Re: Threads... last call

2004-01-29 Thread Gordon Henriksen
On Wednesday, January 28, 2004, at 12:53 , Melvin Smith wrote: At 12:27 PM 1/23/2004 -0800, Damien Neil wrote: Java Collections are a standard Java library of common data structures such as arrays and hashes. Collections are not synchronized; access involves no locks at all. Multiple threads

Re: JavaScript/Perl Question

2004-01-29 Thread Tony Bowden
On Tue, Jan 27, 2004 at 10:37:48AM -0500, Potozniak, Andrew wrote: > To make a long story short I can not get access to the source of the bottom > frame through JavaScript because of an access denied error. Has anyone else > ran into this problem or does anyone know of a solution to this problem?

Re: Semantics of vector operations

2004-01-29 Thread Robin Berjon
Damian Conway wrote: Frankly, I'd *much* rather see: @sum = @a E+< @b; my Vector $outer = $vec1 E $vec2; which at least has the benefit of being consistent with POD notation. I very much second that. Entities have been one of the worst features of XML (and, in the end, a fairly usel

Re: Semantics of vector operations

2004-01-29 Thread Damian Conway
Robin Berjon wrote: Picking the HTML entity names is better than the Unicode ones as the latter are way too long. They may not cover all the characters we need, but we can make up missing ones in a consistent fashion. I fear there are too many "missing ones" for that. Any reason we couldn't acce

Re: Semantics of vector operations

2004-01-29 Thread Robin Berjon
Damian Conway wrote: Robin Berjon wrote: Picking the HTML entity names is better than the Unicode ones as the latter are way too long. They may not cover all the characters we need, but we can make up missing ones in a consistent fashion. I fear there are too many "missing ones" for that. Any rea

Re: Semantics of vector operations

2004-01-29 Thread John Macdonald
On Thu, Jan 29, 2004 at 11:52:04AM +0100, Robin Berjon wrote: > I have nothing against using the Unicode names for other entities for > instance in POD. The reason I have some reserve on using those for > entitised operators is that E RIGHTWARDS, COMBINING> isn't very readable. Or rather, it's re

Re: Semantics of vector operations

2004-01-29 Thread Damian Conway
Robin Berjon wrote: > I wasn't proposing to come up with short names for all the Unicode > repertoire, just for the characters that are used as operators :) That > shouldn't be too long, should it? I'm not so sure about that. I can already see those mathematician/physicists gazing hungrily at the

Re: JavaScript/Perl Question

2004-01-29 Thread Ovid
--- Tony Bowden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Jan 27, 2004 at 10:37:48AM -0500, Potozniak, Andrew wrote: > > To make a long story short I can not get access to the source of > the bottom > > frame through JavaScript because of an access denied error. > > This is a security feature in most b

Re: JavaScript/Perl Question

2004-01-29 Thread Jim Brandt
Although it doesn't address the frame/Javascript issue, I believe this Mozilla plug-in solves the bigger problem of running various validators on a page sitting in the browser. http://checky.mozdev.org/ Although I must admit that I didn't test it because it appears they don't support Mac OS X.

RE: Semantics of vector operations

2004-01-29 Thread Austin Hastings
> -Original Message- > From: Luke Palmer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Austin Hastings writes: > > Perhaps Damian's solution is a Unicode2Ascii perl script that > > emits formal names, combined with the implementation in Perl of the > > E alternative spellings. > > > > OTOH, Robin's conc

Re: Semantics of vector operations

2004-01-29 Thread Luke Palmer
Austin Hastings writes: > I think you guys may be talking at cross purposes. Robin, I think, is > talking primarily about coding, while Damian talks of reading. > > Perhaps Damian's solution is a Unicode2Ascii perl script that emits formal > names, combined with the implementation in Perl of the >

RE: OO inheritance in a hacker style

2004-01-29 Thread Jonathan Lang
Austin Hastings wrote: > Jonathan Lang wrote: > > The danger isn't really in the ability to suppress a method from a > > given role or parent; the danger comes from the ability to suppress a > > method from _every_ role or parent. A safe alternative to this would > > be to define a class method

RE: OO inheritance in a hacker style

2004-01-29 Thread Austin Hastings
> -Original Message- > From: Jonathan Lang [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2004 10:25 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Perl6 Language > Subject: RE: OO inheritance in a hacker style > > > Austin Hastings wrote: > > Jonathan Lang wrote: > > > The danger isn't really in t

Re: Semantics of vector operations

2004-01-29 Thread Rod Adams
Luke Palmer wrote: Austin Hastings writes: I think you guys may be talking at cross purposes. Robin, I think, is talking primarily about coding, while Damian talks of reading. Perhaps Damian's solution is a Unicode2Ascii perl script that emits formal names, combined with the implementation in P

