Re: Tcl - compiling expressions

2005-10-01 Thread Will Coleda
On Oct 2, 2005, at 1:40 AM, Will Coleda wrote: I've attached the generated PIR output for the sample program, which outputs "10" set a 0 while {$a < 10} { incr a } puts $a Ok, technically, it's not the output of a complete PIR program, it's the concatenated output of several chunks. O

Re: Tcl - compiling expressions

2005-10-01 Thread Will Coleda
The simple version of the compiler is now mostly done in my sandbox: Failed Test Stat Wstat Total Fail Failed List of Failed --- t/cmd_global.t 3 768 63 50.00% 2-4 t/cmd_proc.t 4 1024

[perl #37321] [TODO] Data::Escape::String needs to escape Unicode

2005-10-01 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by Will Coleda # Please include the string: [perl #37321] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # https://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=37321 > A quick check shows this fails at str[index] on line 78.

Re: Look-ahead arguments in for loops

2005-10-01 Thread John Macdonald
On Sat, Oct 01, 2005 at 02:22:01PM -0600, Luke Palmer wrote: > And the more general form was: > > $sum = reduce { $^a + $^b } @items; > > Yes, it is called reduce, because "foldl" is a miserable name. So, the target of running a loop with both the current and previous elements accessible cou

Re: Look-ahead arguments in for loops

2005-10-01 Thread Damian Conway
Austin Hastings wrote: 1. Requirement to repeat the possibly complex expression for the list. 2. Possible high cost of generating the list. 3. Possible unique nature of the list. The subroutine addresses #1, but not 2 or 3. It does address 2. The list is generated once (wherever) and only pa

Re: About multithreading

2005-10-01 Thread Leopold Toetsch
On Oct 1, 2005, at 22:20, Martin D Kealey wrote: So can we look towards having things like "map" and "grep" be parallel (or at least unordered) by default? I don't think so. First and foremost, these functions produce ordered results, that's the Perl semantics of it. Second, while we can fo

Re: seeing the end of the tunnel

2005-10-01 Thread Luke Palmer
On 10/1/05, David Storrs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > All in all, I think that might just be the end of the tunnel up > ahead. Go us for getting here, and loud applause to @Larry for > guiding us so well! Applause for p6l for hashing out the issues that we didn't think of. I recently wrote a "Pe

Re: Look-ahead arguments in for loops

2005-10-01 Thread Austin Hastings
Damian Conway wrote: > Austin Hastings wrote: > >> All of these have the same solution: >> >> @list = ... >> for [undef, @list[0...]] ¥ @list ¥ [EMAIL PROTECTED], undef] -> $last, $curr, >> $next { >> ... >> } >> >> Which is all but illegible. > > > Oh, no! You mean I might have to write a...sub

Re: Look-ahead arguments in for loops

2005-10-01 Thread Luke Palmer
On 10/1/05, John Macdonald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I forget what the final choice was for syntax for the reduce > operator (it was probably even a different name from reduce - > that's the APL name), but it would be given a list and an > operator and run as: > > my $running = op.identity;

Re: About multithreading

2005-10-01 Thread Martin D Kealey
Leo wrote: > > http://www.gotw.ca/publications/concurrency-ddj.htm > > The Free Lunch Is Over: A Fundamental Turn Toward Concurrency in Software > > Herb Sutter On Tue, 20 Sep 2005, Jonathan Worthington replied: > Yup, and it's encouraging to see Perl 6 is heading in a good direction on > concurre

Re: Variable registers

2005-10-01 Thread Leopold Toetsch
On Oct 1, 2005, at 18:11, Klaas-Jan Stol wrote: ah I thought so. just making sure. Then another question WRT this; will there be a register allocator? In other words, an attempt to minimize the number of needed registers? (in my simple code generator implementations, any time I need a new reg

Re: Variable registers

2005-10-01 Thread Klaas-Jan Stol
Leopold Toetsch wrote: On Oct 1, 2005, at 8:46, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: hi, I read that with the new calling conventions, there are a variable number of registers. So, if I understand correctly, if a function call takes 2 parameters, then there are only 2, and if there are 30 paramete

seeing the end of the tunnel

2005-10-01 Thread David Storrs
So, I was thinking about how $Larry's original plan for doing the Perl6 design was something along the lines of "write a series of Apocalypses, one for each chapter of the Camel book". I know that the latest version of the Apocalypses are in SVN, but I checked dev.perl.org just to see what

