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ti, 2006-01-03 kello 13:57 +, The Perl 6 Summarizer kirjoitti: > Planet Perl Six is a handy news aggregator of several Perl 6 related > sources. > > I believe that is actually Thanks for the great summary! -- wolverian <[EM

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Piers~ On 11/30/05, The Perl 6 Summarizer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > So, I hopped into a taxi (and I use the word hopped advisedly) and > repaired straightway to King's Cross and thence home to Gateshead, where > my discomfort was somewhat ameliorated by the distraction of preparin

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On Nov 15, 2005, at 17:24, The Perl 6 Summarizer wrote: The Perl 6 Summary for the fortnight ending 2005-11-13 "string_bitwise_*" Leo, it seems to boil down to a choice between throwing an exception or simply mashing everything together and marking the 'resulting bit mess'

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On Tue, 15 Nov 2005, The Perl 6 Summarizer wrote: Perl 6 perlplexities Michele Dondi worries that the increase in complexity of some aspects of Perl 6 is much bigger than the increase in functionality that the complexity buys us. In particular Michele is concerned that the Perl 6 pa

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On Tue, 2005-11-15 at 16:24 +, The Perl 6 Summarizer wrote: > ...Roger Browne (whose name I keep wanting to use as a Clerihew)... Thanks for the summaries, Piers! Here's a Clerihew for you: Roger Browne took his Parrot to town Wearing an upside-down Amber crown >:) How to w

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On Fri, 4 Nov 2005, The Perl 6 Summarizer wrote: Slightly tangentially to this, Dan Sugalski blogged a couple of weeks ago about his successes and failures with Parrot. The comments are worth reading -- there's a fair few more or less well founded complaints about the way the Perl 6

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> Rejigging NCI to use the ffcall library > Nick Glencross wondered about rejigging NCI, the parrot Native Call > Interface to use the ffcall library. In fact he went so far as to offer > up a proof of concept implementation. Apparently the ffcall approach > makes it much easier to write callba

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The Perl 6 Summarizer skribis 2005-11-04 14:34 (+): > $_ defaulting for mutating ops Probably I have not been clear enough about that I no longer think this is a good idea. Juerd -- http://convolution.nl/maak_juerd_blij.html http://convolution.nl/make_juerd_happy.html http://convolution

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On Mon, Oct 10, 2005 at 11:39:25PM +0100, The Perl 6 Summarizer wrote: > The Perl 6 Summary for the week ending 2005-10-09 > Hello, and welcome to the first Perl 6 Summary to be published on my > website rather than its former home at > > This week in perl6-compiler

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TSa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > HaloO, > > The Perl 6 Summarizer wrote: >> Meanwhile, in perl6-language >> "\(...)" >> Oh look, a thread in p6l that's still going more than a fortnight later. >> How unusual. > > Is a long running thread considered a bad thing on this list? Nah, it's j

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TSa skribis 2005-09-27 10:15 (+0200): > Is a long running thread considered a bad thing on this list? Just like how a post being Warnocked can have one or more of several causes, a long running thread can. Some are bad, some are good. As a thread becomes longer and more fanned out, it becomes h

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HaloO, The Perl 6 Summarizer wrote: Meanwhile, in perl6-language "\(...)" Oh look, a thread in p6l that's still going more than a fortnight later. How unusual. Is a long running thread considered a bad thing on this list? I have grasped so far, that spawning a new thread after some d

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On Mon, Sep 26, 2005 at 18:12:23 +0100, The Perl 6 Summarizer wrote: > Allomopherencing > Not satisfied with inventing Exceptuations, Yuval invented > Allomopherencing as well. Just don't ask me what it means because I > don't know. It was just a bad joke on Exceptuation's expense ;-

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On Thu, Sep 23, 2004 at 09:12:32AM -0400, Buddha Buck wrote: > On Wed, 22 Sep 2004 21:11:02 +0100, The Perl 6 Summarizer > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The Perl 6 Summary for the week ending 2004-09-17 > >Another week, another summary, and I'm running late. So: > > > > This week in perl6-com

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On Wed, 22 Sep 2004 21:11:02 +0100, The Perl 6 Summarizer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The Perl 6 Summary for the week ending 2004-09-17 >Another week, another summary, and I'm running late. So: > > This week in perl6-compiler > > Bootstrapping the grammar >Uri Guttman had some thoughts

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On Wed, 22 Sep 2004, The Perl 6 Summarizer wrote: Writing "pack", or something like it Michele Dondi wondered how to write "pack"-like functions in Perl 6, where the first argument is a string which specifies the signature of the rest of the function call. The proposal stumped me, but may

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The Perl 6 Summarizer wrote: Namespaces (Am I the only person who wants to repeat Namespaces! with the same intonation used for 'Monorail!' in the Simpsons?) Not any more...

