Re: Tying & Overloading

2001-05-01 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 05:41 PM 4/30/2001 -0700, Larry Wall wrote: >Dan Sugalski writes: >: At 03:08 PM 4/25/2001 -0300, Branden wrote: >: >: >At 01:52 PM 25/04/2001 -0400, Dan Sugalski wrote: >: >>Seriously, I don't see why this should be a scary thing. So, the opcode >: >>table's extendable. So what? It'll make lan

Re: PDD for debugger

2001-05-01 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 12:01 PM 4/27/2001 -0700, Dave Storrs wrote: >On Fri, 27 Apr 2001, Dan Sugalski wrote: > > At this stage, it might be better to go through and pull out the concepts > > and capabilities we need, rather than get into the details of user > > interface. Knowing, for example, that we need to provid

continuations are prerequisite for coroutines

2001-05-01 Thread David L. Nicol
Dan Sugalski wrote: > > > >We don't have continuations yet... > > But there's nothing at the lowest levels of the interpreter that prevent > that. You could, if you chose, get a stream of bytecode that would do you > continuations. Slowly and awkwardly, perhaps, but still do them. (I'm all > up f