On 18 Sep 2002, Tom Hughes wrote: > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sean O'Rourke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Actually, if scratchpads become proper PMC's these ops would be incredibly > > useful and common. For example, "@a[0] = %b{1} + $c" might become > > > > add P0["@a";0], P0["%b";"1"], P0["$c"] > > > > This is rather speculative, but if many operations will be on lexicals as > > opposed to registers/temporaries, such hoariness might be worth it. > > Except those indexes are key constants which are type kc but Leopold > only wants to allow dynamically created keys of type k on the other ops.
Hm... maybe I'd rather have constant and run-time keys go through the same op. An alternative would be to build up the lexical refs from constant key-construction ops, then use the _k versions. /s