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On Thu, 29 Jul 2004, Butler, Gerald wrote: > > Of course American and Right are synonymous! Just ask OUR WONDERFUL GOD (I > mean President) GEORGE W. BUSH. He'll tell ya' > OK, gentlemen, this is both way off topic and starting to head into flame war territory, so I suggest that we either qu

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L PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: This week's summary Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Piers Cawley wrote: >> Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>>Care to explain what those are, O great math tea

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Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Piers Cawley wrote: >> Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>>Care to explain what those are, O great math teacher? >> What's a math teacher? > > It's the right^H^H^H^H^HAmerican way to say "maths teacher". You mean American

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Piers Cawley wrote: Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Care to explain what those are, O great math teacher? What's a math teacher? It's the right^H^H^H^H^HAmerican way to say "maths teacher". -- Brent "Dax" Royal-Gordon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Perl and Parrot hacker Oceania has alway

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On 2004-07-28 at 20:55:28, Piers Cawley wrote: > What's a math teacher? Oh, come now. You may refuse to *use* the Leftpondian short form, but pretending not to *recognize* it is a bit much. :) -- Mark REED| CNN Internet Technology 1 CNN Center Rm SW0831G | [EMAIL PROTEC

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Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The Perl 6 Summarizer wrote: >> The infinite thread >> Pushing onto lazy lists continued to exercise the p6l crowd (or at >> least, a subset of it). Larry said that if someone wanted to hack >> surreal numbers into Perl 6.1 then

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On Mon, 26 Jul 2004, Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon wrote: > The Perl 6 Summarizer wrote: > > The infinite thread > > Pushing onto lazy lists continued to exercise the p6l crowd (or at > > least, a subset of it). Larry said that if someone wanted to hack > > surreal numbers into Perl 6.1 t

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Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [surreal numbers] > Care to explain what those are, O great math teacher? Surreal Number theory was an attempt in the latter half of the twentieth century to unify several existing sets of numbers (including the complex numbers, generalized eps

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On Mon, 26 Jul 2004 10:29:15 -0700, Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The Perl 6 Summarizer wrote: > > The infinite thread > > Pushing onto lazy lists continued to exercise the p6l crowd (or at > > least, a subset of it). Larry said that if someone wanted to hack > >

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On Mon, Jul 26, 2004 at 10:29:15AM -0700, Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon wrote: > The Perl 6 Summarizer wrote: > > The infinite thread > >Pushing onto lazy lists continued to exercise the p6l crowd (or at > >least, a subset of it). Larry said that if someone wanted to hack > >surreal numbers

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The Perl 6 Summarizer wrote: The infinite thread Pushing onto lazy lists continued to exercise the p6l crowd (or at least, a subset of it). Larry said that if someone wanted to hack surreal numbers into Perl 6.1 then that would be cool. Care to explain what those are, O great math tea

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Austin Hastings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > --- The Perl 6 Summarizer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Okay, so the interview was on Tuesday 13th of July. >> It went well; I'm going to be a maths teacher. [...] > As we all know, time flies like an arrow, but fruit flies like a > banana. If you

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On Tue, 20 Jul 2004 19:15:49 +0200, Juerd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The Perl 6 Summarizer skribis 2004-07-20 14:46 (+0100): Another subthread discussed interpolation in strings. Larry'schanged his mind so that "$file.ext" is now interpreted as "$object.method". You need to do "${file

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The Perl 6 Summarizer skribis 2004-07-20 14:46 (+0100): > Another subthread discussed interpolation in strings. Larry's changed > his mind so that "$file.ext" is now interpreted as "$object.method". You > need to do "${file}.ext" or ""$( $file ).ext"". Or maybe "$«file».ext" > by an

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--- The Perl 6 Summarizer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Okay, so the interview was on Tuesday 13th of July. > It went well; I'm going to be a maths teacher. "As usual, we begin with maths-geometry: In Mathematics last week, one Pythagoras suggested there might be a relationship between the sides

