Re: RFC 326 (v1) Symbols, symbols everywhere

2000-10-09 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 11:54 PM 10/5/00 -0400, Chaim Frenkel wrote: "DS" == Dan Sugalski [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: DS For the internals, though... DS This would be very useful, and it's a feature I'd really like to implement. DS Basically you're asking for pre-computed, indirect, shared hash keys. This DS

Re: RFC 326 (v1) Symbols, symbols everywhere

2000-10-05 Thread Chaim Frenkel
"DS" == Dan Sugalski [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: DS For the internals, though... DS This would be very useful, and it's a feature I'd really like to implement. DS Basically you're asking for pre-computed, indirect, shared hash keys. This DS sounds like a Good Plan to me. Why precomputed? Any

Re: RFC 326 (v1) Symbols, symbols everywhere

2000-10-02 Thread Paolo Molaro
On 09/27/00 Ken Fox wrote: Dave Storrs wrote: It isn't terribly clear to me either Well, he does give a couple references that would clear it up. X11 Atoms are well documented. saying is that you can qs() a method name, get a "thingie" out, store the thingine in a scalar, and then

Re: RFC 326 (v1) Symbols, symbols everywhere

2000-10-02 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 03:42 PM 10/2/00 +0200, Paolo Molaro wrote: On 09/27/00 Ken Fox wrote: Dave Storrs wrote: It isn't terribly clear to me either Well, he does give a couple references that would clear it up. X11 Atoms are well documented. saying is that you can qs() a method name, get a

Re: RFC 326 (v1) Symbols, symbols everywhere

2000-09-27 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 05:37 AM 9/27/00 +, Perl6 RFC Librarian wrote: Perl should adopt scheme-like symbols, both at the language level and at the internals level. The explanation of this isn't that clear for me. (I have no scheme experience at all) It sounds like a sort of dynamically-created version of C's

Re: RFC 326 (v1) Symbols, symbols everywhere

2000-09-27 Thread Dave Storrs
On Wed, 27 Sep 2000, Dan Sugalski wrote: At 05:37 AM 9/27/00 +, Perl6 RFC Librarian wrote: Perl should adopt scheme-like symbols, both at the language level and at the internals level. The explanation of this isn't that clear for me. (I have no scheme experience at all) It

Re: RFC 326 (v1) Symbols, symbols everywhere

2000-09-27 Thread Simon Cozens
On Wed, Sep 27, 2000 at 03:07:19PM -0400, Ken Fox wrote: Dan was right to think of this as a C enum equivalent. The only real differences being that you don't have a chance to define the integer mapping and that the printable identity of the symbol is remembered by the run-time. I don't yet