At 08:09 PM 12/18/2001 +0000, Alex Gough wrote:
>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).
It really should go all three ways. There are times when you want to
overwrite with a copy of the pointer, overwrite with a copy of the
structure, and do an assign into an existing structure. So...
Dan
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