Re: Synchronized / Thread syntax in Perl 6

2006-05-31 Thread Benjamin Smith
o will also have "is atomic". (There's a Google Summer of Code project to add software transactional memory primitives to parrot.) -- Benjamin Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: new sigil

2005-10-25 Thread Benjamin Smith
ve non-type variables in the [] (dependent-typing, or where you can use primitive types like int in template parameters in C++), since being parameters in [] means only that they're types, and not that they are always bound at compile time. (apologies for breaking the unicode) -- Benjamin Smi

Re: $1 change issues [was Re: syntax for accessing multiple versions of a module]

2005-10-21 Thread Benjamin Smith
e. Real-world, > > profitable computing is a big, ugly, nasty beast. Basically that would mean that any team would never be able to change language, right? So there would be no difference if we wanted them to change to Perl 5, Perl 6 or Haskell, so it doesn't seem very useful to argue about this. -- Benjamin Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]>

!!/nor and ??!! vs. ??::

2005-09-08 Thread Benjamin Smith
Pugs currently implements &infix: as an ugly version of the &infix: operator. Are these in the spec? If so, how does !! interact with the second part of the new ??!! replacement for ??:: ? -- Benjamin "integral" Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Perl development server

2005-05-24 Thread Benjamin Smith
On Tue, May 24, 2005 at 11:12:58AM +0100, Benjamin Smith wrote: > * svk > * vim > * screen > * cron * haddock -- Benjamin Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]> pgp2GkG7fEUxQ.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Perl development server

2005-05-24 Thread Benjamin Smith
ouldn't do that have two > > people smoke-testing on the exact same machine or to have two SVN > > mirrors ... > > Good idea, will you take the task of managing these decisions? I'd like to volunteer to setup the SVN/SVK mirror. Software wise can I ask for: *

BEGIN and lexical variables inside subroutines

2005-05-12 Thread Benjamin Smith
arly enough for them to modify.) Is there some kind of "prototype pad" (and lexicals) available inside the BEGIN block, rather than a full runtime pad? -- Benjamin Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]> pgpRkLbUAMFJ0.pgp Description: PGP signature