Re: RFC 313 (v1) Perl 6 should support I18N and L10N

2000-09-26 Thread Bryan C . Warnock
n some other language the two substitutions are swapped? (And I know > there are case & gender issues, amongst other things. Maybe I should add > "learn Japanese" to my perl 6 todo list for this...) IIRC, there was also a TPJ article on this a while back. -- Bryan C. Warnock ([EMAIL PROTECTED])

Re: Update on the RFC Process

2000-10-03 Thread Bryan C . Warnock
rmation or explanation, which, I sincerely hope, will be tolerated and answered, as opposed to ignored or flamed. Hint hint.) -- Bryan C. Warnock ([EMAIL PROTECTED])

Re: Expunge "use English" from Perl?

2000-10-02 Thread Bryan C . Warnock
unds, and supposedly 'this or that' is less common for file tests.) -- Bryan C. Warnock ([EMAIL PROTECTED])

RE: Continued RFC process

2000-10-10 Thread Bryan C . Warnock
rld-readable, how about group-writable and world-moderated? (Or just plain moderated, with the flavor o' the day being autohandled...) It's more work, which I am not a fan of, but I'm not a fan of everybody having a say, nor a select few workers having a say. -- Bryan C. Warnock ([EMAIL PROTECTED])

Re: Now and then

2000-10-11 Thread Bryan C . Warnock
o anything, and Uri and Company are going to be coding in the dregs There's no reason that they couldn't get the base down, work more on flushing out its functionality, and turn over some of the more trivial stuff to some of us trying to be a little more active. Hmmm, I seem to have digressed from the original point -- Bryan C. Warnock ([EMAIL PROTECTED])

RE: Continued RFC process

2000-10-11 Thread Bryan C . Warnock
r name as much as possible, so I will probably be switching at some point, which should help the above filtering problem. -- Bryan C. Warnock ([EMAIL PROTECTED])

Re: Critique available

2000-11-02 Thread Bryan C. Warnock
- Original Message - From: "Nathan Torkington" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Not only is it wrong, it's also hurting our chances. When an article > in perl.com is so overwhelmingly negative about the work so far, do > you think that stirs confidence in what we're doing? Do you think > that peop

Re: The external interface for the parser piece

2000-11-28 Thread Bryan C. Warnock
_flags(flags_and_such, PL_DONT_CRASH | PL_RUN_FASTER | PL_DWIM); PAPI_set_malloc_arena(flags_and_such, *malloc_func, *arena); return_code = perl6_parse(interp, source, flags_and_such, NULLP); -- Bryan C. Warnock bwarnock@(gtemail.net|capita.com)

Re: Backtracking through the source

2000-11-30 Thread Bryan C. Warnock
On Thu, 30 Nov 2000, Andy Dougherty wrote: > On Thu, 30 Nov 2000, Bryan C. Warnock wrote: > > > You don't want the compiler design to be a 'hands-on experiment' for us > > inexperienced folk? That's not elitist, that's pragmatic. > > &g

Re: Backtracking through the source

2000-11-30 Thread Bryan C. Warnock
s pragmatic. You don't want this to be a learning experience - (corrections, observations, answers) - to the same? *That's* elitist. -- Bryan C. Warnock RABA Technologies

Re: Perl apprenticing (was Re: Backtracking through the source)

2000-11-30 Thread Bryan C. Warnock
is probably more of a meta item, and the distro has been modified as such. -- Bryan C. Warnock RABA Technologies

Re: Backtracking through the source

2000-11-30 Thread Bryan C. Warnock
opportunity to prove that I am apprentice material. (I think too many PAWBs are looking for opportunities to prove that they are master material. I'm not about to shoot myself in the foot that way. At least on purpose. Slap me around if I get too obnoxious.) Apologies to David Grove: much longer winded this time -- Bryan C. Warnock RABA Technologies

