<< <( code )> >>, make sense if you think of s/3/2/ Allison

Re: [PATCH] 3-arg chopn

2002-07-02 Thread Simon Glover
On Tue, 2 Jul 2002, Dan Sugalski wrote: > At 2:37 PM -0500 7/2/02, brian wheeler wrote: > >I saw this was a TODO item in core.ops. > > Applied, thanks. > > Tests, from anyone, would be much appreciated. Will these do? Simon --- t/op/string.t.old Tue Jul 2 16:59:23 2002 +++ t/op/string.t

Re: Perl 6 Summary

2002-07-02 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 4:19 PM -0400 7/2/02, Mark J. Reed wrote: >On Tue, Jul 02, 2002 at 09:56:46AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> Sean O'Rourke [...] presented "a larger [grammar] that appears to >> capture much more of the syntax found in Apocalypses and Exegeses >> 1 - 4 (5 just scares me)." >O

Re: Some regex syntax foibles

2002-07-02 Thread Allison Randal
On Mon, Jul 01, 2002 at 02:52:06PM -0500, Me wrote: > 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 r

Re: multidimensional array

2002-07-02 Thread Nicholas Clark
On Thu, Jun 27, 2002 at 05:42:10PM +0200, Josef Höök wrote: > I've been thinking abit on howto implement multidimensional arrays and > i found that its quite tricky :). I'm currently thinking of having > a structure that contains a data pointer and its location in every > dimension something like

Re: [PATCH] 3-arg chopn

2002-07-02 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 2:37 PM -0500 7/2/02, brian wheeler wrote: >I saw this was a TODO item in core.ops. Applied, thanks. Tests, from anyone, would be much appreciated. -- Dan --"it's like this"--- Dan Sugalski

Re: multidimensional array

2002-07-02 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 5:42 PM +0200 6/27/02, =?latin1?Q?Josef_H=F6=F6k?= wrote: >I've been thinking abit on howto implement multidimensional arrays >and >i found that its quite tricky :). I'm currently thinking of >having >a structure that contains a data pointer and its location in every >di

Re: Perl 6 Summary

2002-07-02 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 1:07 PM -0700 7/2/02, Larry Wall wrote: >Are you sure Ruby isn't just using dynamic variables? My information may >be old, but that's all it seemed like to me. A certain amount of confusion >naturally arises in the Ruby world because of the absence of explicit >declaration, so the name bindin

Re: Perl 6 Summary

2002-07-02 Thread Mark J. Reed
On Tue, Jul 02, 2002 at 09:56:46AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Sean O'Rourke [...] presented "a larger [grammar] that appears to > capture much more of the syntax found in Apocalypses and Exegeses > 1 - 4 (5 just scares me)." On that subject, am I correct that there is no Exegesi

Re: PMC's

2002-07-02 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 9:05 AM +0100 7/1/02, Alberto Manuel Brandão Simões wrote: >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? Yup, there's a planned set, but I don't think we've ever put down a list of the minima

Re: Perl 6 Summary

2002-07-02 Thread Larry Wall
Are you sure Ruby isn't just using dynamic variables? My information may be old, but that's all it seemed like to me. A certain amount of confusion naturally arises in the Ruby world because of the absence of explicit declaration, so the name binding rules get to be rather complicated. In fact,

Big thanks for Bryan and Piers

2002-07-02 Thread Dan Sugalski
Doing volunteer work is so often a thankless task (and in many cases one that gets unwarranted abuse from random passers-by) that I wanted to take a moment to publically thank both Bryan Warnock and Piers Cawley, for perl 6 list summaries past and present. They're the single most visible piece

Re: Perl 6 Summary

2002-07-02 Thread Ashley Winters
On Tuesday 02 July 2002 11:15 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Tue, Jul 02, 2002 at 10:36:45AM -0700, Erik Steven Harrison wrote: > > my $a = 'foo'; > > > > pass_by_name ( sub { print $a} ); > > > > sub pass_by_name { > > my $a = 'bar'; > > &@_[0]; > > } Perhaps a pragma which does: my

Re: [PATCH] 3-arg chopn

2002-07-02 Thread Josh Wilmes
Can you add a test as well? --Josh At 14:37 on 07/02/2002 CDT, brian wheeler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I saw this was a TODO item in core.ops. > > Brian > > > > --- core.ops 1 Jul 2002 17:18:04 - 1.176 > +++ core.ops 2 Jul 2002 19:41:44 - > @@ -2074,9 +2074,9 @@ > > =

[PATCH] 3-arg chopn

2002-07-02 Thread brian wheeler
I saw this was a TODO item in core.ops. Brian --- core.ops1 Jul 2002 17:18:04 - 1.176 +++ core.ops2 Jul 2002 19:41:44 - @@ -2074,9 +2074,9 @@ =item B(inout STR, in INT) -Remove $2 characters from the end of the string in $1. +=item B(out STR, in STR, in INT) -TODO:

Re: Perl 6 Summary

2002-07-02 Thread hachi
On Tue, Jul 02, 2002 at 10:36:45AM -0700, Erik Steven Harrison wrote: > > Fortunately, a little research, has clarified a good bit of my question for me. So I >think I can reposit it more clearly. Here goes. > > You all know what pass by reference is, right? And pass by value? Well, Algol 60

Re: Perl 6 Summary

2002-07-02 Thread Erik Steven Harrison
-- On 02 Jul 2002 09:56:46 +010 pdcawley summed: > Ruby iterators > >Ruby interators were the subject of Erik Steven Harrison's post, which >also referred to 'pass by name' and 'the Jensen Machine', and wanted to >know 'the Perl 6 stance on the matter'. Nobody has yet stepped u

Re: Stack performance issue

2002-07-02 Thread mrjoltcola
On 02 Jul 2002 16:35:02 +0100 Tom Hughes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I've done that for the register stacks, and I'll do the same for the >other stacks unless somebody spots a flaw in my logic and points out >that the GC will catch it... No, your logic is correct, stacks are still outside

Re: Stack performance issue

2002-07-02 Thread Tom Hughes
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Melvin Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You might want to modify register stacks too. I currently have a > band-aid on it that just doesn't free stack chunks which works in > all but the weirdest cases. I've done that now. I also just realised that the st

Re: perl6-language Digest 1 Jul 2002 04:15:15 -0000 Issue 442

2002-07-02 Thread peter allen
Sorry, but I gotta put in a couple of comments which are basically subjective and don't realy need discussion. So, just for consideration: /^pat$/ /^pat\n?$/# ^ and $ mean string /^pat$/m /^^pat$$/ # no more /m /\A...(^pat$)*...\z/m /^..

Re: [PATCH] perlarray strange behaviour

2002-07-02 Thread Leon Brocard
Jeff sent the following bits through the ether: > It runs strange code because it depends upon partially-deprecated code. > Try 'set P0[2], 1' and 'set I0,P0[-2]'... OK, when will we get set P0[2], P2? Is it because the semantics aren't defined yet? Do we copy or leave references? I really need