On Fri, 2004-08-13 at 23:47, Leopold Toetsch wrote:
> Hildo Biersma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > - How do I define a class with constant values that are accessible to
> > other classes?
> I'd just create an include file with the constants. The dot isn't
> allowed in identifiers, so you would
Hildo Biersma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> This thread got side-track with perl5 issues, so let me ask again:
> - Are there any examples of creating a PMC class that maps to a C
> structure, with the PMC class (in C) setting defaults and adding
> accessor methods?
The UnmanagedStruct PMC all
> "Hildo" == Hildo Biersma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Hildo> I'm looking at writing Parrot support for a vendor library: IBM MQ
Hildo> (Message Queueing, aka "MQSeries", aka "WebSphere MQ"). The current
Hildo> perl module (which I maintain) uses XS code and Parrot's NCI should
Hildo> simplif
> "Nick" == Nicholas Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Nick> On Mon, Aug 09, 2004 at 08:53:27AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> - MQ has constants. Thousands of them. In the perl module, these get
>> mapped to perl XS subroutines (which bloats the symbol table no
>> end). For parrot, I'd
At 7:17 PM +0100 8/9/04, Nicholas Clark wrote:
The code is messy and needs refactoring so that it can be subclassed to
generate lookup tables that return other sorts of structures, such as
potentially the token lookup in the perl5 core, and the NCI signature
lookup in nci.c, which is currently a li
On Mon, Aug 09, 2004 at 01:18:32PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Not sure. I'm not lookig for advice on evolving this module for
> perl5; it's gross and cumbersome, but I am not about to make deep
> changes to it. I'd much rather do it right for parrot, specially
> since I won't have to supp
On Mon, Aug 09, 2004 at 08:53:27AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> - MQ has constants. Thousands of them. In the perl module, these get
> mapped to perl XS subroutines (which bloats the symbol table no
> end). For parrot, I'd prefer to use two big hash tables of the type
As in at load ti
I'm looking at writing Parrot support for a vendor library: IBM MQ
(Message Queueing, aka "MQSeries", aka "WebSphere MQ"). The current
perl module (which I maintain) uses XS code and Parrot's NCI should
simplify this a lot.
I have two questions though:
- MQ has some data structures that are a ta
