Dan Sugalski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Okay, I'm about ready to just bite the bullet and declare that
> INTVALs have to be 64 bit integers.
>
> Does anyone know of a platform that has neither native nor emulated
> 64 bit integers? (One we're likely to run on, rather)
I'm fairly new to Parrot
On Mon, 21 Oct 2002, Clinton Pierce wrote:
> * With bad arguments, the assembler returns 1 to the OS. Peachy.
Please can we have...
#include
exit(EX_USAGE); // 64 on most platforms
> * Upon failure, the assembler returns the status 0 to the OS and writes
> some bytecode. No telling how
On Wed, 23 Oct 2002, Rhys Weatherley wrote:
> Martin D Kealey wrote:
> > [Frank Farance's paper] "specification based extended integer range"
> > [at] http://wwwold.dkuug.dk/JTC1/SC22/WG14/docs/c9x/extended-integers/.
> Very interesting proposal. I wish they ha
On Fri, 15 Apr 2005, Nigel Sandever wrote:
> I struck me a while back that there is a contradiction in idea of a shared,
> 'my' variable.
>
> I want to say lexical, but a var declared with 'our' is in some sense lexical.
Shared-between-threads and shared-between-scopes are orthogonal properties;
u
On Thu, 28 Apr 2005, Robin Redeker wrote:
> I don't think circular references are used that much.
Circular references are useful any time you need to be able to iterate
over a collection, and also have to identify which collection a given object
is in.
This may even be implicit from other require
On Thu, 28 Apr 2005, Luke Palmer wrote:
> Or, with the "block hooks" that I keep claiming makes timely destruction
> almost never needed, it is:
>
> {
> my $s = new CoolClass;
> # ... do stuff that may throw ...
> LEAVE { destroy $s }
> }
>
> This destroys properly a
Leo wrote:
> > http://www.gotw.ca/publications/concurrency-ddj.htm
> > The Free Lunch Is Over: A Fundamental Turn Toward Concurrency in Software
> > Herb Sutter
On Tue, 20 Sep 2005, Jonathan Worthington replied:
> Yup, and it's encouraging to see Perl 6 is heading in a good direction on
> concurre
I'm a bit slow coming back to this, sorry.
It seems that "seek" is used in two ways:
* returning to some previously identified point (including the start or
end of the file)
* moving a given number of characters you want to move relative to a
known location
Clearly you can al
On Thu, 3 Aug 2006, Chip Salzenberg wrote:
> KNOWN FUTURE DEVELOPMENTS
>
> It's already decided that we're moving class PMCs into the normal namespace
> tree. This change will eliminate many uses of the class-lookup opcodes, but
> not all: There's a two-level search will still be required, where t
On Fri, 24 Oct 2008, Allison Randal wrote:
> Will Coleda wrote:
> > Allison Randal wrote:
> > > ...you expect 'rethrow' to keep the stack trace of the original 'die'?
> > Yes.
>
> The way to do this is to add stack trace information to the Exception's
> 'stacktrace' attribute when the exception is
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