Re: Semantics of vector operations

2004-01-29 Thread Scott Walters
On 0, Rod Adams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Also, isn't it a pain to type all these characters when they are not on > your keyboard? As a predominately Win2k/XP user in the US, I see all > these glyphs just fine,but having to remember Alt+0171 for a « is going > to get old fast... I much so

RE: Unicode under Windows (was RE: Semantics of vector operations)

2004-01-29 Thread Austin Hastings
> -Original Message- > From: Austin Hastings [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > From: Rod Adams [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > Question in all this: What does one do when they have to _debug_ some > > code that was written with these lovely Unicode ops, all while stuck in > > an ASCII w

RE: Semantics of vector operations

2004-01-29 Thread Austin Hastings
> -Original Message- > From: Rod Adams [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2004 11:45 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Semantics of vector operations > > Question in all this: What does one do when they have to _debug_ some > code that was written with these

Re: Semantics of vector operations

2004-01-29 Thread Robin Berjon
Damian Conway wrote: Robin Berjon wrote: > I wasn't proposing to come up with short names for all the Unicode > repertoire, just for the characters that are used as operators :) That > shouldn't be too long, should it? I'm not so sure about that. I can already see those mathematician/physicists

RE: OO inheritance in a hacker style

2004-01-29 Thread Austin Hastings
> -Original Message- > From: Jonathan Lang [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2004 1:29 AM > To: Joseph Ryan; Dmitry Dorofeev > Cc: Perl6 Language List > Subject: Re: OO inheritance in a hacker style > > > Joseph Ryan wrote: > > > Of course, roles are another great wa

RE: Semantics of vector operations

2004-01-29 Thread Austin Hastings
> -Original Message- > From: John Macdonald [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2004 8:30 AM > To: Robin Berjon > Cc: Damian Conway; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Semantics of vector operations > > > On Thu, Jan 29, 2004 at 11:52:04AM +0100, Robin Berjon wrote: > >

RE: Semantics of vector operations

2004-01-29 Thread Austin Hastings
> -Original Message- > From: Robin Berjon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Damian Conway wrote: > > Robin Berjon wrote: > > > I wasn't proposing to come up with short names for all the Unicode > > > repertoire, just for the characters that are used as operators :) That > > > shouldn't be to

Re: Semantics of vector operations

2004-01-29 Thread Damian Conway
Robin Berjon asked: >> Unicode has a *lot* of potential operators. > > Are all these for use in the core language though? Not yet...but give us time! >;-) > I was thinking about defining short names for the core stuff, and people > can use the thirty letter names for more complicated things. Yes

Re: Some namespace notes

2004-01-29 Thread Luke Palmer
Jeff Clites writes: > We could certainly do some sort of language-specific prefixing, as Tim > suggested, but it seems that we are then going to trouble to unify, > only to immediately de-unify. Certainly, a random Java programmer > shouldn't have to worry about naming a class so that it doesn't

Re: Messages delayed, out of order

2004-01-29 Thread Will Coleda
On Thursday, January 29, 2004, at 01:51 PM, Simon Cozens wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Will Coleda) writes: What's going on with the ordering of messages? My message of : Tue, 27 Jan 2004 19:53:15 -0500 just made it to the list, a day after my (also delayed) /followup/ to that message. And Leo, who

Re: Messages delayed, out of order

2004-01-29 Thread Matt Fowles
I have been getting out of order messages from this list for months... I just assumed that the internet was a mysterious thing... Matt Will Coleda wrote: On Thursday, January 29, 2004, at 01:51 PM, Simon Cozens wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Will Coleda) writes: What's going on with the ordering

Re: [DOCS] Updated documentation in src

2004-01-29 Thread Leopold Toetsch
Matt Fowles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [ another TOFU [1] ] AOL leo > Mike~ > You rock. That is really nice. > Matt > Michael Scott wrote: >> I've add inline docs to everything in src (except for malloc.c and >> malloc-trace.c). >> >> At times I wondered whether this was the right thing to

Re: Messages delayed, out of order

2004-01-29 Thread Gordon Henriksen
On Thursday, January 29, 2004, at 09:12 , Matt Fowles wrote: I have been getting out of order messages from this list for months... I just assumed that the internet was a mysterious thing... Methinks the list is also manually moderated — Gordon Henriksen [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Threads... last call

2004-01-29 Thread Gordon Henriksen
On Thursday, January 29, 2004, at 11:55 , Melvin Smith wrote: At 11:45 PM 1/28/2004 -0500, Gordon Henriksen wrote: On Wednesday, January 28, 2004, at 12:53 , Melvin Smith wrote: At 12:27 PM 1/23/2004 -0800, Damien Neil wrote: Java Collections are a standard Java library of common data structur

[DOCS] Updated documentation in src

2004-01-29 Thread Michael Scott
I've add inline docs to everything in src (except for malloc.c and malloc-trace.c). At times I wondered whether this was the right thing to do. For example, in mmd.c, where Dan had already created a mmd.pod, I ended up duplicating information. At other times I reckoned that what was needed was

Messages delayed, out of order

2004-01-29 Thread Will Coleda
What's going on with the ordering of messages? My message of : Tue, 27 Jan 2004 19:53:15 -0500 just made it to the list, a day after my (also delayed) /followup/ to that message. And Leo, who responded to the most recent, had his email make it to the list before either of these. =-) Regards.

