Chaim Frenkel wrote:
>
> We should be able to represent
> any packed structure. We should be able to handle anything that an
> pack/unpack format can currently handle.
> ...
> The raw structures could be passed between perl and the XS unchanged.
>
> the COBOL redefines capabilities.
> ...a method of saying
> that there are two descriptive overlays of the same memory area
> would be nice.
I agree 100%. Besides stealing at least some of COBOL's data
representation power, we should also support recursive data structures,
as in some functional languages. E.g. (pseudocode):
define foo as {
short a;
foo b; # exists at first only "in potential".
long c;
};
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John Porter
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