Re: Buf.pm: FIFO and grammar

2010-08-13 Thread Brandon S Allbery KF8NH
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 8/13/10 22:03 , Aaron Sherman wrote: > On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 8:11 PM, Jon Murray wrote: > >> My understanding from synopses was that you get the Perl 5 behaviour if >> you omit the signature on your function declaration (though I >> unfortunatel

Re: Buf.pm: FIFO and grammar

2010-08-13 Thread Aaron Sherman
On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 8:11 PM, Jon Murray wrote: > My understanding from synopses was that you get the Perl 5 behaviour if > you omit the signature on your function declaration (though I > unfortunately can't check as I don't have Rakudo installed): > > sub foo { @_[0] = 1 } > my $a = 0; > foo(

Re: Buf.pm: FIFO and grammar

2010-08-13 Thread Jon Murray
My understanding from synopses was that you get the Perl 5 behaviour if you omit the signature on your function declaration (though I unfortunately can't check as I don't have Rakudo installed): sub foo { @_[0] = 1 } my $a = 0; foo($a); say $a; # 0 Cheers... On Fri, 2010-08-13 at 12:06 -0400, Aa

Re: Buf.pm: FIFO and grammar

2010-08-13 Thread Aaron Sherman
On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 11:27 AM, Jonathan Worthington wrote: > >> > I saw a video camera in the room, but not sure when we'll be seeing the > footage from that. In the meantime, the slides are at: > > http://www.jnthn.net/papers/2010-yapc-eu-signatures.pdf > > Nice talk! One minor nit, and perhap

Re: Buf.pm: FIFO and grammar

2010-08-13 Thread Jonathan Worthington
Nicholas Clark wrote: On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 03:38:31PM +0200, Carl Mäsak wrote: In fact, jnthn++ had a talk at YAPC::EU the other week where he showed how nested signatures can be used to make hierarchical matches. A proof-of-concept module could simply be some sugar around this already ex

Re: Buf.pm: FIFO and grammar

2010-08-12 Thread Nicholas Clark
On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 03:38:31PM +0200, Carl Mäsak wrote: > In fact, jnthn++ had a talk at YAPC::EU the other week where he showed > how nested signatures can be used to make hierarchical matches. A > proof-of-concept module could simply be some sugar around this already > existing functionality

Re: Buf.pm: FIFO and grammar

2010-08-12 Thread Carl Mäsak
Carl (>>), Aaron (>): >> * Grammars define a hierarchical structure that seems to be perfect >> for encoding the packing of larger pieces of data, for example when >> serializing an object structure. Could one use grammars, or something >> very much like it, as a "modern" &pack template? > > A whil

Re: Buf.pm: FIFO and grammar

2010-08-12 Thread Aaron Sherman
On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 5:47 AM, Carl Mäsak wrote: > Oha (>): > > > * Grammars define a hierarchical structure that seems to be perfect > for encoding the packing of larger pieces of data, for example when > serializing an object structure. Could one use grammars, or something > very much like it

Re: Buf.pm: FIFO and grammar

2010-08-12 Thread Carl Mäsak
Oha (>): > after speaking with masak, i come up with some ideas about Buf > i would like to share with you, maybe you can find them usefull > > http://register.oha.it/buf.pod Just thought I'd weigh in here a bit. Oha's proposal consists of two parts, each of which is interesting in its own right:

Buf.pm: FIFO and grammar

2010-08-11 Thread Oha
after speaking with masak, i come up with some ideas about Buf i would like to share with you, maybe you can find them usefull http://register.oha.it/buf.pod HTH Oha