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On Thu, 8 Jul 2004, Piers Cawley wrote: > "Jonadab the Unsightly One" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > The Perl 6 Summarizer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > >> Different OO models > >> Jonadab the Unsightly One had wondered about having objects > >> inheriting behaviour from objects r

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"Jonadab the Unsightly One" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The Perl 6 Summarizer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Different OO models >> Jonadab the Unsightly One had wondered about having objects >> inheriting behaviour from objects rather than classes in Perl 6. > > Urgle. I've complet

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The Perl 6 Summarizer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Different OO models > Jonadab the Unsightly One had wondered about having objects > inheriting behaviour from objects rather than classes in Perl 6. Urgle. I've completely failed to explain myself so as to be understood. That wasn't

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The Perl 6 Summarizer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Congratulations Ion, don't forget to send in a patch to the CREDITS > file. $ grep -1 Ion CREDITS N: Ion Alexandru Morega D: string.pmc Thanks again for your summary, leo

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The Perl 6 Summarizer wrote: Mmm... Pie-thon Dan reminded everyone of the URL of the benchmark that's going to be run for the Pie-thon. If Parrot doesn't run it faster than the C implementation of Python, then Dan's going to get a pie in the face and he'll have to spring for a rou

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Please take me off your mailing list. I don't know how you got my address, but I have no idea what you are talking about. Mrs. Yardley address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: "The Perl 6 Summarizer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL

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The Perl 6 Summarizer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Passing arrays of structs to NCI subs Is working in the meantime. > Separating allocation and initialization of objects > Last week, Leo posted the latest object benchmarks, and things were > fast. But there was one test where Python

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Leopold Toetsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The Perl 6 Summarizer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Subroutine calls >> Leo announced that he's added a "pmc_const" opcode to parrot. The idea >> being that, [ ... ] >> you would instead fetch a preexisting Subroutine PMC >> from the

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The Perl 6 Summarizer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Subroutine calls > Leo announced that he's added a "pmc_const" opcode to parrot. The idea > being that, [ ... ] > you would instead fetch a preexisting Subroutine PMC > from the PMC constant pool. Not quite. I've implemented it

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The Perl 6 Summarizer wrote: > Parrotbug reaches 0.0.1 > Jerome Quelin responded to Dan's otherwise ignored request for a > parrot equivalent of perlbug when he offered an implementation of > parrotbug for everyone's perusal, but didn't go so far to add it to > the distribution. I don't think i

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Leopold Toetsch wrote: The Perl 6 Summarizer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: It turned out to be a simple matter of unimplemented functions, which he and Leo rapidly implemented. s/he and Leo/he/ I was just the one hitting Ctrl-C Ctrl-V. (Actually, I was using the mouse, since I was working

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The Perl 6 Summarizer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Good news! Bad news! > Good news! Dan says the infrastructure is in place to do delegated > method calls for vtable functions with objects. Bad news! It doesn't > actually work That's solved already. You can override e.g. "inc Px" w

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The Perl 6 Summarizer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The Perl 6 Summary for the week ending 20040229 > Native PBC issues > It turns out that, just at the moment, Parrot bytecode isn't actually > platform independent. This will, of course, get fixed, but it's not > Leo's top priority at

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[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael Scott) writes: > On 10 Feb 2004, at 14:09, The Perl 6 Summarizer wrote: > > I wonder how long it'll be before someone reimplements > > them in in PIR... > > or Perl6 perchance. Well, Perl6::Rules should be coming out soon, so that should help. -- The problem with

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On 10 Feb 2004, at 14:09, The Perl 6 Summarizer wrote: I wonder how long it'll be before someone reimplements them in in PIR... or Perl6 perchance.

