Re: [POC] nci interface using ffcall library

2005-10-30 Thread John Lenz
On Fri, October 28, 2005 2:22 pm, Nick Glencross said: > Guys, > > As mentioned on the list yesterday I started evaluating ffcall as a way > of providing NCI functionality. > > http://www.haible.de/bruno/packages-ffcall.html I am a SWIG (www.swig.org) developer, and I recently started looking at

Scheme, Chicken, and Parrot

2005-07-07 Thread John Lenz
Introduction I have a very alpha patch to add a parrot backend to the CHICKEN compiler. CHICKEN is a scheme to C compiler, and parrot is a continuation (rather than stack) based virtual machine. There are several design issues mapping chicken construct

Re: PMCs: Should We Use Them?

2005-07-07 Thread John Lenz
On Thu, July 7, 2005 11:40 am, Roger Browne said: > Matt Diephouse wrote: >> Should as much functionality as possible be put into the core PMCs? > > I'd like to see parrot include a set of core PMCs that implement fairly > pure abstractions, without any language-specific stuff (such as > automatic

Bug in Boolean.pmc

2005-05-06 Thread John Lenz
Hi, the following test fails because boolean.pmc actually registers the global True as a false boolean, and no boolean for False. It is fixed with the patch below. John find_global P0, "True" find_global P1, "False" if P0, L1 print "Error, True is not true" L1: unless P1, L2