Dan Sugalski: # Since it looks like it's time to extend the packfile format and the # in-memory bytecode layout, this would be the time to start discussing # metadata. What sorts of metadata do people think are useful to have # in either the packfile (on disk) or in the bytecode (in memory).
I do think that, whatever "native" (i.e. understood by Parrot) metadata we support, we *must* allow for extensibility, both for future native metadata and for third-party tools. Moreover, this must not be implemented with a special type of metadata block, or by using sequentially-increasing numbers. (The first means that any metadata we decide to add in the future will be slower than the metadata we add now; the second has problems with several third-party tools picking the same number.) --Brent Dax <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> @roles=map {"Parrot $_"} qw(embedding regexen Configure) >How do you "test" this 'God' to "prove" it is who it says it is? "If you're God, you know exactly what it would take to convince me. Do that." --Marc Fleury on alt.atheism