Perl Apprenticeship Program

2000-12-04 Thread Bryan C. Warnock
lpers. Andy codes a foo-gork comparison test, asking Dan to have one of the group apprentices do the actual benchmarking, since he'll be too busy with something else. Dan then pings on one of the group apprentices to grab the code and run the tests. Truncation station. Feedback? On track, or wy off base? -- Bryan C. Warnock RABA Technologies

Re: Perl Apprenticeship Program

2000-12-04 Thread Bryan C. Warnock
;s two that I rely on: "Guidebook For Marines", (0-940328-07-0), and "Handbook for Marine NCOs" (0-87021-254-0). The latter is out of print. I also have, but have not finished, David Freedman's "Corps Business: The 30 Management Principles of the U.S. Marines" (0-06-661978-5). Anyone care to guess what service I was in? :-) > You skipped journeyman. :-) Uh-oh. Now everyone will know I didn't pay my union dues. -- Bryan C. Warnock bwarnock@(gtemail.net|capita.com)

Re: Perl Apprenticeship Program

2000-12-04 Thread Bryan C. Warnock
career path" dead-ending at personal lackey, however. But, hey, that's why we're getting paid the big bucks, right? -- Bryan C. Warnock bwarnock@(gtemail.net|capita.com)

Re: Perl Apprenticeship Program

2000-12-05 Thread Bryan C. Warnock
ion mailing lists, and likely the limited storage space > on tmtowtdi (or whatver variation it's spelling is), is there any way that > this could become a realistic goal? The produced documentation, ideally. Communication distilled to the necessary facts. -- Bryan C. Warnock RABA Technologies

Re: Perl Apprenticeship Program

2000-12-05 Thread Bryan C. Warnock
ld be better implemented as a gork2 call." "Okay, then write us a gork2 call." It may be group selection, ie, "You know, Billy Bob seems to have a lot of good insights, let's see if we can get him a little more involved." It may be luck of the draw, ie, &quo

What's a PDD for the rest of us?

2000-12-06 Thread Bryan C. Warnock
ds to Larry's RFC review? I certainly appreciate the non-rush, but it's been quiet. Almost *too* quiet.... -- Bryan C. Warnock RABA Technologies

Re: What's a PDD for the rest of us?

2000-12-06 Thread Bryan C. Warnock
r quick question. Are the PDDs expect to go terminal at the delivery of Perl 6, or should the active PDDs continue to evolve and govern Perl 6 maintenance as well? (If that makes any sense.) -- Bryan C. Warnock RABA Technologies

Re: [FWP] sorting text in human-order

2001-01-05 Thread Bryan C. Warnock
ne hundred thousand ten millionths. How did we get on this subject? Oh, yes, sorting by the number spelled out... That should throw several cultures for a loop. Four and twenty blackbirds, baked 'e' and 'pi'. > > Ghod knows how this GST would have you pronounce 5.

Change the subject (was Re: JWZ on s/Java/Perl/)

2001-01-30 Thread Bryan C. Warnock
... like Perl 6 development and internals and other stuff that noone on these lists gives a hoot about. :-) (Watch your distro and subjects... you're confusing my procmind.) -- Bryan C. Warnock bwarnock@(gtemail.net|capita.com)

Re:

2001-02-08 Thread Bryan C . Warnock
DWIMs. Sort of a self-executable zip file. -- Bryan C. Warnock bwarnock@(gtemail.net|capita.com)

The PDD PDD.

2001-02-09 Thread Bryan C . Warnock
27;m withholding the attachment, which is a skeleton PDD.) =head1 TITLE Perl Design Documents =head1 VERSION =head2 CURRENT Maintainer: Bryan C. Warnock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Class: Meta PDD Number: TBD Version: 2 Status: Proposed Last Modified: 9 February 2001

Re: "Art Of Unix Programming" on Perl

2001-02-09 Thread Bryan C . Warnock
ce "stability" is now "stagnatation." Microsoft's PR department just earned their paychecks. More, more, more useless things. -- Bryan C. Warnock [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Garbage collection (was Re: JWZ on s/Java/Perl/)

