On 1/18/06, chromatic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wednesday 18 January 2006 19:11, Rob Kinyon wrote: > > > As for how that will be handled, I would think that it would be as follows: > > - in Perl6, objects created in another language will be treated as > > p6opaque (unless some other unbox is a more suitable $repr). > > ... and I specify this exactly how?
I was intending for that to mean that Parrot might indicate that the representation in Perl6 for a Perl5 object could be p6hash instead of p6opaque, but that might be a little too clever. I was thinking, actually for interoperability with something like C++ where your classes are laid-out-in-memory structs (which is the best reason I've heard for having alternate $repr). There certainly is no good reason within Perl6 itself to muddy up the waters like that. You really want to read http://svn.openfoundry.org/pugs/docs/notes/piln_object_repr_types.pod Rob
