At 10:50 PM 9/24/2001 +0200, Samuele Pedroni wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, Sep 24, 2001 at 10:18:54PM +0200, Samuele Pedroni wrote:
> > > [Simon Cozens on perl.com]
> > > > We've already designed the vtables and the structure of PMCs
> > > There are some textual traces of that to read? I'm curious,
> > > I mean, it's a central point.
> >
> > Sure. Check out the PDDs on http://dev.perl.org/pdd
> >
>Oops ... I have checked, the content is very old and perl-centric
>... it should be redefined from scratch if it should be language
>agnostic, at least there should be some vigorous extensions.
Yep, some of those need some updating. Though, as Nat's pointed out, we
don't have anyone else officially on board at the moment. (OTOH, it's more
or less a simple search-n-replace when someone joins up, so that's not
stopping anyone, I'd hope)
>A thing that I don't understand is the fact that results are passed
>back through PMCs.
What in particular do you find odd about that? PMCs hold 'complex' values.
(Where complex is pretty much anything that corresponds to a variable in
most of the newer languages) Most results are, well, 'complex'. :)
Dan
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