At 03:53 PM 2/6/2001 +0000, David Mitchell wrote:
> > 2. Perl 5 doesn't separate well a `variable' from a `value', and this
> should
> > be done to achieve a more clear design.
>
>Perl5 does in fact make a clear separation. 'values' are SV structures
>(and AVs and HVs etc). Variables are names in stashes, PADs etc
>that have a pointer to an SV or whatever.
>
>I think you may have mis-understood the emphasis of the vtable PDD doc -
>it discusses how to store *values*, and says nothing whatsoever about
>variables.
This is important. (And a point I missed reading through the alternate
vtable proposal) I don't care a bit about names, scratchpads, references,
or whatnot at this level. This is pure "I have a PMC, what can I do with
it?" stuff.
Dealing with names and scratchpads and real perl variables is important,
but covered elsewhere. (The compiler takes care of lexicals, FWIW, and
we'll probably be treating the stash as a hash the way it is now for globals)
Dan
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