[svn:parrot-pdd] r21373 - in trunk: docs docs/pdds lib/Parrot/Pmc2c src/pmc
Author: particle Date: Wed Sep 19 00:25:51 2007 New Revision: 21373 Modified: trunk/docs/pdds/pdd17_pmc.pod Changes in other areas also in this revision: Modified: trunk/docs/pmc2c.pod trunk/lib/Parrot/Pmc2c/PMC.pm trunk/lib/Parrot/Pmc2c/PMCEmitter.pm trunk/lib/Parrot/Pmc2c/UtilFunctions.pm trunk/src/pmc/default.pmc trunk/src/pmc/scalar.pmc Log: [PDD17]: rename pmc definition modifier 'noinit' to 'no_init' for consistency Modified: trunk/docs/pdds/pdd17_pmc.pod == --- trunk/docs/pdds/pdd17_pmc.pod (original) +++ trunk/docs/pdds/pdd17_pmc.pod Wed Sep 19 00:25:51 2007 @@ -133,7 +133,7 @@ The PMC cannot be instantiated. (By convention, abstract classes are given lower-case names.) -=item noinit +=item no_init Don't generate class initialization code (don't set up a vtable for the PMC). Used with Cabstract.
Re: Gone for a while
Oh, just pick a small section no one else bothers with. I'm setting up again for working on complex.pmc(setting up, not working). I'm doing amd64 jit even if it only works on FreeBSD(not enabled by default for a reason). If you don't do anything/commit anything for a while, it's still ok. There are things like mod_parrot that will be very useful and dealing with potential issues will encourage good coding standards for use with mod_parrot from the start(how many programs need to be ported to mod_perl?). I also did GetOpts;Obj and even though it has issues and could be adapted for various getopt styles(such as gnu, bsd, and parrot), I haven't done it, and actually haven't heard much about it. It was better than what there was at the time, and I haven't really touched it since. For another idea, perl has CPAN, and parrot has the potential for multiple languages to use the same library, that can be optimized in PIR. A common API for things like CGI across several languages, etc. Maybe start on being able to embed parrot into a browser? Parrot offers many little niches. Some benefit parrot's developers, some benefit parrot, etc... Some are yet to be touched. Personally I have noticed some of the issues regarding communication, and have had my aggravations regarding certain areas, but I still continue. On Sep 18, 2007, at 3:57 PM, Andy Lester wrote: I'm sorry to hear that. You're welcome back any time. All contributions are valuable, and isn't necessary to follow every detail of every aspect of the project to contribute. Understood. It's just clear that I'm way out the loop on things, and I don't have the time to talk about the things that I've been wanting to talk about for a while anyway. -- Andy Lester = [EMAIL PROTECTED] = www.petdance.com = AIM:petdance
Re: Micro-articles on Perl 6 Operators
On 9/18/07, Paul Hodges [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hypothetical For the Gearheads We won't bore you with excess details, but for more info... c.f. ... /hypothetical on 9/19/2007 10:19 AM Adriano Ferreira said the following: I am thinking about such hooks and good ways to do that. As an eager reader of these articles, I would find such hooks quite helpful. How about a standard section near the end of each article: example Going Deeper: For info on a trick with (@x, *) to extend a list, see... To learn how to use @@() for multidimensional context, see... /example Regards, dvergin
Re: Micro-articles on Perl 6 Operators
On 9/19/07, Moritz Lenz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Adriano Ferreira wrote: http://ferreira.nfshost.com/perl6/stitching6.html A grammatical nit: The infix operator '~' keeps the same precedence of '+' in Perl 6. I think that should be the same precedence _as_ (but I'm not a native speaker, so forgive me if I'm wrong ;-)) I will trust you. It kind of sounds better. Anyway, a nice article again. Cheers, Moritz -- Moritz Lenz http://moritz.faui2k3.org/ | http://perl-6.de/
Re: Micro-articles on Perl 6 Operators
On 9/18/07, Joe Gottman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Adriano Ferreira wrote: I salute every bit of help. I am trying to organize the production and will hopefully provide more details soon. By now, I think that I can handle suggestions and corrections to the articles. The next one is here: http://ferreira.nfshost.com/perl6/stitching6.html This one's very nice. One question: what's the ~+ operator you talk about in your discussion of prefix ~ ? I can't find any mention of it in Synopsis 3. Like Larry pointed, I got it wrong. I replaced this with the bitwise or for strings '~|' which was basically what I intended from the beginning. Joe Gottman
Re: Micro-articles on Perl 6 Operators
On 9/18/07, Paul Hodges [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Looks good . . . but how short do we want them?
Very short. The usual length that an IT-savvy guy (with at least some
curiosity on programming languages) reads in a glimpse instead of
going somewhere else looking for shorter or more immediate
information.
We could write a treatise on Perl 6 operators (and that will be long
and fascinating for some), but that's not the goal right now.
