Re: PDD 2, vtables

2001-02-18 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 02:50 AM 2/19/2001 +, Simon Cozens wrote: >On Sun, Feb 18, 2001 at 09:34:46PM -0500, Dan Sugalski wrote: > > At 01:13 AM 2/19/2001 +, Alan Burlison wrote: > > >Dan Sugalski wrote: > > > > > > > Grab one via a utility function. getPMC() or something of the sort. > > > > > >newPMC() ? ;-)

Re: PDD 2, vtables

2001-02-18 Thread Simon Cozens
On Sun, Feb 18, 2001 at 09:34:46PM -0500, Dan Sugalski wrote: > At 01:13 AM 2/19/2001 +, Alan Burlison wrote: > >Dan Sugalski wrote: > > > > > Grab one via a utility function. getPMC() or something of the sort. > > > >newPMC() ? ;-) > > Works for me. Slight that-sucks alert: So, if I have to

Re: PDD 2, vtables

2001-02-18 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 01:13 AM 2/19/2001 +, Alan Burlison wrote: >Dan Sugalski wrote: > > > Grab one via a utility function. getPMC() or something of the sort. > >newPMC() ? ;-) Works for me. Though for some reason it brings up visions of the Village People, and that's generally a Bad Thing... :)

Re: PDD 2, vtables

2001-02-18 Thread Alan Burlison
Dan Sugalski wrote: > Grab one via a utility function. getPMC() or something of the sort. newPMC() ? ;-) Alan Burlison

Re: Generating Perl 6 source with Perl

2001-02-18 Thread Alan Burlison
Simon Cozens wrote: > Larry has guaranteed that Perl 6 will be built "out of the same source tree" > as Perl 5. Whatever that means... i.e. not much. > This is a major win for us in two areas. Firstly, we can reuse the > information determined by Perl 5's Configure process to help make Perl 6 >

Re: PDD 2, vtables

2001-02-18 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 12:45 AM 2/19/2001 +, Alan Burlison wrote: >Dan Sugalski wrote: > > > >If PMC is a pointer to a structure, "new" will need to allocate memory > for a > > >new structure, and hence the value of mypmc will have to change. > > > > Nope. PMC structures will be parcelled out from arenas and not

Re: PDD 2, vtables

2001-02-18 Thread Alan Burlison
Dan Sugalski wrote: > >If PMC is a pointer to a structure, "new" will need to allocate memory for a > >new structure, and hence the value of mypmc will have to change. > > Nope. PMC structures will be parcelled out from arenas and not malloc'd, > and they won't be freed and re-malloced much. If

Re: string encoding

2001-02-18 Thread Tom Lord
On the subject of Unicode string processing... I'm not a perl internals hacker and more of a passive reader of these lists than an active contributor. With that caveat, may I humbly point out a design document for what I think is a clean C library supporting the use of mixed encoding forms. I