Re: An overview of the Parrot interpreter

[Simon Cozens]

On Mon, Sep 03, 2001 at 08:19:32PM -0400, Sam Tregar wrote:
> I'm still not sure I understand why Parrot is doing string ops at all.  Do
> all our target languages have identical semantics for string operations?

Nope. But that's OK, because they won't have identical vtables.

(The string vtable functions will be very VERY low level, so the extent
that you can argue that the semantics are shared between all languages
BUT are different between encodings. An example would be "I have n characters,
how many bytes should I allocate?".)

Everything language-specific gets done in vtables, and you can plug in
Perl or Python vtables depending on whether you're executing Perl or Python.