Jeanna FOx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Everybody seems to be missing the fact that jwz bitching about Java's
> "32 bit non-object ints" means that at least he thinks they could be
> salvaged. What would he think of Perl's "224 bit non-object ints"?!
> Don't get smug because Perl can iterate over
> Perhaps you meant that Perl 6 is going to have homogeneous arrays, in
> which case an array of ints would keep 32 bits (per value) of int data in
> the array and auto-generate the extra flags and stuff when a value is
> extracted from the array. That's possible, but it's a special case of small
"Branden" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Well, mandatory locking is something we should definetly NOT have in Perl6.
> Most of perl's code today is not threaded, and I believe much of it will
> continue to be this way. The pseudo-fork thread behaviour that is being
> proposed also makes this ok. Eve
"Branden" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The thing with mandatory locks per variable, is that as long as you only
> want to access _that_ variable, it's ok, but if you want to make several
> uses of several variables and want to do it all at once, you've got a
> problem.
[ big snip ]
Sorry, I misu
James Mastros <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Why can't we change the meaning of time() slightly without changing to a
> different function name? Yes, it will silently break some existing code,
> but that's OK -- remember, 90% with traslation, 75% without. being in that
> middle 15% isn't a bad th
James Mastros <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The idea is [for Larry] to declare "no, it isn't". Otherwise, you have to
> do refcounting (or somthing like it) for DESTROY to get called at the right
> time if the class (or any superclass) has an AUTOLOAD, which is expensive.
I'm coming in halfway th
James Mastros <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> [snip about DESTORY predictablity not being neccessary]
> You're probably right about that, Branden. Quite nice, but not neccessary.
Hmm, I'd have to say that predictability is very, *very* nice,
and we shouldnt ditch it unless we *really* have to.
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