--- Luke Palmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Alex Burr writes:
> > But I confidently predict that no-one with write a useful
> > partial evaluator for perl6. The language is simply too big.
>
> Then again, there are some very talented people with a lot of free
> time in the Perl community; I wou
Alex Burr wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Luke Palmer) writes:
I would hope the former. However, what about this compile-time
integral power macro[1]?
macro power ($x, $p) {
if $p > 0 {
{ $x * power($x, $p-1) }
}
else {
{ 1 }
}
}
That would hopef
Alex Burr writes:
> In theory you could write one as a perl6 macro, although it would be
> more convenient if there was someway of obtaining the syntax tree of a
> previously defined function other than quoting it (unless I've missed
> that?).
There is a large class of cool optimizations possibl
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Luke Palmer) writes:
> I would hope the former. However, what about this
compile-time
> integral power macro[1]?
>
> macro power ($x, $p) {
> if $p > 0 {
> { $x * power($x, $p-1) }
> }
> else {
> { 1 }
> }
> }
>
>
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Luke Palmer) writes:
> I would hope the former. However, what about this compile-time
> integral power macro[1]?
>
> macro power ($x, $p) {
> if $p > 0 {
> { $x * power($x, $p-1) }
> }
> else {
> { 1 }
> }
> }
>
