Re: Anachronistic Acronyms in Parrot?

[Guido van Rossum]

> At 05:01 PM 9/24/2001 -0400, Guido van Rossum wrote:
> > > >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'. :)
> >
> >The way Dan explained it to me, a PMC is the closest thing he has to
> >an object.
> 
> Yup. Heck, you could consider it a meta-object, since it can both be an 
> object or not an object.
> 
> FWIW, I didn't see anyone but me on the distribution list. Should this've 
> been Cc'd to someone else or the language list?

Oops.  Fixed now.

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)