Re: Anachronistic Acronyms in Parrot?

[Dan Sugalski]

At 11:04 PM 9/24/2001 +0200, Samuele Pedroni wrote:
>Hi.
>
> >
> > >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'. :)
> >
>Ok the question was sloppy, what I was asking is way you don't have
>
>PMC add(PMC,PMC)
>or add(PMC,PMC,PMC*)

We do, though. The assembly looks like:

   add PMC, PMC, PMC

with the destination first.

>PMC is a pointer to a struct right?

Yup.

                                        Dan

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