Re: An overview of the Parrot interpreter

[Sam Tregar]

On Mon, 3 Sep 2001, Dan Sugalski wrote:

> I'm not entirely sure how much this'll be used, but I really, *really* want
> to be able to call any sub that qualifies as an op rather than as a sub.

What would a sub have to do (be?) to qualify?

> >I don't understand this restriction.  Won't it make implementing variadic
> >functions more difficult?
>
> Varadic functions that take actual integers, floats, or strings, yes.
> Varadic functions that take parrot variables (i.e. PMCs) no.

Right, so why make the former hard?  Is there an upside to the
restriction?

-sam