Re[2]: Proposed PDD format for Perl6's "assembly language standard"

2001-05-22 Thread A. C. Yardley
Dan Sugalski writes: > Consider yourself officially drafted. It's too late to run away... :-) Affirm that, Sir! :-) /acy

Re: Proposed PDD format for Perl6's "assembly language standard"

2001-05-22 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 11:27 AM 5/22/2001 -0400, Bryan C. Warnock wrote: > From a design perspective, are they (bytecodes and opcodes) different, or is >it simply a structure (linear vs tree, for instance) distinction? Would >the above cover the execution engine, the data dumper/restorer, or both? They're definitel

Re: Proposed PDD format for Perl6's "assembly language standard"

2001-05-22 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 06:36 PM 5/21/2001 -0700, A. C. Yardley wrote: >What I propose is perl6-internals (or, per Dan, "the bytecode >definition group") adopt the above format for the PDDs on certain >aspects of Perl6's interpreter (i.e., again, per Dan, "assembly >language standard, ..."). We'll need to work from a

Re: Proposed PDD format for Perl6's "assembly language standard"

2001-05-22 Thread Bryan C . Warnock
On Monday 21 May 2001 21:36, A. C. Yardley wrote: > B> > This section gives detals on how the instruction is laid out in the > bytecode of a class file. It shows a table listing the opcode for > the instruction, as well as any additional parameters that follow > the opcode in bytecode. > > B

Proposed PDD format for Perl6's "assembly language standard"

2001-05-21 Thread A. C. Yardley
This is, obviously, premature, but, since the list has been rather inactive over the last week or so (and this stuff has been much on my mind as of late), I thought I'd throw this out there, fwiw. I'm probably all wet ("And that's, OK" :-), but, recently, I began to re-review my copy of Jon Meyer