Re: Re: HLL root globals and empty keys (was Re: test of get_namespace opcode)

2006-07-10 Thread Chip Salzenberg
On Mon, Jul 10, 2006 at 06:57:06PM -0700, Matt Diephouse wrote: > Patrick R. Michaud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >I really like both of these suggestions. We also noted on #parrot that > >get_hll_global would really simplify things for the Tcl folks, which > >currently go through a macro to achie

Re: Re: HLL root globals and empty keys (was Re: test of get_namespace opcode)

2006-07-10 Thread Matt Diephouse
Patrick R. Michaud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Mon, Jul 10, 2006 at 02:53:15PM -0700, Chip Salzenberg wrote: > On Mon, Jul 10, 2006 at 03:23:56PM -0500, Patrick R. Michaud wrote: > > On Sat, Jul 08, 2006 at 01:57:58PM -0700, Chip Salzenberg wrote: > > > Relative is the usual apposite to absolut

Re: Re: HLL root globals and empty keys (was Re: test of get_namespace opcode)

2006-07-08 Thread Matt Diephouse
Chip Salzenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: { Language implementors, please know I'm going to do everything I can to make every commit break nothing. I did pretty well when I made namespace [''] stop being [] -- I fixed all the HLLs in the selfsame patch, except two bits of code generation

Re: Re: HLL root globals and empty keys (was Re: test of get_namespace opcode)

2006-07-06 Thread Matt Diephouse
Allison Randal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Chip Salzenberg wrote: > > --- PART 2, IN WHICH AN ELEGANT SOLUTION IS PROPOSED -- > > On the other hand, we could extend the key PMC to represent emptiness, > i.e. zero dimensions. This seems useful for namespaces and could even prove > useful for rea