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This is a config test for the direction of stack growth that makes
the direction a co
Luke Palmer wrote:
> Since variables are copy-on-write, you get the speed of
> pass-by-reference with the mutability of pass-by-value,
> which is what everyone wants. If you have this, why would
> you want to do enforced const reference? That's not
> rhetorical; I'm actually curious.
One reas
On Wed, 14 Aug 2002, David M. Lloyd wrote:
> > The problem was that the math vtable methods were giving up if the
> > other side of the operator wasn't an int or a num. So the current
> > version of PerlArray would make $x undef. I'm not sure getting the
> > other thing's int value (as opposed
From: Larry Wall [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> The default is pass-by-reference, but non-modifiable. If
> there's a pass-by-value, it'll have to be specially requested
> somehow.
>
> This is a minimal difference from Perl 5, in which everything
> was pass-by-reference, but modifiable. To get pass-by-val
On Fri, 12 Jul 2002, Sean O'Rourke wrote:
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>
> This patch makes the followin
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# Resolution: Use whatever default seems good, but provide the
# freedom to get pass-by-value-modifiable, perhaps something like this:
#
# sub mysub ($name is m, $email is m) { ... }
Of course! This *is* Perl after all--did you ever doubt that we would
give you all the
From: Larry Wall [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Perhaps there should be a way
> to declare a parameter to be pass-by-value, producing a
> modifiable variable that does not affect the caller's value.
> But I'm not sure saving one assignment in the body is worth
> the extra mental baggage.
and later
Sorry for the delay i've had a busy week.
This patch adds the tests.
/josef
--- pmc.t.orig Wed Aug 14 14:51:56 2002
+++ pmc.t Wed Aug 14 14:43:00 2002
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
#! perl -w
-use Parrot::Test tests => 65;
+use Parrot::Test tests => 68;
use Test::More;
my $fp_equality
I've moved all code into one file now.
/Josef
diff -urN parrot.orig/MANIFEST parrot/MANIFEST
--- parrot.orig/MANIFESTMon Aug 12 17:59:49 2002
+++ parrot/MANIFEST Mon Aug 12 18:01:36 2002
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@
classes/default.pmc
classes/genclass.pl
classes/intqueue.pmc
+class
