Re: What to do....

2003-11-15 Thread Rod Adams
At 10:40 PM 11/14/2003 -0800, chromatic wrote: I'd really like to see people start turning the existing design documents into story cards and programmer tests for Perl 6. That'll make it much easier to implement the thing. So basically go back through the existing Apoc/Exeg's and break it down in

RE: Calling conventions. Again

2003-11-15 Thread Gordon Henriksen
Melvin Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The easy situation is when argument counts change, but the > hard situation is > when semantics have changed. In that case we have to have some > sort of version requirement in the bytecode. Best practice I've seen for this is to have a library advertise

RE: Calling conventions. Again

2003-11-15 Thread Gordon Henriksen
Leo, Consider this (as I'm sure you already have)... class ClassA; method meth($i is int) { ... } class ClassB; method meth($f is float) { ... } module main; my $obj = (rand(1.0) < 0.5? ClassA : ClassB)->new; $obj->meth(1); Perl's going not going to be able to bin

Re: Darwin issues

2003-11-15 Thread Michael G Schwern
On Sat, Nov 15, 2003 at 10:29:41AM +0900, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > btw: > gcc (GCC) 3.1 20020420 (prerelease) > Mac OS version 10.2.8 (iBook 800Mhz G3, 512MB RAM) FWIW there's a newer gcc at connect.apple.com. Look for the "August gcc update" in Developer Tools. -- Michael G Schwern[

Re: Review of a book about VM

2003-11-15 Thread Peter Cooper
"Stéphane Payrard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You posted your mini-review to London.pm: Thanks for that, that demonstrates my memory! > on virtual machines: "No, there's suprisingly little out > there on virtual machine design and development." This question isn't entirely directed at you, bu

thinking about variable context for like()

2003-11-15 Thread Mark Stosberg
I have a suggestion for "Test::More" that is especially useful with WWW::Mechanize. I'm frequently using 'like' to test $agent->content against a regular expression. When I have a lot of these in a new test script and they are all failing, I get a boatload of HTML source floating by, which ma

[COMMIT] IMCC changes

2003-11-15 Thread Melvin Smith
More IMCC rearchitecture and directive changes. .pcc_sub is now deprecated (but supported for a while). (All other .pcc_* directives are still enabled). Use .sub for all subroutines from now on. Even though .sub is now a PCC sub, this should not break existing code that uses the old stack passing