Re: Ambiguity of parsing numbers with underscores/methods

2005-08-17 Thread Roger Hale
marker is here problematic.) If one wants to call a method on a number, surely one may follow the usual advise and write 1 ._5 1 ._foo 1 .efoo 1 .e_foo 0xFF .dead ? -- Roger Hale

Re: (OT) Re: Perl development server

2005-06-18 Thread Roger Hale
Vadim Konovalov wrote: Icelandic: laukur (Incidentally, none of you will ever guess how to correctly pronounce that.) Russian: luk (pronounced similar to English "look"). For some reason, Icelandic translation of onion is much closer to Russian than any other variants... The English leek is

Re: reduce metaoperator on an empty list

2005-06-06 Thread Roger Hale
~ $sep ~ $^b}] @strings (yes, I know that's not going to pass lexical analysis) since, as was pointed out, you get an extra $sep at the front. yours, Roger Hale

Re: mod/div

2005-06-06 Thread Roger Hale
Just a nit, for the record, with no great perl relevance: "TSa (Thomas Sandlaß)" wrote: But what is the first quarter of year 0? 0.25? Sure (of course if there were a year 0 instead of becoming 1 BCE) > And the last quarter of year -1? -0.25? Sure > That works numerically, but March of a year

Re: Perl development server

2005-05-24 Thread Roger Hale
eed a dev server...) Regards, Roger Hale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Hyper operator corner case?

2005-04-17 Thread Roger Hale
Thomas Sandlaà wrote: John Williams wrote: Good point. Another one is: how does the meta_operator determine the "identity value" for user-defined operators? Does it have to? The definition of the identity value---BTW, I like the term "neutral value" better because identity also is a relation betw

Re: Welcome to the land of Subversion

2005-04-13 Thread Roger Hale
Robert Spier wrote: Could that be added as 4th line? Good ideas, all of them. I've updated the page to add that, and to switch to bz2. -R Following Nicholas Clark: bzcat svk-mirror-dump.bz2 | svnadmin load --ignore-uuid ~/.svk/parrot presumably should be bzcat svk-bootstrap-dump.bz2 | svnadmi

Re: [PROPOSAL] calling convention abstraction

2005-04-13 Thread Roger Hale
Bob Rogers wrote: So it sounds like we are all saying the same thing now? Well, two of us at least (with me coming from the peanut gallery)... Leo has his own say, and it's his proposal. regards, Roger

Re: [PROPOSAL] calling convention abstraction

2005-04-11 Thread Roger Hale
Bob Rogers wrote: From: Roger Hale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thu, 07 Apr 2005 04:23:41 -0400 Leopold Toetsch wrote: > Roger Hale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>Leopold Toetsch wrote: >> >>>As @ARGS (or @IN_ARGS, @OUT_ARGS) is bein

Re: [PROPOSAL] calling convention abstraction

2005-04-07 Thread Roger Hale
Leopold Toetsch wrote: Roger Hale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Leopold Toetsch wrote: As @ARGS (or @IN_ARGS, @OUT_ARGS) is being stored in the context, and that context is defacto the continuation, yes - a tail-call would inherit this information. But as each tail-call supplies a new @ARGS, h

Re: [PROPOSAL] calling convention abstraction

2005-04-03 Thread Roger Hale
Leopold Toetsch wrote: Roger Hale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Leopold Toetsch wrote: sub foo { want.List ?? (1,2,3) :: 1 } # or some such This information could also be attached to @ARGS. E.g. @ARGS."return_list"(1) Would it be possible to attach it to the continuation? Then

Re: [PROPOSAL] calling convention abstraction

2005-04-03 Thread Roger Hale
Leopold Toetsch wrote: Below inline attached is a scheme for an abstraction layer around calling conventions. Comments welcome, leo > 2.5) return context > > Yesterdays conversation on IRC (yes!) has clearly shown that the > current calling conventions are lacking information about scalar vs > li