Re: on parrot strings

2002-01-19 Thread Simon Cozens
On Sat, Jan 19, 2002 at 07:08:25PM +0200, Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote: > http://www.aw.com/catalog/academic/product/1,4096,0201700522,00.html > The book looks really promising-- unfortunately it's not yet published. Isn't this, uhm, http://www.concentric.net/~rtgillam/pubs/unibook/index.html ? -- S

Re: on parrot strings

2002-01-19 Thread Graham Barr
I belive IBM use inversion lists in thier ICU library for sets of unicode characters. Graham. On Sat, Jan 19, 2002 at 07:08:25PM +0200, Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote: > Honour where honour is due: I've got some questions about inversion > lists. Where I saw them mentioned by that name were some draft

[PATCH] Core.ops documentation clean up

2002-01-19 Thread Simon Glover
Enclosed patch attempts to resynchronize the core.ops documentation with the actual code. It also fixes a few typos and overlong lines. Simon --- core.ops.oldSat Jan 19 16:36:59 2002 +++ core.opsSat Jan 19 18:19:36 2002 @@ -218,8 +218,13 @@ =item B(in INT, in NUM) +=item B(

Re: cvs commit: parrot pbc2c.pl

2002-01-19 Thread Melvin Smith
> Stop this stupid "hard-code the new oplib" stuff. Doh - I saw this last night but was too lazy to fix it... :) -Melvin

Re: on parrot strings

2002-01-19 Thread Jarkko Hietaniemi
Honour where honour is due: I've got some questions about inversion lists. Where I saw them mentioned by that name were some drafts of this: http://www.aw.com/catalog/academic/product/1,4096,0201700522,00.html The book looks really promising-- unfortunately it's not yet published. -- $jhi++;

Re: Benchmarking regexps against perl5

2002-01-19 Thread Chris Ball
On Fri, Jan 18, 2002 at 11:45:37PM +, Nicholas Clark wrote: > How hard is it to "knobble" a perl5 to disable the regular expression > optimiser? Should be trivial. S_study_chunk(), regcomp.c:676. > And then later perl5 be allowed its optimiser back once parrot has one. Did you mean 'one',