Re: A concept for Exceptions

2002-10-22 Thread Piers Cawley
Luke Palmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> From: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2002 14:33:28 -0400 > > I like the idea of this. The finer details, like returning what to > do, could be more elegant. But the extensibility idea is golden. > >> To change how certain e

Re: Character Properties

2002-10-22 Thread Erik Steven Harrison
-- On Mon, 21 Oct 2002 16:49:57 Dan Sugalski wrote: > >Almost. At least perl 5's macros look like C. Emacs' macro horrors >make C look like Lisp... This is because C is _clearly_ a dialect of Lisp . . . -Erik >-- > Dan > >-

Re: Character Properties

2002-10-22 Thread Larry Wall
On Tue, 22 Oct 2002, Erik Steven Harrison wrote: : On Mon, 21 Oct 2002 16:49:57 : Dan Sugalski wrote: : > : >Almost. At least perl 5's macros look like C. Emacs' macro horrors : >make C look like Lisp... : : This is because C is _clearly_ a dialect of Lisp . . . Yeah, look at all the extra p

Re: [RFC] 2. Proposal for _keyed opcodes

2002-10-22 Thread Leopold Toetsch
Dan Sugalski wrote: For the moment, I'd rather things stay the way they are. If we can produce demonstrable speed wins, then I'll change my mind. I have some preliminary numbers: - changed core.ops to include add_keyed [1] - did implement add_keyed_int in array - hacked set_pmc_keyed_int()

Re: 64-bit ints and non-capable hardware

2002-10-22 Thread Martin D Kealey
Dan Sugalski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Okay, I'm about ready to just bite the bullet and declare that > INTVALs have to be 64 bit integers. > > Does anyone know of a platform that has neither native nor emulated > 64 bit integers? (One we're likely to run on, rather) I'm fairly new to Parrot

Re: [perl #18044] Assembler doesn't return a useful exit status

2002-10-22 Thread Martin D Kealey
On Mon, 21 Oct 2002, Clinton Pierce wrote: > * With bad arguments, the assembler returns 1 to the OS. Peachy. Please can we have... #include exit(EX_USAGE); // 64 on most platforms > * Upon failure, the assembler returns the status 0 to the OS and writes > some bytecode. No telling how

Re: [RFC] 2. Proposal for _keyed opcodes

2002-10-22 Thread Juergen Boemmels
Leopold Toetsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Dan Sugalski wrote: > > > At 5:46 PM +0200 10/21/02, Leopold Toetsch wrote: > > > >> With an approach like this, we could cut down the VTABLE to roughly > >> 1/3 of it's current size. The _keyed entrys would only consist of > >> the set_.._keyed{,_i

Re: Perl 6 Summary for last week (JVM->PBC)

2002-10-22 Thread Gopal V
If memory serves me right, Piers Cawley wrote: /me is a newcomer from DotGNU ... and has missed the mails quoted, hence here's what I have .. > Regarding JVM - Parrot Compatibility > Newcomer Karthik Kumar is interested in writing a tool to convert java > ".class" files to parrot ".

Re: [RFC] 2. Proposal for _keyed opcodes

2002-10-22 Thread Leopold Toetsch
Juergen Boemmels wrote: Leopold Toetsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: No, take the "new px, .PerlUndef" out of the opcode, it must only be done once. This temporary Px can be reused by _all_ _keyed ops. Im not sure about this. This really depends on the fact if the op does something depending

RE: 64-bit ints and non-capable hardware

2002-10-22 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 3:59 PM -0700 10/21/02, Brent Dax wrote: Dan Sugalski: # Okay, I'm about ready to just bite the bullet and declare that # INTVALs have to be 64 bit integers. # # Does anyone know of a platform that has neither native nor emulated # 64 bit integers? (One we're likely to run on, rather) Mac Clas

[perl #18054] [PATCH] changes to fix tools/dev/manicheck.pl output

2002-10-22 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by Matthew Zimmerman # Please include the string: [perl #18054] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # http://rt.perl.org/rt2/Ticket/Display.html?id=18054 > These changes to the root .cvsignore and to the MANIFEST fix two file accounting is

Re: 64-bit ints and non-capable hardware

2002-10-22 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 6:25 PM -0400 10/21/02, Bryan C. Warnock wrote: On Mon, 2002-10-21 at 15:11, Dan Sugalski wrote: Okay, I'm about ready to just bite the bullet and declare that INTVALs have to be 64 bit integers. Which INTVALs? I registers. INTVAL, IMHAOSBRPO[1], is overused internally. I see little re

[perl #18056] [PATCH] Extending the Packfile (Part 1.)

