Re: A quick sketch of the interpreter

2001-06-22 Thread Uri Guttman
> "DS" == Dan Sugalski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> How does this port to a TIL form? DS> Badly. :) We'll need to insert event checking code into the DS> generated TIL, or figure out some way to wedge into the platform DS> interrupt/async system. (I'd bet on the former, though) a

Re: A quick sketch of the interpreter

2001-06-22 Thread Uri Guttman
> "DS" == Dan Sugalski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: DS> At 11:45 PM 6/14/2001 -0400, Bryan C. Warnock wrote: >> > =head1 The opcode loop >> > >> > This is a tight loop. All it does is call an opcode function, get back >> > a pointer to the next opcode to execute, and check the event

Re: ~ for concat / negation (Re: The Perl 6 Emulator)

2001-06-22 Thread James Mastros
From: "Nathan Wiger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2001 4:41 PM Subject: ~ for concat / negation (Re: The Perl 6 Emulator) > Does anyone else see a problem with =~ ? Plus, it makes the > pre-plus-concat that many desire impossible, since

Re: Should the op dispatch loop decode?

2001-06-22 Thread Uri Guttman
> "DS" == Dan Sugalski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: DS> At 01:13 PM 6/13/2001 +0200, Bart Lateur wrote: >> On Tue, 12 Jun 2001 18:12:35 -0400, Dan Sugalski wrote: >> >> >'Kay, here's a question to ponder. Should the op dispatch loop handle >> >argument decoding, or should that be le

Python on Unicode etc.

2001-06-22 Thread Nathan Torkington
This is from the latest python-dev summary. It might be of interest to folks considering how to store strings. * Adding .decode() method to Unicode * Marc-Andre Lemburg asked for opinions on adding a .decode method to unicode objects: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2001-Jun

Re: ~ for concat / negation (Re: The Perl 6 Emulator)

2001-06-22 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 05:17 AM 6/22/2001 -0700, Benjamin Stuhl wrote: > > In summary: > > > >1. I don't like ~ for concat > > > >2. But if it does become concat, then we still > > shouldn't > > change ~'s current unary meaning > > > > > > Thanks for listening. > > > > -Nate > >I agree completely. Howev

Re: ~ for concat / negation (Re: The Perl 6 Emulator)

2001-06-22 Thread Benjamin Stuhl
> In summary: > >1. I don't like ~ for concat > >2. But if it does become concat, then we still > shouldn't > change ~'s current unary meaning > > > Thanks for listening. > > -Nate I agree completely. However, this is no longer really a topic for -internals, it's really a pure