Re: PDD20: An idea: Call frames as PMCs

2005-11-15 Thread Leopold Toetsch
On Nov 15, 2005, at 4:28, Chip Salzenberg wrote: On Sun, Nov 13, 2005 at 11:33:07AM +0100, Leopold Toetsch wrote: OK, call frame as PMC looks like a non-starter. Consider it rescinded. Autrijus mentioned on #parrot that we'd need weak pointers at some time. Then we can reconsider callfra

Re: PDD20: An idea: Call frames as PMCs

2005-11-14 Thread Chip Salzenberg
On Sun, Nov 13, 2005 at 11:33:07AM +0100, Leopold Toetsch wrote: > On Nov 13, 2005, at 4:45, Chip Salzenberg wrote: > > $P0 = callframe 1 > > We already have this kind of introspection: $ grep caller t/pmc/sub.t OK, the Interpreter PMC interface is certainly flexible enough to handle the introsp

Re: PDD20: An idea: Call frames as PMCs

2005-11-13 Thread Leopold Toetsch
On Nov 13, 2005, at 4:45, Chip Salzenberg wrote: { First, let's have a little applause for Leo for implementing the new lexical scheme in, what, a week? He says it was only a half-day's work, too. Nice work, dude! } It was just half a day. The rest of the week was spent on unicode improvem

PDD20: An idea: Call frames as PMCs

2005-11-12 Thread Chip Salzenberg
{ First, let's have a little applause for Leo for implementing the new lexical scheme in, what, a week? He says it was only a half-day's work, too. Nice work, dude! } First some background for those of you who haven't read pdd20: * Read pdd20. But if you don't have time: * LexPads are PMCs

Re: An idea

2002-02-08 Thread David
Peter Hickman wrote: > If we wrote a GUI library in parrot, a sort of Tkinter, and > our widgets compiled down to parrot then we would have > a consistent GUI library where widgets could be shared > across languages and across platforms. How about wxWindows? http://www.wxwindows.org Chec

Re: An idea

2002-02-04 Thread Flaviu Turean
> If we wrote a GUI library in parrot, a sort of Tkinter, and our > widgets compiled down to parrot then we would have a consistent GUI > library where widgets could be shared across languages and across > platforms. Unlike the present situation where Tk widgets from Perl > have to be rewritten f

Re: An idea

2002-02-04 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 10:39 AM + 2/4/02, Simon Cozens wrote: >Peter Hickman: >> If we wrote a GUI library in parrot, a sort of Tkinter, and our widgets >> compiled down to parrot then we would have a consistent GUI library >> where widgets could be shared across languages and across platforms. > >mmm. Nice, i

Re: An idea

2002-02-04 Thread Simon Cozens
Peter Hickman: > If we wrote a GUI library in parrot, a sort of Tkinter, and our widgets > compiled down to parrot then we would have a consistent GUI library > where widgets could be shared across languages and across platforms. mmm. Nice, isn't it? Apple Carbon libraries first, though, I wan

An idea

2002-02-04 Thread Peter Hickman
A thought has occured to me. If we wrote a GUI library in parrot, a sort of Tkinter, and our widgets compiled down to parrot then we would have a consistent GUI library where widgets could be shared across languages and across platforms. Unlike the present situation where Tk widgets from Perl