2001-02-11 Thread Bryan C . Warnock
trigger garbage collection and resource reallocation? (Not that this addresses the remainder of your post.) -- Bryan C. Warnock bwarnock@(gtemail.net|capita.com)

Re: Garbage collection

2001-02-11 Thread Bryan C . Warnock
the destruction > order problem. Well, no. My thought would be if A needed to be destroyed before B, then B wouldn't/shouldn't be marked for GC until after A was destroyed. It might take several sweeps to clean an entire dependency tree, unfortunately. -- Bryan C. Warnock bwarnock@(gtemail.net|capita.com)

Re: Garbage collection

2001-02-12 Thread Bryan C . Warnock
> reference counting? You can save some memory by only reference counting > objects and not simple values, but this increases runtime cost beyond > simply reference counting everything. Well, if I knew this answer, I'd be a pillar of the Perl community. :-) -- Bryan C. Warnock bwarnock@(gtemail.net|capita.com)

Re: Auto-install (was autoloaded...)

2001-02-12 Thread Bryan C. Warnock
the archive and decompress it on-the-fly. Is that '.tar and .zip' as in '.tar and .zip' or '.tar or .zip'? Aren't most tars still unindexed, requiring a full file scan anyway? -- Bryan C. Warnock [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: This week on the perl6 mailing lists

2001-02-12 Thread Bryan C. Warnock
ps as contributors while you handle the editing? [1] See the massive thread starting at http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg00584.html BTW, lead from the front, so I'll volunteer. -- Bryan C. Warnock [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Trade-offs

2001-02-12 Thread Bryan C. Warnock
The original eval? - and forego it for any runtime evals that need to be done. Of course, Perl is more complicated that that. -- Bryan C. Warnock [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Garbage collection (was Re: JWZ on s/Java/Perl/)

2001-02-12 Thread Bryan C . Warnock
y, which will result in a noop for most PMCs? Or am I layers too low? -- Bryan C. Warnock [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Warnings, strict, and CPAN (Re: Closures and default lexical-scope for subs)

2001-02-15 Thread Bryan C . Warnock
So you want to force people to adhere to strict rules, but it would be too onerous to force them to adhere to strict rules? (Personally, I don't care about the extra warnings, as long as I can shut them up. That doesn't really change perl's behavior. Forced strictness does.) -- Bryan C. Warnock bwarnock@(gtemail.net|capita.com)

Re: This week on the perl6 mailing lists

2001-02-15 Thread Bryan C . Warnock
this: http://news.cnet.com/investor/news/newsitem/0-9900-1028-4825719-RHAT.html?tag=ltnc -- Bryan C. Warnock bwarnock@(gtemail.net|capita.com)

Re: Closures and default lexical-scope for subs

2001-02-16 Thread Bryan C . Warnock
On Friday 16 February 2001 07:36, Branden wrote: > But it surely isn't > consistent with the rest of the language. It's consistent with "our" and "local", which are really the only other things in the language that parallel its use. -- Bryan C. Warnock bwarnock@(gtemail.net|capita.com)

Re: Closures and default lexical-scope for subs

2001-02-16 Thread Bryan C . Warnock
improvement to the product, - you don't make any of these decisions arbitrarily. -- Bryan C. Warnock [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: string encoding

2001-02-16 Thread Bryan C . Warnock
r. chop(), s/.// and the like are much more efficient *and* > much easier to code if you know how many bytes you're taking off beforehand. And address arithmetic and mem(cmp|cpy) is faster than array iteration. -- Bryan C. Warnock [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Generating Perl 6 source with Perl

2001-02-16 Thread Bryan C . Warnock
c. Even with Inline, now, there still needs to be some heavy interface - but there would still be some consistency. -- Bryan C. Warnock [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: string encoding

2001-02-16 Thread Bryan C . Warnock
sed for UTF-32 string comparison, because > of endian issue. ??? Are you sure you're talking about the same thing as the rest of us? -- Bryan C. Warnock [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Closures and default lexical-scope for subs

