Re: This Week's Perl 6 Summary

2003-08-07 Thread Leopold Toetsch
Piers Cawley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Don't trace system areas in sweep ops > through holes in the C stack (hmm... if anyone has a good drawing of > this?)). I don't know if its a good one, but my original posting about that problem had some ASCII graphics (in this thread): Subj

Re: This week's Perl 6 Summary

2003-07-29 Thread Leopold Toetsch
Piers Cawley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Okay, okay, PONIE really stands for 'Perl On New Internal Engine'. That's that what they say. Actually it was: "PONIEPONIE": "Perl5 Obsoletes Nasty Internals Entirely: Parrot Occupies Numerous Interpreters Everywhere" But that was to bulky. Or too many

Re: This week's Perl 6 Summary

2003-03-31 Thread arcadi shehter
Piers Cawley writes: > is static? > Discussion of static/state variables continued. Arcadi Shehter wondered > if it made sense to attach "but" properties to closures. I confess I > didn't really understand what he was driving at. Austin Hastings and Actually, I was confused , thi

Re: This week's Perl 6 Summary

2003-03-31 Thread Michael Lazzaro
On Monday, March 31, 2003, at 10:15 AM, Jonathan Scott Duff wrote: On Mon, Mar 31, 2003 at 10:09:43AM -0800, Michael Lazzaro wrote: I'm still hoping rather desperately for a if-uninitialized op in general, even if only for hashes, because the difference between "present but undefined" and "not pr

Re: This week's Perl 6 Summary

2003-03-31 Thread Jonathan Scott Duff
On Mon, Mar 31, 2003 at 10:09:43AM -0800, Michael Lazzaro wrote: > I'm still hoping rather desperately for a if-uninitialized op in > general, even if only for hashes, because the difference between > "present but undefined" and "not present" is rather crucial for some > common algorithms. Ca

Re: This week's Perl 6 Summary

2003-03-31 Thread Michael Lazzaro
On Monday, March 31, 2003, at 07:39 AM, Piers Cawley wrote: Argument initializations Michael Lazzaro summarized the various different and proposed assignment operators available in Perl 6, including a proposed "::=" for 'only assign to uninitialized variables'. Michael wondered how

Re: megillah (was Re: This week's Perl 6 Summary)

2003-03-18 Thread Austin Hastings
--- Uri Guttman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > "PC" == Piers Cawley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > PC> To do that you need to declare the parameter with "is > PC> copy". Uri noted that he really should keep his finger off > the > PC> send button until he's read the whole 'm

megillah (was Re: This week's Perl 6 Summary)

2003-03-18 Thread Uri Guttman
> "PC" == Piers Cawley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: PC> To do that you need to declare the parameter with "is PC> copy". Uri noted that he really should keep his finger off the PC> send button until he's read the whole 'megilla', whatever one PC> of those is. it is appr

Re: This week's Perl 6 Summary [OT]

2003-03-11 Thread Paul
--- Leopold Toetsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Piers Cawley wrote: > > Coroutines end and DFG > > Nobody explained what DFG stands for. > > It's a commonly used TLA standing for Data Flow Graph, which > accompanies the CFG (Control Flow Graph). Both are necessary > for register allocation

Re: This week's Perl 6 Summary

2003-03-11 Thread Leopold Toetsch
Piers Cawley wrote: Coroutines end and DFG Nobody explained what DFG stands for. It's a commonly used TLA standing for Data Flow Graph, which accompanies the CFG (Control Flow Graph). Both are necessary for register allocation. leo

Re: This week's Perl 6 summary

2002-12-24 Thread David Wheeler
On Tuesday, December 24, 2002, at 02:55 AM, Piers Cawley wrote: Apparently part of the problem is that the undef function isn't fully defined. Well, isn't that sort-of the point? :-) David -- David Wheeler AIM: dwTheory [EMAIL PROTECTED]

re: This week's Perl 6 summary

2002-11-13 Thread Damian Conway
Deborah Ariel Pickett wrote: > Assuming that semicolon is no longer going to be a supercomma in these > situations, does that mean that we C addicts can have C back to do > the kinds of loops that we mean when we say "for loops"? I hope not. > I really don't much like the C keyword. > > for (

Re: This week's Perl 6 Summary

2002-11-13 Thread Deborah Ariel Pickett
> Supercomma! > [snip] > Larry then confessed that he was thinking of changing the declaration of > parallel for loops from: > for @a ; @b ; @c - $a ; $b ; $c {...} > to something like: > for parallel(@a, @b, @c) - $a, $b, $c {...} Assuming that semicolon is no longer goi

Re: This week's Perl 6 Summary

2002-11-13 Thread fearcadi
Piers Cawley writes: > > FMTWYENTK about ":=" > Bravely declining to expand the acronym in his subject, arcardi posted a > summary of his current understanding of the behavior of ":=", the its "far more then what you ever need to know" and after Damian Conway answer it becomes JEOWY