Re: Stacks, stacks, stacks (And frames)

2002-06-12 Thread Piers Cawley
Uri Guttman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: DS == Dan Sugalski [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: DS We'll find out with A6 whether we do coroutines and continuations as DS part of the core perl. If not, well, python does the first and ruby DS the second, so it's all good in there. on the last

Re: Stacks, stacks, stacks (And frames)

2002-06-11 Thread Bryan C. Warnock
On Tue, 2002-06-11 at 01:38, Dan Sugalski wrote: (A note--when this says stack I really mean all the stacks) Okay, I've been thinking about stacks and stack frames, and suchlike things. Well, calling them stacks is a bit of a misnomer, since they're really trees, and that's partially

Re: Stacks, stacks, stacks (And frames)

2002-06-11 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 8:22 AM -0400 6/11/02, Bryan C. Warnock wrote: On Tue, 2002-06-11 at 01:38, Dan Sugalski wrote: (A note--when this says stack I really mean all the stacks) Okay, I've been thinking about stacks and stack frames, and suchlike things. Well, calling them stacks is a bit of a misnomer

Re: Stacks, stacks, stacks (And frames)

2002-06-11 Thread Dave Mitchell
On Tue, Jun 11, 2002 at 11:31:37AM -0400, Dan Sugalski wrote: We'll find out with A6 whether we do coroutines and continuations as part of the core perl. If not, well, python does the first and ruby the second, so it's all good in there. Does anyone feel like giving a 1 paragraph potted

Re: Stacks, stacks, stacks (And frames)

2002-06-11 Thread Melvin Smith
At 05:07 PM 6/11/2002 +0100, Dave Mitchell wrote: On Tue, Jun 11, 2002 at 11:31:37AM -0400, Dan Sugalski wrote: We'll find out with A6 whether we do coroutines and continuations as part of the core perl. If not, well, python does the first and ruby the second, so it's all good in there.

Re: Stacks, stacks, stacks (And frames)

2002-06-11 Thread Melvin Smith
At 12:29 PM 6/11/2002 -0400, Melvin Smith wrote: You can think of continuations as an execution context. This context incudes everything, not just stack. It is a snapshot in time. You may think Let me rephrase. The context doesn't include everything, rather everything that is local to that

Re: Stacks, stacks, stacks (And frames)

2002-06-11 Thread Uri Guttman
DS == Dan Sugalski [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: DS We'll find out with A6 whether we do coroutines and continuations as DS part of the core perl. If not, well, python does the first and ruby DS the second, so it's all good in there. on the last perl cruise, i had a nice talk with larry

Re: Stacks, stacks, stacks (And frames)

2002-06-11 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 5:07 PM +0100 6/11/02, Dave Mitchell wrote: On Tue, Jun 11, 2002 at 11:31:37AM -0400, Dan Sugalski wrote: We'll find out with A6 whether we do coroutines and continuations as part of the core perl. If not, well, python does the first and ruby the second, so it's all good in there. Does

Stacks, stacks, stacks (And frames)

2002-06-10 Thread Dan Sugalski
(A note--when this says stack I really mean all the stacks) Okay, I've been thinking about stacks and stack frames, and suchlike things. Well, calling them stacks is a bit of a misnomer, since they're really trees, and that's partially where things get nasty. Looking at them as trees does