2001-02-16 Thread Bryan C . Warnock
he should not put parenthesis around `my's list of variables. Then maybe the documentation should be improved. Maybe makng a clearer delineation and how and why and when these work are in order. Particularly once attributes come out in full force, which will also bind more tightly than ,

Re: Warnings, strict, and CPAN (Re: Closures and default lexical-scope for subs)

2001-02-16 Thread Bryan C . Warnock
led. The actual code was (my($foo),local($"),our($bar),my($baz)) = @_; ;-) -- Bryan C. Warnock [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: RFC 362 - revisiting the RFC process

2001-02-20 Thread Bryan C . Warnock
is RFC is acted upon, I reserve > those numbers in advance. ;-)) Which shows that you haven't read the instructions for submitting an RFC. :-) Seriously, though, read PDD 0, and comment on it. No one else has. (Follow up post coming.) -- Bryan C. Warnock [EMAIL PROTECTED]

State of PDD 0

2001-02-20 Thread Bryan C . Warnock
mat should also be 0. (Unless that's something that needs to be tweaked in PDD 0's Implementation section.) -- Bryan C. Warnock [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: PDD for code comments ????

2001-02-20 Thread Bryan C . Warnock
ten meaningless *with* the code. The third, maybe, if only for trivialness. :-) > > 6. Can we leave the details of pod/apidoc/rfc281 until 1..5 have been > agreed? Good idea. Define the why, the what, and then the how. -- Bryan C. Warnock [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: State of PDD 0

2001-02-20 Thread Bryan C . Warnock
it at development for a little while, if only because I have some more changes coming down the pike. (The actual formatting will stay the same, so I guess Simon would call these meta-meta-meta changes.) Ask, all, are we reusing perl6-rfc as the submittal address, or will there be a new one (pe

Re: Warnings, strict, and CPAN (Re: Closures and default lexical-scope for subs)

2001-02-20 Thread Bryan C . Warnock
sound effects, and this voice-over guy that gives instructions. The first instruction given in the setup box? If you'd like to turn off the voice, click this box. Nothing else is sound dependent. Somehow I think there's a lesson to be learned here. -- Bryan C. Warnock [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Warnings, strict, and CPAN (Re: Closures and default lexical-scope for subs)

2001-02-20 Thread Bryan C . Warnock
On Tuesday 20 February 2001 16:03, John Porter wrote: > Bryan C. Warnock wrote: > > > > And there's a difference between warnings originating because something has > > gone wrong and those originating because I'm doing something particularly > > per

Re: Warnings, strict, and CPAN (Re: Closures and default lexical-scope for subs)

2001-02-20 Thread Bryan C . Warnock
n that any 'cleverness' that you might have that causes warnings > in perl6 will *probably* be a mistake. Certainly, because it seems that all things inherently Perl are being removed from the language. :-( -- Bryan C. Warnock [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: State of PDD 0

2001-02-20 Thread Bryan C . Warnock
enough. Regardless of the outcome, the initial set of RFCs should be set off somewhere. (And a lot of them aren't listed as frozen, at that!) > > > -- > Peter Scott > Pacific Systems Design Technologies -- Bryan C. Warnock [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: State of PDD 0

2001-02-20 Thread Bryan C . Warnock
27;s discuss amongst ourselves before we speak with one voice. The PDD should be that one voice - all the arguments should be done and over with. PDDs should be born with builtin maturity. -- Bryan C. Warnock [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: State of PDD 0

2001-02-20 Thread Bryan C . Warnock
did we want to make this Perl 6 specific, or Perl generic (like perl-qa is)? -- Bryan C. Warnock [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: RFC 362 - revisiting the RFC process (was Warnings, strict, and CPAN)

2001-02-20 Thread Bryan C . Warnock
starting point for the currying documentation. Lest the architect say, "Build me a house", and then complain that we don't match the plans he never gave us. -- Bryan C. Warnock [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: RFC 362 - revisiting the RFC process (was Warnings, strict, and CPAN)

