Re: First draft, IO & event design

2004-05-26 Thread Gordon Henriksen
On May 24, 2004, at 15.20, Dan Sugalski wrote: Event Ops = The opcodes in this section are a combination of event requests and event handling ops. It doesn't include the IO ops--those are separate. Most of the event request ops have two forms, one of which takes a callback PMC and user d

Re: Bit ops on strings

2004-05-26 Thread Jeff Clites
On May 26, 2004, at 2:02 AM, Nicholas Clark wrote: On Tue, May 25, 2004 at 07:48:32PM -0700, Jeff Clites wrote: On May 25, 2004, at 12:26 PM, Dan Sugalski wrote: Yup. UTF8 is Just another variable-width encoding. Do anything with it and we convert it to a fixed-width encoding, in this case UTF32.

Re: One more thing...

2004-05-26 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 4:54 PM +0200 5/26/04, Leopold Toetsch wrote: Piers Cawley wrote: But under this scheme, the implementing function will have to do a saveall for every function it calls because it doesn't know what registers its caller cares about. And you're almost certainly going to want to call other function

Re: This week's summary

2004-05-26 Thread a. c. yardley
Please take me off your mailing list. I don't know how you got my address, but I have no idea what you are talking about. Mrs. Yardley address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: "The Perl 6 Summarizer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL

Re: One more thing...

2004-05-26 Thread Leopold Toetsch
Piers Cawley wrote: But under this scheme, the implementing function will have to do a saveall for every function it calls because it doesn't know what registers its caller cares about. And you're almost certainly going to want to call other functions to do the heavy lifting for all the usual reaso

This week's summary

2004-05-26 Thread The Perl 6 Summarizer
The Perl 6 Summary for the fortnight ending 2004-05-23 Yes. I know. This week's summary is a week late. So it's a summary of the last two weeks. So let's get straight to perl6-internals shall we? Working on the Perl 6 Compiler Abhijit A. Mahabal posted his first ever patch, which upd

make testr: problem with parrotlib

2004-05-26 Thread Jens Rieks
Hi, On Wednesday 26 May 2004 14:27, Leopold Toetsch wrote: > Jens Rieks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The code is now working as expected. > > Not quite. Running PBCs that e.g. C<.include "file"> don't work > any more[1]. > There are packfile issues now due to the changed execution order. Oops, s

Re: parrotlib is working

2004-05-26 Thread Leopold Toetsch
Jens Rieks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The code is now working as expected. Not quite. Running PBCs that e.g. C<.include "file"> don't work any more[1]. There are packfile issues now due to the changed execution order. Until this is resolved I'd vote for still disabling _PARROTLIB. leo [1] ma

Re: One more thing...

2004-05-26 Thread Piers Cawley
Leopold Toetsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Piers Cawley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Leopold Toetsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > [ calculating registers to save ] > >>> ... once per sub per location where the sub is called from. But there >>> isn't any knowledge that a sub might be called.

Re: Bit ops on strings

2004-05-26 Thread Nicholas Clark
On Tue, May 25, 2004 at 07:48:32PM -0700, Jeff Clites wrote: > On May 25, 2004, at 12:26 PM, Dan Sugalski wrote: > >Yup. UTF8 is Just another variable-width encoding. Do anything with it > >and we convert it to a fixed-width encoding, in this case UTF32. > > This has the unfortunate side-effect