On Friday 22 February 2002 01:01, Melvin Smith wrote: > I want to emulate a packed structure with Parrot in the way a compiler > would normally do this for a low level machine. > > It just needs traditional notation for setting fields by offset into > the struct. > > I sort of feel that PerlString _could_ handle this, but I'm curious > if there are any gotchas I'm not aware of. I do see that Strings > have native (ie. non-unicode) apis so potentially the substr() > method could be used, and I also see the API for setting > a void * into struct_val. Is this how we intend to represent class/structs > in memory? > > -Melvin
Hmmm. Sounds like a job for keyed access to me. -- Bryan C. Warnock [EMAIL PROTECTED]