2001-02-20 Thread Bryan C . Warnock
r of the two-tier system that you're talking about. I wasn't going to be so formal as to require an RFC, but then again, there's no reason to prohibit them, either. An RFC is a good way to present an argument, vice the incoherent babble that people like me put out, as well as a good transition to a PDD Proposal. -- Bryan C. Warnock [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: State of PDD 0

2001-02-20 Thread Bryan C . Warnock
he PDD has a Class field to distinguish between internals, meta, and language already.) If we go with mulitple documents, is the numbering scheme concurrent? I'm also thinking heavily about change requests, and whether they should be separate, or a stage beyond Standard. Pros and cons welcome. -- Bryan C. Warnock [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: State of PDD 0

2001-02-20 Thread Bryan C . Warnock
On Tuesday 20 February 2001 17:30, Dan Sugalski wrote: > At 02:15 PM 2/20/2001 -0700, Nathan Torkington wrote: > >Bryan C. Warnock writes: > > > Ask, all, are we reusing perl6-rfc as the submittal address, or will there > > > be a new one (perl-pdd)? > > > &

Re: Warnings, strict, and CPAN (Re: Closures and default lexical-scope for subs)

2001-02-20 Thread Bryan C . Warnock
hould the Perl cabal deem that, for Perl to improve, it *must* undergo these radical changes, I will, to the best of my meager abilities, attempt to implement them. My position may seem a bit extreme - after all, didn't I, in the second RFC, attempt to autoprint statements in a void context? I started in the middle of the road, but as arguments like this have continued, I've moved wy to the minimalist's side. Hey, overhaul Perl to your heart's content so that you're able to do x, y, and z; just so long as Perl itself doesn't do x, y, and z. -- Bryan C. Warnock [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: State of PDD 0

2001-02-21 Thread Bryan C . Warnock
to be merging again with the RFC process - so maybe not. Of course, if we put too much structure in place, no one will use it, and we'll either see more non-experimental Experimental PDDs, or no PDDs at all. > > That's a good idea, but I'm not entirely convinced that it's t

Re: Not revisiting the RFC process (was: RFC 362...)

2001-02-22 Thread Bryan C . Warnock
independent numbering schemes, which could lead to confusion, or a single numbering scheme, which begs the question of why seperate them in the first place. -- Bryan C. Warnock [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Not revisiting the RFC process (was: RFC 362...)

2001-02-22 Thread Bryan C . Warnock
On Thursday 22 February 2001 16:56, Edward Peschko wrote: > Here for example was something that was totally missed in the RFCs and *should* > be spec'd out (I believe): Yes, totally missed http://dev.perl.org/rfc/78.pod -- Bryan C. Warnock [EMAIL PROTECTED]

The PDD process revisited....

2001-02-22 Thread Bryan C . Warnock
ls should be automatically submitted as an RFC, indicating that it was a candidate proposal for PDD #, but was rejected. This will provide a single repository for unimplemented ideas. __END__ I apologize if I'm being rather anal about this. I'm giving a solid PDD foundation a 50/50 chance of actually working and lasting a single revision of Perl 6. Anything shakier, and it may not be worth the time to even bother. -- Bryan C. Warnock [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: PDD 4: Internal data types

2001-03-08 Thread Bryan C. Warnock
ifications. If there's something bogus in there, then we re-specify, not continually defer. -- Bryan C. Warnock [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Meta-help on development of perl

2001-03-09 Thread Bryan C . Warnock
ew company" as a suggestion, withhold your email - I'm considering it. Thanks, -- Bryan C. Warnock [EMAIL PROTECTED] ^ (To be fair, this is currently in the "working" stage, so please hold judgement in reserve.)

