Re: ACID transactions for in-memory data structures

2006-05-17 Thread Sam Vilain
Rob Kinyon wrote: >On 5/15/06, Audrey Tang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>Rob Kinyon wrote: >> >> >>>I'm pretty sure it wouldn't be very feasible to do this natively in >>>P5. But, would it be possible to do it natively in P6? As in, >>>supported within the interpreter vs. through some sor

DBI2 reborn with DBI1 facade

2006-05-17 Thread Tim Bunce
On Sat, May 13, 2006 at 04:34:19PM -0500, Jonathan Scott Duff wrote: > Apparently it's my lot in life to think about dbdi once a year > as it was almost exactly 1 year ago that I asked the following: > > 1. Is this list alive? > 2. Is anyone working on the dbdi? > > So, consider this my annual pi

Perl 6 implmenentation of the Java JDBC API?

2006-05-17 Thread Tim Bunce
On Tue, May 16, 2006 at 11:59:48PM +0100, Tim Bunce wrote: > That's partly why I added the following idea to The Perl Foundation's Summer > of Code > project list (http://www.perl.org/advocacy/summerofcode/ideas.html): > > Reimplement the DBI v1 API in Pugs > Design an implementation of the D

Re: [ARCH] Classes moving into namespaces; parrot reserved namespace

2006-05-17 Thread Will Coleda
Chip, we briefly discussed this on IRC yesterday, but I wanted to make sure this didn't get lost. I don't like the impact that this is going to have on HLL languages - it's exposing internal bits of parrot to the HLL programmers. The argument that we already expose some bits (for example, c

Re: [perl #39142] [TODO] pmc2c.pl doesn't allow mixed case groups/pmc filenames.

2006-05-17 Thread Nicholas Clark
On Mon, May 15, 2006 at 12:49:46PM -0700, Will Coleda wrote: > using a PMC in a file called 'APLVector.pmc' with a group of > 'APL_group' caused build failures on case-sensitive platforms, and > allowed the creation of a .bundle on OSX that then didn't properly > setup the PMCs during 'loadl

Re: [perl #39142] [TODO] pmc2c.pl doesn't allow mixed case groups/pmc filenames.

2006-05-17 Thread Will Coleda
I think that's a red herring. I'm not talking about being insensitive to case, but being completely ignorant of it. pmc2c.pl is *changing the case* and therefore breaking things. Especially on filesystems that are case-insensitive (because it lowercases some things, and the insensitive syst

[perl #39161] [BUG] :multi fails when .HLL is in effect

2006-05-17 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by Patrick R. Michaud # Please include the string: [perl #39161] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # https://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=39161 > Subroutines with :multi seem to not work properly when used inside a file with a

Perl 6 User FAQ (perl.perl6.user) -- Version: 2006-05-17

2006-05-17 Thread Conrad Schneiker
= Perl 6 User FAQ (perl.perl6.user) == Version: 2006-05-17 TABLE OF CONTENTS * About perl.perl6.user (and this FAQ) * About Perl 6 # True marketing hype, in both senses. :-) * General Perl 6 status # On the move! Picking up speed! * Latest Perl 6 developments * Pe

Perl 6 User FAQ (perl.perl6.users) -- Version: 2006-05-17 b (s/user/users/)

2006-05-17 Thread Conrad Schneiker
= Perl 6 Users FAQ (perl.perl6.users) == Version: 2006-05-17 b (s/user/users/) TABLE OF CONTENTS * About perl.perl6.users (and this FAQ) * About Perl 6 # True marketing hype, in both senses. :-) * General Perl 6 status # On the move! Picking up speed! * Latest Perl