Benjamin Goldberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Leopold Toetsch wrote: >> >> Benjamin Goldberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> > I would suggest the opnames/categories "mutate," "alias," and >> > "create." >> >> IMHO, we could leave PASM syntax as it is and create opcode aliases >> inside the assembler ...
> I would rather rename the ops, but make their old names aliases to the > new names. Yes. > But that would tempt people to do: > $P0 = new SomethingElse (42) > Which sadly wouldn't work, since neither the create ops, nor the "new" > op, generalize that way. That's fine for Arrays (setting the initial size) and for Subs (setting branch location). Its kind of the current init_pmc vtable. > But if the syntax is: > $P0 <== 42 > , we would not be impling a generality which doesn't exist. Also, it > removes redundancy, since "42" already implies PerlInt, so we don't need > to spell that name out. PieThonInt, RubyInt? leo
