On Fri, Oct 05, 2007 at 11:05:50AM -0700, Allison Randal wrote: > Patrick R. Michaud wrote: > > > >At any rate, pgc.pir and Perl6Grammar.pir (used to compile > >grammars into PIR) both want the ability to compile and install rules > >at runtime, so we really need the eval version to work before > >we can progress much. Either that or I'll come up with a workaround > >for those. > > The preferred way of adding methods at runtime is to call 'add_method' > on the class object.
Sure. It just seems that compiling PIR code (at runtime) where the subs are tagged with :method ought to do the same, without the need for a separate 'add_method' step. In the case of dynamically generated code, using add_method is somewhat more challenging because we can't perform the add_method until after the PIR source has been compiled and loaded into the namespace. That means that in addition to runtime-compiling the source, we have to keep around a list of any methods contained within that source so that we can then look them up and do individual add_method calls for each. Either that or the source itself has to have a :load/:init routine to do the add_method calls. Either way, tagging subs with :method is far cleaner. Anything else feels like a serious kludge. :-) Pm
