Re: RFC 23 (v6) Higher order functions

2000-09-25 Thread John Tobey
$_[0] == $_[1]**2 *$_[2] or die $_[3] > }; -- John Tobey, late nite hacker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> \\\ /// ]]] With enough bugs, all eyes are shallow. [[[ /// \\\

Re: RFC 189 (v1) Objects : Hierarchical calls to initializers and destructors

2000-09-02 Thread John Tobey
On Sat, Sep 02, 2000 at 12:16:48AM -0400, John Tobey wrote: > I agree with Michael that SETUP should be BLESS. You argue that it Oops, I mean Nate. Sorry, Michael! -John

Re: RFC 189 (v1) Objects : Hierarchical calls to initializers and destructors

2000-09-01 Thread John Tobey
On Fri, Sep 01, 2000 at 08:59:10PM -, Perl6 RFC Librarian wrote: > =head1 ABSTRACT > > This RFC proposes a new special method called C that is > invoked automagically whenever an object is created. Furthermore, > it proposes that both C and C methods should > be invoked hierarchically in all

Re: C# (.NET) has no interpreters

2000-08-21 Thread John Tobey
traightforwardly implemented with GCC using a smallish machine-specific header. I'll bet a non-optimizing version could be produced with no asm - just use volatile for variables and goto for jumps. Accessing the stack pointer and inserting span data might require asm. Best -John

Re: RFC 46 (v1) Use features of portable, free compilers

2000-08-06 Thread John Tobey
On Sat, Aug 05, 2000 at 10:02:23PM -0500, Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote: > On Sat, Aug 05, 2000 at 07:25:41PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > > libraries and tools are better than the vendor counterparts; Sun's > > compilers and linkers are considerably better than GNU's for SPARC C code, > > for example.