Re: Pie-thon state 5 - and final

2004-07-25 Thread Clark C. Evans
Wow. I'm impressed you got anywhere near this far! Your work sounds very promising, a great way to validate Parrot's value proposition. On Sat, Jul 24, 2004 at 12:24:48PM +0200, Leopold Toetsch wrote: | And there is of course the question, if we should really be | "bug"-compatible | | >>> False

Re: Events (I think we need a new name)

2004-05-14 Thread Clark C. Evans
On Wed, May 12, 2004 at 06:15:54PM +0200, K Stol wrote: | >It does, though, sound like we might want an alternate name for this | >stuff. While event is the right thing in some places it isn't in | >others (like the whole attribute/property mess) we may be well-served | >choosing another name. I

Re: Object freezing

2003-10-21 Thread Clark C. Evans
Dan/Elizabeth, Thank you for considering my response, let me rephrase and then I'll go back to my own list (*grins*). On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 09:25:48PM +0200, Elizabeth Mattijsen wrote: | At 15:18 -0400 10/21/03, Dan Sugalski wrote: | >On Tue, 21 Oct 2003, Clark C. Evans wrote: | > &

Re: Object freezing

2003-10-21 Thread Clark C. Evans
On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 07:41:08PM +0200, Elizabeth Mattijsen wrote: | If you ask me, you could do easy with a simple header line like: | | parrot xml 1.0 | \0 | | basically magic word ('parrot') | followed by a space | followed by the type | followed by a space | followed by version | f

Re: Object freezing

2003-10-21 Thread Clark C. Evans
On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 09:12:27AM -0400, Dan Sugalski wrote: | We're talking about the first thing in a file (or stream, or whatever). I | was under the impression that XML files should be entirely composed of | valid XML, hence the need for the stream type marker being valid XML. YAML | doesn't c

Re: Mutable vs immutable strings

2002-07-11 Thread Clark C . Evans
t YAML -- http://yaml.org Serialization for the Masses -- Clark C. Evans Axista, Inc. http://www.axista.com800.926.5525 XCOLLA Collaborative Project Management Software

Re: Mutable vs immutable strings

2002-07-09 Thread Clark C . Evans
or map) would recursively freeze all components of the object and their relation to each other. Something like this would make dictionaries very useable... and would allow for very clean representation of python's list/tuple, buffer/string distinctions. Best, Clark Yo! Check out YAML! ht

Re: The Perils of set and PMCs

2002-02-12 Thread Clark C . Evans
| > Excellent. Until, of course, we have to implement it. We'll implement | > it by calling some vtable method on P1, that much is obvious. But which | > one? Our implementation of the set_p_p op can't know whether or not P1 | > wants a string, an integer, or a number. Or something entirely differ

Re: Generators -- Icon, Python, YAML and YATL

2001-12-31 Thread Clark C . Evans
oo complicated. ;) Best, Clark -- Clark C. Evans Axista, Inc. http://www.axista.com800.926.5525 XCOLLA Collaborative Project Management Software

Generators -- Icon, Python, YAML and YATL

2001-12-30 Thread Clark C . Evans
ing Parrot constructs... if you don't mind me piping in here and there to ask questions... Thank you so much, Clark -- Clark C. Evans Axista, Inc. http://www.axista.com800.926.5525 XCOLLA Collaborative Project Management Software