Dan Sugalski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> At 8:10 AM +0100 2/26/04, Leopold Toetsch wrote:
>>
>>*Please* don't. C<classoffset> (and attribute access) should by all
>>means start with 0.
> Why?
Simplifies compilers:
newclass P1, "Foo"
addattribute P1, "i"
findclass I1, "Foo"
new P2, I1
classoffset I2, P2
In static cases, where P2 is known to be a C<Foo>, attrib #0 ("i") would
be always 0. That is, the C<classoffset> opcode can be omitted in that
case.
> No, it won't. No code should ever assume an absolute offset. That in
> itself's broken.
like t/pmc/objects.t?
leo