Re: Messages delayed, out of order

2004-01-29 Thread Simon Cozens
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Will Coleda) writes: > What's going on with the ordering of messages? My message of : Tue, 27 Jan 2004 > 19:53:15 -0500 just made it to the list, a day after my (also delayed) /followup/ to > that message. And Leo, who responded to the most recent, had his email make it to > t

Re: Some namespace notes

2004-01-29 Thread Jeff Clites
On Jan 28, 2004, at 6:42 AM, Peter Haworth wrote: On Thu, 15 Jan 2004 23:00:53 -0800, Jeff Clites wrote: I think we shouldn't try to do any sort of cross-language unification. That is, if we some day have a Parrot version of Java, and in Perl6 code I want to reference a global created inside of s

Re: Threads... last call

2004-01-29 Thread Melvin Smith
At 11:45 PM 1/28/2004 -0500, Gordon Henriksen wrote: On Wednesday, January 28, 2004, at 12:53 , Melvin Smith wrote: At 12:27 PM 1/23/2004 -0800, Damien Neil wrote: Java Collections are a standard Java library of common data structures such as arrays and hashes. Collections are not synchronized;

Re: Threads... last call

2004-01-29 Thread Damien Neil
On Wed, Jan 28, 2004 at 12:53:09PM -0500, Melvin Smith wrote: > At 12:27 PM 1/23/2004 -0800, Damien Neil wrote: > >Java Collections are a standard Java library of common data structures > >such as arrays and hashes. Collections are not synchronized; access > >involves no locks at all. Multiple th

internal exception handlers

2004-01-29 Thread Leopold Toetsch
We have some places in code, where we have to cleanup, if an internal exception was thrown, e.g. after LOCK()ing a mutex or in classes/delegate.pmc to free the saved memory structure. Attached is a test program with some macros allowing code like: TRY { some(); } CATCH { clean_up(

Re: IMCC - PerlArray getting trounced

2004-01-29 Thread Will Coleda
Sorry about the delay in responding. My current sample program is 2760 lines of imcc in 23 files, plus a small .tcl script. I'll see if I can trim that down to a more reasonable test case. On Monday, January 26, 2004, at 05:32 AM, Leopold Toetsch wrote: Will Coleda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Re: t/src/extend.t hanging, and a (probably not very good) patch

2004-01-29 Thread Jeffrey Dik
Hi, I'll look into what's involved with upgrading. I'm not sure if I'll elect to do it or not. It's probably the one major upgrade to a linux system that I've never done so I'd like to do it as a learning experience. At the same time, I've heard it can be painful. And downloading anything with

Re: Messages delayed, out of order

2004-01-29 Thread Harry Jackson
Simon Cozens wrote: I think the mail servers for cpan.org/perl.org are having to shift rather a lot of mail at the moment, for some reason. For those that are unaware there is currently a rather serious virus in the wild at the moment and a lot of mailing lists are being afffected. I think its ca

Re: IO subsystem stuff

2004-01-29 Thread Jeff Clites
On Jan 27, 2004, at 3:47 PM, Cory Spencer wrote: Perhaps someone with a bit more familiarity with the Parrot IO subsystem could give me some guidance here. I'm currently trying to get a new 'peek' opcode working, and I'm having difficulties getting the io_unix layer implemented correctly. As fa

Re: [DOCS] Updated documentation in src

2004-01-29 Thread Matt Fowles
Mike~ You rock. That is really nice. Matt Michael Scott wrote: I've add inline docs to everything in src (except for malloc.c and malloc-trace.c). At times I wondered whether this was the right thing to do. For example, in mmd.c, where Dan had already created a mmd.pod, I ended up duplicati

Re: This week's summary

2004-01-29 Thread Leopold Toetsch
Elizabeth Mattijsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 10:40 +0100 1/28/04, Leopold Toetsch wrote: >>$ time parrot shared_ref.pasm >> >>real0m0.375s > Ah.. I want a Ponie! ;-) Actually some bits are still missing: - The SharedRef construction code has to ensure that the refered PMC is share

Re: Threads... last call

2004-01-29 Thread Leopold Toetsch
Melvin Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I thought we were discussing correct behavior of a shared data structure, > not general cases. Or maybe this is the general case and I should > go read more backlog? :) Basically we have three kinds of locking: - HLL user level locking [1] - user level lo