Re: Unicode handling

2001-03-23 Thread Bryan C. Warnock
, a textual respresentation of a language, then you'll have to consider locale issues. At some point. Okay, now I see Hong's response. Yes, I'm understanding now. Not character equivalence from a linguistic perspective, but simply /({base glyph}{combining glyphs}*)/ Okay,

Re: Unicode handling

2001-03-23 Thread Bryan C. Warnock
limited in what > we have left. We still need a zero-width assertion for glyph boundary > within regexes themselves. > > >We need the character equivalence construct, such as [[=a=]], which > >matches "a", "A ACUTE". > > Yeah, we really need a big list of these. PDD anyone? > But surely this is a locale issue, and not an encoding one? Not every language recognizes the same character equivalences. -- Bryan C. Warnock [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Schwartzian transforms

2001-03-28 Thread Bryan C. Warnock
tch every time. > Of course, we may not be able to say that, in which case hints of any sort > are a Good Thing. Yes. One way or t'other. -- Bryan C. Warnock [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Schwartzian transforms

2001-03-28 Thread Bryan C. Warnock
d work for plain perl > data structures as well, as we might potentially be doing a fair amount of > data conversion through the variable vtable interface. (Not to mention the > issues of data mangling for proper Unicode sorting support) > > Dan > > --"it's like this"--- > Dan Sugalski even samurai > [EMAIL PROTECTED] have teddy bears and even > teddy bears get drunk -- Bryan C. Warnock [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: My work in progress directory

2001-04-10 Thread Bryan C. Warnock
t to the list (not to the > RFC/PDD editor yet, please). We'll go over it and if it passes muster it'll > go in. > To which I'll add, I hope hopefully that I'll hopefully have a hopefully revised PDD 0 hopefully put forth hopefully sometime this weekend. Hopefully. Dan, I'm getting 'Forbidden' on the above address. -- Bryan C. Warnock [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Perl_foo() vs foo() etc

2001-04-11 Thread Bryan C. Warnock
would see it (or, rather, not see it) as _Perl_str_to_UTF(). > > > Less typing for private things, and more for the much smaller (and > > > probably not used internally) set of public functions. > -- Bryan C. Warnock [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Perl_foo() vs foo() etc

2001-04-11 Thread Bryan C. Warnock
it's like this"--- > Dan Sugalski even samurai > [EMAIL PROTECTED] have teddy bears and even > teddy bears get drunk -- Bryan C. Warnock [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Dot can DWIM without whitespace

2001-04-25 Thread Bryan C . Warnock
(missing operator) > > beautiful. Then extending this is simple, consistent, easy to read, > compatible with perl5.. I'm not sure that that was the point I was trying to make. If nothing else, the '.' would then be responsible for *three* different actions. -- Bryan C. Warnock [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Dot can DWIM without whitespace

2001-04-25 Thread Bryan C . Warnock
pull double duty as a decimal point, as well. '4.5' (4.5) vs '4 .5' (45) vs '4. 5' (missing operator) -- Bryan C. Warnock [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Apoc2 - concerns

2001-05-05 Thread Bryan C . Warnock
= ( foo => 1, bar => '=>', baz => 1 ) Or it could be %foo = ( foo => 1, bar => 1, '=>' => 'baz' ) But I like the concept of a quote hash. -- Bryan C. Warnock [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: what I meant about hungarian notation

2001-05-09 Thread Bryan C . Warnock
C, with thousands of > typedefs representing basic types ("LPSTR" and "HWND" come to mind as the > most common). Not mention the hoop-jumping required to keep variable names in sync with code changes. (signed-ness, short->int->long, etc) -- Bryan C. Warnock [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Damian Conway's Exegesis 2

2001-05-15 Thread Bryan C . Warnock
? You didn't test it before you posted it? For shame! ;-) -- Bryan C. Warnock [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Damian Conway's Exegesis 2

2001-05-15 Thread Bryan C . Warnock
On Tuesday 15 May 2001 21:17, Simon Cozens wrote: > On Tue, May 15, 2001 at 09:11:21PM -0400, Bryan C. Warnock wrote: > > What? You didn't test it before you posted it? For shame! ;-) > > Bah. Damian and I are working on ways of prototyping the Perl 6 > interpreter in