For the non-Perl audience, I think it might be worth mentioning the
(to us) obvious automatic context manipulations. e.g.,
~ is stitching strings, and will make strings out of its arguments
if it can -- it's not adding, but has the same precedence, so:
$x = 1 ~ 2 + 3; # 15: is 12 + 3, string coerced to number
maybe even add
$y = (1 ~ 2) + 3; # 15: same as above, but explicit
$z = 1 ~ (2 + 3); # 15: 1 ~ 5, numbers coerced to strings
though I think that adds up to a bit too much clutter.
adds too much clutter - that's the cutting point. If adds that much,
leave it (at least this time).
Or have I gone too long without sleep? It looks funny
It is indeed. But mixing string and numeric operations is perlishly
weird -- it scares little children and find good use in rare places
IMO.
The point is that we want these articles to play up both the old
perlishness that's retained for those fearful of change, and give a
good feel of what perlishness is all about to those used to C and
Java...or CoBOL and ForTran. We also want shell programmers to see that
the convenience factor of quick scripting is still there, but with
Perl's ramped-up capabilities -- it beats the hell out of ksh and awk,
after all, but isn't really so much harder to learn and use, either at
the low or the high end.
Maybe we should add a Making the easy things easy, and the hard things
possible tagline to all these articles. :)
There are newer taglines for Perl 6, but I could not find them right now.
I prefer not to stick those mottos in the series to not enforce even
more the (hopefully) effect of the articles as advertising of the
language.
Also -- is it out of the scope of these to have each perhaps present a
basic problem and a use of the operator to solve it? I think the zip
article does that, and the example helped, but this one seems like a
small but faintly operator-spicy example would help, even if a little
contrived.
sub page_ruler ( uint8 $len = 80 ) { # take int, max 256, default 80
my $ruler = ''; # declares a buffer
my $digit = 0; # starts with 0
$ruler ~= $digit++ % 10 # appends next digit
while length($ruler) $len; # till there's enough
return $ruler; # and returns the string
}
my $r = page_ruler(25); # 0123456789012345678901234
I think small examples are a good idea. The problem is to have much
simpler ways to do some things, like
[~] map { $_ % 10 }, 0 ..^ $len
Obviously, this is far from didactical in this moment.
Again, PLEASE double-check my probably goofy syntax.
Paul
--- Adriano Ferreira [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 9/18/07, Paul Hodges [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
--- Adriano Ferreira [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[[snips here and at end]]
. . . I have one suggestion: you might want to mention
the roundrobin function in the article on the zip function
since
the two are very closely related.
Thanks, Joe and Alberto.
Even though the roundrobin is very closely related to zip, I
think
that mentioning it and giving an explanation would add length and
detail to the article. I already sacrificed the trick with (@x,
*) to
extend a list and the @@() for multidimensional context, which
are
fine but too much for this piece of text.
It would certainly add length, but you could minimize the addition
of
detail by using them as hooks. Maybe embed them in a special
section...
e.g.,
hypothetical
For the Gearheads
We won't bore you with excess details, but for more info on the
trick
with (@x, *) to extend a list and the @@() for multidimensional
context, c.f. .
/hypothetical
I am thinking about such hooks and good ways to do that. More on that
later.
Sorry, not sure where to link off the top of my head, but if anyone
thinks it's a good idea I'll look it up on request.
Well, it's kind of hard to keep these articles small and
interesting.
Maybe this stuff can find their way in later articles.
Personally, I'm a bit behind on my P6, but I think this is a good
idea.
I'd be happy to contribute something, and though my time is short
like
everyone's these days, please feel free to contact me here or
offline
with requests or suggestions. If you like, I could even try to
ghost-write an article or three. I'll go look over the list and see
if
there's anything I feel competent
Re: Micro-articles on Perl 6 Operators
On 9/18/07, David Vergin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 9/18/07, Paul Hodges [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hypothetical For the Gearheads We won't bore you with excess details, but for more info... c.f. ... /hypothetical on 9/19/2007 10:19 AM Adriano Ferreira said the following: I am thinking about such hooks and good ways to do that. As an eager reader of these articles, I would find such hooks quite helpful. How about a standard section near the end of each article: example Going Deeper: For info on a trick with (@x, *) to extend a list, see... To learn how to use @@() for multidimensional context, see... /example Sounds like a good idea. Stumbling blocks: * (@x, *) does not work in current implementations * it's a very good idea that I learn more Perl 6 * Gotta get those operators articles out By the way, the article on ~ was published: http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2007/09/yap6_operator_stitching.html Regards, dvergin
Re: launched PMC PDD
On Sat, 15 Sep 2007, Allison Randal wrote:
I just launched PDD 17 out of the drafts directory, which marks it as ready
for implementation. Jonathan Worthington and chromatic have volunteered to
work with me on implementing the refinements to the PMC design.
I had two questions:
1. Is the order of elements in struct PMC deliberate?
struct PMC {
Parrot_UInt flags;
UnionVal cache;
VTABLE *vtable;
DPOINTER *data;
struct PMC_EXT *pmc_ext;
};
In particular, on 32-bit SPARC, sizeof(flag) will be 4, but cache will
have to be aligned on an 8-byte boundary. Thus there will be 4 wasted
bytes of padding. Swapping the order (putting cache first and flags
second) will reduce the size of a pmc by 4 bytes. Not crucial, but
nice.