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At 12:03 AM +0100 1/29/04, Elizabeth Mattijsen wrote: At 10:40 +0100 1/28/04, Leopold Toetsch wrote: The Perl 6 Summarizer wrote: The costs of sharing Leo Töposted a test program and some results for timing the difference between using shared and unshared PMCs. ... Hopefully the benchmar

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Elizabeth Mattijsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 10:40 +0100 1/28/04, Leopold Toetsch wrote: >>$ time parrot shared_ref.pasm >> >>real0m0.375s > Ah.. I want a Ponie! ;-) Actually some bits are still missing: - The SharedRef construction code has to ensure that the refered PMC is share

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At 10:40 +0100 1/28/04, Leopold Toetsch wrote: The Perl 6 Summarizer wrote: The costs of sharing Leo Töposted a test program and some results for timing the difference between using shared and unshared PMCs. ... Hopefully the benchmark will get checked into examples/benchmarks as sug

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The Perl 6 Summarizer wrote: The costs of sharing Leo Töposted a test program and some results for timing the difference between using shared and unshared PMCs. ... Hopefully the benchmark will get checked into examples/benchmarks as suggested by Luke earlier. Done now. $ time perl58

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At 12:36 PM -0500 1/13/04, Uri Guttman wrote: > "TP6S" == The Perl 6 Summarizer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: TP6S> Congratulations Dan TP6S> Melvin Smith offered his congratulations to Dan for the TP6S> first commercial use of Parrot. I think I can safely say we TP6S> al

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> "TP6S" == The Perl 6 Summarizer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: TP6S> Congratulations Dan TP6S> Melvin Smith offered his congratulations to Dan for the TP6S> first commercial use of Parrot. I think I can safely say we TP6S> all echo those congratulations. shouldn't that

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Sayeth the Summarizer: Asked for pithy comments, chromatic gave good pith, noting that if he 'had a test case from everyone who asked "When'll it be done" and code to pass a test case from everyone who said "I'd like to help, but I don't know where to start"...' then he'd happily ch

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[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter Scott) writes: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Austin Hastings) writes: > >>PS: While I'm somewhat sympathetic to the fact that eu guys are trying to >>spin up 200 years worth of amendments and supreme court decisions at the >>same time, it's still

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In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Austin Hastings) writes: >PS: While I'm somewhat sympathetic to the fact that eu guys are trying to >spin up 200 years worth of amendments and supreme court decisions at the >same time, it's still a ratf*ck. Eu need to get eurselves a Larry. Jus

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Uri Guttman wrote: > i say we just sell them a license to use the US constitution. Bill Gates wrote: > What is it with these Linux guys? > i say we just sell them a license to use Windoze. :-) A

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On Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 05:48:04PM -0500, Austin Hastings wrote: > > From: Uri Guttman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > "AH" == Austin Hastings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > AH> PS: While I'm somewhat sympathetic to the fact that eu guys are > > AH> trying to spin up 200 years worth of

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The Perl 6 Summarizer wrote: Problems with "make test" Harry Jackson couldn't get his build of parrot to finish running "make test". After a certain amount of thrashing about by the team, Dan narrowed it down to issues with the mutant '2.96' version of GCC that some versions of Re

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> "AH" == Austin Hastings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> reminds me of the great line: in EU they consider a 100 miles a long >> distance, in the US we consider 100 years a long time. :) AH> That's very good. I'm going to recycle it. Do you know the author? dunno. i have heard it from

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According to Austin Hastings: > When you consider some of the issues, it's sort of obvious that they're > trying *real* hard not to say, "Look the Americans solved this problem > already." Three words: "Second System Effect". -- Chip Salzenberg - a.k.a. - <[EMAIL PROTE

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From: Uri Guttman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > "AH" == Austin Hastings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >> -Original Message- > >> From: Uri Guttman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> > >> but he if worked on that at the rate he is churning out apocalypses, it > >> would be anot

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> "AH" == Austin Hastings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> -Original Message- >> From: Uri Guttman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> but he if worked on that at the rate he is churning out apocalypses, it >> would be another 200 years. this is not a knock on larry but a comment

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> -Original Message- > From: Uri Guttman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > "AH" == Austin Hastings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > AH> PS: While I'm somewhat sympathetic to the fact that eu guys are > AH> trying to spin up 200 years worth of amendments and supreme court > AH> decisi

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Melvin Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > At 09:30 PM 1/5/2004 +, Piers Cawley wrote: >>Melvin Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> > At 07:55 PM 1/5/2004 +0100, Lars Balker Rasmussen wrote: >> >>The Perl 6 Summarizer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> > people's salaries will depend on

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> "AH" == Austin Hastings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: AH> PS: While I'm somewhat sympathetic to the fact that eu guys are AH> trying to spin up 200 years worth of amendments and supreme court AH> decisions at the same time, it's still a ratf*ck. Eu need to get AH> eurselves a Larry. I

