Re: perlnum.pmc

2003-08-07 Thread Simon Glover
On Thu, 7 Aug 2003, Benjamin Goldberg wrote: > > Shouldn't the get_number() method use string_from_num, instead of > calling sprintf/snprintf? I've just tried this, and a number of tests break. There seem to be two main reasons. Firstly, some tests were assuming that stringified PerlNums woul

Re: [RFC] Dynamic PMC Classes

2003-08-07 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 5:59 PM +0200 8/5/03, Leopold Toetsch wrote: What about the following (also considering, that we might not like one handle/mmap... per PMC, as stated in one f'up): A dynamic PMC library has one init function returning a dyn_pmc_info structure: I think I'd rather have pre-defined names in the PMC

extproc_parrot

2003-08-07 Thread Jeff Horwitz
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 is that now we can em

Re: Infant mortality

2003-08-07 Thread Benjamin Goldberg
Juergen Boemmels wrote: > > Benjamin Goldberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [snip] > > Except that generational_dod_helper is much simpler and faster -- it > > doesn't mark anything as alive or free, it only adjusts the generation > > of those pmcs that were created in C functions which we have sinc

RE: We *need* this op! :-)

2003-08-07 Thread Garrett Goebel
Leopold Toetsch wrote: > Nicholas Clark wrote: > > Jos Visser wrote: > >>fortytwo I0 > > > > Shouldn't it be the what_do_you_get_if_you_multiply_six_by_nine op? > > Shouldn't it be the > what_do_you_get_if_you_multiply_six_by_nine_then_subtract_twelve op? Just for those people who've missed

Re: Packfile stuff

2003-08-07 Thread Daniel Grunblatt
On Monday 04 August 2003 14:03, Dan Sugalski 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. > > Packfiles need to have a symbol table. A series of name/type/location > tuples so we can have global names that map to v

Re: We *need* this op! :-)

2003-08-07 Thread Christian Renz
Shouldn't it be the what_do_you_get_if_you_multiply_six_by_nine_then_subtract_twelve op? No, it shouldn't. Meditate about it again and you will be enlightened. Hint: "Base 13". Greetings, Christian -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.web42.com/crenz/ - http://www.web42.com/ "The worst attitude o

Re: We *need* this op! :-)

2003-08-07 Thread Leopold Toetsch
Jos Visser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Accompanying patch adds the "fortytwo" op to Parrot, so the following > PASM becomes legal: > fortytwo I0 Pah, we need my dynpmc patch: load_pmc "foo", P0 new P0, .Foo set I0, P0 print I0 print "\n" en

Re: [RFC] Dynamic PMC Classes

2003-08-07 Thread Leopold Toetsch
Dan Sugalski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 11:10 +0200 7/31/03, Leopold Toetsch wrote: >> > *) Determine the init and setup routine names >> >>- Parrot__class_setup >>- Parrot__class_init >> >>The class_setup also sets the class_enum i.e vtable->base_type. > Well... there are versioning issues

Re: Set vs. Assign..?

2003-08-07 Thread TOGoS
> And ghod forbid, for arrays: > > elements PMC, int > > (an elements op would be really nice, because then > infinite lists > could return infinite elements:) > > elements PMC, PMC > > It might be confusing to have both "set elements" > and "get elements" > by the same name. But those

Re: Testers & PASS

2003-08-07 Thread Graham Barr
On Monday, Aug 4, 2003, at 08:15 US/Pacific, Leon Brocard wrote: alian sent the following bits through the ether: But there is a serious problem with CPAN test database. There is like 100 000 reports in the CPAN db. This is not a big problem. 100_000 reports is a very small database and I still d

Re: pirate guide

2003-08-07 Thread Adriano R. Ferreira
Isn't 'pirate' the name of the Lua compiler for Parrot (by Klaas-Jan Stol)? On Wed, 6 Aug 2003 21:38:25 -0400 (EDT), Michal Wallace <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: -- Adriano

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

2003-08-07 Thread Vladimir Lipskiy
> At 8:48 PM +0200 8/4/03, Valery A.Khamenya wrote: > >Hi All, > > > > are there any info on getting ready-to-try > > Parrot for win32 as stand-alone distribution? > > Not that I know of. If someone's got a working build and can put > together a tarball or zip file, we can get it up for downloa