Re: Layering PMCs

2004-05-30 Thread Leopold Toetsch
Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Leopold Toetsch wrote: >> Dan Sugalski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 >> >> What about the current implemen

Re: compiler-faq

2004-05-30 Thread Sterling Hughes
Leopold Toetsch wrote: William Coleda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 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 be

Re: compiler-faq

2004-05-30 Thread TOGoS
> Your answer is about compiling a subroutine that > does something. What's wrong with the current wording: > > How do I generate a sub call with a > variable-length parameter list in PIR? > > Use unprototyped calls and functions and pass > as many arguments as you have. Well, for

Re: Layering PMCs

2004-05-30 Thread Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon
Leopold Toetsch wrote: Dan Sugalski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 What about the current implementation [1]: * PMCs that have read-only variants have the C flag set *

Re: Layering PMCs

2004-05-30 Thread Leopold Toetsch
Stéphane Payrard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > To avoid to go back the slow world of perl5 where many things > need to be tested before figuring what to do, performancewise, > there is little choice but to have two versions of each PMC > class, a fast one that is devoid of property support and anoth

Re: compiler-faq

2004-05-30 Thread Leopold Toetsch
William Coleda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 ans

Re: $ENV{ICU_DATA_DIR}

2004-05-30 Thread Leopold Toetsch
Steve Fink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Anyone mind if I commit this? The patch is fine. > ... 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 say

Re: Layering PMCs

2004-05-30 Thread Leopold Toetsch
Dan Sugalski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 What about the current implementation [1]: * PMCs that have read-only variants have the C flag set * the PMC compiler