Re: TIL redux (was Re: What will the Perl6 code name be?)

2000-10-24 Thread Ariel Scolnicov
Uri Guttman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > "DS" == Dan Sugalski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > DS> At 12:48 AM 10/24/00 +0100, Simon Cozens wrote: > >> On Mon, Oct 23, 2000 at 05:18:15PM -0400, Uri Guttman wrote: > >> > basically the emitted machine code for TIL is very simplified C

Re: What will the Perl6 code name be?

2000-10-24 Thread Nicholas Clark
On Mon, Oct 23, 2000 at 08:27:52PM -0400, Dan Sugalski wrote: > At 12:33 AM 10/24/00 +0100, Simon Cozens wrote: > >On Mon, Oct 23, 2000 at 03:40:26PM -0700, Peter Scott wrote: > > > >Don't forget that those BEGIN blocks are *supposed* to be instructions > > > >to the compiler. > > > > > > Er, but

Re: Perl6 the platform-dependent bits...

2000-10-24 Thread Nicholas Clark
On Tue, Oct 24, 2000 at 01:11:21AM -0400, Dan Sugalski wrote: > I like the idea of returning multiple results in multiple registers. Pity > nothing on the planet could link to us if we did that... :( not quite. On the ARM compiler [targeted at arm chips :-)] if you declare a function __value_in_

Re: What will the Perl6 code name be?

2000-10-24 Thread Philip Newton
On 23 Oct 2000, at 15:40, Peter Scott wrote: > At 09:54 PM 10/23/00 +0100, Simon Cozens wrote: > >On Mon, Oct 23, 2000 at 04:38:12PM -0400, Dan Sugalski wrote: > > > Runtime string eval, do, and require are a serious pain in the butt. > > > They're the one set of things that'll force a real inter

new to perl

2000-10-24 Thread Ajdin Brandic
Hi, I have this perl script that grabs new information from GuardianUnlimited site. But the problem is that I get an internal server error and as I am new to this I have no idea what it means. I tried the error log file but I cannot understand anything there. The error is "Internal Server Err

Re: What will be the Perl6 code name ?!!

2000-10-24 Thread raptor
> What will be the Perl6 code name ? ]- OK what about Velociraptor ;") - It is animal - continuing the tradition ... - it is one of the CLEVEREST dinos. (only truodont!! is thought that is clever) - it is PREDATOR - will hunt all other "languages" - small - little bigger than human ... (leane

Re: What will the Perl6 code name be?

2000-10-24 Thread Peter Scott
At 01:10 PM 10/24/00 +0200, Philip Newton wrote: >On 23 Oct 2000, at 15:40, Peter Scott wrote: > > What about introducing a pragma which either (a) promises not to use such > > things, or (b) throws an exception if the program does use such > constructs, > > and say "if you want your programs to

Re: new to perl

2000-10-24 Thread Tad McClellan
[ Cc'd to OP ] On Tue, Oct 24, 2000 at 12:00:48PM +0100, Ajdin Brandic wrote: > I have this perl script Your message is completely off-topic on this mailing list. Please do not abuse mailing lists like that. This mailing list is for discussion of Perl *6* (note the mailing list name). Pe

Re: Perl6 the platform-dependent bits...

2000-10-24 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 10:22 AM 10/24/00 +0100, Nicholas Clark wrote: >On Tue, Oct 24, 2000 at 01:11:21AM -0400, Dan Sugalski wrote: > > I like the idea of returning multiple results in multiple registers. Pity > > nothing on the planet could link to us if we did that... :( > >not quite. On the ARM compiler [targeted

RE: new to perl

2000-10-24 Thread Ajdin Brandic
Uff! How are you feeling now? Has your anger gone or is still there? Why is there a mailing list for perl6 up and running before the version is out? Why is it when you check for perl mailing lists on perl.com only mailing lists for perl6 come up? Thanks Ajdin -Original Message- From:

Re: new to perl

2000-10-24 Thread Simon Cozens
On Tue, Oct 24, 2000 at 03:35:31PM +0100, Ajdin Brandic wrote: > Uff! Da. > Why is there a mailing list for perl6 up and running before the version is > out? Someone's gotta *write* it. I hear there's a mailing list for Linux 2.4. -- I _am_ pragmatic. That which works, works, and theory can g

RE: new to perl

2000-10-24 Thread Casey R. Tweten
Today around 3:35pm, Ajdin Brandic hammered out this masterpiece: : How are you feeling now? Has your anger gone or is still there? Tad is feeling fine, I'm sure. Unless he doesn't like your quoting style ;-) : Why is there a mailing list for perl6 up and running before the version is : out?

Re: new to perl

2000-10-24 Thread Nicholas Clark
On Tue, Oct 24, 2000 at 03:35:31PM +0100, Ajdin Brandic wrote: > Uff! > > How are you feeling now? Has your anger gone or is still there? > Why is there a mailing list for perl6 up and running before the version is > out? To co-ordinate efforts to develop it. > Why is it when you check for per

Re: new to perl

2000-10-24 Thread Tad McClellan
On Tue, Oct 24, 2000 at 03:35:31PM +0100, Ajdin Brandic wrote: > Uff! > > How are you ^^^ Off-topic correspondence directed at an individual should be sent to the individual, not to the mailing list. You have (twice!) wasted the time of hundreds of busy people. I ask you again to p

Re: TIL redux (was Re: What will the Perl6 code name be?)

2000-10-24 Thread John Porter
Uri Guttman wrote: > if i want TIL and lose builtin overloading, that is > a fine tradeoff to me. No, no, no! That is one of the things that absolutely must be fixed in the next major version of Perl! -- John Porter

Re: TIL redux (was Re: What will the Perl6 code name be?)

2000-10-24 Thread Uri Guttman
> "JP" == John Porter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: JP> Uri Guttman wrote: >> if i want TIL and lose builtin overloading, that is >> a fine tradeoff to me. JP> No, no, no! That is one of the things that absolutely must be JP> fixed in the next major version of Perl! i was referrin

Re: new to perl

2000-10-24 Thread David L. Nicol
Simon Cozens wrote: > > I hear there's a mailing list for Linux 2.4. The mosix people regularly look forward to having their feature set experimentally included in linux 2.7 -- David Nicol 816.235.1187 [EMAIL PROTECTED] At some level, e

Re: TIL redux (was Re: What will the Perl6 code name be?)

2000-10-24 Thread Piers Cawley
Ariel Scolnicov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [ A bunch of stuff ] Er, chaps, not wishing to tread on Skud's moderatorial toes and all, but shouldn't all this be in perl6-internals? Reply-To: set. -- Piers

Re: Acceptable speeds (was Re: TIL redux (was Re: What will thePerl6 code name be?))

2000-10-24 Thread Steve Fink
Most of the time, perl's performance is a total non-issue for me. When it is, I'm generally doing the same things as Dan (ie, things resembling dd if=/dev/hda | perl -e ...). I posted some vague benchmarky ideas to perl6-meta at one point. Here they are again: - You did ask at one point for