Okay, here's the decree.
FP constants in the bytecode file constants section will be 64-bit IEEE floats.
The Q&A as to why. (This'll be a new feature for all the declarations of
arbitrary decisions)
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Q: Why?
A: Gotta have somethin
On Tue, 4 Dec 2001, Dan Sugalski wrote:
> Okay, here's the decree.
>
> FP constants in the bytecode file constants section will be 64-bit IEEE floats.
You mean something like this?
--- parrot/Configure.pl Sun Dec 2 00:06:30 2001
+++ parrot-andy/Configure.plTue Dec 4 13:22:31 2001
@@ -60,
At 01:32 PM 12/4/2001 -0500, Andy Dougherty wrote:
>On Tue, 4 Dec 2001, Dan Sugalski wrote:
>
> > Okay, here's the decree.
> >
> > FP constants in the bytecode file constants section will be 64-bit IEEE
> floats.
>
>You mean something like this?
Nope. :)
The floating-point tyoe can be larger th
On Tuesday 04 December 2001 01:32 pm, Andy Dougherty wrote:
> On Tue, 4 Dec 2001, Dan Sugalski wrote:
> > Okay, here's the decree.
> >
> > FP constants in the bytecode file constants section will be 64-bit IEEE
> > floats.
>
> You mean something like this?
> -prompt("And your floats?", 'nv');
> +
Folks,
We're nailing down the license finally for Parrot, and should have things
set. Until then...
DO NOT SUBMIT CODE THAT ISN'T YOURS!
This *includes* from perl 5. (Like, say, the code in utf8.[ch]) If you
didn't write it, or did but don't want to abide by the bits about licensing
in the R
The beginnings of a Parrot FAQ can be found here:
http://www.panix.com/~ziggy/parrot.html
It'll be moved to dev.perl.org shortly, when there's more meat to it.
Contents:
1 General Questions
1. What is Parrot?
2. Why "Parrot"?
3. Is Parrot th
At 03:26 PM 12/4/2001 -0500, Adam Turoff wrote:
>The beginnings of a Parrot FAQ can be found here:
Here's some more:
Q: What language is Parrot written in?
A: C
Q: For the love of god, man, why?!?!?!?
A: Because it's the best we've got.
Q: That's sad
A: So true. Regardless, C's available prett
Here's one more:
Q: How does Dan know so much?
A: Quiet, You.
-Hao
At 04:07 PM 12/4/2001 -0500, Nguon Hao Ching wrote:
>Here's one more:
>
>Q: How does Dan know so much?
>A: Quiet, You.
Now, now, that's not nice. :) Besides, it's:
Q: How come you know all these answers?
A: I wrote the questions. It's easy that way.
Seriously, there are real answers to a
On Tue, Dec 04, 2001 at 04:11:58PM -0500, Dan Sugalski wrote:
> Seriously, there are real answers to a whole lot of design questions. Ask
> 'em and I'll get FAQable answers to 'em once and for all.
Could the FAQ be made a wiki so that others can play too?
-Scott
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On Tue, Dec 04, 2001 at 03:20:46PM -0600, Jonathan Scott Duff wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 04, 2001 at 04:11:58PM -0500, Dan Sugalski wrote:
> > Seriously, there are real answers to a whole lot of design questions. Ask
> > 'em and I'll get FAQable answers to 'em once and for all.
>
> Could the FAQ be ma
On Tue, Dec 04, 2001 at 03:26:25PM -0500, Adam Turoff wrote:
> Expect another update tonight or tomorrow.
Here ya go. Same place as last time.
1 General Questions
1. What is Parrot?
2. Why "Parrot"?
3. Is Parrot the same thing as Perl6?
4
On Tue, Dec 04, 2001 at 04:27:22PM -0500, Adam Turoff wrote:
> Besides, Schwern is having no end of problems with the Perl QA
> wiki. I'd much rather put the docs in CVS later this week.
Actually, I make a lot more noise than I'm actually having trouble.
With the exception of that one big glitch
On Tue, Dec 04, 2001 at 04:11:58PM -0500, Dan Sugalski wrote:
> Seriously, there are real answers to a whole lot of design questions. Ask
> 'em and I'll get FAQable answers to 'em once and for all.
Whee! Ok. Some of these are probably duplicates, and some
inappropriate for a Parrot FAQ, but:
Q:
On Tue, Dec 04, 2001 at 06:29:34PM -0800, Steve Fink wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 04, 2001 at 04:11:58PM -0500, Dan Sugalski wrote:
> > Seriously, there are real answers to a whole lot of design questions. Ask
> > 'em and I'll get FAQable answers to 'em once and for all.
>
> Whee! Ok. Some of these are
On Tue, Dec 04, 2001 at 10:45:53PM -0500, Adam Turoff wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 04, 2001 at 06:29:34PM -0800, Steve Fink wrote:
> > On Tue, Dec 04, 2001 at 04:11:58PM -0500, Dan Sugalski wrote:
> > > Seriously, there are real answers to a whole lot of design questions. Ask
> > > 'em and I'll get FAQab
Dan Sugalski wrote:
>
> 'Kay, here's the preliminary assembly-level docs for keys, which is how
> we're going to be accessing entries in aggregates.
>
> --Snip here---
> =head2 Key operations
>
> Keys are used to get access to individual elements of an aggregate
> variab
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On Tuesday 04 December 2001 12:21 am, David M. Lloyd wrote:
> He was telling me about the way PHP seperates the interpreter from
> the OS-specific stuff via a SAPI layer.
Facinating, but perl is, afterall a scripting language first. perl -e ''
is very essential; though I could see a compati
> perl -e ''
> is very essential; though I could see a compatibility mode being
> enabled by
> default with '-e' if necessary.
But perl is not parrot, and parrot doesn't need -e (unless we expect people
to write one-liners in actual bytecode). Perl will be sitting on top of
parrot, so it will
[Tue, Dec 04, 2001 at 01:28:40PM +: Simon Cozens]
> On Tue, Dec 04, 2001 at 01:31:34AM -, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > Added length parameter to extract_num and extract_int string vtables,
> > without this it would be impossible to have strings with nulls in while
> > still know
On Tue, 4 Dec 2001, Alex Gough wrote:
> The tinderbox is getting warm as a result of my number from string
> commit. I'm not able to reproduce the failures on either FreeBSD4.4
> or Irix or even on the Tru64 machine which is currently claiming to be
> orange. So I suspect that something odd is
[Tue, Dec 04, 2001 at 08:37:36AM -0500: Andy Dougherty]
> My cvs repository contained a file t/op/pmc.t. However, that files isn't
> included in MANIFEST. Is it supposed to be there?
It should be in MANIFEST, and now is. I don't know if that will quiet
the tinderclients though.
Alex
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