Re: vtables and multimethod dispatch

2002-07-12 Thread Ariel Scolnicov
--- Dave Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Jul 11, 2002 at 01:18:51PM -0700, John Porter wrote: > > Nicholas Clark wrote: > > > I was thinking that the metric (x*x + y*y) would be fast to > > > calculate, as that's all we need for ordering. > > > > Point is, it's rather *more* than w

Re: Math functions? (Particularly transcendental ones)

2001-09-09 Thread Ariel Scolnicov
ore C99 appears in DinkumWare's online reference (it gives the entire list, annotating what's new in C99). Notably missing are the arc-hyperbolic functions, lgamma(), hypot(), and cbrt(), as well as some more esoteric fp manipulations. -- Ariel Scolnicov|"GCAAGAATTGAACTGTAG&

Re: An overview of the Parrot interpreter

2001-09-04 Thread Ariel Scolnicov
out: 1. "Ariel, you didn't understand anything..." 2. The $rf gets assigned some weird trampoline that does the translation from a list in PMC register 0 to Int register 0 and a Foo in PMC register 0. 3. intfoo has another entry point that does #2, and $rf poin

Re: Speaking of signals...

2001-01-04 Thread Ariel Scolnicov
ful in curses programs, though terminal resetting can be achieved by the library itself. =back I can see these issues from the list: =over 4 =item I/O =item Prodding daemons =item Process management =item Exit cleanups =item Text-window cleanups (also related to above) =item Timer

Re: TIL redux (was Re: What will the Perl6 code name be?)

2000-10-27 Thread Ariel Scolnicov
[re-sent to -internals; sorry, Chaim] Chaim Frenkel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [cc'ed to perl6-internals] > > >>>>> "AS" == Ariel Scolnicov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > AS> A TIL doesn't stand in the way. You jus

Re: RFC: On-the-fly tainting via $^T

2000-08-01 Thread Ariel Scolnicov
onfuse; it should be written with a block, correctly restoring the old value of $^T. Footnotes: [1] For efficiency, you'd probably still want some command-line option, perhaps -T itself, to say "this program involves taint checking, so please keep track of tainted values". That wa