On Fri, Dec 15, 2000 at 03:10:16PM -0500, Dan Sugalski wrote:
> At 11:18 AM 12/15/00 -0600, Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote:
> >On Fri, Dec 15, 2000 at 12:13:01PM +, Simon Cozens wrote:
> > > IMHO, the first thing we need to design and code is the API and runtime
> > > library, since everything else b
> "Ian" == Ian Hickson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Ian> So: What I would love to see in Perl 6 is a way of having a single scalar
Ian> that holds a reference to a particular instance's method.
Ian> Is there any chance that this would be considered? Or is this already
Ian> possible in Perl 5
On Fri, 15 Dec 2000, Deven T. Corzine wrote:
> On 15 Dec 2000, Randal L. Schwartz wrote:
>
> > > "Deven" == Deven T Corzine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >
> > Deven> As for special-case rules, I believe that my proposed modification would
> > Deven> REMOVE a special-case semantic rule, at
On Fri, 15 Dec 2000, Deven T. Corzine wrote:
> If we want the first interesting match, and we're preferring early matches
> and short matches, I believe that "bd" is more interesting.
then write a regex that describes that pattern. the pattern is
one b
followed by
On Fri, 15 Dec 2000, Simon Cozens wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 15, 2000 at 11:39:08AM -0800, Randal L. Schwartz wrote:
> > Tell me how you can do that without breaking much existing code.
>
> Pssst, Randal, this is Perl 6, not p5p.
well, we do have to translate 95% of that code to Perl 6 without a hitc
On Sat, Dec 16, 2000 at 01:17:16PM -0600, Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote:
> > 1. Would probably be easier/safer to roll our own strtoq
> Which approach I heartily recommend for Perl 6, incidentally...
One for the API. Hopefully next week I'll have a chance to sit down and
think about what functions we n
On 16 Dec 2000, Randal L. Schwartz wrote:
>
>
>>> So: What I would love to see in Perl 6 is a way of having a single
>>> scalar that holds a reference to a particular instance's method.
>>> Is there any chance that this would be considered? Or is this already
>>> possible in Perl 5 but I have mis
Dan Sugalski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> (Keeping in mind the input is source, and
> the output is a syntax tree)
Will you be my hero?
Or
Your clarity is sincerely appreciated.
Ok, _from_ the books on the reading list, I'm seeing no precedent for a
parser/lexer/tokenizer that uses multipl
On Sat, Dec 16, 2000 at 02:08:37PM +, David Grove wrote:
> Ok, _from_ the books on the reading list, I'm seeing no precedent for a
> parser/lexer/tokenizer that uses multiple input "languages". Yes I know
> that GCC does F77/ASM/C/C++ but I'm not sure those completely relate.
That does relate
On Fri, Dec 15, 2000 at 11:23:23PM -0800, Ian Hickson wrote:
> Having said that: The only feature that I really miss from Perl 5 is the
> lack of method pointers -- that is, references to functions in a package
> with an associated object.
Oh, that's easy. Use a closure...
my $foo = Foo->new;
m
On Sat, Dec 16, 2000 at 02:27:24AM -0500, Dan Sugalski wrote:
> Okay, it's time to try again, and this time I think it's best to skip the
> specifics of parameters and suchlike things.
>
> How do we want the parser/lexer/tokenizer piece to work, and what sorts of
> hooks do we want to provide t
Michael G Schwern wrote:
> package Class::MethRef;
> use strict;
>
> sub meth_ref {
> my($proto, $method, @args) = @_;
> return sub { $proto->$method(@args) };
> }
>
>
> So this...
>
> my $meth_ref = $obj->meth_ref('foo', @some_stuff);
> $meth_ref->();
>
> is equivalent to this..
>
> $
On Fri, 15 Dec 2000 13:42:44 -0700, Kevin Walker wrote:
>Deven seems to be advocating thinking about regular expressions
>without worrying too much about the implementation, even at a fairly
>abstract level.
Here's a counter example:
/dc/
Shouldn't a non-greed
On Sun, Dec 17, 2000 at 12:11:01PM +1100, Jeremy Howard wrote:
> Something to be careful of--it's easy to create a circular reference when
> using method pointers. As a result, neither the referrer nor referee objects
> are ever destroyed.
>
> When using method references it's important that your
Simon Cozens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Simon (?) brought up the problem that we might end up with a
monolithic
> > beastie
>
> I don't recall saying anything about it being a problem. :)
Ok, it scared somebody. That much I remember.
> > Reading what you say, "parser/lexer/tokenizer"
On Fri, Dec 15, 2000 at 11:23:23PM -0800, Ian Hickson wrote:
> So: What I would love to see in Perl 6 is a way of having a single scalar
> that holds a reference to a particular instance's method.
>
> Is there any chance that this would be considered? Or is this already
> possible in Perl 5 but I
On Fri, 15 Dec 2000, Michael Fowler wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 15, 2000 at 11:23:23PM -0800, Ian Hickson wrote:
> > So: What I would love to see in Perl 6 is a way of having a single scalar
> > that holds a reference to a particular instance's method.
> >
> > Is there any chance that this would be con
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