2. Did you deliberately drop _int_val2 from UnionVal?
Specifically, the former
struct _i {
INTVAL _int_val;
INTVAL _int_val2;
} _i;
has been replaced by a single _int_val entry. However, since the
UnionVal already contains 2 pointers, keeping the second _int_val2 only
costs space on systems where sizeof(INTVAL) sizeof(void *). Are such
platforms a significant concern?
Or were there other good reasons for dropping the entry? I do note that
it's used heavily in the various array pmcs (including
src/pmc/resizeablebooleanarry.pmc, which I know you've worked on
relatively recently.)
--
Andy Dougherty [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[ANN] Lua on Parrot 0.4.16
Parrot is a VM (virtual machine) designed specifically for running dynamic languages in general, and Perl 6 in particular (see http://www.parrotcode.org/). Parrot is still in development, the latest monthly version is 0.4.16. A complete prototype of Lua 5.1 is now available : - an Lua interpreter written in PIR (Parrot Intermediate Representation) that generates PIR - a large subset of the Lua Standard Librairies (written in PIR) - a test suite (more than 950 tests) Documentation starts in http://svn.perl.org/viewcvs/parrot/trunk/languages/lua/doc/running.pod?view=markup and http://svn.perl.org/viewcvs/parrot/trunk/languages/lua/doc/status.pod?view=markup. Any comments, suggestions, bug report, test, improvement are welcome on Parrot mailing list ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). François Perrad.
[ANN] Lua on Parrot 0.4.16
Parrot is a VM (virtual machine) designed specifically for running dynamic languages in general, and Perl 6 in particular (see http://www.parrotcode.org/). Parrot is still in development, the latest monthly version is 0.4.16. A complete prototype of Lua 5.1 is now available : - an Lua interpreter written in PIR (Parrot Intermediate Representation) that generates PIR - a large subset of the Lua Standard Librairies (written in PIR) - a test suite (more than 950 tests) Documentation starts in http://svn.perl.org/viewcvs/parrot/trunk/languages/lua/doc/running.pod?view=markup and http://svn.perl.org/viewcvs/parrot/trunk/languages/lua/doc/status.pod?view=markup. Any comments, suggestions, bug report, test, improvement are welcome on Parrot mailing list ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). François Perrad.
Re: [ANN] Lua on Parrot 0.4.16
On Wednesday 19 September 2007 09:58:56 François PERRAD wrote: Any comments, suggestions, bug report, test, improvement are welcome on Parrot mailing list ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). Two tests fail reliably for me on x86 GNU/Linux, and one fails now and then: Failed Test Stat Wstat Total Fail List of Failed --- lua/t/alarm.t1 256 61 2 lua/t/io.t 1 256411 15 lua/t/os.t 1 256251 23 (1 subtest UNEXPECTEDLY SUCCEEDED), 4 subtests skipped. Failed 3/48 test scripts. 3/954 subtests failed. Files=48, Tests=954, 166 wallclock secs (139.54 cusr + 13.47 csys = 153.01 CPU) lua/t/os..NOK 23/25 # Failed test (lua/t/os.t at line 187) # got: '94671 # nil # ' # expected: '946677600 # nil # ' # Looks like you failed 1 test of 25. lua/t/io..NOK 15/41 # Failed test (lua/t/io.t at line 156) # got: 'Opening 'perl -e print 'standard output'' # file # execvp: No such file or directory # ' # expected: 'file # standard output # ' lua/t/alarm...ok 1/6 # Failed test (lua/t/alarm.t at line 43) # got: 'hello # src/inter_call.c:228: failed assertion 'PObj_is_PMC_TEST(sig_pmc)' # Backtrace - Obtained 24 stack frames (max trace depth is 32). # (unknown) # Parrot_confess # Parrot_init_arg_indexes_and_sig_pmc # parrot_pass_args # Parrot_get_params_pc # (unknown) # (unknown) # (unknown) # (unknown) # Parrot_runops_fromc_args_event # (unknown) # Parrot_do_handle_events # Parrot_check_events__ # (unknown) # (unknown) # (unknown) # (unknown) # Parrot_runops_fromc_args # Parrot_runcode # (unknown) # imcc_run # (unknown) # __libc_start_main # (unknown) # ' # expected: 'hello # in alarm! # in alarm! # ' # './parrot --no-gc languages/lua/lua.pbc languages/lua/t/alarm_2.lua ' failed with exit code [SIGNAL 134]. -- c
Re: Micro-articles on Perl 6 Operators
--- Larry Wall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Sep 18, 2007 at 07:41:54PM -0700, Paul Hodges wrote: : while length($ruler) $len; # till there's enough There is no length function anymore. duh. I knew that. Still thinking in v5. Thanks, Larry. Take the Internet to Go: Yahoo!Go puts the Internet in your pocket: mail, news, photos more. http://mobile.yahoo.com/go?refer=1GNXIC
