faq

2002-11-12 Thread Marius Nita
Hello, I have a question about the Parrot FAQ. I hope it's not too off-topic for this list. The FAQ mentions that "it would be nice to write the Perl to Bytecode compiler in Perl" and that there is no bootstrap problem. Does this mean that the perl6 compiler is written in perl5 and it will be rew

Re: faq

2002-11-13 Thread Marius Nita
On Wed, Nov 13, 2002 at 11:08:08AM +0200, Markus Laire wrote: > On 12 Nov 2002 at 16:40, Marius Nita wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > I have a question about the Parrot FAQ. I hope it's not too > > off-topic for this list. The FAQ mentions that "it would b

Re: Loop controls

2002-05-01 Thread Marius Nita
On Wed, May 01, 2002 at 04:14:49PM +0100, Dave Mitchell wrote: > In the true sprirt of perverseness, why not make loops into functions that > return the number of iterations taken. Then you can have > > loop { > > } > or die "loop not taken\n"; > > ;-) Right. This was my