Parsing perl > 6.0

2001-05-16 Thread Bryan C. Warnock
e perl 6.0; use >= perl 6.0; # or use perl >= 6.0? -- Bryan C. Warnock [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Perl, the new generation

2001-05-16 Thread Bryan C. Warnock
at Perl is going to grow out of its niche, but that it's going to outgrow it. It's great that Perl has been able to expand to be so many things to so many people, but not at the expense of forgetting its roots - of the whole Right Tool / Right Job that it came from. -- Bryan C. Warnock [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Perl, the new generation

2001-05-16 Thread Bryan C . Warnock
On Wednesday 16 May 2001 15:32, Nathan Torkington wrote: > Bryan C. Warnock writes: > > I think the biggest fear isn't that Perl is going to grow out of its > > niche, but that it's going to outgrow it. It's great that Perl has been > > able to expand to be s

Re: Perl, the new generation

2001-05-16 Thread Bryan C . Warnock
t; and laid out around the central blob of "Basic Perl" that everyone > > knows (variables, assignment, math, chomp, printing, etc). > > Oh, OK, then. http://simon-cozens.org/pictures/perlmap.gif Hey, I can see my house from here! -- Bryan C. Warnock [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Proposed PDD format for Perl6's "assembly language standard"

2001-05-22 Thread Bryan C . Warnock
in relative(!) isolation.) That was early on, but is it still the case? Are these two concepts we want to merge, or keep separate? -- Bryan C. Warnock [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Stacks & registers

2001-05-23 Thread Bryan C . Warnock
know aren't going to need to be converted from one form to another. But then you need to handle the two paths in the rest of your vtable entries. Unless you make everything run through the registers. Your not going to make opcodes {shudder} dependent on implicit registers, are you? :-) -- Bryan C. Warnock [EMAIL PROTECTED]

perl 6 mailing lists status

2001-05-27 Thread Bryan C . Warnock
ng Warnock's Dilemma). Do any of the aforementioned WG Chairs need to step down or turn over the reins? -- Bryan C. Warnock [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: perl 6 mailing lists status

2001-05-27 Thread Bryan C . Warnock
ls have been > > worked out (barring Warnock's Dilemma). > > Oh dear, dare I ask "Warnock's Dilemma" is? David Mitchell's label (http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg02558.html) of my extreme pessimism and paranoia at posting (as explained at http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg01126.html). -- Bryan C. Warnock [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: perl 6 mailing lists status

2001-05-27 Thread Bryan C . Warnock
or special blurb? Marked all lists as 'Closed' except for -qa, -build, -internals, -language, -meta, and -stdlib. Minor stuff, like data file comments and entry sorting. Did I miss anything? Or, more importantly, break anything? -- Bryan C. Warnock [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Stacks, registers, and bytecode. (Oh, my!)

2001-05-29 Thread Bryan C . Warnock
before. It seems if we solve the Unicode issue, we've solved the bytecode issue, too. Better yet, make all the opcodes map to UTF-8 characters, so you can write and execute bytecode as simple strings. ;-) -- Bryan C. Warnock [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: my $howmany=wantarray; while($howmany--){push @R,onemore};

2001-06-02 Thread Bryan C . Warnock
vice -1 for all items.) -- Bryan C. Warnock [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: my $howmany=wantarray; while($howmany--){push @R,onemore};

2001-06-02 Thread Bryan C . Warnock
On Saturday 02 June 2001 11:21 am, Bryan C. Warnock wrote: > On Friday 01 June 2001 11:06 pm, David L. Nicol wrote: > > having wantarray return the number of items needed, or -1 for > > all of them, would work very nicely for user-written partial returners. > > > > Did

Re: Stacks, registers, and bytecode. (Oh, my!)

2001-06-04 Thread Bryan C . Warnock
necessary to completely separate the two would not benefit either Perl, or the stand-alone engine, for both cases, so why bother? IOW, if you're not going to completely exorcise Perl from its regexes, why try to exorcise the regexes from Perl? -- Bryan C. Warnock [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Should we care much about this Unicode-ish criticism?

