Dan Sugalski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If we do that it means every PMC class is essentially a base type as > far as Parrot's concerned.
Basically yes. We just borrow some functions from parents to avoid reimplementation and to reduce code size. I don't think that we need much more inside the core classes. We could save some more code with a bit of MI but I dont't think that it's worth the effort. BTW: the current "class" hierarchy can always be obtained by: $ perl classes/pmc2c2.pl --tree classes/*.pmc > Which, on reflection, I'm just fine with. So let's do that. I'll > patch up the float and integer classes while I'm at it too. These two classes could inherit from C<scalar> now, which implements a lot of basic functionality. C<mmd_default.pmc> can be tossed already AFAIK. Then we can start figuring out how to calculate object MMD distances and how to properly dispatch delegate.pmc :) leo
