Re: [PATCH] perlarray strange behaviour

2002-07-02 Thread Leon Brocard
Jeff sent the following bits through the ether: It runs strange code because it depends upon partially-deprecated code. Try 'set P0[2], 1' and 'set I0,P0[-2]'... OK, when will we get set P0[2], P2? Is it because the semantics aren't defined yet? Do we copy or leave references? I really need

Re: Stack performance issue

2002-07-02 Thread Tom Hughes
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Melvin Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You might want to modify register stacks too. I currently have a band-aid on it that just doesn't free stack chunks which works in all but the weirdest cases. I've done that now. I also just realised that the stacks

Re: Stack performance issue

2002-07-02 Thread mrjoltcola
On 02 Jul 2002 16:35:02 +0100 Tom Hughes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've done that for the register stacks, and I'll do the same for the other stacks unless somebody spots a flaw in my logic and points out that the GC will catch it... No, your logic is correct, stacks are still outside of

Re: [PATCH] 3-arg chopn

2002-07-02 Thread Josh Wilmes
Can you add a test as well? --Josh At 14:37 on 07/02/2002 CDT, brian wheeler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I saw this was a TODO item in core.ops. Brian --- core.ops 1 Jul 2002 17:18:04 - 1.176 +++ core.ops 2 Jul 2002 19:41:44 - @@ -2074,9 +2074,9 @@ =item

Re: PMC's

2002-07-02 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 9:05 AM +0100 7/1/02, Alberto Manuel Brandão Simões wrote: Hi. Some questions I got when start looking to PMC's: - Is there planned a set PMC? If not, a parrot application can't create it's own PMC? Yup, there's a planned set, but I don't think we've ever put down a list of the

Re: multidimensional array

2002-07-02 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 5:42 PM +0200 6/27/02, =?latin1?Q?Josef_H=F6=F6k?= wrote: I've been thinking abit on howto implement multidimensional arrays and i found that its quite tricky :). I'm currently thinking of having a structure that contains a data pointer and its location in every

Re: [PATCH] 3-arg chopn

2002-07-02 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 2:37 PM -0500 7/2/02, brian wheeler wrote: I saw this was a TODO item in core.ops. Applied, thanks. Tests, from anyone, would be much appreciated. -- Dan --it's like this--- Dan Sugalski

Re: multidimensional array

2002-07-02 Thread Nicholas Clark
On Thu, Jun 27, 2002 at 05:42:10PM +0200, Josef Höök wrote: I've been thinking abit on howto implement multidimensional arrays and i found that its quite tricky :). I'm currently thinking of having a structure that contains a data pointer and its location in every dimension something like

Re: [PATCH] 3-arg chopn

2002-07-02 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 5:14 PM -0400 7/2/02, Simon Glover wrote: On Tue, 2 Jul 2002, Dan Sugalski wrote: At 2:37 PM -0500 7/2/02, brian wheeler wrote: I saw this was a TODO item in core.ops. Applied, thanks. Tests, from anyone, would be much appreciated. Will these do? Absolutely. Thanks, applied. --

Re: multidimensional array

2002-07-02 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 9:45 PM +0100 7/2/02, Nicholas Clark wrote: On Thu, Jun 27, 2002 at 05:42:10PM +0200, Josef Höök wrote: I've been thinking abit on howto implement multidimensional arrays and i found that its quite tricky :). I'm currently thinking of having a structure that contains a data pointer and

Re: Perl 6 Summary

2002-07-02 Thread Erik Steven Harrison
-- On 02 Jul 2002 09:56:46 +010 pdcawley summed: Ruby iterators Ruby interators were the subject of Erik Steven Harrison's post, which also referred to 'pass by name' and 'the Jensen Machine', and wanted to know 'the Perl 6 stance on the matter'. Nobody has yet stepped up to

Big thanks for Bryan and Piers

2002-07-02 Thread Dan Sugalski
Doing volunteer work is so often a thankless task (and in many cases one that gets unwarranted abuse from random passers-by) that I wanted to take a moment to publically thank both Bryan Warnock and Piers Cawley, for perl 6 list summaries past and present. They're the single most visible

Re: Perl 6 Summary

2002-07-02 Thread Larry Wall
Are you sure Ruby isn't just using dynamic variables? My information may be old, but that's all it seemed like to me. A certain amount of confusion naturally arises in the Ruby world because of the absence of explicit declaration, so the name binding rules get to be rather complicated. In

Re: Perl 6 Summary

2002-07-02 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 1:07 PM -0700 7/2/02, Larry Wall wrote: Are you sure Ruby isn't just using dynamic variables? My information may be old, but that's all it seemed like to me. A certain amount of confusion naturally arises in the Ruby world because of the absence of explicit declaration, so the name binding

[netlabs #754] [PATCH] Fix lookback op and add test

2002-07-02 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by Simon Glover # Please include the string: [netlabs #754] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # URL: http://bugs6.perl.org/rt2/Ticket/Display.html?id=754 This patch fixes the lookback ops to work properly when given negative

[netlabs #757] Problem mixing labels, comments and quote-marks

2002-07-02 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by Simon Glover # Please include the string: [netlabs #757] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # URL: http://bugs6.perl.org/rt2/Ticket/Display.html?id=757 This code: A:# prints a print a end doesn't

[netlabs #758] [PATCH] Fixes for example programs

2002-07-02 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by Simon Glover # Please include the string: [netlabs #758] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # URL: http://bugs6.perl.org/rt2/Ticket/Display.html?id=758 Fixes to various of the PASM examples in light of recent changes in the

Opcode docs, part 2

2002-07-02 Thread Eric Kidder
If no one has any objections, I am planning on adding the undocumented opcodes to pdd06_pasm.pod. For the most part, I am just going to copy the pod documentation from the various *.ops files to pdd06. For those opcodes without documentation or which are confusing, I'll try to contact the