> "DS" == Dan Sugalski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
DS> At 09:07 PM 7/2/2001 +0100, Graham Barr wrote:
>> I for one use s/^...// quite often in the knowledge that it is optimized to
>> just move a pointer and not cause a copy of the string.
DS> We'll still be doing that. (The leftover
At 09:19 PM 7/2/2001 +0100, Graham Barr wrote:
>On Mon, Jul 02, 2001 at 04:12:31PM -0400, Dan Sugalski wrote:
> > At 09:07 PM 7/2/2001 +0100, Graham Barr wrote:
> > >On Mon, Jul 02, 2001 at 03:52:34PM -0400, Dan Sugalski wrote:
> > > > At 08:36 PM 7/2/2001 +0100, Simon Cozens wrote:
> > > > >On Mo
On Mon, Jul 02, 2001 at 04:12:31PM -0400, Dan Sugalski wrote:
> At 09:07 PM 7/2/2001 +0100, Graham Barr wrote:
> >On Mon, Jul 02, 2001 at 03:52:34PM -0400, Dan Sugalski wrote:
> > > At 08:36 PM 7/2/2001 +0100, Simon Cozens wrote:
> > > >On Mon, Jul 02, 2001 at 03:00:54PM -0400, Dan Sugalski wrote:
At 09:07 PM 7/2/2001 +0100, Graham Barr wrote:
>On Mon, Jul 02, 2001 at 03:52:34PM -0400, Dan Sugalski wrote:
> > At 08:36 PM 7/2/2001 +0100, Simon Cozens wrote:
> > >On Mon, Jul 02, 2001 at 03:00:54PM -0400, Dan Sugalski wrote:
> > > > >what about starting offset? that is used now to shorten a st
On Mon, Jul 02, 2001 at 03:52:34PM -0400, Dan Sugalski wrote:
> At 08:36 PM 7/2/2001 +0100, Simon Cozens wrote:
> >On Mon, Jul 02, 2001 at 03:00:54PM -0400, Dan Sugalski wrote:
> > > >what about starting offset? that is used now to shorten a string from
> > > >the left side.
> > >
> > > D'oh! In.
At 08:36 PM 7/2/2001 +0100, Simon Cozens wrote:
>On Mon, Jul 02, 2001 at 03:00:54PM -0400, Dan Sugalski wrote:
> > >what about starting offset? that is used now to shorten a string from
> > >the left side.
> >
> > D'oh! In. Out goes the unused.
>
>Whoa there. Do we still actually want to do this?
On Mon, Jul 02, 2001 at 03:00:54PM -0400, Dan Sugalski wrote:
> >what about starting offset? that is used now to shorten a string from
> >the left side.
>
> D'oh! In. Out goes the unused.
Whoa there. Do we still actually want to do this? It's unclear whether
or not it's actually a net win.
--
> "DS" == Dan Sugalski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> Rationale: it burns my eyes to have a mix of names with and
>> without underscores.
DS> And it means no shift key needed.
from too many years of typing -> and foo_bar, i have my emacs map _ to -
and vise versa. so i can type foo_b
At 02:48 PM 7/2/2001 -0400, Uri Guttman wrote:
> > "DS" == Dan Sugalski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
[Typos and dropped phrases snipped]
Fixed, thanks.
>what about starting offset? that is used now to shorten a string from
>the left side.
D'oh! In. Out goes the unused.
At 01:53 PM 7/2/2001 -0500, Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote:
>Good thinking to leave space for future expansion. (A UV is
>guaranteed to be enough to hold a pointer, right?)
Yes, but we just lost it to the starting offset.
> > DS> }
>
>Rationale: it burns my eyes to have a mix of names with and
>wi
Silly stylistic nit:
> DS> struct perl_string {
> DS> void *string_buffer;
buffer
> DS> UV allocated;
> DS> UV byte_length;
bytes
> DS> UV flags;
> DS> UV character_length;
characters
> DS> UV encoding;
> DS> UV type;
> DS> UV unused;
Goo
> "DS" == Dan Sugalski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
DS> The string header format has changed some to allow for type
DS> tagging. The flags infor for strings has changed as well.
^
DS> =head1 DESCRIPTION
DS> This PDD details the primitive datatypes that th
This is going to be the final version, unless someone can see something stupid
in it. The only changes from version 1.1 are to the string stuff. Ask, could
you link this on to the PDD page of dev.perl.org, please?
=head1 TITLE
Perl's internal data types
=head1 VERSION
1.2
=head2 CURRENT
Have you noticed that the same issues keep coming up over and over:
Unicode representation, op despatch and signals, threading, integer
preservation, and so on and so on. Have you wondered how other
languages, like Python and Tcl, solve these? Do you know that *your*
experience with language imple
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