Re: Something to hash out

2001-08-29 Thread Simon Cozens
On Wed, Aug 29, 2001 at 10:50:00AM -0400, Ken Fox wrote: > Please say the file extensions are only needed to prevent a clash of the > source file and bytecode if they're stored in the same directory... > > We can say "parrot foo.whatever" and parrot will do the right thing > regardless if foo.wha

Re: Something to hash out

2001-08-29 Thread Ken Fox
Dan wrote: > I like it. It's a race between those and Randal's .par and .rot (for the > bytecode) extensions. Please say the file extensions are only needed to prevent a clash of the source file and bytecode if they're stored in the same directory... We can say "parrot foo.whatever" and parrot w

Re: Something to hash out

2001-08-29 Thread Bryan C . Warnock
On Wednesday 29 August 2001 07:10 am, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: > > "Simon" == Simon Cozens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Simon> Actually, I'm trying to make the bytecode magic be 0x13155A1. > > Can you swing a cluestick in my direction? Whuh? In decimal, 20010401, or 1 April 2001, the "bi

Re: Something to hash out

2001-08-29 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
> "Simon" == Simon Cozens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Simon> Actually, I'm trying to make the bytecode magic be 0x13155A1. Can you swing a cluestick in my direction? Whuh? -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.stonehe

Re: Something to hash out

2001-08-29 Thread Simon Cozens
On Wed, Aug 29, 2001 at 12:25:45PM +, Stephane Payrard wrote: > > precompiled code could have the extension .dead as in > > the parrot code is dead, it is dead parrot code, it > > is not running > > In that case, "DEADC0DE" would be an appropriate heaxadecimal magic > header just like "

Re: Something to hash out

2001-08-29 Thread Stephane Payrard
Hi Leon! On Wed, 29 Aug 2001, Leon Brocard wrote: > Dan Sugalski sent the following bits through the ether: > > > I like it > > The following amusing entries were posted on london.pm-list but > I haven't seen them here, so without further ado: > > Greg McCarroll: > pbc could be shortened to

Re: Something to hash out

2001-08-29 Thread Leon Brocard
Dan Sugalski sent the following bits through the ether: > I like it The following amusing entries were posted on london.pm-list but I haven't seen them here, so without further ado: Greg McCarroll: pbc could be shortened to pb, which has two meanings precompiled byte code and pretty boy, as

Re: Something to hash out

2001-08-28 Thread Dan Sugalski
On Sun, 26 Aug 2001, Nathan Torkington wrote: > Simon Cozens writes: > > I was using .pas and .pac. Gotta think about 8.3ness, unfortunately. > > .pas is generally Pascal. > > I also think it's important we choose extensions based around their > humour potential. With that in mind, I propose:

Re: Something to hash out

2001-08-27 Thread gbouris
>On Win32, file extensions get cut off after 3 characters. So a ".html" >file is actually the same as a ".htm" file, I think. This isn't true George Bouris

Re: Something to hash out

2001-08-27 Thread Bart Lateur
On Sat, 25 Aug 2001 18:58:50 +0100, Simon Cozens wrote: >I was using .pas and .pac. Gotta think about 8.3ness, unfortunately. The "8" might not be that relevant nowadays, but the "3" still matters. On Win32, file extensions get cut off after 3 characters. So a ".html" file is actually the same a

Re: Something to hash out

2001-08-26 Thread Nathan Torkington
Simon Cozens writes: > I was using .pas and .pac. Gotta think about 8.3ness, unfortunately. .pas is generally Pascal. I also think it's important we choose extensions based around their humour potential. With that in mind, I propose: .par for Parrot source, and .pao for Parrot Objects would

RE: Something to hash out

2001-08-26 Thread Brent Dax
# -Original Message- # From: Simon Cozens [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] # Sent: Saturday, August 25, 2001 10:59 AM # To: Dan Sugalski # Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] # Subject: Re: Something to hash out # # # On Sat, Aug 25, 2001 at 10:37:35AM -0400, Dan Sugalski wrote: # > I'm currently thi

Re: Something to hash out

2001-08-25 Thread John Siracusa
On 8/25/01 10:37 AM, Dan Sugalski wrote: > I'm currently thinking of using .pasm as the extension for parrot assembly > code, and .pbc for precompiled bytecode. [...] Can anyone think of anything > better? They seem rather lame. I think they're just fine, actually. I like them better than anythi

Re: Something to hash out

2001-08-25 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
> "Dan" == Dan Sugalski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Dan> I've got the rudiments of the parrot interpreter and assembler built Dan> and running. (I get around 23M ops/sec on a 700MHz Alpha EV6) I'm Dan> beating it up enough to get it into a reasonably released state, so Dan> while I'm doing th

Re: Something to hash out

2001-08-25 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 06:58 PM 8/25/2001 +0100, Simon Cozens wrote: >On Sat, Aug 25, 2001 at 10:37:35AM -0400, Dan Sugalski wrote: > > I'm currently thinking of using .pasm as the extension for parrot assembly > > code, and .pbc for precompiled bytecode. (Yes, the interpreter loads and > > runs compiled bytecode fro

Re: Something to hash out

2001-08-25 Thread Simon Cozens
On Sat, Aug 25, 2001 at 10:37:35AM -0400, Dan Sugalski wrote: > I'm currently thinking of using .pasm as the extension for parrot assembly > code, and .pbc for precompiled bytecode. (Yes, the interpreter loads and > runs compiled bytecode from disk. Wheee!) Can anyone think of anything > better