Re: Implementing ISA

2003-08-25 Thread Chris Dutton
- Original Message - From: "chromatic" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> I would expect 'does' instead of 'isa'. Perhaps I missed Dan's > explanation of the difference between 'can', 'isa', and 'does'. Maybe > I'm thinking of 'has', though. Though I'm not familiar with the answer that's "official" fo

Just throwing something out

2003-03-27 Thread Chris Dutton
It occurred to me tonight, that those looking for a compiler project involving Parrot might consider a Sather compiler. It'd have to wait for objects(and thus likely Parrot 0.1), but it'd be an interesting language to have available as a testing tool for the object-oriented capabilities of Par

Re: Objects, finally (try 1)

2003-01-10 Thread Chris Dutton
On Friday, January 10, 2003, at 11:49 AM, Dan Sugalski wrote: At 1:37 PM + 1/10/03, Peter Haworth wrote: This will mean we can't support Eiffel Nope. :) What it means is that the proposed base object system won't work for eiffel. Actually, if you really want Eiffel to compile to Parrot,

imcc and 0.0.8, should this happen?

2002-09-03 Thread Chris Dutton
Using Mac OS X 10.1.5, on which I've successfully built 0.0.6 and 0.0.7. [localhost:~/parrot.1/languages/imcc] chris% make anyop.o definition of _n_symbols in section (__DATA,__common) make: *** [imcc] Error 1 [localhost:~/parrot.1/languages/imcc] chris% Then when I try to run a simple "Hel

Re: "Functional" Perl6 compiler doesn't seem to be functioning

2002-08-19 Thread Chris Dutton
On Tuesday, August 20, 2002, at 01:11 AM, Sean O'Rourke wrote: > This is a weird implementation artifact, which should probably be > documented. While real Perl gathers up all the statements you put > outside > of any function into a sort of "main", for the time being you'll need to > put all t

"Functional" Perl6 compiler doesn't seem to be functioning

2002-08-19 Thread Chris Dutton
Maybe I'm just doing something wrong... I make parrot, which goes smoothly, then make IMCC, which chokes on "long long". Then I "perl pconfig.pl" and "make" and after two or three tries a full Perl6grammar.pm magically shows up. I'm still scratching my head over that one. Then when I try to