Re: GC API from discussion

2005-08-16 Thread Adrian Howard
On 16 Aug 2005, at 18:14, Yuval Kogman wrote: On Mon, Aug 15, 2005 at 15:59:34 +0100, Adrian Howard wrote: I'm not sure what you're proposing here. A separate arena for stuff you want to allocate and not be moved by the GC? How would I tell the compiler? You won't, the l

Re: GC API from discussion

2005-08-15 Thread Adrian Howard
On 15 Aug 2005, at 13:17, Yuval Kogman wrote: On Mon, Aug 15, 2005 at 12:40:05 +0100, Adrian Howard wrote: [snip] 1) Some way of declaring objects as being "fixed" so we can pass them to external code without having to worry about the GC moving them around. A handle to an obj

Re: GC API from discussion

2005-08-15 Thread Adrian Howard
On 15 Aug 2005, at 02:13, David Formosa ((aka ? the Platypus)) wrote: After a very fruitful discussion I've rewritten my suggested GC API. Comments please. [snip] I'm speaking from complete ignorance since I've only been vaguely following the subject... but four additional things that strike

Re: Funky «vector» operator

2004-03-19 Thread Adrian Howard
On 19 Mar 2004, at 16:16, Larry Wall wrote Another approach would be to write a little fixup script that turns the ASCII variants into the non-ASCII variants, and then you could bind it to a function key to translate the current line. That has the advantage that you could use it on a script someon