On Thu, 2002-11-21 at 06:57, Mark Biggar wrote:
> Martin D Kealey wrote:
> > I want Perl to run 128 times faster on a 128 CPU machine... now I know
> > that's not entirely realistic, but it should be able to run at least say
> > 60 times faster.
>
> Amdahl's law applies here: "no amount of parale
david wrote:
The brazen heresy continues...
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Are these people serious? What on earth is the point?
Martin D Kealey:
# On Wed, 2002-11-20 at 15:01, Brent Dax wrote:
# > We need that capability if we're going to have lexically-scoped
# > exports:
#
# Whilst it would be useful for pragmatic modules to access
# anything and everything in the current compilation scope, I
# submit that access to d
At 9:07 PM -0600 11/20/02, david wrote:
The brazen heresy continues...
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Perl 5, or perl 6?
--
Dan
--"it's like this"---
Dan Sugalski
The brazen heresy continues...
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Piers Cawley:
# So, how would one create a class which inherits from some
# other class when you don't know what said other class is
# until runtime?
AUTOLOAD! *ducks*
--Brent Dax <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
@roles=map {"Parrot $_"} qw(embedding regexen Configure)
"If you want to propagate an outrage
On Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 04:20:07PM -0600, Me wrote:
: > $_ = 1; mumble { $_ = 2 }; print;
: >
: > will print 1 or 2?
:
: Least surprise, visually, is obviously 2.
:
: This would be true if bare blocks (even
: those passed as args) just pick up from
: the surrounding lexical context. And if
:
Piers Cawley wrote:
C is compile-time.
So, how would one create a class which inherits from some other class
when you don't know what said other class is until runtime?
Use Perl5-ish classes, or an C.
Does this work:
class {
push @ISA, $class;
...
}
I sincerely hope
Austin Hastings wrote:
for each $dance: {
^ note colon
1- Why is the colon there? Is this some sub-tile syntactical new-ance
that I missed in a prior message, or a new thing?
It's the way we mark an indirect object in Perl 6.
2- Why is the colon necessary? Isn't the "
> $_ = 1; mumble { $_ = 2 }; print;
>
> will print 1 or 2?
Least surprise, visually, is obviously 2.
This would be true if bare blocks (even
those passed as args) just pick up from
the surrounding lexical context. And if
that were true, mumble presumably could
not do anything about this (wit
> Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2002 12:11:52 -0800 (PST)
> From: Austin Hastings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
>
> --- Larry Wall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > ...
>
> > This might work now, presuming
> >
> > sub foo (;$_ = $=)
> >
> > (or whatever) is really a binding, and not an assignment. (That's
> > a
Arcadi wrote:
> > > > while <$iter> {...} # Iterate until $iter.each returns false?
> you mean "Iterate until $iter.next returns false?"
Oops. Quite so.
what is the difference between the Iterator and lazy array ?
am I right that it is just "interface" : lazy array is an iterator
Dan Sugalski wrote:
Whups, misunderstanding there. I realize that we need to throw an
exception (or a junction of exception and not exception) if evaluating
one of the junction members. The question is whether we should evaluate
them all regardless and then figure it out at the end, and what t
Paul Johnson wrote:
Is it illegal now to use quotes in qw()?
Nope. Only as the very first character of a <<...>>.
Paging Mr Cozens. ;-)
It's just another instance of whitespace significance.
print «\"a" "b" "c"»;
Presumably without the backslash here too.
Maybe. It depends on whet
--- Larry Wall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> ...
> This might work now, presuming
>
> sub foo (;$_ = $=)
>
> (or whatever) is really a binding, and not an assignment. (That's
> another reason why //= is *wrong*--it implies assignment.)
Umm, that's what it was supposed to do.
IOW: sub($pa
On Wed, 2002-11-20 at 15:01, Brent Dax wrote:
> We need that capability if we're going to have lexically-scoped exports:
Whilst it would be useful for pragmatic modules to access anything and
everything in the current compilation scope, I submit that access to
dynamic scope should (in general) be
On Tue, Nov 19, 2002 at 03:09:40PM -0600, Allison Randal wrote:
: Larry wrote:
: > I'm trying to remember why it was that we didn't always make the first
: > argument of any sub the topic by default. I think it had to do with
: > the assumption that a bare block should not work with a copy of $_ f
Martin D Kealey wrote:
On Mon, 2002-11-18 at 18:10, Dave Whipp wrote:
Why do we need to use preemptive threads? If Parrot is a VM, then surely
the threading can be implemented at its level, or even higher.
And what about *lower*? Like down among the CPUs?
I want Perl to run 128 times faster
On Mon, 2002-11-18 at 18:10, Dave Whipp wrote:
> Why do we need to use preemptive threads? If Parrot is a VM, then surely
> the threading can be implemented at its level, or even higher.
And what about *lower*? Like down among the CPUs?
I want Perl to run 128 times faster on a 128 CPU machine...
Austin Hastings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> --- Piers Cawley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Austin Hastings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>
>> > --- Piers Cawley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> >> I wonder what would happen if you had a junction of
>> >> continuations. Producing something practical
Damian Conway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Piers Cawley wrote:
>
> [Speculations elided]
>
>> Which is somewhat dependent on being able to do C.
>
> Which you can't do, since C is compile-time.
So, how would one create a class which inherits from some other class
when you don't know what said ot
Me wrote:
> Well, I could argue that c) already exists
> in the form of passing parameters in parens.
This reminds me of the Law of Demeter. It specifies what your methods
should and shouldn't be able to do if you want to build a bright, shiny
system that never has bugs, maintains itself, turns w
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