Re: Making PMCs

2004-06-13 Thread Matt Fowles
Nicholas~ I will try to answer what I can, based on my current experience making those array PMCs. Nicholas Clark wrote: a data pointer which I can use. I am always responsible for freeing anything there(?) and to do this I need to set the active destroy flag(?) This flag is not the same as th

Re: FW: Periodic Table of the Operators

2004-06-13 Thread Rod Adams
Jared Rhine wrote: I haven't yet seen an example presented where using a Unicode operator would save keystrokes, for instance. That depends entirely on how you plan to generate them. If you are relying on a special command in your editor of choice, yes, the ASCII equiv is fewer keystrokes. If, ho

[perl #30252] [PATCH] work on languages/Makefile

2004-06-13 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by Bernhard Schmalhofer # Please include the string: [perl #30252] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # http://rt.perl.org:80/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=30252 > Hi, I have been looking into languages/Makefile and tried to update and beau

Making PMCs

2004-06-13 Thread Nicholas Clark
I'm trying to work out how to make PMCs. I'm not finding much documentation, and I'm not sure what I'm missing. Particularly I'm trying to work out where I'm allowed to store data, and what flags I might have to set A basic PMC appears to contain flags of which 8 are private so I could us

[perl #30245] [PATCH] Resizable*Array pmcs

2004-06-13 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by Matt Fowles # Please include the string: [perl #30245] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # http://rt.perl.org:80/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=30245 > All~ This patch adds Resizable*Array pmcs as the counterparts to Fixed*Array pmcs.

FW: Periodic Table of the Operators

2004-06-13 Thread Jared Rhine
[Pedro == [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Sun, 13 Jun 2004 03:40:27 +0200] Pedro> What advantages have to use characters not in standard Pedro> keyboards? Flexibility. Stylistic choice. There is More Than One Way To Do It. Power. Expressiveness. Everything that makes Perl good. Pedro> Isn't it a little sc

Re: FW: Periodic Table of the Operators

2004-06-13 Thread David Storrs
On Sun, Jun 13, 2004 at 03:40:27AM +0200, Pedro Larroy wrote: > What advantages have to use characters not in standard keyboards? Isn't > it a little scary? Well, what do you consider a 'standard' keyboard? The zip operator/Yen sign probably appears on most keyboards in Japan, but on very few i