A few observations, first from an Parrot Internal perspective... in general, the code for the opcodes tend to do things like the following:
$1->vtable->get_string(interpreter, $1)
Note that the object tends to be repeated as the first argument. It often the case that the first argument matches the object on which the dispatch is based, but it is not necessarily so. In particular, these two values will be different whenever the implementation of a method wants to invoke the equivalent of SUPER(args).
Not quite. That'll be
class_self."__super"(args)
so again the invocant is the first argument after interpreter.
leo
