Re: Re[2]: parrot, win32, stand-alone distribution, separate Parrot maillist

2003-08-05 Thread Brent Dax
Jonathan Worthington: work something out. :-) However, Brent said If you mean precompiled binaries, not yet. Parrot is still under development, so we aren't shipping binaries., so I'm guessing maybe I shouldn't do a ZIP with the executables in? But in that case I guess there's no point me

Re: Infant mortality

2003-08-05 Thread Juergen Boemmels
Benjamin Goldberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Actually, I meant generation set to MAX_INT, not 0. Marking pmcs as free happens at the end of DOD. Marking pmcs as live or dead happens earlier. I was thinking of something like: foreach(pmc in all_pmcs) { ... } foreach(pmc

Re: Packfile stuff

2003-08-05 Thread Leopold Toetsch
Dan Sugalski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here's some stuff we need to add to the packfile format and the sub header to get things ready for more language work. First: any changes here imply, that assemble.pl/disassemble.pl will seeze to work. So first step would be: grep the tree and remove all

Re: generic code generator? [was: subroutines and python status]

2003-08-05 Thread Michal Wallace
On Sun, 3 Aug 2003, K Stol wrote: What do you think? Want to try squishing pirate/python and pirate/lua together? :) Yeah, I like the idea. Let's try this out. Well, I finished reading your report[1] and posted some of my (rather unorganized) thoughts up at [2] It does seem like there

Re: Packfile stuff

2003-08-05 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 12:18 PM +0200 8/5/03, Leopold Toetsch wrote: Dan Sugalski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here's some stuff we need to add to the packfile format and the sub header to get things ready for more language work. First: any changes here imply, that assemble.pl/disassemble.pl will seeze to work. So

Re: Re[2]: parrot, win32, stand-alone distribution, separate Parrot maillist

2003-08-05 Thread Jonathan Worthington
On Tuesday, August 05 at 2003 2:40 PM, Dan Sugalski wrote: At 12:12 AM -0400 8/5/03, Melvin Smith wrote: At 11:37 PM 8/4/2003 -0400, Brent Dax wrote: Jonathan Worthington: work something out. :-) However, Brent said If you mean precompiled binaries, not yet. Parrot is still under

Re: extproc_parrot

2003-08-05 Thread Tupshin Harper
Jeff Horwitz wrote: after many days of swimming through source code, i've successfully built a library that lets you embed parrot in oracle. this was important to me because for extproc_perl (embeds perl in oracle) to have a future with perl 6, i had to embed parrot. what makes this even cooler

This Week's Perl 6 Summary

2003-08-05 Thread Piers Cawley
Perl 6 Summary for the week ending 20030703 Ooh look, it's another Perl 6 summary. Doesn't that man ever take a holiday? I think he took one last month. Is it in Esperanto this week? I don't think so. Does Leon Brocard get a mention? It certainly looks that way.

Re: Packfile stuff

2003-08-05 Thread Leopold Toetsch
Simon Glover wrote: At 12:18 PM +0200 8/5/03, Leopold Toetsch wrote: First: any changes here imply, that assemble.pl/disassemble.pl will seeze to work. Well, there's disassemble.c, which pdb uses; does that do everything that you want? All packfile.c based utilities are fine, as

Re: [CVS ci] don't trace system areas in sweep opcode

2003-08-05 Thread Piers Cawley
Brent Dax [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Leopold Toetsch: To clean up on scope exit (and after a Perl Cundef ins), the HL emits a Csweep 0 opcode. This doesn't do Ctrace_system_areas anymore, because there is nothing unanchored and alive beyond the runloop's stack. Have I mentioned lately that

Re: Implicit parameter aliases

2003-08-05 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 1:02 PM -0700 8/5/03, Dave Whipp wrote: Can I discriminate on parameter names using multi subs? Nope. Named parameters don't participate in MMD. -- Dan --it's like this--- Dan Sugalski

Re: %_ - is it available for use?

2003-08-05 Thread david nicol
On Sat, 2003-08-02 at 18:33, Michael G Schwern wrote: Representing the Backwards Compatiblity Police, I've had co-workers use %_ as the globalist of all global hashes. %_ transends all packages and scopes and Perl does not localize it, touch it or use it as it does @_ and $_. In the