On Fri, Dec 14, 2001 at 09:59:30AM -0800, Brent Dax wrote: > # > > new P0, PerlInt > # > > new P1, PerlString > # > > set P1, P0
> What I'm basically asking is, in that case are we going to be calling > $1->vtable->set_string($2->vtable->get_string()) > or > $1->vtable->set_integer($2->vtable->get_integer()) Assuming set does the equivalent of perl's '=' assignment this should call: $2->vtable->clone($1) Which makes a copy of $2 in $1 by overwriting the PMC structure of $1 with $2's contents. 'alias' seems like a good name for the pointer copy opcode. -- Jason
