Re: Anachronistic Acronyms in Parrot?

[Paul Prescod]

Dan Sugalski wrote:
> 
>...
> Yup. There's a vtable function who's sole purpose is to return the name of
> the variable's type, as well as an integer representing its type. There's
> also an isa and can function in there.

Why not merely have a vtable function that returns the type object which
knows its own name, has a pointer value (rather than an integer) and
does isa and can.

 Paul Prescod