On Tue, Jan 24, 2006 at 09:19:48AM -0800, Larry Wall wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 24, 2006 at 01:04:10PM -, Jonathan Worthington wrote:
> : Looking at what Chip said though, it would appear that the much cleaner
> : solution I was hoping to find exists and can be found in lex pad stuff,
> : which I n
"Chip Salzenberg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Tue, Jan 24, 2006 at 08:49:55PM -, Jonathan Worthington wrote:
"Chip Salzenberg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I'd prefer to reuse something in the engine already for those callbacks.
>If a lightweight callback mechanism, with parameter, doesn't
On Tue, Jan 24, 2006 at 08:49:55PM -, Jonathan Worthington wrote:
> "Chip Salzenberg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >I'd prefer to reuse something in the engine already for those callbacks.
> >If a lightweight callback mechanism, with parameter, doesn't already
> >exist, then you could either us
"Chip Salzenberg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Tue, Jan 24, 2006 at 03:52:39PM -, Jonathan Worthington wrote:
"Chip Salzenberg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>The trick is to keep references to registers in a way that notices
>when the register set is gone, or alternatively, that keeps the
>re
jeepers I mangled this paragraph
On Tue, Jan 24, 2006 at 10:31:50AM -0800, Chip Salzenberg wrote:
> What I had in mind, was imitating whatever a closure does to hold onto a
> context chain. I would detail that here except it's not on the top of my
> brain except (1) the point is the imitation-rat
On Tue, Jan 24, 2006 at 03:52:39PM -, Jonathan Worthington wrote:
> "Chip Salzenberg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >The trick is to keep references to registers in a way that notices
> >when the register set is gone, or alternatively, that keeps the
> >register set from going away. The latter
On Tue, Jan 24, 2006 at 01:04:10PM -, Jonathan Worthington wrote:
: Looking at what Chip said though, it would appear that the much cleaner
: solution I was hoping to find exists and can be found in lex pad stuff,
: which I need to go stare at for a bit before replying. :-)
This is tangenti
"Paolo Molaro" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 01/24/06 Jonathan Worthington wrote:
.NET has these managed reference thingies. They're basically like
They are called managed pointers.
Yes. And now I've misled Parrot folks into mis-naming them managed
references. D'oh.
pointers, but safe.
"Chip Salzenberg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Tue, Jan 24, 2006 at 12:11:14AM -, Jonathan Worthington wrote:
.NET has these managed reference thingies. They're basically like
pointers, but safe. [...]
Making them work on Parrot is no problem. Making them work without
comprimising the s
On 01/24/06 Jonathan Worthington wrote:
> .NET has these managed reference thingies. They're basically like
They are called managed pointers.
> pointers, but safe. What makes them safe is that only certain instructions
> can create them and the pointer value can't be set directly (we can do t
"Nicholas Clark" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Tue, Jan 24, 2006 at 12:11:14AM -, Jonathan Worthington wrote:
.NET has these managed reference thingies. They're basically like
b) Add a v-table flag saying "returning me is forbidden" and checking
that
on any PMCs that get returned. (H
On Tue, Jan 24, 2006 at 12:11:14AM -, Jonathan Worthington wrote:
> .NET has these managed reference thingies. They're basically like
> b) Add a v-table flag saying "returning me is forbidden" and checking that
> on any PMCs that get returned. (However, there are subtle issues. For
> e
On Tue, Jan 24, 2006 at 12:11:14AM -, Jonathan Worthington wrote:
> .NET has these managed reference thingies. They're basically like
> pointers, but safe. [...]
>
> Making them work on Parrot is no problem. Making them work without
> comprimising the safety of the VM is harder. Amongst
Hi,
A while back I announced that I was working on a .NET to PIR translator for
my final year project at uni. In case you've ever pondered how well it's
doing, and you don't read Planet Parrot or my blog, the answer is "pretty
well". So far I'm successfully translating:
* Parameters
* Loca
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