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2003-11-23 Thread Vladimir Lipsky
D:\build\parrot>nmake ... d:\build\parrot\src\encoding.c(39) : warning C4090: 'function' : different 'const' qualifiers d:\build\parrot\src\encoding.c(39) : warning C4022: 'mem_sys_free' : pointer mismatch for actual parameter 1 ... d:\build\parrot\src\chartype.c(231) : warning C4090: 'function' :

Re: 'catch' statement modifier

2003-11-23 Thread Jonathan Scott Duff
On Sun, Nov 23, 2003 at 03:53:00PM -0500, Austin Hastings wrote: > > -Original Message- > > From: Damian Conway [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > Remember that a C without a C catches all exceptions > > and returns > > C (the same as a Perl 5 C block does). > > > > So you just want: > >

Re: 'catch' statement modifier

2003-11-23 Thread Damian Conway
Hmm. I think I may have missed Luke's point. Which was (presumably): what if C<$opus.write_to_file($file);> validly returns C? In which case I think we just fall back to: try{$opus.write_to_file($file); CATCH {die "Couldn't write to $file: $!"}} which is, after all, only 5 characters long

Re: 'catch' statement modifier

2003-11-23 Thread Damian Conway
Austin Hastings wrote: try { $opus.write_to_file($file) } err die "Couldn't write to $file: $!\n"; Is that C or C ? It's C, which is low precedence C. And if so, what's C and where can I find more on it? http://dev.perl.org/perl6/exegesis/E04.html#Read_or_Die Damian

RE: 'catch' statement modifier

2003-11-23 Thread Austin Hastings
> -Original Message- > From: Damian Conway [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Remember that a C without a C catches all exceptions > and returns > C (the same as a Perl 5 C block does). > > So you just want: > > try { $opus.write_to_file($file) } > err die "Couldn't writ

Re: 'catch' statement modifier

2003-11-23 Thread Damian Conway
I was reading over some code that used the MIDI module, and saw the C method. I began wondering, how does one report the error if he feels like it, but let the module report the error if not, in a concise way. What about something along the lines of a C statement modifier, like: $opus.write_to

Re: 'catch' statement modifier

2003-11-23 Thread Tony Olekshy
Luke ~ These matters are covered at some length in RFC 88 and Apocalypse 4. http://www.avrasoft.com/perl6/rfc88.htm http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2002/01/15/apo4.html Yours, &c, Tony Olekshy Luke Palmer wrote, at 2003-11-23 11:55: > > I was reading over some code that used the MIDI module

Re: Bytecode portability and word/int sizes

2003-11-23 Thread Melvin Smith
At 01:07 PM 11/23/2003 +0100, Leopold Toetsch wrote: Melvin Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 11:34 PM 11/22/2003 +0100, Leopold Toetsch wrote: > Ix regs are for: > 1) Fast integer stuff > 2) Iteration (increment variables) > 3) Conditional checks > 4) Branching and holding addresses > 5) Index

'catch' statement modifier

2003-11-23 Thread Luke Palmer
I was reading over some code that used the MIDI module, and saw the C method. I began wondering, how does one report the error if he feels like it, but let the module report the error if not, in a concise way. What about something along the lines of a C statement modifier, like: $opus.write_

Re: Some PIR "How do I?" questions

2003-11-23 Thread Gregor N. Purdy
Umm.. Do you mean: package Foo::Bar; sub new { my $class = shift; return bless { jo => 42 }, $class; } sub prnJoe { my $self = shift; print $self->{jo}, "\n"; } package main; $f = Foo::Bar->new(); $f->prnJoe(); --

Re: Bytecode portability and word/int sizes

2003-11-23 Thread Leopold Toetsch
Melvin Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 11:34 PM 11/22/2003 +0100, Leopold Toetsch wrote: >>The concept of having INTVAL constants inside the opcodes is >>wrong from a general POV. Please have a look at e.g jit/arm/ what >>immediate constants are requiring as work arounds. > I'm not aware of