Re: new event loop

2001-07-05 Thread Benjamin Stuhl
Thus spake the enlightened Uri Guttman [EMAIL PROTECTED]: i am going to make a proposal that we ('we' to be defined later) develop a new common event loop with two major goals in mind: 1. the event loop should be fully portable over all modern unix OS's and the win32 server

Re: new event loop

2001-07-05 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 05:29 AM 7/5/2001 -0700, Benjamin Stuhl wrote: Thus spake the enlightened Uri Guttman [EMAIL PROTECTED]: i am going to make a proposal that we ('we' to be defined later) develop a new common event loop with two major goals in mind: 1. the event loop should be fully portable over

PDD 4, v1.3 Perl's internal data types (Final version)

2001-07-05 Thread Dan Sugalski
'Kay, here's the final version of this. Cut here =head1 TITLE Perl's internal data types =head1 VERSION 1.3 =head2 CURRENT Maintainer: Dan Sugalski [EMAIL PROTECTED] Class: Internals PDD Number: 4 Version: 1.3

Between-Opcode Callbacks

2001-07-05 Thread David M. Lloyd
Here's a feature suggestion for Perl 6. It would be nice to be able to tell the interpreter to call a user-defined C function between opcodes. This could make it easier to implement debuggers, profilers, etc. as well as providing a method of safely using asynchronous callbacks that certain C

RE: new event loop

2001-07-05 Thread Espen Harlinn
UG == Uri Guttman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) writes: UG it looks pretty powerful which is one reason it may not be good to use UG in perl. we don't expect to be doing CORBA level stuff in the core. :) That wasn't what I had in mind either, but since Perl6 is, as far as I understand