2002-10-22 Thread Jürgen
# New Ticket Created by Jürgen Bömmels # Please include the string: [perl #18056] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # http://rt.perl.org/rt2/Ticket/Display.html?id=18056 > This patch is the beginning of an effort to make PackFile format extendible. At the mo

Re: 64-bit ints and non-capable hardware

2002-10-22 Thread Rhys Weatherley
Martin D Kealey wrote: > I was wondering if anyone else followed the discussion in comp.std.c about > integer types, prior to the adoption of the C99 standard? There was a > substantial paper put out by Frank Farance, entitled "specification based > extended integer range" or SBEIR for short; see

Re: [perl #18054] [PATCH] changes to fix tools/dev/manicheck.pl output

2002-10-22 Thread Steve Fink
On Tue, Oct 22, 2002 at 05:34:18PM +, Matthew Zimmerman wrote: > # New Ticket Created by Matthew Zimmerman > # Please include the string: [perl #18054] > # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. > # http://rt.perl.org/rt2/Ticket/Display.html?id=18054 > > > > Th

Re: [perl #17903] [PATCH] sprintf test

2002-10-22 Thread Steve Fink
On Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 02:51:24PM +0200, Leopold Toetsch wrote: > Steve Fink wrote: > > > >I don't know exactly who has the permissions to do these things, but > >I'm pretty sure that if you have commit access then you also have RT > >futzing access. > > I tried to set the status of my patches

Re: [perl #17936] [PATCH] MANIFEST

2002-10-22 Thread Steve Fink
On Mon, Oct 14, 2002 at 11:06:05PM +, J?rgen B?mmels wrote: > # New Ticket Created by J?rgen B?mmels > # Please include the string: [perl #17936] > # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. > # http://rt.perl.org/rt2/Ticket/Display.html?id=17936 > > > > There ar

Re: [perl #17502] [PATCH] config/gen/makefiles/classes.in - compiler flag bug

2002-10-22 Thread Steve Fink
On Sep-22, Bruce Gray wrote: > # New Ticket Created by Bruce Gray > # Please include the string: [perl #17502] > # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. > # http://rt.perl.org/rt2/Ticket/Display.html?id=17502 > > > > To specify a rule to build object files from C

Re: [perl #17506] [PATCH] lib/Parrot/Configure/Step.pm - litterbug

2002-10-22 Thread Steve Fink
On Sep-22, Bruce Gray wrote: > # New Ticket Created by Bruce Gray > # Please include the string: [perl #17506] > # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. > # http://rt.perl.org/rt2/Ticket/Display.html?id=17506 > > > > lib/Parrot/Configure/Step.pm, in sub cc_clean,

Re: [PATCH] String literals (was Re: Return of RE match)

2002-10-22 Thread Steve Fink
On Oct-08, Dakkar wrote: > I discovered the problem: > > print "Yes r\n" if "0" =~ /0/; > print "Yes s\n" if "0" =~ "0"; > > printed only "Yes s" > > The problem is NOT in the RE engine, but in the string literal code in > P6C/Tree/String.pm > > I replaced some "if ($stuff)" with "if (defin

Re: [PATCH] multiarray memory management

2002-10-22 Thread Steve Fink
On Oct-22, Steve Fink wrote: > On Mon, Oct 21, 2002 at 08:05:32PM +0200, Peter Gibbs wrote: > > The last one looks like a fundamental problem in MultiArray. > > The line > > b->cell_buffer = new_buffer_header(interpreter); > > in function new_marray is creating a new buffer header, overwriting > >

Re: the getting started guide

2002-10-22 Thread Steve Fink
On Oct-19, Bryan C. Warnock wrote: > On Fri, 2002-10-11 at 15:19, Erik Lechak wrote: > > Almost got to this one within a week! ;-) > > > > > 2) When I reply should I 'reply to all' or just reply to > > perl6-internals? (This is my first mailing list) > > I know Dan addressed part of this in

Perl 6 Summary for last week

2002-10-22 Thread Piers Cawley
The Perl 6 Summary for the week ending 20021020 I'm sorry to have to inform you that I've returned from my holiday (no, base jumping and paragliding were *not* involved) and that this week's summary will not be written by the estimable Leon Brocard. Sorry about that. Leon is current