Re: Teapots!

2004-06-15 Thread chromatic
On Mon, 2004-06-07 at 14:46, Nick Glencross wrote: > One thing I forgot to mention, you'll need to download the latest SDL > library from Chromatic's web page: > > http://wgz.org/chromatic/parrot/sdl/ A week later, I've finally checked the new SDL Parrot code into CVS. -- c

Re: Strings. Finally.

2004-06-15 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 4:33 PM -0700 6/15/04, Damien Neil wrote: On Jun 14, 2004, at 1:54 PM, Dan Sugalski wrote: Parrot provides code points for all graphemes, even for those character sets/encodings which don't inherently do so. Most sets that have variable-length encodings use an escape sequence scheme--the value o

Re: [perl #30275] [NEW] test file for parrotlib.pbc

2004-06-15 Thread Jens Rieks
On Monday 14 June 2004 23:34, Bernhard Schmalhofer wrote: > # New Ticket Created by Bernhard Schmalhofer > # Please include the string: [perl #30275] > # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. > # http://rt.perl.org:80/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=30275 > > > > Hi, > > I

Who wants to define the iterator protocols?

2004-06-15 Thread Dan Sugalski
Since I've obviously gone mad (or slipped into the Twilight Zone) and we're going to use methods for the iterators, we need to define those methods. In a probably futile attempt to not be a bottleneck, I'd like someone to step up and take a shot at defining the methods that have to be implement

More on slices and iterators

2004-06-15 Thread Dan Sugalski
Okay, before we go any further, I think it's important to note that we're going to restrict ourselves to unidimensional slices for the time being. Yes, I know, we probably need to deal with multidimensional slices at some point (and I say probably since there are quite a number of different way

Re: The behaviour of iterators

2004-06-15 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 2:06 PM -0700 6/14/04, Dave Whipp wrote: "Dan Sugalski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Why not take a page from C++ and call "previous" and "next" C and >C, and then C to get what it points to. Because ++ and -- affect the value not the container. (There are days

Re: [perl #29994] [BUG] "loadlib $P0, varname" not working correctly

2004-06-15 Thread Leopold Toetsch
Dan Sugalski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 9:50 AM +0200 6/3/04, Leopold Toetsch wrote: >>Dan Sugalski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> Option two here would be the right one. >> >>For dynamic PMC classes and NCI yes. *But* what about dynamic opcode >>libs? The PASM/PIR compilers have to load i

Re: Strings. Finally.

2004-06-15 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 4:04 PM +0200 6/15/04, Leopold Toetsch wrote: Dan Sugalski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Synthesized code points === Parrot provides code points for all graphemes, even for those character sets/encodings which don't inherently do so. Most sets that have variable-length enco

Re: Some rationale for the mixed encoding scheme

2004-06-15 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 10:06 AM -0400 6/15/04, Andy Dougherty wrote: On Mon, 14 Jun 2004, Dan Sugalski wrote: I do realize that the Big ICU Patch tossed a lot of the infrastructure for this, which broke parrot for folks who can't/won't do ICU. (And there are a number of folks shut out of development because they c

Re: Event design sketch

2004-06-15 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 6:54 PM +1200 6/15/04, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tue, 11 May 2004, Uri Guttman wrote: >> Why would alarm need any special opcode when it is just a timer >> with a delay of [abs_time minus NOW]? >> Let the coder handle that and lose the extra opcodes. mab> you want to make the lat

Re: Strings. Finally.

2004-06-15 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 8:41 PM -0700 6/14/04, Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon wrote: Sorry to reply to this, but I feel that this is a request for clarifications, not for a change. :^) Dan Sugalski wrote: Synthesized code points === ... becomes two integers, 0x0041 and 0x82A9. (Though it could

Re: Strings. Finally.

2004-06-15 Thread Leopold Toetsch
Dan Sugalski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Synthesized code points >=== > Parrot provides code points for all graphemes, even for those > character sets/encodings which don't inherently do so. Most sets that > have variable-length encodings use an escape sequence scheme--the >

Re: Some rationale for the mixed encoding scheme

2004-06-15 Thread Andy Dougherty
On Mon, 14 Jun 2004, Dan Sugalski wrote: > I do realize that the Big ICU Patch tossed a lot of the > infrastructure for this, which broke parrot for folks who can't/won't > do ICU. (And there are a number of folks shut out of development > because they can't get ICU going) That'll be put back over

[perl #30275] [NEW] test file for parrotlib.pbc

2004-06-15 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by Bernhard Schmalhofer # Please include the string: [perl #30275] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # http://rt.perl.org:80/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=30275 > Hi, I have been looking at parrotlib.imc and created a test-file 'parrot/t/l

Re: The behaviour of iterators

2004-06-15 Thread Dave Whipp
"Dan Sugalski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Why not take a page from C++ and call "previous" and "next" C and > >C, and then C to get what it points to. > > Because ++ and -- affect the value not the container. (There are days > when I think "C++ does it like..." i

Re: Making PMCs

2004-06-15 Thread Leopold Toetsch
Nicholas Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm trying to work out how to make PMCs. I'm not finding much documentation, A first draft of F is in. leo