Re: [perl #30847] [PATCH] icc fixes

2004-07-28 Thread Leopold Toetsch
Adam Thomason <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello all, > The first attached patch resolves some issues that have crept in since > the last cleanup (before ICU) w.r.t. Intel C++ on Linux. Thanks, applied. > The second [trivial] patch applies to the ICU tree to add Intel C to the > available suppor

Re: Stack Based Language

2004-07-28 Thread Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon
RaghavendraK 70574 wrote: > Because all the modern CPU are Register based. All modern *physical* CPUs are register-based; however, most modern *virtual* CPUs (virtual machines) are stack-based. Parrot is unique because it's a register-based *virtual* CPU. Regster Based: Each Instruction will ha

Stack Based Language

2004-07-28 Thread RaghavendraK 70574
Hi, What do we mean by Stack Based VM and Register based VM? Because all the modern CPU are Register based. Regster Based: Each Instruction will have to carry a destination along with the operands. Stack Based: Instruction is free of operands meaining operands are saved in the stack. One More Q

Re: This week's summary

2004-07-28 Thread Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon
Piers Cawley wrote: Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Care to explain what those are, O great math teacher? What's a math teacher? It's the right^H^H^H^H^HAmerican way to say "maths teacher". -- Brent "Dax" Royal-Gordon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Perl and Parrot hacker Oceania has alway

Re: This week's summary

2004-07-28 Thread Mark J. Reed
On 2004-07-28 at 20:55:28, Piers Cawley wrote: > What's a math teacher? Oh, come now. You may refuse to *use* the Leftpondian short form, but pretending not to *recognize* it is a bit much. :) -- Mark REED| CNN Internet Technology 1 CNN Center Rm SW0831G | [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: This week's summary

2004-07-28 Thread Piers Cawley
Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The Perl 6 Summarizer wrote: >> The infinite thread >> Pushing onto lazy lists continued to exercise the p6l crowd (or at >> least, a subset of it). Larry said that if someone wanted to hack >> surreal numbers into Perl 6.1 then

Re: CPANTS preview

2004-07-28 Thread Nick Ing-Simmons
Thomas Klausner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >Personally, I'm annoyed by dist that I cannot remove after installation. >If files are read-only, I'll have to do extra steps during deleting. So I >like dists which no read-only files. Which is why it's a Kwalitee indicator. >If we (whoever is interes

[perl #30852] [PATCH] Undef.set_pmc(), Ref allowing null values

2004-07-28 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by TOGoS # Please include the string: [perl #30852] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # http://rt.perl.org:80/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=30852 > This patch changes the Undef PMC type to morph itself to a Ref with the given value when set