Re: muse on Compact Structs, pack/unpack

2008-04-04 Thread Larry Wall
On Wed, Apr 02, 2008 at 11:56:37PM -0500, Jonathan Scott Duff wrote: : Or you could setup pmwiki as a nod to our perl6 compiler pumpking :-) : : In any case, pmwiki is simpler to setup than twiki. Yes, but I also know the author of twiki, and it's written in Perl rather than PHP... Larry

Re: muse on Compact Structs, pack/unpack

2008-04-03 Thread Jonathan Scott Duff
Or you could setup pmwiki as a nod to our perl6 compiler pumpking :-) In any case, pmwiki is simpler to setup than twiki. cheers, -Scott On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 7:45 PM, Larry Wall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Apr 02, 2008 at 07:03:46PM -0500, John M. Dlugosz wrote: > > During ANSI/ISO

Re: muse on Compact Structs, pack/unpack

2008-04-02 Thread Larry Wall
On Wed, Apr 02, 2008 at 07:03:46PM -0500, John M. Dlugosz wrote: > During ANSI/ISO standardization, they basically took every phrase and made > it more and more exact. It went from understandable to leagaleze over a > period of years, with sentences growing more and more detail. I could > stil

Re: muse on Compact Structs, pack/unpack

2008-04-02 Thread John M. Dlugosz
Larry Wall larry-at-wall.org |Perl 6| wrote: On Tue, Apr 01, 2008 at 09:27:48PM -0500, John M. Dlugosz wrote: Having done that before, I find the Perl 6 technical docs to be in relative disarray and imprecise. Indeed, I welcome all the help I can get on making things more precise. My o

Re: muse on Compact Structs, pack/unpack

2008-04-02 Thread Larry Wall
On Tue, Apr 01, 2008 at 09:27:48PM -0500, John M. Dlugosz wrote: > Having done that before, I find the Perl 6 technical docs to be in relative > disarray and imprecise. Indeed, I welcome all the help I can get on making things more precise. My own tendency is to emphasize vigor over rigor, so I w

Re: muse on Compact Structs, pack/unpack

2008-04-01 Thread John M. Dlugosz
I take that as encouragement, and confirmation that this is the right place to post (and archive) my musings. HOPEFULLY I can get questions answered too. I credit the success of C++, in part, to Stroustrup's personal training of the first gurus. He would explain things that made me see the

Re: muse on Compact Structs, pack/unpack

2008-04-01 Thread Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH
On Apr 1, 2008, at 13:25 , John M. Dlugosz wrote: Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH allbery-at-ece.cmu.edu |Perl 6| wrote: $stream.print (Buf $record); > $stream.print($record.pack) # I would think? A .pack member function on a Compact struct is indeed my first gut feeling, but at the end of the

Re: muse on Compact Structs, pack/unpack

2008-04-01 Thread Larry Wall
On Tue, Apr 01, 2008 at 12:25:50PM -0500, John M. Dlugosz wrote: > Thank you so much for the reply. I was beginning to wonder if Perl 6 > interest is dead, or if there is another secret lair for current > enthusiasts that I'm unaware of. Sorry, many of us have to live under budgetary constraint

Re: muse on Compact Structs, pack/unpack

2008-04-01 Thread John M. Dlugosz
Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH allbery-at-ece.cmu.edu |Perl 6| wrote: $stream.print (Buf $record); > $stream.print($record.pack) # I would think? Thank you so much for the reply. I was beginning to wonder if Perl 6 interest is dead, or if there is another secret lair for current enthusiasts t

Re: muse on Compact Structs, pack/unpack

2008-04-01 Thread Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH
On Apr 1, 2008, at 6:13 , John M. Dlugosz wrote: Meanwhile, how do I use it? my Buf $temp = $record; $stream.print ($temp); $stream.print (Buf $record); > $stream.print($record.pack) # I would think? -- brandon s. allbery [solaris,freebsd,perl,pugs,haskell

muse on Compact Structs, pack/unpack

2008-04-01 Thread John M. Dlugosz
#[ are there people paying attention to these issues on other mailing lists? ] = on Compact structs revision 1, initial posting What functions serialize/deserialize to the C view? If these are to be member functions, they would be applicable only if the struct is compact, and erroneous to call