Re: %_ - is it available for use?

2003-08-05 Thread david nicol
On Sat, 2003-08-02 at 18:33, Michael G Schwern wrote: > Representing the Backwards Compatiblity Police, I've had co-workers use > %_ as the globalist of all global hashes. %_ transends all packages and > scopes and Perl does not localize it, touch it or use it as it does @_ and > $_. In the par

Re: Implicit parameter aliases

2003-08-05 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 1:02 PM -0700 8/5/03, Dave Whipp wrote: Can I discriminate on parameter names using multi subs? Nope. Named parameters don't participate in MMD. -- Dan --"it's like this"--- Dan Sugalski

Re: [CVS ci] don't trace system areas in sweep opcode

2003-08-05 Thread Piers Cawley
"Brent Dax" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Leopold Toetsch: >> To clean up on scope exit (and after a Perl C ins), the HL emits >> a C opcode. This doesn't do C anymore, >> because there is nothing unanchored and alive beyond the runloop's stack. > > Have I mentioned lately that you guys are geni

Re: Packfile stuff

2003-08-05 Thread Leopold Toetsch
Simon Glover wrote: At 12:18 PM +0200 8/5/03, Leopold Toetsch wrote: First: any changes here imply, that assemble.pl/disassemble.pl will seeze to work. Well, there's disassemble.c, which pdb uses; does that do everything that you want? All packfile.c based utilities are fine, as disassemble.

This Week's Perl 6 Summary

2003-08-05 Thread Piers Cawley
Perl 6 Summary for the week ending 20030703 "Ooh look, it's another Perl 6 summary. Doesn't that man ever take a holiday?" "I think he took one last month." "Is it in Esperanto this week?" "I don't think so." "Does Leon Brocard get a mention?" "It certainly looks th

Re: extproc_parrot

2003-08-05 Thread Tupshin Harper
Jeff Horwitz wrote: after many days of swimming through source code, i've successfully built a library that lets you embed parrot in oracle. this was important to me because for extproc_perl (embeds perl in oracle) to have a future with perl 6, i had to embed parrot. what makes this even cooler

Re: Re[2]: parrot, win32, stand-alone distribution, separate Parrot maillist

2003-08-05 Thread Jonathan Worthington
On Tuesday, August 05 at 2003 2:40 PM, Dan Sugalski wrote: > At 12:12 AM -0400 8/5/03, Melvin Smith wrote: > >At 11:37 PM 8/4/2003 -0400, Brent Dax wrote: > >>Jonathan Worthington: > >>> work something out. :-) However, Brent said "If you mean precompiled > >>> binaries, not yet. Parrot is sti

Re: Packfile stuff

2003-08-05 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 12:18 PM +0200 8/5/03, Leopold Toetsch wrote: Dan Sugalski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Here's some stuff we need to add to the packfile format and the sub header to get things ready for more language work. First: any changes here imply, that assemble.pl/disassemble.pl will seeze to work. So fir

Re: generic code generator? [was: subroutines and python status]

2003-08-05 Thread Michal Wallace
On Sun, 3 Aug 2003, K Stol wrote: > > What do you think? Want to try squishing pirate/python > > and pirate/lua together? :) > > Yeah, I like the idea. Let's try this out. Well, I finished reading your report[1] and posted some of my (rather unorganized) thoughts up at [2] It does seem like t

Re: Packfile stuff

2003-08-05 Thread Leopold Toetsch
Dan Sugalski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Here's some stuff we need to add to the packfile format and the sub > header to get things ready for more language work. First: any changes here imply, that assemble.pl/disassemble.pl will seeze to work. So first step would be: grep the tree and remove all

Re: Infant mortality

2003-08-05 Thread Juergen Boemmels
Benjamin Goldberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Actually, I meant generation set to MAX_INT, not 0. > > Marking pmcs as free happens at the end of DOD. Marking pmcs as live or > dead happens earlier. I was thinking of something like: > >foreach(pmc in all_pmcs) { ... >} >fo