Re: Look-ahead arguments in for loops

2005-10-01 Thread John Macdonald
On Fri, Sep 30, 2005 at 08:39:58PM -0600, Luke Palmer wrote: > Incidentally, the undef problem just vanishes here (being replaced by > another problem). Which reminds me that this same issue came up a while ago in a different guise. There was a long discussion about the reduce functionality that

Parrot 0.3.0 "Alex" Released!

2005-10-01 Thread Leopold Toetsch
On behalf of the Parrot team I'm proud to announce the release of Parrot 0.3.0. I'd like to thank all involved people as well as our sponsors for supporting us. What is Parrot? Parrot is a virtual machine aimed at running Perl6 and other dynamic languages. Parrot 0.3.0 changes and news - New c

RE: Look-ahead arguments in for loops

2005-10-01 Thread Joe Gottman
> -Original Message- > From: Damian Conway [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Saturday, October 01, 2005 8:53 AM > To: perl6-language@perl.org > Subject: Re: Look-ahead arguments in for loops > > Austin Hastings wrote: > > > All of these have the same solution: > > > > @list = ... > > fo

Re: Look-ahead arguments in for loops

2005-10-01 Thread Damian Conway
Austin Hastings wrote: All of these have the same solution: @list = ... for [undef, @list[0...]] ¥ @list ¥ [EMAIL PROTECTED], undef] -> $last, $curr, $next { ... } Which is all but illegible. Oh, no! You mean I might have to write a...subroutine!?? sub contextual (@list) { ret

Re: Exceptuations, fatality, resumption, locality, and the with keyword; was Re: use fatal err fail

2005-10-01 Thread Yuval Kogman
On Sat, Oct 01, 2005 at 05:57:54 -0400, Austin Hastings wrote: > Internally, it may be the same. But with exceptions, it's implemented by > someone other than the victim, and leveraged by all. That's the kind of > abstraction I'm looking for. My problem with the whole notion of "Either > errorMess

Re: Look-ahead arguments in for loops

2005-10-01 Thread Austin Hastings
Damian Conway wrote: > Rather than addition Yet Another Feature, what's wrong with just using: > > for @list ¥ @list[1...] -> $curr, $next { > ... > } > > ??? 1. Requirement to repeat the possibly complex expression for the list. 2. Possible high cost of generating the list. 3. Po

Re: Exceptuations, fatality, resumption, locality, and the with keyword; was Re: use fatal err fail

2005-10-01 Thread Austin Hastings
TSa wrote: > > The view I believe Yuval is harboring is the one examplified > in movies like The Matrix or The 13th Floor and that underlies > the holodeck of the Enterprise: you can leave the intrinsic > causality of the running program and inspect it. Usually that > is called debugging. But this

Re: merge & release

2005-10-01 Thread Leopold Toetsch
On Sep 28, 2005, at 10:50, Leopold Toetsch wrote: 3) Release will follow at the weekend I'll start the release procedure RSN. Please no more svn checkins at all. leo

Re: Exceptuations, fatality, resumption, locality, and the with keyword; was Re: use fatal err fail

2005-10-01 Thread Austin Hastings
Yuval Kogman wrote: >On Thu, Sep 29, 2005 at 13:52:54 -0400, Austin Hastings wrote: > > [Bunches of stuff elided.] >>A million years ago, $Larry pointed out that when we were able to use >>'is just a' classifications on P6 concepts, it indicated that we were >>making good forward progress. In t

Re: Variable registers

2005-10-01 Thread Leopold Toetsch
On Oct 1, 2005, at 8:46, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: hi, I read that with the new calling conventions, there are a variable number of registers. So, if I understand correctly, if a function call takes 2 parameters, then there are only 2, and if there are 30 parameters, there will be a frame

Re: [perl #37303] [PATCH] Relaxing parrot dependency on parrot_config

2005-10-01 Thread Nick Glencross
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