Re: MMD and VTABLE_find_method

2004-12-22 Thread Leopold Toetsch
Sam Ruby wrote: Leopold Toetsch wrote: A foo PMC could represent an entire row in a two dimensional MMD, or an entire plane in a three dimensional MMD, ... etc. What does it mean: represent a row...? What about the namespace pollution? Again: where does this hypothetical MMD PMC come from? A

Re: MMD and VTABLE_find_method

2004-12-22 Thread Sam Ruby
Leopold Toetsch wrote: Sam Ruby wrote: Leopold Toetsch wrote: A foo PMC could represent an entire row in a two dimensional MMD, or an entire plane in a three dimensional MMD, ... etc. What does it mean: represent a row...? What about the namespace pollution? Again: where does this hypothetical

Re: MMD and VTABLE_find_method

2004-12-22 Thread Leopold Toetsch
Sam Ruby wrote: First, a direct quote from http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2004/04/16/a12.html?page=10: Please let's stay at the basics. Please describe your counter proposal for a very elementary add Px, Py, Pz operation. There's really no need to procede to Perl6 objects, if we can't even find a

Re: MMD and VTABLE_find_method

2004-12-22 Thread Sam Ruby
Leopold Toetsch wrote: Sam Ruby wrote: First, a direct quote from http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2004/04/16/a12.html?page=10: Please let's stay at the basics. Please describe your counter proposal for a very elementary add Px, Py, Pz operation. There's really no need to procede to Perl6 objects,

Re: [perl #33094] [PATCH] Clean Up POD Errors and Warnings

2004-12-22 Thread chromatic
On Fri, 2004-12-17 at 16:40 -0800, chromatic wrote: # New Ticket Created by chromatic # Please include the string: [perl #33094] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # URL: http://rt.perl.org:80/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=33094 Here's a patch to clean up

Re: MMD and VTABLE_find_method

2004-12-22 Thread Leopold Toetsch
Sam Ruby wrote: First, a few things to note: the semantics of add vary from language to language. In particular, add is not guaranteed to be commutative in Python (think string addition). Yes, of course. As my proposal is primarily focused on where the logic is placed in the system, not how it

Re: Test::Builder versus Unicode

2004-12-22 Thread David Wheeler
On Dec 20, 2004, at 6:44 PM, David Wheeler wrote: PS Somebody should drag autrijus into this. I'll try to grab him on IRC in the morning... I got him this morning. Here's the discussion: 09:50am] Theory: seen autrijus [09:50am] purl: autrijus was last seen on #p5p 1 hour and 32 minutes ago,

Re: Test::Builder versus Unicode

2004-12-22 Thread Nicholas Clark
On Wed, Dec 22, 2004 at 10:26:02AM -0800, David Wheeler wrote: 1. Perl gets smarter about duping file handles, so that the dupes get the same i/o layer settings as the handles they dupe. Changing this going forwards doesn't change any of the installed perls out there in the wild. So whatever

Re: Test::Builder versus Unicode

2004-12-22 Thread Ovid
--- Nicholas Clark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Dec 22, 2004 at 10:26:02AM -0800, David Wheeler wrote: 1. Perl gets smarter about duping file handles, so that the dupes get the same i/o layer settings as the handles they dupe. Changing this going forwards doesn't change any of the

Re: Test::Builder versus Unicode

2004-12-22 Thread Nicholas Clark
On Wed, Dec 22, 2004 at 11:41:56AM -0800, Ovid wrote: --- Nicholas Clark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Dec 22, 2004 at 10:26:02AM -0800, David Wheeler wrote: 1. Perl gets smarter about duping file handles, so that the dupes get the same i/o layer settings as the handles they dupe.

Fwd: Out of Office Contact

2004-12-22 Thread Ovid
OK, everyone send Mr. Cowgilll a polite message letting him know that, in the future, he needs to not send these messages to mailing lists. He'll feel really bad about his poor etiquette and we can say only Cowgills get the blues. Ooh, that was awful, awful, awful. Never let me near a pun

Re: Fwd: Out of Office Contact

2004-12-22 Thread Robert Spier
Mr. Cowgill's computer did not send such a message to the list. (It's not in the archive.) He sent it to you directly. -R At Wed, 22 Dec 2004 12:27:51 -0800 (PST), Ovid wrote: OK, everyone send Mr. Cowgilll a polite message letting him know that, in the future, he needs to not send these

Re: MMD and VTABLE_find_method

2004-12-22 Thread Carlos
Hi, a lurker here. Probably you forgot the braces: + /* let's ignore the complexities of a distance_func for now... */ + mmd_flag = 0; + addsub = VTABLE_find_method(INTERP, $1, __add, 0, mdd_flag); + if (!addsub) { + mmd_flag = 0; + addsub =

Re: Let the hacking commence!

2004-12-22 Thread Luke Palmer
Luke Palmer writes: Also, don't use rule parameters, conditionals, or code blocks. Those things require us to know Perl 6 before we're done defining Perl 6. Keep it essentially BNF with Perl 6 syntax (it's okay to use groups and quantifiers though, since those can always be converted to

Re: Fwd: Out of Office Contact

2004-12-22 Thread Randy W. Sims
Robert Spier wrote: Mr. Cowgill's computer did not send such a message to the list. (It's not in the archive.) He sent it to you directly. This is (almost always) Microsoft Exchange BS. I used to monitor some of the ActiveState mailing lists, try to answer questions and help people. But every

Re: Fwd: Out of Office Contact

2004-12-22 Thread Danny R. Faught
Randy W. Sims wrote: This is (almost always) Microsoft Exchange BS. On one list I manage on Topica, this is a fairly frequent problem. I'm convinced that part of the problem is that Topica doesn't set a Precedence: bulk header. Sometimes the messages go only as a reply to the poster, but