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At 09:30 PM 1/5/2004 +, Piers Cawley wrote: Melvin Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > At 07:55 PM 1/5/2004 +0100, Lars Balker Rasmussen wrote: >>The Perl 6 Summarizer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> > people's salaries will depend on Parrot. I confess I wouldn't be >> > surprised if, b

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The Perl 6 Summarizer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I confess > I wouldn't be surprised if, > by the end of the year, > we haven't seen > the full implementation of > at least one of > the big > non-Perl > scripting languages > on top of Parrot. Obviously you've been reading the proposed EU con

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chromatic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, 2004-01-05 at 10:55, Lars Balker Rasmussen wrote: > >> The Perl 6 Summarizer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> > I confess I wouldn't be >> > surprised if, by the end of the year, we haven't seen the full >> > implementation of at least

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Melvin Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > At 07:55 PM 1/5/2004 +0100, Lars Balker Rasmussen wrote: >>The Perl 6 Summarizer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> > people's salaries will depend on Parrot. I confess I wouldn't be >> > surprised if, by the end of the year, we haven't seen the full

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Lars Balker Rasmussen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The Perl 6 Summarizer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Me? I think Perl 6's design 'in the large' will be pretty much >> done once Apocalypse 12 and its corresponding Exegesis are >> finished. Of course, the devil is in the details, but

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* Lars Balker Rasmussen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-01-05 20:42]: > I'm confused, are you optimistic or pessimistic in that last > sentence? Sounds carefully optimistic to me. At least it certainly doesn't sound pessimistic per se, no? -- Regards, Aristotle "If you can't laugh at yourself, you d

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At 07:55 PM 1/5/2004 +0100, Lars Balker Rasmussen wrote: The Perl 6 Summarizer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > people's salaries will depend on Parrot. I confess I wouldn't be > surprised if, by the end of the year, we haven't seen the full > implementation of at least one of the big non-

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On 1/5/04 1:55 PM, Lars Balker Rasmussen wrote: > The Perl 6 Summarizer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> I confess I wouldn't be surprised if, by the end of the year, we haven't seen >> the full implementation of at least one of the big non-Perl scripting >> languages on top of Parrot. > > I'm confu

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The Perl 6 Summarizer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Me? I think Perl 6's design 'in the large' will be pretty much done once > Apocalypse 12 and its corresponding Exegesis are finished. Of course, > the devil is in the details, but I don't doubt that the hoped for > existence of a w

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Thank you for a lovely Christmas Present. Michael On Dec 24, 2003, at 2:37 AM, The Perl 6 Summarizer wrote: The Perl 6 Summary for the week ending 20031221 Welcome one and all to the penultimate Perl 6 Summary for 2003. The nights are long, the air is cold, freezing fog made the journey

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Michael Joyce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Thank you for a lovely Christmas Present. Any time.

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"A. Pagaltzis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > * The Perl 6 Summarizer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-12-16 11:57]: >> bear in mind that the authors of the paper use the term >> 'trait' for what we're calling a 'role' (We already have >> traits you see). >> >> http://www.cse.ogi.edu/~bla

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* The Perl 6 Summarizer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-12-16 11:57]: > bear in mind that the authors of the paper use the term > 'trait' for what we're calling a 'role' (We already have > traits you see). > > http://www.cse.ogi.edu/~black/publications/TR_CSE_02-012.pdf > -- Traits p

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Luke Palmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Piers Cawley writes: >> The Perl 6 Summarizer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> > >> > http://groups.google.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> This should, of course, read: >> >> http://groups.google.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Or even: > > http://groups.google.c

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Piers Cawley writes: > The Perl 6 Summarizer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Vocabulary > > If you're even vaguely interested in the workings of Perl 6's object > > system, you need to read the referenced post. > > > > Luke Palmer, worrying about people using Object related vocabulary

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The Perl 6 Summarizer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Vocabulary > If you're even vaguely interested in the workings of Perl 6's object > system, you need to read the referenced post. > > Luke Palmer, worrying about people using Object related vocabulary in > subtly inconsistent way

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On 2003-12-10 at 15:05:09, The Perl 6 Summarizer wrote: > Oh yes, if you've not been following, "^op" (ie, the vector operators) > has become " >>op<< " which is, if nothing else, a right swine to write > in a POD C<> escape. Eh, >>op<< is just a hack for people who can't type C<»op«>

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The Perl 6 Summarizer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > PMC Compiler 2nd edition > ... Melvin wondered if the time had come to replace the > existing ops2c and pmc2c with the newer versions. Leo thought that > pmc2c2 was definitely stable enough, but wasn't too sure about ops2

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The Perl 6 Summarizer wrote: Do Steve Fink's debugging for him Steve Fink had a problem with some generated code throwing a segfault when it was run and, having hit the debugging wall himself, posted the code to the list and asked help. Leo tracked down the bug in Parrot and fixed it.

