Re: Various questions

2010-12-28 Thread Daniel Carrera
Thanks. On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 12:51 AM, Will Coleda wrote: > On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 6:32 PM, Daniel Carrera wrote: >> 1)  Does anyone know what a "Parcel" is? >> >> <1 2 3 4>.WHAT  => Parcel() >> <1 2 3 4 ; 2 3 4 ; 5>.WHAT  => Parcel() > > Here's a link to some docs on Parcel: > http://perlca

Re: Various questions

2010-12-28 Thread Will Coleda
On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 6:32 PM, Daniel Carrera wrote: > 1)  Does anyone know what a "Parcel" is? > > <1 2 3 4>.WHAT  => Parcel() > <1 2 3 4 ; 2 3 4 ; 5>.WHAT  => Parcel() Here's a link to some docs on Parcel: http://perlcabal.org/syn/S08.html#Capture_or_Parcel You can use: http://perlcabal.org/

Re: Various questions

2010-12-28 Thread Tadeusz Sośnierz
On 29-12-2010 00:32:40, Daniel Carrera wrote: > Hello, > > I have a few miscellaneous questions: > > 1) Does anyone know what a "Parcel" is? I'm never sure, but it's something like a list :) > > 2) How do you figure out the length of an array? The "scalar" function > is gone. I tried "len", "l

Various questions

2010-12-28 Thread Daniel Carrera
Hello, I have a few miscellaneous questions: 1) Does anyone know what a "Parcel" is? <1 2 3 4>.WHAT => Parcel() <1 2 3 4 ; 2 3 4 ; 5>.WHAT => Parcel() 2) How do you figure out the length of an array? The "scalar" function is gone. I tried "len", "length" and "size" without success. 3) Mor

Re: Various questions on .ref and .meta

2005-08-05 Thread Luke Palmer
On 8/5/05, Ingo Blechschmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > ~Str;# ""? "Str"? "Str" > ~::Str; # ""? "Str"? I don't know how :: works anymore. I'll avoid these. > ~Str.meta; # ""? (fill in please)? "Class" >

Various questions on .ref and .meta

2005-08-05 Thread Ingo Blechschmidt
Hi, ~Str;# ""? "Str"? ~::Str; # ""? "Str"? ~Str.meta; # ""? (fill in please)? ~::Str.meta; # ""? (fill in please)? +Str; +::Str; +Str.meta; +::Str.meta; # all errors? ?Str;

Re: Various questions

2005-04-16 Thread Leopold Toetsch
Philip Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've been working on a C-to-Parrot compiler (actually an IMC backend > for the LCC compiler), tentatively named Carrot, over the past week. It > can currently do some reasonably useful things, like running the Cola > compiler (with only a very small amount

Re: Various questions

2005-04-15 Thread Chip Salzenberg
According to Philip Taylor: > * I can usually handle unsigned numbers by pretending they're signed and > using 'I' registers, but some things appear to be awkward without new > ops - in particular, div and cmod, and le/lt/ge/gt comparisons. (As far > as I can tell, those are the only ones C woul

Various questions

2005-04-15 Thread Philip Taylor
I've been working on a C-to-Parrot compiler (actually an IMC backend for the LCC compiler), tentatively named Carrot, over the past week. It can currently do some reasonably useful things, like running the Cola compiler (with only a very small amount of cheating), but it has raised a few queries: