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3:14:19
beach
hayley: Should I be worried about you? You haven't submitted any pull requests for some time, and now I need to add to the register allocator with my new instructions, so it is bound to create conflicts. I don't know how you work, but the way I do it is I try to make the bootstrapping script pass after a small number of modifications, and then I push those modifications so that others can work with the modified code.
3:14:27
beach
Also, how come you haven't given me feedback on the handling of literals? Is it that what I wrote i incomprehensible?
3:16:12
hayley
Nothing to be worried about. I read the chapters you mentioned and I don't really have anything to say, as the description is fine.
3:17:27
beach
The reason I asked for feedback is that *I* don't know whether it's fine, so I need that feedback.
3:18:30
hayley
I've held off making a pull request because I still haven't worked out how the THREAD object should work, and bootstrapping produces a lot of warnings (which I introduced) related to being unable to generate LIR for return value-related instructions.
3:20:04
hayley
Well, you run bootstrapping with MIR-to-LIR disabled, so the warnings shouldn't be a problem.
3:20:48
beach
But I turn it on from time to time to check that I didn't introduce any gross mistakes.
3:22:02
beach
And about the thread object, perhaps we need to work that out together. It is not obvious to me.
3:23:05
hayley
There are quite a few warnings generated (particuarly while loading ctype), so I'm somewhat worried that those warnings would make it hard to find the other warnings.
3:23:45
hayley
I just pulled from your repository, and bootstrapping with MIR-to-LIR enabled still works, so I will make a pull request now.
3:34:04
hayley
This morning I went on a bike ride, and saw someone with a shirt that said "It worked on my machine!"
3:36:31
mfiano
Well, I have run out of patience communicating with CptKirk and their other aliases over the last week.
3:37:49
mfiano
I have implied they should use #clschool for most of their questions to no avail. I also think we should have an april IRC channel, as a lot of activity lately was about the history of APL or things not even indirectly related to CL
3:42:59
beach
hayley: You should let me know when you have time and feel like discussing this tread object thing.
3:50:21
beach
mfiano: I think that an #april channel would be good. I may suggest it if this kind of exchange continues.
3:57:45
mfiano
Yes, that would be good. I prefer a more focused channel. I didn't subscribe to lessons in
3:59:44
hayley
APL is growing on me, admittedly. Probably because array munging requires fewer pointless constructs in APL than in Python.
4:03:30
beach
I was lucky to go to the university that I did. We had a course, second or third year, I can't remember, where Lisp, APL, and Simula were introduced. And this was 1977 or so.