* Damian Conway ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [08 Jul 2002 10:27]:
[...]
> > given my Doberman $sis is female = .dog[0] but pregnant -> $mother {
> > for my Doberman @puppies = new Doberman x $mother.littersize
> I'd have thought you'd need:
> for my Doberman @puppies = (new Doberman) x $mother
On Tue, 2 Jul 2002, Dan Sugalski wrote:
> At 9:45 PM +0100 7/2/02, Nicholas Clark wrote:
> >On Thu, Jun 27, 2002 at 05:42:10PM +0200, Josef Höök wrote:
> >> I've been thinking abit on howto implement multidimensional arrays and
> >> i found that its quite tricky :). I'm currently thinking of
For anyone interested,
http://fibonaci.babylonia.flatirons.org/perl6.vim
contains a fairly complete (yet buggy, I'm sure) vim highlighting file for
Perl 6. I sure hope I didn't already post this :(... if so, sorry.
And definitely tell me where there's bugs or when I'm missing somet
A short time ago, in a nearby thread, Larry Wall wrote:
> Perhaps we should just explain continuations in terms of time travel.
Funny. I wrote a message to this effect the other night, but decided
not to send it (too tired to decide if I was talking sense or nonsense).
I was about to propose t
On 8 Jul 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> caller with no args is the same as C (for certain values of
> 'the same as'), caller(0) already returns the current execution
> context.
You're right. I stand corrected.
> > If you can set a block's continuation at runtime, I think you should be
> > able
FYI; the Guile schemers have had several discussions that may be of
interest to the Parrot personnel regarding copy on write strings and
shared substrings. Perhaps they thought of something you have not? I
imagine they must have a list archive you can find.
--
As any limb well and duly exercis
Okay, for those of you following along at home, here's a quick
rundown of what a continuation is, and how it works. (This is made
phenomenally easier by the fact that perl has continations--try
explaining this to someone used to allocating local variables on the
system stack and get ready for
At 2:43 PM +0100 7/8/02, Andy Wardley wrote:
>A short time ago, in a nearby thread, Larry Wall wrote:
>> Perhaps we should just explain continuations in terms of time travel.
>
>Funny. I wrote a message to this effect the other night, but decided
>not to send it (too tired to decide if I was ta
At 9:48 AM +0100 7/8/02, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>That sets you up for very scary action at a distance. Essentially
>you're proposing C
Well, sure. How else are we going to handle the INTERCAL front-end? ;-P
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Dan
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On Mon, 8 Jul 2002, Dan Sugalski wrote:
> Pretty simple. (For illustrative purposes) To do that with
> continuations, it'd look like:
>
> $cont = take_continuation();
> if ($foo) {
> $foo--;
> invoke($cont);
> }
>
> take_continuation() returns a continuation for the curren
On Mon, Jul 08, 2002 at 04:54:16PM -0400, Dan Sugalski wrote:
> Pretty simple. (For illustrative purposes) To do that with
> continuations, it'd look like:
>
>$cont = take_continuation();
>if ($foo) {
> $foo--;
> invoke($cont);
>}
>
> take_continuation() returns a continua
At 04:54 PM 7/8/02 -0400, Dan Sugalski wrote:
>A continuation is a sort of super-closure. Like a closure it captures
>its lexical variables, so every time you use it, you're referring to
>the same set of variables, which live on until the continuation's
>destroyed. This works because the variab
At 3:01 PM -0700 7/8/02, Peter Scott wrote:
>At 04:54 PM 7/8/02 -0400, Dan Sugalski wrote:
>>A continuation is a sort of super-closure. Like a closure it
>>captures its lexical variables, so every time you use it, you're
>>referring to the same set of variables, which live on until the
>>contin
At 10:24 PM +0100 7/8/02, Nicholas Clark wrote:
>On Mon, Jul 08, 2002 at 04:54:16PM -0400, Dan Sugalski wrote:
>> Pretty simple. (For illustrative purposes) To do that with
>> continuations, it'd look like:
>>
>> $cont = take_continuation();
>> if ($foo) {
>> $foo--;
>> invok
Thus it was written in the epistle of Peter Scott,
>
> So if you could serialize a continuation, you could freeze your program
> state to disk and restore it later? Cool, makes for easy checkpoint/restarts.
I think that that would be true only if *all* data was maintained in those
scratchpads
> Dan wrote:
> > 1) Dig through the perl source and find out all the opcodes.
> > (pp.c and friends) Document the opcodes and what they do.
> >
> > 2) The same as #1, only for Python
> > . . .
> >
> > Once we get these, the next task is to write an opcode library
> > for them...
I want to unde
> "SB" == Sebastian Bergmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
SB> Determining some sizes...C compiler failed (see test.cco) at
SB> lib/Parrot/Configure/Step.pm line 74.
If you cat test.cco you may see something like "stdio.h can't find"
I just installed an alpha, and saw this same problem
Kevin Falcone wrote:
> If you cat test.cco you may see something like "stdio.h can't find"
> I just installed an alpha, and saw this same problem
Just checked, it couldn't find cc. Made a symlink from gcc to cc and it
works.
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