Re: [perl #31424] PATCH: Fix for parrot linking issue on Solaris 8

2004-09-03 Thread Andy Dougherty
On Thu, 2 Sep 2004, Clayton O'Neill wrote: > On 2 Sep 2004 15:22:39 -, Andy Dougherty via RT > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm not quite sure if I understand you correctly, since you don't want c++ > > if Configure.pl chooses gcc. Perhaps you meant icu's configure would find > > gcc? Or p

Re: Semantics for regexes

2004-09-03 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 12:55 PM -0400 9/3/04, Chip Salzenberg wrote: According to Dan Sugalski: At 2:44 PM + 9/3/04, Chip Salzenberg wrote: >According to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dan Sugalski): >>*) extract substring > >Rather than that, wouldn't you prefer to make "substring of target >string" the actual target o

Re: Semantics for regexes

2004-09-03 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 2:44 PM + 9/3/04, Chip Salzenberg wrote: According to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dan Sugalski): *) extract substring Rather than that, wouldn't you prefer to make "substring of target string" the actual target of all these? Only if the resulting substring'd be used in the match. Otherwise you're be

Re: Semantics for regexes

2004-09-03 Thread Chip Salzenberg
According to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dan Sugalski): >*) extract substring Rather than that, wouldn't you prefer to make "substring of target string" the actual target of all these? >*) exact string compare >*) find string in string >*) find first character of class X in string >*) find first character

Integer PMCs

2004-09-03 Thread Leopold Toetsch
[ resent ] Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2004 09:17:52 +0200 Subject: Integer PMCs Fog around integer PMC semantics is lifting, so we should start bringing classes/*.pmc into shape. Currently PerlInt is the most complete implementation of the proposed semantics. Some vtable methods like C still need work, t

Takers wanted - BigInt/BigNum

2004-09-03 Thread Leopold Toetsch
The BigInt PMC has a lot of unimplemented MMD and vtable functions. Some are denoted with internal_exception ... "unimp", some are probably just missing. So it'll be great if some folks could complete that. A second job what be to take a start at an internal implemenation of the BigInt / BigNum

Re: PMC instantiation

2004-09-03 Thread Leopold Toetsch
Dan Sugalski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 12:16 PM +0200 8/31/04, Leopold Toetsch wrote: >> >>Pclass = getclass, "Foo" >>Pobjnew = Pclass."__new"(args) # Pnew is an OUT argument >> >>and that be special-cased to call VTABLE_new according to calling >>conventions. > Still don't like __n

Takers wanted: new_extended

2004-09-03 Thread Leopold Toetsch
The C opcode and vtable is in CVS. The Complex PMC has a reference implementation (modulo some error checking[1]) and there are some tests using the new opcode as well as the function call syntax. I'd be glad if people could implement the C vtable method for other PMCs too. Some PMCs have a si