On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 07:38:07PM -0400, Brian S. Julin wrote: > > Iterator will support .get. It's unclear whether IO will as well, > or whether it will stay exclusively with .getc/.readline.
It's fairly certain that IO will use .get -- indeed, it was IO that caused us to change from prefix:<=> to .get in the first place. > Even if both support .get, Iterators and IO objects will have different > implementations. This is the implementation for Iterator, which is > currently mostly a boxed Parrot primitive type. Iterator probably ought to become a role instead of a class. In that sense we will likely stop using the Parrot primitive type for our Iterators (or they'll be suitably wrapped in something that does the Iterator role). Pm
