On Sun, Dec 02, 2001 at 02:15:08PM -0500, Jeff G wrote: > Are you quite sure? Implementing things like arrays of PMCs will be hard > without operations like set_value(PMC* pmc, INTVAL index).
This is why I'm waiting for Dan to come up with the explanation of how kesy are going to work. > > I don't see what you mean - isn't this what pmc->vtable->type is about? > > I suppose so, but it still feels rather crufty to me for some reason. > Maybe a simple pmc->get_type() function would do the trick? There *is* a pmc->type() function. > > Yep. This requires fixing the assembler to know about the enum in vtable.h > > That enum won't mean much once we have PMCs in there gamboling about, > changing vtables dynamically between int and string and such... I don't see how that makes any difference. At some point in the assembly, you're going to need to create a PMC of type foo, and "foo" had better map to some number that Parrot knows about or it won't work. Simon -- I will not suffer fools gladly, but I will gladly make fools suffer. -Bimmler
