On Tue, 18 Dec 2001, Dan Sugalski wrote: > [BTW, I'm being horrible and replying to this on perl6-internals, since > it's important] > At 09:16 AM 12/17/2001 -0800, Brent Dax wrote: > >Dan Sugalski: > ># However, that's not appropriate here--set P0, P1 should just copy the > ># pointer from P1 to P0. Actually stuffing the value of the PMC > ># pointed to by > ># P1 into the one pointed to in P0 should be done with a different op. > > > >but please give at least some consideration to the fact that most people > >on p6i seem to think the copy functionality is appropriate. >
I, for one, like the current shallow pointer copy version. It fits nicely with the way perl passes parameters into subs (by reference). Alex Gough
