Re: Two problems groping around in PerlHashes

2002-10-20 Thread Jason Gloudon
On Sun, Oct 20, 2002 at 12:32:24PM +0200, Leopold Toetsch wrote: PDD02 specifies the needed methods exists_keyed type_keyed The vtable PDD refers to type_keyed returning the type of the *PMC*. This isn't accurate given the question. Should we change the PDD ? perlhash/array

Re: C# and Parrot

2002-10-20 Thread Bryan C. Warnock
On Sun, 2002-10-20 at 07:39, Leon Brocard wrote: Leon Brocard sent the following bits through the ether: It looks like the DotGNU weekly IRC meeting will be discussing Parrot. Could be interesting: It was quite interesting. I managed to make it to the early one and Dan to the later one.

RE: Getting started guide v0.4

2002-10-20 Thread Brent Dax
Erik Lechak: # And in my tinkering around, I compile a lot. I have also added this # handy little perl script that helps. # # I only know that it works on win32 (XP). I could get it working on # linux if anyone is interested. # # Extensions are in win32 speak. But it uses Config.pm so it

Re: [perl #18008] t/src/list.t failing.

2002-10-20 Thread Leopold Toetsch
Simon Glover wrote: -for (i = 0; i 5; i++) +for (i = 0; i 5; i++) { I'm wondering, how I could miss this. Anyway, thank you for the report, fix checked in. leo

Re: C# and Parrot

2002-10-20 Thread Leon Brocard
Leon Brocard sent the following bits through the ether: It looks like the DotGNU weekly IRC meeting will be discussing Parrot. Could be interesting: It was quite interesting. I managed to make it to the early one and Dan to the later one. An annotated and abridged chatlog is available:

Re: Two problems groping around in PerlHashes

2002-10-20 Thread Leopold Toetsch
Clinton A. Pierce wrote: While working on ...something... I found the need to be able to tell if a key exists in a PerlHash. Here's the kicker, I don't know what kind of data's gonna be there: int, float, PMC, or string. [ snipp ] exists Px[key], branch PDD02 specifies the needed

Re: C# and Parrot (dotgnu meeting)

2002-10-20 Thread Gopal V
If memory serves me right, Leon Brocard wrote: It looks like the DotGNU weekly IRC meeting will be discussing Parrot. Could be interesting: http://www.dotgnu.org/pipermail/developers/2002-October/008345.html A condensed summary of the IRC meetings have been posted as :-

Re: C# and Parrot

2002-10-20 Thread Rhys Weatherley
Bryan C. Warnock wrote: Interesting read. Dan skimmed over this, but what do .NET (and JVM) doe for floating point numbers? The CLI has three floating point types, of which 2 are visible to C# and a third is used by the engine. These are float32, float64, and native float. The first two

Re: C# and Parrot

2002-10-20 Thread Gopal V
If memory serves me right, Bryan C. Warnock wrote: It looks like we're going to need 8,16,32,64 bit types... Interesting read. Dan skimmed over this, but what do .NET (and JVM) doe for floating point numbers? IL (Ecma-335) -- 134.1.1 Floating Point 14 The floating

Scratchpad confusion

2002-10-20 Thread Allen Short
The ops described in PDD 6 and docs/parrot_assembly.pod for scratchpads appear to be subtly different from the ones actually in core.ops. In particular, i was led astray by the docs referring to the newpad op and core.ops implementing new_pad. which is it supposed to be? =) I started

Two problems groping around in PerlHashes

2002-10-20 Thread Clinton A. Pierce
While working on ...something... I found the need to be able to tell if a key exists in a PerlHash. Here's the kicker, I don't know what kind of data's gonna be there: int, float, PMC, or string. After hunting around in t/perlhash.t I found a few examples of checking for keys that don't

Re: perl6 operator precedence table

2002-10-20 Thread Smylers
Mark J. Reed wrote: On 2002-10-17 at 22:52:49, Smylers wrote: ... I initially misread the bar as an exclamation mark. I realize that this is a sample size of one ... Make that a sample size of two. Well, not really. (Presumably there are many other people who also read Larry's mail

Re: perl6 operator precedence table

2002-10-20 Thread Smylers
Larry Wall wrote: $a .! $b # bitwise xor $a ! $b # logical xor ! $b # logical not I like the notion that binary ! means that the two sides are sharing one not. That's the definition of XOR in a nutshell. I like that too. It also means that C!! and C.!! become the

Re: perl6 operator precedence table

2002-10-20 Thread Me
Somebody fairly recently recommended some decent fixed-width typefaces. I think it may have been MJD, but I can't find the reference right now (could be at work). Michael Schwern recently suggested Monaco, Neep or, if you can find them, Mishawaka or ProFont. I investigated and found this link

Re: perl6 operator precedence table

2002-10-20 Thread Smylers
Me wrote: Somebody fairly recently recommended some decent fixed-width typefaces. I think it may have been MJD ... Michael Schwern recently suggested Monaco, Neep or, if you can find them, Mishawaka or ProFont. Ah, yes. That's what I was failing to recollect. (Apologies to both MJD

Character Properties

2002-10-20 Thread Luke Palmer
What's the plan on having properties, or attributes (depending on how far we're taking it), on individual characters in a string? I think it's an essential feature, as Lisp has shown us. If there's an argument otherwise, I'm all ears. Luke