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Leopold Toetsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Piers Cawley wrote: > >> "newsub" and implicit registers >> [...] ops [...] that IMCC needed to >> track. Leo has a patch in his tree that deals with the issue. > > Sorry, my posting seems to have been misleading. The register tracking > code

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Sam Vilain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 11 Nov 2003 12:21, Piers Cawley wrote; > > Freeze/thaw data format and PBC > > Leo Tötsch is working on the data serialization/deserialization > Cool. How are hooks in place for tools like Pixie and Tangram when > these objects are being stored

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On Tue, 11 Nov 2003 12:21, Piers Cawley wrote; > Freeze/thaw data format and PBC > Leo Tötsch is working on the data serialization/deserialization > (aka Freeze/Thaw) system discussed over the last few weeks. He > wondered if there were any plans for the frozen image data > format. Leo

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Piers Cawley wrote: "newsub" and implicit registers [...] ops [...] that IMCC needed to track. Leo has a patch in his tree that deals with the issue. Sorry, my posting seems to have been misleading. The register tracking code is in the CVS tree. Thanks again for your summaries, leo

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Leopold Toetsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Piers Cawley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Parrot Calling Convention Confusion >> ... -- I thought they were exactly the same as an unprototyped call, >> but you invoke the return continuation (P1) instead of P0, the other >> registers

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Piers Cawley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Parrot Calling Convention Confusion > ... -- I thought they were exactly the same as an unprototyped call, > but you invoke the return continuation (P1) instead of P0, the other > registers are set up exactly as if you were making an unprotot

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Piers Cawley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Object Freezing [ ... ] > ... The upshot is that we're doing it Dan's way; Glorious Leader > continues to trump Pumpking Patchmonster. As this is a summary, abbove sentence is a summary as well. The reality is more complex. The final implementa

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Leopold Toetsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Piers Cawley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> ... spending the morning of your 36th birthday > > Happy birthday to you and us. Thanks.

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Piers Cawley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ... spending the morning of your 36th birthday Happy birthday to you and us. l - "A full year has passed, hasn't it?" - eo

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> Dan spoke too soon, we have just confirmed that PIERS_C = > 2.04739336492890995260663507109 * BRENT_D Brent isn't adult? Gosh! BRENT_D = 36/2.04739336492890995260663507109 = appr. 17 ages and 296 days

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Simon Glover <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, 15 Sep 2003, Melvin Smith wrote: > >> Dan spoke too soon, we have just confirmed that PIERS_C = >> 2.04739336492890995260663507109 * BRENT_D > > They both know their time of birth to the nearest nanosecond? > Impressive. I don't. But I do kno

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On Mon, 15 Sep 2003, Melvin Smith wrote: > Dan spoke too soon, we have just confirmed that PIERS_C = > 2.04739336492890995260663507109 * BRENT_D They both know their time of birth to the nearest nanosecond? Impressive. Simon

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Dan spoke too soon, we have just confirmed that PIERS_C = 2.04739336492890995260663507109 * BRENT_D -Melvin "Brent Dax" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 09/15/2003 11:43 AM To: Melvin Smith/ATLANTA/Contr/[EMAIL PROTECTED], <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> cc: Su

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EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: RE: This week's summary On Mon, 15 Sep 2003, Brent Dax wrote: > Piers Cawley: > # Welcome to this week's Perl 6 Summary. And what better way could > there > # be of spending the morning of your 36th bi

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Dan Sugalski: # On Mon, 15 Sep 2003, Brent Dax wrote: # > Piers Cawley: # > # Welcome to this week's Perl 6 Summary. And what better way could # > there # > # be of spending the morning of your 36th birthday than by reading # > # through a bunch of old messages in a couple of mailing li

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