Re: [PATCH] Reduce array.pmc keyed code

2002-07-25 Thread Scott Walters
Mike, Was very happy to see your message. People don't often agree with me. I'm not very agreeable. On Thu, 25 Jul 2002, Mike Lambert wrote: > Scott Walters wrote: > > > Part of the beauty of PMCs is that you can have very compact > > storage given a dedicated eg int array type. Generating t

Re: [PATCH] Reduce array.pmc keyed code

2002-07-25 Thread Mike Lambert
Scott Walters wrote: > Part of the beauty of PMCs is that you can have very compact > storage given a dedicated eg int array type. Generating these > would not be a bad thing. The typical case still remains, that > arrays will contained mixtures of all datatypes. Yep, I agree. Thus, array.pmc wo

Re: RFC - Hashing PMC's

2002-07-25 Thread Aaron Sherman
On Thu, 2002-07-25 at 03:12, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Aaron Sherman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > my @x is Hashed::ByValues = (1,2,3); > > %h = (@x => 1); > > @x[1] += 4; > > Personally I don't like the C< is Hashed::ByValues > because it smacks > of spooky action at a distance;

[perl #15574] [PATCH] RECALL renamed to AVOID

2002-07-25 Thread Tanton Gibbs
# New Ticket Created by "Tanton Gibbs" # Please include the string: [perl #15574] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # http://rt.perl.org/rt2/Ticket/Display.html?id=15574 > This patch implements the AGAIN pmc preprocessor command. AGAIN should be used after

Re: PMC's and high level languages

2002-07-25 Thread David M. Lloyd
I can comment on a bit of this at least :) On Wed, 24 Jul 2002, Melvin Smith wrote: > It is not clear to me yet that there needs to be a 1-to-1 correlation > from PMC's to upper level "classes". There won't be. In general, there well be far fewer PMC classes than upper-level classes. Also, as

Re: [PATCH] Reduce array.pmc keyed code

2002-07-25 Thread Scott Walters
Mike, Part of the beauty of PMCs is that you can have very compact storage given a dedicated eg int array type. Generating these would not be a bad thing. The typical case still remains, that arrays will contained mixtures of all datatypes. On Wed, 24 Jul 2002, Mike Lambert wrote: > This patch

Re: cvs diff is having problems

2002-07-25 Thread Juergen Boemmels
"Tanton Gibbs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > TG> Does anyone know why I keep getting this: > > TG> $ cvs diff > diff.out > > TG> cvs server: failed to create lock directory for > `/cvs/public/parrot/Parrot' > > TG> (/cvs/public/parrot/Parrot/#cvs.lock): No such file or directory > > TG> cvs ser

Re: RFC - Hashing PMC's

2002-07-25 Thread Luke Palmer
On 25 Jul 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Luke Palmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On 25 Jul 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > > Personally I don't like the C< is Hashed::ByValues > because it smacks > > > of spooky action at a distance; I much prefer my notion of C< %h{*@x} > > > =

Re: RFC - Hashing PMC's

2002-07-25 Thread Luke Palmer
On 25 Jul 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Personally I don't like the C< is Hashed::ByValues > because it smacks > of spooky action at a distance; I much prefer my notion of C< %h{*@x} > = 1>. And in Perl 6 I have the horrible feeling that C<< %h = (*@x => > 1) >> would expand to C<< %h = (1,2,