On Dec 19, 2007 11:30 PM, Allison Randal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Next month's development milestone is the implementation of the new PMC > spec. This milestone involves many small tasks, which can be divided up > pretty easily between a handful of people. Now that Jonathan's shipped > the release, here's a handful of tasks that could be picked off at > various skill levels: > > - Update all method definitions in all PMCs to be PCCMETHODs instead of > METHODs.
I skimmed through pdd17, and unless I misread, I can't see an explanation of the difference between PCCMETHOD and METHOD. IIUC, all occurrences of METHOD will become PCCMETHOD .... > > - Modify Pmc2c so METHOD means the same thing as PCCMETHOD. (This change > will need a deprecation cycle.) > - Do a search-and-replace changing all instances of 'PCCMETHOD' to > 'METHOD'. ... which brings me to this: why replace PCCMETHOD to METHOD? What's the difference? > > - Wishlist: Make it possible to use the short form of PCCINVOKE from > everywhere, not just inside PCCMETHODS. (The longer form of > Parrot_PCCINVOKE is possible elsewhere, but the syntax is unwieldy.) > > - Modify Pmc2c to allow a VTABLE modifier in front of vtable function > definitions similar to METHOD. (At least partially completed already, > possibly fully completed.) > - Add VTABLE to all vtable function declarations in all PMCs in the > system. > > - Change the names of shortcuts in implementation: 'SELF' becomes > 'STATICSELF' and 'DYNSELF' becomes 'SELF'. (The full change will need a > deprecation cycle, but 'STATICSELF' can be introduced now.) > - Do a human-guided replacement of 'SELF', most cases that currently use > the static 'SELF' should continue using the dynamic 'SELF'. A few will > need to use 'STATICSELF'. What are the rules that guide any replacement? When to use SELF (=DYNSELF) and when to use STATICSELF? > > - Do a search-and-replace update of all instances of 'DYNSELF' and > change to 'SELF'. > > Let me know if you'd like to work on one of these tasks. > > Thanks, > Allison > kjs
