perl6 garbage collector?

2004-08-28 Thread Ozgun Erdogan
Hi all - I don't know if this is the right list for this email, but it seemed like the most relevant one. Currently, we're using perl-5.6.1 and are having problems with memory leaks - thanks to reference counting. I'm just curious how stable parrot's GC engine is, and how much effort it'd take t

Library loading

2004-08-28 Thread Dan Sugalski
Time to finish this one and ensconce the API into the embedding interface. We dynamically load libraries. Whee! Yay, us. We need a set of semantics defined and an API to go with them so we can meaningfully and reliably work with them. So, to start, here are the semantics I think we're going to n

[perl #31379] [PATCH] Implement Parrot_call_method

2004-08-28 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by Mattia Barbon # Please include the string: [perl #31379] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # http://rt.perl.org:80/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=31379 > Hello, this patch implements Parrot_call_method (with test). It also adds a note t

Re: Compile op with return values

2004-08-28 Thread Steve Fink
On Aug-27, Leopold Toetsch wrote: > Steve Fink wrote: > >On Aug-26, Leopold Toetsch wrote: > > >>.sub @regex_at_foo_imc_line_4711 # e.g. > > >Yes, this illustrates what I was really getting at. My compiler can > >certainly take a subroutine name (or file and line number, or whatever) > >to use t

Re: Compile op with return values

2004-08-28 Thread Steve Fink
On Aug-26, Leopold Toetsch wrote: > Steve Fink wrote: > > >I can store some global counter that makes it generate different sub > >names each time, but that seems a bit hackish given that I don't really > >want the subroutine to be globally visible anyway; I'm just using one so > >that I can use P