Re: Object spec [x-adr][x-bayes]

2003-03-10 Thread Christopher Armstrong
and it doesn't seem it would require that much hassle. -- Twisted | Christopher Armstrong: International Man of Twistery Radix | Release Manager, Twisted Project -+ http://twistedmatrix.com/users/radix.twistd/

Re: Objects and classes, try 3

2003-03-10 Thread Christopher Armstrong
preventing incompatibility (or even special inter-language glue code). -- Twisted | Christopher Armstrong: International Man of Twistery Radix | Release Manager, Twisted Project -+ http://twistedmatrix.com/users/radix.twistd/

Re: bit rot (and other tribulations) in parrot/languages/*

2003-02-18 Thread Christopher Armstrong
-P. As for the rest of your problems, I'm clueless. :-) -- Twisted | Christopher Armstrong: International Man of Twistery Radix | Release Manager, Twisted Project -+ http://twistedmatrix.com/users/radix.twistd/

Re: Securing Parrot ASM

2003-01-28 Thread Christopher Armstrong
irrelevant but very interesting design for capability UIs: http://www.combex.com/tech/index.html -- Twisted | Christopher Armstrong: International Man of Twistery Radix | Release Manager, Twisted Project -+ http://twistedmatrix.com/users/radix.twistd/

Re: Securing Parrot ASM

2003-01-28 Thread Christopher Armstrong
, you can't stop a native function (which was called from parrot code) from doing whatever it wants, but you can still prevent the parrot code from using that function in the first place (right?). -- Twisted | Christopher Armstrong: International Man of Twistery Radix | Release

Re: Securing Parrot ASM

2003-01-28 Thread Christopher Armstrong
On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 09:24:20AM -0800, Brent Dax wrote: Christopher Armstrong: # One other thing to think about is resource limits. It'd be nice to not # require `ulimit' or whatever system-specific resource limitation # mechanism, but rather rely on the parrot interpreter to # baby-sit

Re: Securing Parrot ASM

2003-01-28 Thread Christopher Armstrong
On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 04:15:41PM +, Matthew Byng-Maddick wrote: On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 11:04:43AM -0500, Christopher Armstrong wrote: Hrm, maybe I just don't know what's going on, but I'm not sure why this is a problem. Couldn't call out to native functions or perhaps call out

PyCon

2003-01-28 Thread Christopher Armstrong
Hey, any Parrot hackers going to the Python convention at the end of March? http://python.org/pycon/. Price will be $150-$200. I'm very interested in meeting and discussing there :-) -- Twisted | Christopher Armstrong: International Man of Twistery Radix | Release Manager, Twisted

Re: AUTOLOADED pre- and post- handler methods?

2003-01-25 Thread Christopher Armstrong
://www.python.org/2.2.2/descrintro.html. Btw, these all have `set' and `del' friends, but they don't always perfectly match up with the `get's... I'll get back to you on that. -- Twisted | Christopher Armstrong: International Man of Twistery Radix | Release Manager, Twisted Project

Re: Objects, finally (try 1)

2003-01-22 Thread Christopher Armstrong
On Wed, Jan 15, 2003 at 01:57:28AM -0500, Dan Sugalski wrote: At 9:37 PM -0500 1/14/03, Christopher Armstrong wrote: But who knows, maybe it could be made modular enough (i.e., more interface-oriented?) to allow the best of both worlds -- I'm far too novice wrt Parrot to figure out what it'd

Re: Compiling to Parrot

2003-01-21 Thread Christopher Armstrong
of the reasons I'm interested in Parrot -- I'm hoping that it's going to have some secure execution facilities built-in from the ground up (to facilitate user-code on virtual world servers) :-) -- Twisted | Christopher Armstrong: International Man of Twistery Radix | Release Manager, Twisted

Re: Objects, finally (try 1)

2003-01-15 Thread Christopher Armstrong
On Wed, Jan 15, 2003 at 01:57:28AM -0500, Dan Sugalski wrote: At 9:37 PM -0500 1/14/03, Christopher Armstrong wrote: But who knows, maybe it could be made modular enough (i.e., more interface-oriented?) to allow the best of both worlds -- I'm far too novice wrt Parrot to figure out what it'd

Re: Objects, finally (try 1)

2003-01-14 Thread Christopher Armstrong
on an instance: '__dict__'. Oh, except for the new __slots__ feature, which might actually find a use with the fixed-attribute-system that Dan has proposed. -- Twisted | Christopher Armstrong: International Man of Twistery Radix | Release Manager, Twisted Project -+ http

Re: Objects, finally (try 1)

2003-01-14 Thread Christopher Armstrong
to figure out what it'd look like, unfortunately. I've been lurking this thread for a while, very interested, and unsure if I should offer my suggestions for making the object system more compatible with Python, and this looks like a great chance for me to jump in. :-) -- Twisted | Christopher