$ENV{ICU_DATA_DIR}

2004-05-29 Thread Steve Fink
Anyone mind if I commit this? One thing I'm not sure of, though -- I try to behave myself and use Parrot_getenv rather than a plain getenv(), but I'm not convinced the API is complete -- Parrot_getenv saves back a boolean saying whether to free the returned string or not, but what should I call to

Re: First draft, IO & event design

2004-05-29 Thread Steve Fink
On May-25, Dan Sugalski wrote: > At 10:31 AM +0200 5/25/04, Leopold Toetsch wrote: > >Dan Sugalski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> An unsolicited event, on the other hand, is one that parrot generates > >> as the result of something happening external to itself, or as the > >> result of some recurr

Re: compiler-faq

2004-05-29 Thread Steve Fink
On May-29, Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon wrote: > William Coleda wrote: > >=head2 How do I generate a sub call with a variable-length parameter > >list in PIR? > > > >This is currently not trivial. > ... > >=head2 How do I retrieve the contents of a variable-length parameter > >list being passed to m

Re: Layering PMCs

2004-05-29 Thread Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon
Dan Sugalski wrote: We need the ability to layer PMCs. Nothing new, we need something of the sort for transparent read-only-ness and probably thread-safety (though we don't have to do it that way) and folks are going to want to do undoable custom vtable layering. While we don't *have* to let 'em

Re: compiler-faq

2004-05-29 Thread Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon
William Coleda wrote: =head2 How do I generate a sub call with a variable-length parameter list in PIR? This is currently not trivial. ... =head2 How do I retrieve the contents of a variable-length parameter list being passed to me? The easiest way to do this is to use the C opcode to take a

Re: Layering PMCs

2004-05-29 Thread Stéphane Payrard
You are considering read-ony PMC versus others. Another issue is properties. Many PMCs "classes" will support properties that will alter their behavior. But most PMC instances will have no property attached to them. Or just default values of them if you see it that way. To avoid to go back the sl

Layering PMCs

2004-05-29 Thread Dan Sugalski
Okay, time to think about this. We need the ability to layer PMCs. Nothing new, we need something of the sort for transparent read-only-ness and probably thread-safety (though we don't have to do it that way) and folks are going to want to do undoable custom vtable layering. While we don't *have

[perl #29950] [NEW] test for Getopt/Long.imc

2004-05-29 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by Bernhard Schmalhofer # Please include the string: [perl #29950] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # http://rt.perl.org:80/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=29950 > Hi, t/library/getopt_long.t is the first test of Getopt/Long.imc. Basically

Tcl Compiler, mostly

2004-05-29 Thread William Coleda
Recent changes to tcl: 2004-05-28 * put all user-visible procs into "Tcl" namespace, especially user-defined procedures. * put all interpreter-only procs into "_Tcl" namespace * factor out non-tclsh-specific setup into lib/tcllib.imc * first cut at: $P1 = compre

compiler-faq

2004-05-29 Thread William Coleda
I was going to submit this as a patch, but I ended up with a conflict, and Dan threatened he wouldn't apply it anyway, so I'll just post it here for comment. Feel free to apply any or all of it. I would be very happy to hear of a better way to answer the first question. =-) --- =head2 How do I

[perl #29943] [PATCH] Tcl makefile update

2004-05-29 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by Will Coleda # Please include the string: [perl #29943] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # http://rt.perl.org:80/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=29943 > Brings tcl's makefile in line with recent changes. MANIFEST could also use a facelift

Re: PIO_read, PIO_reads

2004-05-29 Thread Leopold Toetsch
Nicholas Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, May 28, 2004 at 11:38:55AM +0200, Leopold Toetsch wrote: >> The returned string gets malloc(3)ed. >> PObj_external_FLAG|PObj_sysmem_FLAG is set, so that the memory gets >> freed during DOD. > I can't find your earlier proposals (which suggests t

Re: PIO_read, PIO_reads

2004-05-29 Thread Nicholas Clark
On Fri, May 28, 2004 at 11:38:55AM +0200, Leopold Toetsch wrote: > I didn't get much comments for my proposal WRT IO changes. So I'll > sumarize my next planned steps: I'm as guilty as everyone else here > * use Parrot_stat_info_intval(..., STAT_FILESIZE) in > embed.c:Parrot_readbc() to obtain