2001-06-05 Thread Bryan C . Warnock
instead of rolling your own. No need to have locale handlers for locales you won't use. Of course, being Unicode neutral, that still leaves some stuff (like case determination) undefined. So maybe there should be a default locale in place - the current, or barring that, English, I suppose. -- Bryan C. Warnock [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Should we care much about this Unicode-ish criticism?

2001-06-05 Thread Bryan C . Warnock
sking the applications to handle, in an effort to make the hard things easy. (And for some of these languages, it can be quite hard.) -- Bryan C. Warnock [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Unicode sorting...

2001-06-08 Thread Bryan C . Warnock
emedous potential (for pain *and* pleasure), but the idea should be to foist the burden only on the folks that want it. (And since I directly support text mungers, I'm one of them.) -- Bryan C. Warnock [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Should we care much about this Unicode-ish criticism?

2001-06-09 Thread Bryan C . Warnock
thinking more in the sense of the above properties)? Print direction only when printing. The data itself is unidirectional. -- Bryan C. Warnock [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Should we care much about this Unicode-ish criticism?

2001-06-09 Thread Bryan C . Warnock
/. rebuttal of the original article at http://slashdot.org/features/01/06/06/0132203.shtml, for those that haven't seen it yet. -- Bryan C. Warnock [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: More character matching bits

2001-06-11 Thread Bryan C . Warnock
may signal something completely different to some other language. The hooks don't have to be that complicated, or even exist, since it seems that they are simply being done for the convenience of the user. (To simplify regexes.) -- Bryan C. Warnock [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: More character matching bits

2001-06-12 Thread Bryan C . Warnock
ng that. We just need to determine how. -- Bryan C. Warnock [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: More character matching bits

2001-06-12 Thread Bryan C . Warnock
tween every pairs of characters, right (since every character is a > \w, kinda...)? Okay. I was on the fence, just fell off on the wrong side. I also missed... literals. We can't create new literals, (can we?) but can we override them? Would it make sense to do so? (I can only think of transliteration of languages that are 1-1 across the character sets.) -- Bryan C. Warnock [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: More character matching bits

2001-06-12 Thread Bryan C . Warnock
do > you think [a-\N{KATAKANA LETTER KI}] should mean? I think it should > mean a compile time error. People misuse ranges for classes. Ranges > also imply some collation, which is, as discussed, really bad. Yes, ranges are bad, but they're occasionally useful. -- Bryan C. Warnock [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: More character matching bits

2001-06-12 Thread Bryan C . Warnock
On Tuesday 12 June 2001 10:58 pm, Bryan C. Warnock wrote: > On Tuesday 12 June 2001 09:16 pm, Simon Cozens wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 05:41:40PM -0700, Hong Zhang wrote: > > > We should let external collator to handle all these fancy features. > > > > Phew, I

Re: More character matching bits

2001-06-14 Thread Bryan C . Warnock
uot; with /[a]/, but > without changing the sort order. "locale" is a bit too much "all or > nothing" for me. That would probably be another good use for literal overriding. use re 'literal a => [aàáâãä]'; my $foo = "abàcádãe"; print $foo =~ /a.a/g;

Re: A quick sketch of the interpreter

2001-06-14 Thread Bryan C . Warnock
(after the loader is finished > with them) while the opcode section has none. This will allow us to > mmap precompiled code and share at least some of it amongst multiple > processes. > I assume from this description, then, that there's really (3 x number of compilation units) segments? -- Bryan C. Warnock [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: More character matching bits

2001-06-15 Thread Bryan C . Warnock
*defined* via that. module Locale::Hawaiian; use re 'class (\w => [aeiouâêîôûhklmnpw`])'; ... On a side note (and this *will* sound stupid, but there is a reason I'm asking). Why is there no logical opposite to '.'; that is, a character which never matches another character? (Besides, of course, that it's utterly useless from a classic regex perspective.) -- Bryan C. Warnock [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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