Re: Opcode docs, part 2

2002-07-04 Thread dan
At 3:01 PM -0500 7/2/02, Eric Kidder wrote: >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 whi

PMC renaming

2002-07-04 Thread Melvin Smith
FYI, PMCs ParrotPointer, ParrotSub and ParrotCoroutine have been renamed to Pointer, Sub and Coroutine. Parrot PMCs reserve the basic names, and language specific (Perl*, Ruby*) should prepend their PMCs with the language name. -Melvin

Re: Ruby iterators and blocks (was: Perl 6 Summary)

2002-07-04 Thread Larry Wall
On 4 Jul 2002, Erik [ISO-8859-1] Bågfors wrote: : On Thu, 2002-07-04 at 11:19, Andy Wardley wrote: : > I personally believe this approach is flawed, especially considering the fact : > that there is no way (that I know of) to force block parameters to be truly : > lexically scoped or temporary (i

[netlabs #762] [PATCH] Allow imcc to create PMCs

2002-07-04 Thread via RT
# New Ticket Created by Leon Brocard # Please include the string: [netlabs #762] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # http://bugs6.perl.org/rt2/Ticket/Display.html?id=762 > The assembler syntax for PMCs changed from PerlHash to .PerlHash a while ago and this

Re: Ruby iterators and blocks (was: Perl 6 Summary)

2002-07-04 Thread Erik Bågfors
On Thu, 2002-07-04 at 11:19, Andy Wardley wrote: > On Tue, Jul 02, 2002 at 03:20:35PM -0500, Dan Sugalski wrote: > > I'm pretty sure the iterators they build are just closures with named > > arguments, and behave as any other closure would behave. > > Not quite. Ruby iterators expect a block.

Ruby iterators and blocks (was: Perl 6 Summary)

2002-07-04 Thread Andy Wardley
On Tue, Jul 02, 2002 at 03:20:35PM -0500, Dan Sugalski wrote: > I'm pretty sure the iterators they build are just closures with named > arguments, and behave as any other closure would behave. Not quite. Ruby iterators expect a block. This is very much like a closure except that block paramet